· 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…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 63 grants below total $2,993,797 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,331,474 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,337,677 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k38 grants · $601k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $849k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FINGER LAKES CULTURAL & NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM | $1,101,373 |
| THE GREATER CANANDAIGUA CIVIC CENTER | $349,316 |
| CANANDAIGUA COMFORT CARE AGENCY - LIGHT HILL | $245,000 |
| THE ANDES AMAZON CONSERVANCY | $150,000 |
| FORT HILL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $111,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES | $105,081 |
| IRON SCULP & FUNC METALSMITHING | $87,520 |
| ST MARY'S CHURCH ACCOUNT | $50,000 |
| WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING | $50,000 |
| ST MARY'S SCHOOL ACCOUNT | $50,000 |
| ASBURY FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $46,551 |
| STAR LIFTS USA INC | $43,675 |
| HONEOYE-RICHMOND HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $36,963 |
| CRAIG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| GREATER ROCHESTER ENTERPRISE FOUNDATION | $27,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +34% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
84 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 48 since wound down; 16 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $192k 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
- FLFINGER LAKES AREA COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT4× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +13%
- CCCanandaigua Comfort Care Home Inc6× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +55% · 87% of their budget
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC6× · 2017–2024 · $855k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- DODIOCESE OF ROCHESTERone grant, 2023 · $250k
- IHIsaiah House Incone grant, 2023 · $204k · revenue -28% · 38% of their budget
- RPRUSTON PAVING COMPANY INCone grant, 2018 · $113k
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.
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 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,…
Thompson Health is dedicated to providing an integrated health care system, comprised of affiliated health-related corporations, to continuously improve the health of the residents and communities of the Finger Lakes and the surrounding…
The mission of Oswego Health, Inc. is to provide accessible quality care and improve the health of residents in our community.
To engage the community in life-long learning for all through equal access to information, technology, gathering spaces and expert staff.
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.
To create dialogue and build community through contemporary art exhibitions and related programs
To create, enhance, and promote a downtown experience that is welcoming, fun, and livable.
To preserve the uniquely human right to enjoy communication for life by helping children and adults achieve dreams through innovative, caring speech and hearing services.
The mission of the organization is to foster sustainable economic growth through service to our members, strategic advocacy, workforce development, destination marketing, and quality of life investments. Our vision is an inclusive…
Support regional economic development in new york's 14 northernmost counties
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partnership for Ontario County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Seneca Falls Performing Arts Center. 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 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
117 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. 117 of the 204 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 FINGER LAKES AREA COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT ↗
- Who funds Canandaigua Comfort Care Home Inc ↗
- Who funds FORT HILL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FINGER LAKES CULTURAL & NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds The Greater Canandaigua Civic Center Inc ↗
- Who funds REACH Advocacy Inc ↗
- Who funds Andes-Amazon Conservancy ↗
- Who funds FINGER LAKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds F F THOMPSON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Isaiah House Inc ↗
- Who funds SONNENBERG GARDENS AND MANSION- STATE HISTORIC PARK ↗
- Who funds HAMLIN ROBINSON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The David Hochstein Memorial Music School Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds George M Ewing Canandaigua Forum ↗
- Who funds LITTLE LAKES COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds St Peter's Community Arts Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds GEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SPOT-CANANDAIGUA INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF MERCY 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: 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
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 Finger Lakes Area Community Endowment 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.
- Grow Food Northampton Inc — 25% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
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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