· Private foundation
Gleason Works Foundation #Xxx-Xx-Xxxx
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASBURY FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $2,000 |
| VETERANS OUTREACH CENTER | $2,000 |
| FOODLINK | $1,000 |
| ROCHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $1,000 |
| HILLSIDE CHILDREN'S CENTER | $1,000 |
| LEVINE CENTER TO END HATE | $1,000 |
| AGMA FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SOJOURNER HOUSE | $500 |
| OPEN DOOR MISSION | $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 (FY18–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- FIFOODLINK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +90%
Veterans Outreach Center Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +51%- HCHILLSIDE CHILDREN'S CENTER8× · 2018–2025 · $6k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- DHDIMITRI HOUSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +187%
- HFHILLSIDE FAMILY OF AGENCIESone grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue -9%
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.
Creating legacies to fulfill philanthropic dreams through grants to nonprofits and scholarships
Provide a supportive, caring community for families with seriously ill children.
Ronald mcdonald house new york focuses on keeping families close while pediatric patients receive outpatient treatment at our 13 partnering hospitals.
Create and support programs that improve the health and well-being of children.
To build a permanent community endowment that meets the current and changing needs of this region through creative and effective philanthropy.
The rhode island foundation mobilizes generosity and motivates change that makes a difference.
Providing quality lives for people with developmental disabilities.
Easing the hardship of children's illness on families through programs that directly improve the health and wellbeing of children.
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.
Food acquisition and distribution
We partner with children and adults with disabilities and their families so they may live more meaningful, healthy, and independent lives in their homes and communities.
Provision of exceptional health care & aging services tailored to each individual.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hillside Children's Center and the most unlike its peers is Hillside Family of Agencies. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
7 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. 7 of the 13 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.
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: United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Charles J & Burton S August Family Foundation · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Rochester Female Charitable Society · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Gleason Works Foundation #Xxx-Xx-Xxxx 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.