New York · Public charity
Finger Lakes Area Community Endowment
The FINGER LAKES AREA COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT ("community endowment") was organized to raise funds from private and public sources for area philanthropic purposes and to allocate and distribute funds to charitable organizations that qualify as exempt under the law, section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of 1986 (or the corresponding…
- $5.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 63
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 69
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $3.0M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,101,373
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 85
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $20M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations Finger Lakes Area Community Endowment funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $815k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 52 | $3.0M | 31% |
| FY2023 | 69 | $3.6M | 23% |
| FY2022 | 59 | $3.9M | 42% |
| FY2020 | 54 | $2.1M | 39% |
| FY2019 | 54 | $1.1M | 48% |
| FY2018 | 85 | $2.6M | 88% |
| FY2017 | 22 | $871k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finger Lakes Area Community Endowment | $1,340,981 | 4 | 13% |
| Canandaigua Comfort Care Home Inc | $1,331,300 | 6 | 87% |
| Fort Hill Performing Arts Center Inc | $1,176,956 | 6 | 61% |
| Finger Lakes Cultural & Natural History Museum | $1,111,373 | 2 | 90% |
| Friends of the Naples Library Inc | $889,056 | 3 | n/a |
| United Way of Greater Rochester Inc | $854,705 | 6 | 2% |
| St Marys Church Society Inc | $600,000 | 4 | n/a |
| University of Rochester | $595,488 | 6 | 0% |
| The Greater Canandaigua Civic Center Inc | $576,210 | 7 | 36% |
| REACH Advocacy Inc | $438,399 | 3 | 26% |
Show all 146 grantees
Plus 55 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Finger Lakes Area Community Endowment supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 12 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 101 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Rochester Area Community Foundation · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Esl Charitable Foundation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · William & Sheila Konar Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · The Sands Family Foundation Inc · Seneca Foods Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Finger Lakes Area Community Endowment with peer funders
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About Finger Lakes Area Community Endowment
- How much does Finger Lakes Area Community Endowment give?
- Finger Lakes Area Community Endowment reported 63 itemized grants totaling $2,993,797, out of $5,331,474 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 85 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Finger Lakes Area Community Endowment fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (22%), Religion (14%), Philanthropy (14%).
- Who are Finger Lakes Area Community Endowment's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Finger Lakes Area Community Endowment ($1.3M), Canandaigua Comfort Care Home Inc ($1.3M), Fort Hill Performing Arts Center Inc ($1.2M).
- Does Finger Lakes Area Community Endowment fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Finger Lakes Area Community Endowment?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rochester Area Community Foundation, Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation, United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc.
- Where is Finger Lakes Area Community Endowment based?
- Finger Lakes Area Community Endowment is based in NY.
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