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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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$379k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 31 grants below total $1,039,872, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,305,386 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $265,514 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $87k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $275k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $299k
  • $250k+1 grant · $379k
$11,025
Median grant
1
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Geneva Public Library: $10k → 10%Wadsworth Public Library: $8k → 11%Henrietta Public Library: $49k → 14%Geneva Public Library: $10k → 10%Richmond Memorial Library: $17k → 10%Henrietta Public Library: $42k → 14%Wood Library Association: $24k → 10%Wadsworth Public Library: $7k → 11%Lee-Whedon Memorial Library: $7k → 11%Pittsford Community Library: $57k → 14%Wood Library Association: $22k → 10%Richmond Memorial Library: $16k → 10%Pittsford Community Library: $51k → 14%Victor Farmington Library: $25k → 10%Livonia Public Library: $8k → 11%Penfield Public Library: $48k → 14%Victor Farmington Library: $22k → 10%Mendon Public Library: $10k → 14%Seymour Library: $14k → 14%Ontario Public Library: $8k → 11%Penfield Public Library: $43k → 14%Mendon Public Library: $9k → 14%Seymour Library: $12k → 14%Ogden Farmers' Library: $14k → 14%Ogden Farmers' Library: $12k → 14%Greece Public Library: $62k → 14%Greece Public Library: $53k → 14%Gates Public Library: $27k → 14%Chili Public Library: $25k → 14%Fairport Public Library: $70k → 14%Gates Public Library: $25k → 14%Fairport Public Library: $60k → 14%Chili Public Library: $22k → 14%Parma Public Library: $11k → 14%Parma Public Library: $10k → 14%Rochester Public Library: $673k → 14%Rochester Public Library: $560k → 14%Rochester Public Library: $470k → 14%Rochester Public Library: $452k → 14%Rochester Public Library: $379k → 14%Rochester Public Library: $372k → 14%Rochester Public Library: $371k → 14%Webster Public Library: $51k → 14%Rochester Public Library: $370k → 14%Webster Public Library: $47k → 14%Rochester Public Library: $351k → 14%Brighton Memorial Library: $59k → 14%Brighton Memorial Library: $52k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.2M · 31 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

31 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
0

Total granted

$5.2M
$0

Still filing today

35%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • RP
    ROCHESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.0M · revenue +30%
  • CP
    CHILI PUBLIC LIBRARY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $47k · revenue +5%
  • WL
    WADSWORTH LIBRARY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $15k · revenue +19%

Funded once

    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.

    04Its field

    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.

    1
    Lyons Public Library

    Provide library materials and services to residents of lyons, ny and the surrounding area.

    Education
    2
    Wallkill Public Library

    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…

    Education
    3
    Edmeston Free Library

    To provide equal community access to resources and services that engage people in self-directed and collaborative learning, community building and cultural enrichment.

    Education
    4
    The Public Library of New London

    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…

    Education
    5
    Lake Placid Public Library

    To be the focal point of our community which provides educational, informational, cultural, and recreational material for all.

    —
    6
    Lansing Community Library

    Public library

    Education
    7
    New Hartford Public Library

    To provide educational and recreational medium to residents of the Town of New Hartford and the Mid-York Library region.

    —
    8
    York Public Library

    To provide a library for the citizens of York, Maine.

    —
    9
    Gardiner Library Board of Trustees

    The Gardiner Library Board of Trustees operates the public library that serves the Town of Gardiner and the surrounding areas of New York State.

    Education
    10
    Cheney Library

    To provide library services to the community; services include book lending, inter-library loans, other media, internet access, and educational programs

    —
    11
    Middletown Public Library

    provide public library services to the local community

    Health
    12
    Mountain Lakes Free Public Library

    The mission of the Mountain Lakes Free Public Library is to provide free access to books, periodicals, magazines, audio, video, digital and internet media

    Education
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Victor Farmington Library; 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.
    04the grantee network

    12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

    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 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.

    Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    1
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    11/12
    Grantees still filing
    6/12
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    ROCHESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY: $3,998,603 · EducationROCHESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY+5 more: $98,516 · EducationFairport Public Library: $129,757 · OtherFairport Public LibraryGREECE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $114,993 · OtherGREECE PUBLIC LIBRARYBRIGHTON MEMORIAL LIBRARY BRIGHTON TOWN HALL: $110,372 · OtherBRIGHTON MEMORIAL LIBRAR…Pittsford Community Library: $108,268 · OtherPittsford Community Libr…Webster Public Library: $97,477 · OtherWebster Public LibraryTOWN OF PENFIELD: $91,370 · OtherTOWN OF PENFIELDHenrietta Public Library: $90,718 · OtherHenrietta Public LibraryGates Public Library: $51,781 · OtherVICTOR FARMINGTON LIBRARY: $46,336 · OtherWOOD LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $46,195 · Other+15 more: $261,102 · Other+15 more
    Education$4,097,119Other$1,148,369

    Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

    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
    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 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 ↗

    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.

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
      typical government reliance, FY20–25
      How this is measured
      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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

      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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