· Private foundation
Elaine P & Richard U Wilson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEMORIAL ART GALLERY | $10,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY AT LOLLYPOP FARM | $7,500 |
| GEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM | $6,000 |
| THE HARLEY SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| PS 15 - THE ROBERTO CLEMENTE SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| PS 15 - THE ROBERTO CLEMENTE SCHOOL PTA | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GEGEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM8× · 2017–2025 · $219k · revenue +62%
- RPROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC5× · 2017–2022 · $215k · revenue +15%
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER7× · 2017–2025 · $157k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- FIFOODLINK INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +52%
- OAOASIS ADAPTIVE SPORTS INCone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -47%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +46%
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.
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.
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 engage the community in life-long learning for all through equal access to information, technology, gathering spaces and expert staff.
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 museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Rochester art center offers the opportunity for all people to understand and value the arts through innovative experiences with contemporary art. through world-class exhibitions and programs, we present a welcoming, integrated, and diverse…
Through immersive experiences, we enrich life today by connecting people with history, art, and nature.
Operation of a "hands-on" participatory science museum, large format theater, and planetarium, which served approx. 103,123 visitors in 2024. other activities include a full range of workshops, lectures, teacher training, regional science…
To establish, erect and maintain a general hospital and dispensary in the county of monroe, ny for medical and surgical aid, care and treatment of persons in need thereof; to carry on and conduct a training school for nurses; to promote…
To nourish the child's spirit, while fostering exploration, independence, and confidence. we strive to inspire a lifelong love of learning, while modeling grace, courtesy, and respect for self, others, and the earth.
The rockefeller university (the university) is a world renowned center for research and graduate education in the biomedical sciences, chemistry, bioinformatics, and physics. the university's 73 laboratories conduct both clinical and basic…
The rochester opera house is a nonprofit performing arts organization. its mission is to entertain, stimulate and educate audiences of all ages with high quality artistic programming, and to preserve historic rochester opera house as a…
To raise and manage funds in support of united memorial medical center and it's affiliates.
How this is measured
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 26 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 GEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds SENECA PARK ZOO SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GEVA THEATRE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Rochester Fringe Festival Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ↗
- Who funds THE BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN HORSE TRIALS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOODLINK INC ↗
- Who funds OASIS ADAPTIVE SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE HARLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds EQUICENTER 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.
Open a dossier: Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust · William & Sheila Konar Foundation · Esl Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Waldron Rise Foundation Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Thomas F Judson Jr & Elisabeth W Judson Foundation · The Riedman Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Elaine P & Richard U Wilson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elaine P & Richard U Wilson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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