· Private foundation
Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k48 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUM | $208,250 |
| GEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM | $200,000 |
| CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES INC | $150,000 |
| LIFESPAN OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC | $100,000 |
| MARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER | $100,000 |
| SENECA WATERWAYS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $80,000 |
| HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC | $75,000 |
| EQUUSTRONG INC | $74,300 |
| ST ANN'S HOME FOUNDATION INC | $60,000 |
| YWCA OF ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY | $50,000 |
| MONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| HOPE HALL | $50,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER | $50,000 |
| LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF ROCHESTER | $50,000 |
| GREATER ROCHESTER SUMMER LEARNING ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $3.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% 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.
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 +38% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
140 repeat relationships — 65 still active in FY2024, 75 since wound down; 17 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $381k 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
- GCGENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUM6× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +38%
The Center for Youth Services Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $800k · revenue +90%
LIFESPAN OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC6× · 2019–2024 · $400k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $150k
- VOVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF WESTERN NEW YORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $125k · revenue +35%
- WFWATERTOWN FAMILY YMCAone grant, 2021 · $100k
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 provide clean, safe, well maintained, and affordable apartments and townhouses, suitable for anyone, in many locations throughout rochester, new york.
To engage the community in life-long learning for all through equal access to information, technology, gathering spaces and expert staff.
The center strives to provide a range of services that support working parents while fostering the emotional, social, physical and intellectual growth of their children. special consideration is given to low income families and families…
To create dialogue and build community through contemporary art exhibitions and related programs
The rochester general college of health careers is dedicated to preparing adult learners with the knowledge, skills, and competencies necessary to pursue health careers, advanced education, and lifelong learning.
The rochesterworks system stimulates local economic growth by providing outstanding employment education, support, and training services.
NeighborWorks Rochester collaborates with people and partners to strengthen, sustain and promote city neighborhoods. Our services are available to a wide spectrum of the community, including existing and potential homeowners, tenants and…
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…
The company's mission is to create new jobs, increase regional wealth, raise regional gdp and enhance opportunity; to invest in a world-class economic development ecosystem where incumbent businesses are thriving, new firms are locating,…
United way of greater rochester's mission is to unite the good will and resources of the greater rochester community so that everyone can thrive. united way supports a broad network of human service organizations, community initiatives and…
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 Jewish Senior Life Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Allergy Advocacy Association 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 35 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
162 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. 162 of the 249 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 GENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds The Center for Youth Services Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFESPAN OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds Rochester Fringe Festival Inc ↗
- Who funds WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds SENECA WATERWAYS COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SENECA PARK ZOO SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ROCHESTER AND MONROE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Agenda Inc ↗
- Who funds Rochester Childfirst Network ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds UNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds EQUICENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds Hope585 Inc ↗
- Who funds Greater Rochester Summer Learning Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YATES CULTURAL & RECREATIONAL RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds WRITERS & BOOKS INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S HOME FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DIMITRI HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE VALLEY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SPIRITUS CHRISTI PRISON OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARGARET WOODBURY STRONG MUSEUM ↗
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: Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Esl Charitable Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · William & Sheila Konar Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust · Charles J & Burton S August Family Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · The Polisseni Foundation Inc
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 Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation 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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