· Private foundation
Louis S & Molly B Wolk Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
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 |
| ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $30,000 |
| 13 THIRTY CANCER CONNECT | $30,000 |
| GEVA | $25,000 |
| GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE ROCHESTER | $25,000 |
| EDCEPTIONAL SCHOOLS | $25,000 |
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, $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 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.
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 +47% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you 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
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 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%
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rochester Regional Health Foundation 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.
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 43 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 53 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 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 TRILLIUM HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE GARDENAERIAL INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds EAST HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds 13THIRTY CANCER CONNECT INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER SPEAKERS SERIES INC ↗
- 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: 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
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 Louis S & Molly B Wolk 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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