· Private foundation
John P & Lisa Baron Family Foundation
Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k23 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $38k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREENTOPIA | $38,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER | $5,000 |
| SUSAN B ANTHONY MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| HARLEY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER | $5,000 |
| GEVA | $3,000 |
| HARLEY SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| GREENTOPICS | $2,700 |
| GREENTOPIA | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| MARY CARIOLA CHILDREN CENTER | $2,500 |
| BOY SCOUTS SENECA WATERSWAY CO | $2,000 |
| WILMONT CANCER CENTER | $1,275 |
| YOUNG ENTREPRENAURS ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| RECOVERY FITNESS | $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 (FY18–18, $1k) 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.
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.
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.
The rochester general college of health careers is dedicated to preparing adult learners with the knowledge, skills, and competencies necessary to pursue health careers, advanced education, and lifelong learning.
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.
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,…
Rochester academy of science charter school (the school) is a not-for-profit education corporation that operates kindergarten through 12th grades and is dedicated to providing quality education to a diverse body of students in the…
The foundation's mission is to raise private funds for educational and informational resources and projects in a manner that does not diminish the need for strong public funding, and to educate the community about the library's vital role…
To engage the community in life-long learning for all through equal access to information, technology, gathering spaces and expert staff.
The rockefeller university (the university) is a world renowned center for research and graduate education in the biomedical sciences, chemistry, bioinformatics, and physics. the university's 73 laboratories conduct both clinical and basic…
Rasa aims to develop active learners, well rounded individuals, and engaged world citizens. our teachers channel children's natural curiosity to develop lifelong inquirers prepared to thrive in a diverse world. as an international…
Rochester art center offers the opportunity for all people to understand and value the arts through innovative experiences with contemporary art. through world-class exhibitions and programs, we present a welcoming, integrated, and diverse…
To nourish the child's spirit, while fostering exploration, independence, and confidence. we strive to inspire a lifelong love of learning, while modeling grace, courtesy, and respect for self, others, and the earth.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
To provide funds to or for the benefit of rochester regional health and affiliates by:a) soliciting, accepting, holding, investing, reinvesting and administering any gifts, bequests, devises, benefits of trusts and propery of any sort,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Little Theatre Film Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Gardenaerial Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 17 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 FRIENDS OF THE GARDENAERIAL INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds THE HARLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROCOVERY FITNESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE THEATRE FILM SOCIETY INC ↗
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 · Charles J & Burton S August Family Foundation · William & Sheila Konar Foundation · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Esl Charitable Foundation · The Florence M Muller Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 John P & Lisa Baron Family Foundation 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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