· Private foundation
Joan Rothenberg Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $15,000 |
| GENESEE LAND TRUST | $10,000 |
| NORTHSIDE LEARNING CENTER | $10,000 |
| JUBILEE HOMES OF SYRACUSE INC | $7,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CAPITAL AREA | $5,000 |
| WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS | $2,575 |
| OSWEGO COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES | $2,500 |
| ONONDAGA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES | $1,981 |
| SAINT LUCY'S CHURCH | $1,027 |
| ST CATHERINE'S CENTER FOR CHILDREN | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
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.
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 +49% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- GLGenesee Land Trust Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $82k · revenue +700%
- IWINTERFAITH WORKS OF CENTRAL NEW YORK2× · 2021–2022 · $40k · revenue +214%
Rochester Institute of Technology5× · 2018–2024 · $37k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- TNTHE NEWLAND CENTER FOR ADULT LEARNING & LITERACYone grant, 2017 · $28k
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $11k
- SRSTILLPOINT RETREATS INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -31%
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.
Protection of important natural resources, open space, habitat and agricultural lands in the Genesee River watershed through the use of land acquisition and conservation easements. Continued on Schedule O. Provide planning services to…
Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.
The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.
Lawny increases access to justice through excellent legal representation, advocacy and service.
Vision: a world where no child's life is torn apart by war.children in conflict works tirelessly to restore hope, safety and childhoods to children whose lives are affected by war.
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…
New york restoration project ("nyrp") believes that nature is a fundamental right of every new yorker. nyrp works collaboratively with residents in communities across the five boroughs to renovate gardens, restore parks, plant trees,…
Ccr is a non-profit legal and educational organization dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the united states constitution the universal declaration of human rights. ccr stands with social justice movements…
Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…
To create, enhance, and promote a downtown experience that is welcoming, fun, and livable.
To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.
The mission of the organization (ccr) shall be to work with individuals, communities, courts, and other institutions to manage and resolve conflict.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Mcalister Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 86 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 Genesee Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH WORKS OF CENTRAL NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds NORTH SIDE LEARNING CENTER OF SYRACUSE ↗
- Who funds VERA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE HOMES OF SYRACUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds SADA-Charity Preview Inc ↗
- Who funds STILLPOINT RETREATS INC ↗
- Who funds The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds THE VOICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO FILM SOCIETY FYE 531 ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL DISTRICT GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Rochester Ecology Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds RESOLVE OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CAPITAL AREA ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORKS ART LAB INC ↗
- Who funds KEEPING OUR PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
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: Rochester Area Community Foundation · Central New York Community Foundation Inc · The Rosamond Gifford Charitable Corporation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Esl Charitable Foundation · Allyn Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The John Ben Snow Foundation Inc · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Waldron Rise 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 Joan Rothenberg Family Foundation 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.
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.
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