How much does Greater Rochester Health Foundation give?

Greater Rochester Health Foundation reported 204 grants totaling $8,935,848 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 92 and 153 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Greater Rochester Health Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (44%), Education (15%), Human Services (15%).

Who are Greater Rochester Health Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Finger Lakes Health Systems Agency ($5.2M), University of Rochester ($3.8M), The Rochester General Hospital ($2.2M).

Does Greater Rochester Health Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Greater Rochester Health Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Where is Greater Rochester Health Foundation based?

Greater Rochester Health Foundation is based in Rochester, NY.

Greater Rochester Health Foundation

Greater Rochester Health Foundation at a glance

Rochester, NY · Private foundation

Greater Rochester Health Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$8.9M

Granted FY2024still arriving

204

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$970k

Largest

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 2024.

Health$29MEducation$10MHuman Services$9.9MCrime & Legal$4.1MHousing & Shelter$2.5MCivil Rights$2.2MCommunity Improvement$2.0MYouth Development$1.9MOther$0

02beneath the categories

What the grant descriptions say

Themes read from the grant descriptions, beneath the NTEE codes.

Each cell is that theme’s share of the year’s giving · ⚡ ringed cells mark a flagged jump.

03FY2024 · 204 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

Grant-size mix · FY2016–FY2024

FY16

52%

37%

$6.8M

FY17

10%

37%

50%

$7.2M

FY18

10%

28%

60%

$8.1M

FY20

45%

44%

$8.2M

FY21

53%

40%

$7.7M

FY22

10%

61%

27%

$9.7M

FY23

11%

60%

28%

$9.5M

FY24

10%

54%

33%

$8.9M

Under $10k$10k–50k$50k–250k$250k+

In FY2016, 37% of its dollars went out in $250k+ checks; by FY2024, 33%. Each bar is that year’s mix, not its total.

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$274M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
National Parent Leadership Institute	$969,998
Finger Lakes Health Systems Agency dba Common Ground Health	$744,992
Perinatal Network of Monroe County	$650,000
Children's Institute Inc	$300,000
Society for the Protection & Care of Children	$300,000
Villa of Hope	$204,089
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Wayne County	$195,000
S2AY Rural Health Network - DBA Pivotal Public Health Partnership	$195,000
Society for the Protection & Care of Children	$194,809
Endless Highway Inc	$193,294
Western New York Independent Living Inc	$174,268
Coordinated Care Services Inc	$155,000
Rochester refugee Resettlement Services Inc	$154,697
The Father Laurence-Larry-Tracy Advocacy Center	$153,023
Finger Lakes Health Systems Agency dba Common Ground Health	$150,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 67% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$56M · 211 repeat orgs$6.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

211 repeat relationships: 121 still active in FY2024, 90 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

Of its 167 multi-year relationships, 46 repeat the same amount every year (19% of multi-year dollars), the pattern of a standing commitment.

It also reports $14M approved for future payment (Form 990-PF, Part XV): grants committed but not yet paid.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

211

190

Total granted

$56M

$4.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%

+21%

Still filing today

65%

41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementOther

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

UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
8× · 2017–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +81%
TR
THE ROCHESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL
6× · 2017–2023 · $2.2M · revenue +80%
NATIONAL PARENT LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC
3× · 2022–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +9% · 80% of their budget
Founded in 2017, the National Parent Leadership Institute has grown into a nationally recognized organization equipping parents with civic skills to advocate for children, anchored by a flagship 20-week Parent Leadership Training Institute (PLTI) program with more than 30 years of curriculum history.

Funded once

SF
SOCIETY FOR PROTECTION & CARE OF CHILDRE
one grant, 2019 · $377k
RR
ROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH SYSTEM
one grant, 2017 · $231k
CS
COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORKgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +53%

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.

Grant terms aren’t stated in the filing; a standing commitment is inferred from a level payment pattern.

What its grantees report

Each stalk is one grantee, graded by how far its own reporting goes: an activity counted, a stated aim, or a change shown.

Of 32 organizations, 0 show a change. The rest report activities or aims.

Click an area to read it, and step through its organizations.

How this is measured

Read from 32 of the 52 organizations it funds across these 5 areas (the most heavily funded), in their own program-service reporting. Achievements are the organizations’ own.

case studies

One relationship, up close

One grantee funded repeatedly, traced through its own filings.

Fatherhood Connection Inc

Conviction

Sustained conviction in resilient, concentrated bet

Greater Rochester Health Foundation has stood alongside Fatherhood Connection across five consecutive years of funding (2020–2024), committing $367,500 to an organization whose founder began developing its curriculum as far back as 1998. As the Foundation's support deepened, Fatherhood Connection expanded parenting-skills programming for men across Monroe, Genesee, Livingston, Steuben, Seneca, and Cattaraugus Counties, and net assets grew 33.9x over the filing period, even as revenue held flat, a pattern that reflects both the organization's durability and the real concentration risk that comes with the Foundation representing a peak of 31% of their budget.

