· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| ST MARY'S SCHOOL ACCOUNT | $50,000 |
| WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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
How this is measured
117 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Finger Lakes Area Community Endowment funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Finger Lakes Area Community Endowment. Bigger dots raise more.
- Grow Food Northampton Inc: 25% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
How this is measured
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