· Public charity
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.
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.
The 31 grants below total $1,039,872 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,305,386 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $265,514 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $87k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $275k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $299k
- $250k+1 grant · $379k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Rochester Public Library | $378,541 |
| Fairport Public Library | $70,162 |
| Greece Public Library | $62,404 |
| Brighton Memorial Library | $58,803 |
| Pittsford Community Library | $57,348 |
| Webster Public Library | $50,610 |
| Henrietta Public Library | $48,941 |
| Penfield Public Library | $48,390 |
| Gates Public Library | $27,249 |
| Chili Public Library | $25,092 |
| Victor Farmington Library | $24,629 |
| Wood Library Association | $24,360 |
| Richmond Memorial Library | $16,671 |
| Ogden Farmers' Library | $14,097 |
| Seymour Library | $14,020 |
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 10%. 98% 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.
31 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
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
- RPROCHESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY9× · 2017–2025 · $4.0M · revenue +30%
- CPCHILI PUBLIC LIBRARY2× · 2024–2025 · $47k · revenue +5%
- WLWADSWORTH LIBRARY2× · 2024–2025 · $15k · revenue +19%
Funded once
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.
Provide library materials and services to residents of lyons, ny and the surrounding area.
The mission of the Wallkill Public Library is to provide our community with access to the highest quality materials, services, and programs, as a source of information, education, entertainment, and cultural enrichment. The library enables…
To be the focal point of our community which provides educational, informational, cultural, and recreational material for all.
To provide equal community access to resources and services that engage people in self-directed and collaborative learning, community building and cultural enrichment.
The Public Library of New London is a private, not-for-profit institution that serves the needs of the New London community by providing free access to diverse ideas and information through a variety of library materials, services, and…
To provide a library for the citizens of York, Maine.
provide public library services to the local community
The mission of the Tivoli Free Library is two-fold: To facilitate lifelong learning and self education for the members of the surrounding community and to encourage young children and families to develop an ongoing interest in reading and…
To provide educational and recreational medium to residents of the Town of New Hartford and the Mid-York Library region.
To provide library services to the community; services include book lending, inter-library loans, other media, internet access, and educational programs
The mission of the Mountain Lakes Free Public Library is to provide free access to books, periodicals, magazines, audio, video, digital and internet media
The Gardiner Library Board of Trustees operates the public library that serves the Town of Gardiner and the surrounding areas of New York State.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Victor Farmington Library and the most unlike its peers is Chili Public Library. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 31 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 ROCHESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CHILI PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds VICTOR FARMINGTON LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds WOOD LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Ogden Farmers' Library ↗
- Who funds SEYMOUR LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds WADSWORTH LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds LEE-WHEDON MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds MACEDON PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds AVON FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Dansville Public Library ↗
- Who funds Palmyra Community Library ↗
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: Owwl Library System · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Rochester Regional Library Council · Amazonsmile 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 Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library 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.