5× · 2020–2024

Funded

$368k

Granted in total

31%

Peak share of budget

-25%

Their revenue since

How this is measured

Trajectories are each organization’s own subsequent IRS filings; milestones are from the public record, linked to source. Revenue is the organization’s whole income from every source. We date what happened after a grant and do not claim the grant caused it.

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.

Rochester Management Inc

To provide clean, safe, well maintained, and affordable apartments and townhouses, suitable for anyone, in many locations throughout rochester, new york.

Housing & Shelter

Rochester General Health System

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.

Health

Rochester Regional Health

The organization is organized and operated for the benefit of all of the affiliates within rochester regional health system. the organization supports and assists the affiliates by reviewing and monitoring their missions, objectives,…

Health

The Unity Hospital of Rochester

See schedule oto make a positive difference in the lives and health status of individuals in the city of rochester, ny and western monroe county. we will educate our community, our providers, and future health care professionals in order…

Health

Neighborhood Housing Services of Rochester Inc

NeighborWorks Rochester collaborates with people and partners to strengthen, sustain and promote city neighborhoods. Our services are available to a wide spectrum of the community, including existing and potential homeowners, tenants and…

Housing & Shelter

Gouverneur Hospital

Our mission is to provide skilled, compassionate, cost-effective care that promotes wellness and meets the community's healthcare needs.

Health

Rochester Hope Inc

Rochester hope, inc. (the organization) is a not-for-profit that was born in october 2022 to bring caring hands to the heart of rochester, new york. the organization operates a free pantry with food, personal care items, diapers, baby food…

Community Improvement

RochesterMonroe County Homeless Continuum of Care Inc

The Rochester/Monroe County Homeless Continuum of Care (CoC) is a collaborative partnership which provides leadership, linkages, education, and guidance to eliminate homelessness.

Housing & Shelter

Greater Rochester Housing Partnership Inc

Greater rochester housing partnership, inc. (grhp) was established primarily to provide financing for affordable housing to social services and housing agencies, either directly or by participating with banks, in the rochester, new york…

Housing & Shelter

One Roc Inc

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,…

Community Improvement

Rochesterworks Inc

The rochesterworks system stimulates local economic growth by providing outstanding employment education, support, and training services.

Employment

United Way of Greater Rochester Inc

United way of greater rochester's mission is to unite the good will and resources of the greater rochester community so that everyone can thrive. united way supports a broad network of human service organizations, community initiatives and…

—

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partnership for Ontario County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Marie C and Joseph C Wilson Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

252 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. 252 of the 439 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

239/252

Grantees still filing

175/252

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$23,583,533Health$18,872,462Human Services$9,559,644Education$7,715,322Crime & Legal$3,324,713Housing & Shelter$1,266,287Philanthropy$1,228,094

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.

13 internal · 5 shared anchors

How its grantees work together

CCSI, Causewave Community Partners, and the Council of Agency Executives collaborated on a project to support local non-profits with operational expertise, with CCSI serving as fiscal sponsor. It is one of 13 direct ties among 30 of its grantees, who also cluster around 5 shared regional anchors.

Inferred: ties are read by a model from news and organization websites, and each links to its source.

Grantees connected

Grantee↔grantee ties

Shared anchors (2+ grantees)

108

External links

Tap any organization to trace its collaborations; shared anchors pull toward the center

min. connectionstheme28 shown · 19 ties

grantee external partner named by both stated inferred

Tap any organization in the graph to trace its collaborations, or start with the strongest ties below.

Strongest grantee↔grantee ties

↔
corroborated Coalition · Joint program
↔
explicit Joint program
↔
explicit Joint program
↔
explicit Joint program
↔
explicit Referral network

Anchors several grantees share

4 grantees
3 grantees
2 grantees
2 grantees
2 grantees

Joint program 73Affiliation 17Coalition 14Referral network 8Funding 7Collaboration 1Fiscal sponsorship 1Merger / affiliation 1

How this is measured

Ties are extracted by a model from news and organization websites, not from tax filings, so they are directional rather than exhaustive. Corroborated ties were named independently by both organizations.

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.

Esl Charitable FoundationNY241.1× affinity136 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Esl Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · William & Sheila Konar Foundation · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Finger Lakes Performing Provider System Inc · Charles J & Burton S August Family Foundation · The Florence M Muller Foundation · Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust

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 Greater Rochester Health Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greater Rochester Health Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

70report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

Play a game based on Greater Rochester Health’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home