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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 FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$76k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Benefit$2.0MFood & Nutrition$1.7MRecreation & Sports$864kHuman Services$714kCommunity Improvement$365kHealth$266kEducation$213kEmployment$44kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $267,043, the rows itemized in this filing. The $541,577 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $274,534 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $171k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $76k
$14,327
Median grant
4
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $383k → 15%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $353k → 15%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $341k → 15%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $332k → 15%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $239k → 15%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $19k → 15%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $14k → 15%ROCHESTER AREA NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $215k → 8%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $62k → 15%ROCHESTER AREA NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $87k → 8%ROCHESTER AREA NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $77k → 8%ROCHESTER AREA NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $36k → 8%ROCHESTER AREA NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $34k → 8%ROCHESTER AREA NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $32k → 8%ROCHESTER AREA NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $32k → 8%DUTTON FARM: $6k → 8%FAITH WORKS OF MICHIGAN: $10k → 8%FAITH WORKS OF MICHIGAN: $8k → 8%FAITH WORKS OF MICHIGAN: $6k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
MA
PA
CA
MO
KY
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.4M · 22 repeat orgs$935k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
32

Total granted

$5.4M
$898k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+28%

Still filing today

41%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +49%
  • RA
    ROCHESTER AREA NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $638k · revenue +104%
  • FW
    FAITH WORKS MICHIGAN
    3× · 2020–2024 · $23k · revenue +132%

Funded once

  • DF
    DETROIT FITNESS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $272k · revenue -17%
  • CO
    CITY OF DETROIT
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • RC
    Rochester Christian University
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +8%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Rochester General Health System

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.

Health
2
Rochester Oasis

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…

—
3
Rochester Rotary Club

We are a member-centered service organization enriching the lives of our city youth, people with disabilities and world neighbors.

Community Improvement
4
Rochester Historical Society

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.

—
5
Henry Ford Health Rochester Hospital

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…

Health
6
Greater Rochester Regional Health Information Organization Inc

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…

Public Benefit
7
Rochester Friendly Home

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…

Health
8
Rochester Management Inc

To provide clean, safe, well maintained, and affordable apartments and townhouses, suitable for anyone, in many locations throughout rochester, new york.

Housing & Shelter
9
Rochester Friendly Senior Services

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.

Human Services
10
Rochester Female Charitable Society
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11
Rochester Area Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
12
Greater Rochester Housing Partnership Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Henry Ford Health Rochester Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/30
Grantees still filing
21/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF ROCHESTER HILLS: $1,906,623 · OtherCITY OF ROCHESTER HILLSPAINT CREEK TRAILWAYS COMMISSION: $440,000 · OtherPAINT CREEK TRAILWAYS COMMISSIONROCHESTER AVON RECREATION AUTHORITY: $133,699 · Other+29 more: $624,655 · Other+29 moreBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $1,743,241 · Human ServicesBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INCROCHESTER AREA NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $637,877 · Human ServicesROCHESTER AREA NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE+3 more: $40,000 · Human ServicesDETROIT FITNESS FOUNDATION: $271,791 · Recreation & SportsMICHIGAN STING HOCKEY CLUB: $12,500 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $5,600 · Recreation & SportsMAYO CLINIC: $45,000 · HealthTHE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES: $35,000 · HealthHENRY FORD HEALTH ROCHESTER FOUNDATION: $31,000 · HealthTHE RAINBOW CONNECTION: $30,000 · HealthON MY OWN OF MICHIGAN: $25,000 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $14,015 · HealthMAIN STREET PONTIAC: $89,735 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL MAIN STREET CENTER INC: $35,000 · Community ImprovementFriends of Downtown Highland Inc: $7,110 · Community ImprovementWYOMING VALLEY MONTESSORI ASSOCIATION INC: $48,253 · EducationVeterans Tribute of Oakland Township Inc: $26,000 · EducationWINNING FUTURES: $25,000 · EducationFriends of the Rochester Hills Public Library Inc: $12,000 · EducationROCHESTER-AVON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $5,600 · EducationOPTION INSTITUTE AND FELLOWSHIP AUTISM TREATMENT CENTER OF AMERICA: $80,000 · ReligionNEXT STEPS 4 SENIORS FOUNDATION: $7,800 · PhilanthropyROCHESTER ROTARY CHARITIES INC: $6,000 · Philanthropy
Other$3,104,977Human Services$2,421,118Recreation & Sports$289,891Health$180,015Community Improvement$131,845Education$116,853Religion$80,000Philanthropy$13,800

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $1,743,241 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetROCHESTER AREA NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $637,877 over 8y, 13% of budgetDETROIT FITNESS FOUNDATION: $271,791 over 1y, 15% of budgetMAIN STREET PONTIAC: $89,735 over 5y, 40% of budgetOPTION INSTITUTE AND FELLOWSHIP AUTISM TREATMENT CENTER OF AMERICA: $80,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetRochester Christian University: $74,531 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWYOMING VALLEY MONTESSORI ASSOCIATION INC: $48,253 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MAIN STREET CENTER INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES: $35,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH ROCHESTER FOUNDATION: $31,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE RAINBOW CONNECTION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetVeterans Tribute of Oakland Township Inc: $26,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetWINNING FUTURES: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetON MY OWN OF MICHIGAN: $25,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetFAITH WORKS MICHIGAN: $23,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetROCHESTER COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $18,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetROCHESTER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC: $14,750 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $14,015 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIGAN STING HOCKEY CLUB: $12,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetFriends of the Rochester Hills Public Library Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetCASS COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRACE CENTERS OF HOPE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEXT STEPS 4 SENIORS FOUNDATION: $7,800 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetROCHESTER ROTARY CHARITIES INC: $6,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetDUTTON FARM: $6,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN YOUTH SOCCER ORGANIZATION: $5,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

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.

Community Foundation …United Way for Southe…Phillip and Elizabeth…Flagstar Foundation I…DTE Energy FoundationFrank Rewold & Son Fo…Health Alliance Plan …Helen L Kay Charitabl…The Carls FoundationChildren's Hospital o…The Barton Malow Foun…Comerica Charitable F…
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI27.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Community Foundation of Greater Rochester funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Foundation of Greater Rochester. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Community Foundation of Greater Rochester through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 57 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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