· 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 you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 99% of your 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.
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
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
- 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
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +46%
- OAOASIS ADAPTIVE SPORTS INCone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -47%
- FIFOODLINK INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +52%
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 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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Geva Theatre Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Humane Society of Rochester & Monroe County for the Prevention of Cruelty to. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 26 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 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 American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds OASIS ADAPTIVE SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds FOODLINK INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds EQUICENTER 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: 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
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 Elaine P & Richard U Wilson 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.