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Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library

The Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library is an incorporated, not-for-profit public charity whose mission is to raise funds and provide programming in support of the Rochester Public Library. The Foundation's primary goals are to raise private and public funds to help ensure the library's financial security, to enable…

$1.3M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
31
Itemized grants FY2025
31
Organizations funded FY2024
97%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$1.0M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$11,025
Largest grant, FY2025
$378,541
Organizations funded a year
1 to 31
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$33M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 97% of the organizations Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library funded were first-time grantees, receiving 51% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $586k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving31$1.0M0%
FY202431$1.1M97%
FY20231$452k0%
FY20221$470k0%
FY20211$370k0%
FY20201$372k0%
FY20191$371k0%
FY20181$351k0%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$5.2M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Rochester Public Library$3,998,60393%
Fairport Public Library$129,7572n/a
Greece Public Library$114,9932n/a
Brighton Memorial Library Brighton Town Hall$110,3722n/a
Pittsford Community Library$108,2682n/a
Webster Public Library$97,4772n/a
Town of Penfield$91,3702n/a
Henrietta Public Library$90,7182n/a
Gates Public Library$51,7812n/a
Chili Public Library$47,1852n/a
Show all 31 grantees
All grantees of Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Rochester Public Library$3,998,60393%
Fairport Public Library$129,7572n/a
Greece Public Library$114,9932n/a
Brighton Memorial Library Brighton Town Hall$110,3722n/a
Pittsford Community Library$108,2682n/a
Webster Public Library$97,4772n/a
Town of Penfield$91,3702n/a
Henrietta Public Library$90,7182n/a
Gates Public Library$51,7812n/a
Chili Public Library$47,1852n/a
Victor Farmington Library$46,33622%
Wood Library Association$46,19521%
Richmond Memorial Library$32,5442n/a
Ogden Farmers' Library$26,48222%
Seymour Library$26,20222%
Parma Public Library$20,9582n/a
Geneva Public Library$20,2782n/a
Town of Mendon Public Library$19,5502n/a
Wadsworth Library$15,48021%
Ontario Public Library$15,3072n/a
Livonia Public Library$14,9612n/a
Lee-Whedon Memorial Library$13,51921%
Newark Public Library$13,3512n/a
Macedon Public Library$12,67021%
Williamson Public Library$12,4702n/a
Hamlin Public Library$11,9872n/a
Hoag Library$11,7922n/a
Avon Free Library$11,54521%
Dansville Public Library$11,37021%
Woodward Memorial Library$11,0052n/a
Palmyra Community Library$10,96221%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRochester Public Library: $3,998,603 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetVictor Farmington Library: $46,336 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetWood Library Association: $46,195 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetOgden Farmers' Library: $26,482 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSeymour Library: $26,202 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetWadsworth Library: $15,480 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetLee-Whedon Memorial Library: $13,519 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMacedon Public Library: $12,670 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetAvon Free Library: $11,545 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetDansville Public Library: $11,370 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPalmyra Community Library: $10,962 over 2y, 1.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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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.

Owwl Library SystemRochester Area Commun…Rochester Regional Li…Amazonsmile Foundation
Owwl Library SystemNY30.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Owwl Library System · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Rochester Regional Library Council · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library

How much does Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library give?
Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library reported 31 itemized grants totaling $1,039,872, out of $1,305,386 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Rochester Public Library ($4.0M), Fairport Public Library ($130k), Greece Public Library ($115k).
Does Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 97% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Owwl Library System, Rochester Area Community Foundation, Rochester Regional Library Council.
Where is Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library based?
Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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