· Public charity
Jewish Community Federation of Greater Rochester Ny Inc
The mission of the jewish community federation of greater rochester is to enrich the quality of life for jews in rochester, israel and around the world.
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 67 grants below total $2,747,069 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,487,886 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,740,817 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 $10k19 grants · $129k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $674k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+1 grant · $318k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HILLEL COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL | $317,878 |
| LOLLYPOP FARM | $240,100 |
| HOLY CHILDHOOD | $240,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $207,247 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE | $158,183 |
| TEMPLE BETH EL | $133,412 |
| FOODLINK | $126,235 |
| UNITED WAY | $123,968 |
| CHABAD OF PITTSFORD | $114,404 |
| FLOWER CITY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $100,430 |
| HADASSAH | $67,800 |
| FOUNDATION FOR THE JEWISH COMMUNITY | $61,294 |
| CHABAD LUBAVITCH | $53,310 |
| CAMP MATZIV | $46,880 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Jewish Community Federation of Greater Rochester Ny Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 86% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $723k 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
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +10%
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ROCHESTER INC8× · 2017–2025 · $505k · revenue +206%
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER8× · 2017–2025 · $458k · revenue +81%
Funded once
Metropolitan Opera Association Incone grant, 2018 · $1.9M · revenue -3%- ACALLENDALE COLUMBIA SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +35%
- MTMASON TRENCHING COMPANYone grant, 2024 · $102k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of Greater Rochester Ny Inc and the most unlike its peers is Aryeh Adventures Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
97 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. 97 of the 122 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 JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER NY INC ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALLENDALE COLUMBIA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOME OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILDHOOD I ↗
- Who funds CLAL-THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE HEALING CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds FOODLINK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOODLINK INC ↗
- Who funds The David Hochstein Memorial Music School Inc ↗
- Who funds TALMUDICAL INSTITUTE OF UPSTATE NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLOWER CITY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds NAZARETH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds LUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CAMP MATZIV INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BNEI AKIVA YESHIVOT IN ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL RAMAH COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Hadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS HILLEL DAY SCHOOL - MARIN ↗
- Who funds CAMP RAMAH IN THE POCONOS ↗
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: Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · William & Sheila Konar Foundation · Esl Charitable Foundation · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust · Harold & Joan Feinbloom Family Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation 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 Jewish Community Federation of Greater Rochester Ny Inc 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.
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Round House Theatre Inc — 5% of income from government
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.