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Community Foundation of Greater Rochester
The organization enhances the quality of life for people who live, work and play in the greater rochester area by building a permanent endowment through philanthropy.
- $542k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 12
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $267k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $14,327
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $75,516
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 31
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $16M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations Community Foundation of Greater Rochester funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 11 | $222k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $205k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $476k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $1.7M | 18% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $1.4M | 74% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $1.3M | 53% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $720k | 67% |
| FY2017 | 8 | $281k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Rochester Hills | $1,906,623 | 6 | n/a |
| Blessings in a Backpack Inc | $1,743,241 | 8 | 3% |
| Rochester Area Neighborhood House | $637,877 | 8 | 13% |
| Detroit Fitness Foundation | $271,791 | 1 | 15% |
| City of Detroit | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Main Street Pontiac | $89,735 | 5 | 40% |
| Option Institute and Fellowship Autism Treatment Center of America | $80,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Rochester Christian University | $74,531 | 1 | 0% |
| Oakland University | $52,195 | 2 | n/a |
| Wyoming Valley Montessori Association Inc | $48,253 | 1 | 3% |
Show all 37 grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($819k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Community Foundation of Greater Rochester supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial · Flagstar Foundation Inc · DTE Energy Foundation · Frank Rewold & Son Foundation · Health Alliance Plan of Michigan · Helen L Kay Charitable Trust · The Carls Foundation · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation · The Barton Malow Foundation · Comerica Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Community Foundation of Greater Rochester with peer funders
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About Community Foundation of Greater Rochester
- How much does Community Foundation of Greater Rochester give?
- Community Foundation of Greater Rochester reported 12 itemized grants totaling $267,043, out of $541,577 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Community Foundation of Greater Rochester fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (32%), Food & Nutrition (28%), Recreation & Sports (14%).
- Who are Community Foundation of Greater Rochester's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: City of Rochester Hills ($1.9M), Blessings in a Backpack Inc ($1.7M), Rochester Area Neighborhood House ($638k).
- Does Community Foundation of Greater Rochester fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Community Foundation of Greater Rochester?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, United Way for Southeastern Michigan, Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial.
- Where is Community Foundation of Greater Rochester based?
- Community Foundation of Greater Rochester is based in MI.
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