· Private foundation
Louis S & Molly B Wolk Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $273k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $686k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER | $500,000 |
| CENTER FOR TEEN EMPOWERMENT | $450,000 |
| MCC FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $175,000 |
| JEWISH SENIOR LIFE | $162,000 |
| TEMPLE B'RITH KODESH | $128,600 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $120,000 |
| STRONG MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF ROCHESTER | $50,000 |
| ROCHESTER FRINGE FESTIVAL | $40,000 |
| 13 THIRTY CANCER CONNECT | $30,000 |
| ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $30,000 |
| GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE ROCHESTER | $25,000 |
| EDCEPTIONAL SCHOOLS | $25,000 |
| ROCHESTER SPEAKER SERIES | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $5.1M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 6 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC8× · 2017–2025 · $3.7M · revenue +10%
- JSJEWISH SENIOR LIFE9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +11% · 88% of their budget
- MFMCC FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +211% · 35% of their budget
Funded once
- UHUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $100k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE GARDENAERIAL INCone grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue 0%
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BUFFALO INCone grant, 2019 · $33k · revenue 0%
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.
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 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 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.
To engage the community in life-long learning for all through equal access to information, technology, gathering spaces and expert staff.
To improve the health, well being, and quality of life of our jewish community's elderly, as well as that of our general community, being mindful of the values implicit in our jewish heritage.
To create dialogue and build community through contemporary art exhibitions and related programs
Provide administrative and other support services to academic programs sponsored by rochester institute of technology both in the united states and abroad.
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…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…
The mission of the rochester museum and science center is to create a better world through inspiring curiosity, exploration, and engagement across history, science, culture, and the natural world.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
Building and enhancing the quality of life in the greater rochester area through philanthropic leadership and community partnerships.
How this is measured
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 53 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH SENIOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds MCC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER NY INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARGARET WOODBURY STRONG MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIFESPAN OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds NAZARETH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds Rochester Fringe Festival Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE GARDENAERIAL INC ↗
- Who funds TRILLIUM HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds EAST HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds 13THIRTY CANCER CONNECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE THEATRE FILM SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER SPEAKERS SERIES INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust · Esl Charitable Foundation · William & Sheila Konar Foundation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Harold & Joan Feinbloom Family Foundation · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Charles J & Burton S August Family Foundation · Gordon & Marjorie Present Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Louis S & Molly B Wolk Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Louis S & Molly B Wolk Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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