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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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $267,043 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $541,577 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $274,534 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $171k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $76k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF ROCHESTER HILLS | $75,516 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $45,000 |
| ROCHESTER AREA NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE | $33,500 |
| VETERAN'S TRIBUTE OF OAKLAND TWP | $26,000 |
| ROCHESTER AVON RECREATION AUTHORITY | $20,000 |
| BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK | $14,327 |
| FARMINGTON DDA | $11,500 |
| OCDSA FAMILY BENEVOLENT FUND | $11,000 |
| THE OPTION INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| ROCHESTER KIWANIS CLUB | $8,200 |
| MICHIGAN STING HOCKEY CLUB | $6,500 |
| FAITH WORKS OF MICHIGAN | $5,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +49%- RAROCHESTER AREA NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE8× · 2017–2024 · $638k · revenue +104%
- FWFAITH WORKS MICHIGAN3× · 2020–2024 · $23k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- DFDETROIT FITNESS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $272k · revenue -17%
- COCITY OF DETROITone grant, 2018 · $100k
- RCRochester Christian Universityone grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +8%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Rochester general health system, provides patient care, senior housing, laboratory services, and community outreach to residents and other clients in monroe county, new york and several surrounding counties.
To promote successful aging for adults age 50 and older through lifelong learning, health programs and volunteer engagement. our vision is that adults age 50 plus have opportunities to pursue vibrant, healthy, productive and meaningful…
We are a member-centered service organization enriching the lives of our city youth, people with disabilities and world neighbors.
The purpose of the Rochester Historical Society is to seek out, collect, preserve and restore those materials, records, and artifacts which relate to the history of Rochester.
As one of the nation's leading integrated health systems, it is the mission of henry ford health system, a related entity of the filing organization, to improve people's lives through the excellence of the science and art of health care…
The mission of the rochester rhio is to provide the rochester medical service area with a system for a secure health information exchange that allows for timely access to clinical information and improved decision making. the primary goal…
The friendly home is a non-profit, non-denominational 200 bed nursing care and rehabilitation facility for older adults. located at 3156 east avenue in brighton, the friendly home offers a variety of health care services including 24-hour…
To provide clean, safe, well maintained, and affordable apartments and townhouses, suitable for anyone, in many locations throughout rochester, new york.
Friendly senior living supports a continuum of housing, health care and community services to meet the challenging needs of older adults. we support research, education and advocacy.
Provide rental space to affiliated and exempt organizations and to receive and hold real estate that otherwise would have been received by rochester area community foundation.
Greater rochester housing partnership, inc. (grhp) was established primarily to provide financing for affordable housing to social services and housing agencies, either directly or by participating with banks, in the rochester, new york…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Henry Ford Health Rochester Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Veterans Tribute of Oakland Township Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 57 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER AREA NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds DETROIT FITNESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET PONTIAC ↗
- Who funds OPTION INSTITUTE AND FELLOWSHIP AUTISM TREATMENT CENTER OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Rochester Christian University ↗
- Who funds WYOMING VALLEY MONTESSORI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MAIN STREET CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH ROCHESTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE RAINBOW CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds Veterans Tribute of Oakland Township Inc ↗
- Who funds WINNING FUTURES ↗
- Who funds ON MY OWN OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds FAITH WORKS MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER COMMUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN STING HOCKEY CLUB ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Rochester Hills Public Library Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Community Foundation of Greater Rochester funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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