· Private foundation
Max a Adler Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $100k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ANNUAL GIFT | $100,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF ROCHESTER | $30,000 |
| JEWISH HOME FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $15,000 |
| COMPEER INC | $15,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER | $10,000 |
| FOOD LINK | $10,000 |
| UNCFTHE COLLEGE FUND | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC | $5,000 |
| GEVA THEATRE CENTER | $5,000 |
| ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| JOSEPH AVENUE ARTS AND CULTURAL ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| RUNDEL LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF ROCHESTER | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +34% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
29 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FIFOODLINK INC6× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +52%
GOODWILL OF THE FINGER LAKES INC2× · 2020–2021 · $30k · revenue +68%- WPWXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL6× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- ESEASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSICone grant, 2023 · $10k
- RWROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +7%
- FLFINGER LAKES OPERA INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · 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.
The rochesterworks system stimulates local economic growth by providing outstanding employment education, support, and training services.
To establish, erect and maintain a general hospital and dispensary in the county of monroe, ny for medical and surgical aid, care and treatment of persons in need thereof; to carry on and conduct a training school for nurses; to promote…
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 create dialogue and build community through contemporary art exhibitions and related programs
The center strives to provide a range of services that support working parents while fostering the emotional, social, physical and intellectual growth of their children. special consideration is given to low income families and families…
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
The organization is organized and operated for the benefit of all of the affiliates within rochester regional health system. the organization supports and assists the affiliates by reviewing and monitoring their missions, objectives,…
Provide administrative and other support services to academic programs sponsored by rochester institute of technology both in the united states and abroad.
See schedule oto make a positive difference in the lives and health status of individuals in the city of rochester, ny and western monroe county. we will educate our community, our providers, and future health care professionals in order…
How this is measured
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 37 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 FOODLINK INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH SENIOR LIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL OF THE FINGER LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDE CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds GEVA THEATRE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES PROJECT OF MONROE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TRILLIUM HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds MONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VILLA OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds The Center for Youth Services Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds BADEN STREET SETTLEMENT OF ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds Joseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds EQUICENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FINGER LAKES OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES SECTION NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
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 · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Esl Charitable Foundation · Waldron Rise Foundation Inc · Rochester Female Charitable Society · William & Sheila Konar Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Max a Adler Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Max a Adler Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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