· Private foundation
Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $127k
- $10k–50k50 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k41 grants · $4.3M
- $250k+13 grants · $7.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER | $2,156,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES INC | $952,500 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF ROCHESTER INC | $544,203 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER | $536,500 |
| TALMUDICAL INSTITUTE OF UPSTATE NEW YORK | $513,750 |
| THE COMMUNITY PLACE OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC | $453,592 |
| JEWISH HOME FOUNDATION | $408,490 |
| TEMPLE BETH EL | $371,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER | $337,940 |
| TEMPLE B'RITH KODESH | $337,000 |
| TEMPLE SINAI | $334,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE | $280,000 |
| CENTER FOR TEEN EMPOWERMENT | $260,000 |
| HILLEL COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL | $228,500 |
| FREEDOM SCHOLARS LEARNING CENTER INC | $226,403 |
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, $11.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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 +38% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
264 repeat relationships — 110 still active in FY2024, 154 since wound down; 23 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- JSJEWISH SENIOR LIFE6× · 2017–2022 · $7.6M · revenue +11%
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER8× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +81%- TITALMUDICAL INSTITUTE OF UPSTATE NEW YORK8× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +161%
Funded once
- TOTOWN OF GREECEone grant, 2020 · $330k
- TNTRUE NORTH ROCHESTER PREPARATORY CHARTERone grant, 2020 · $200k
- MCMARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER SCHOOL INCone grant, 2020 · $165k
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.
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 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 provide clean, safe, well maintained, and affordable apartments and townhouses, suitable for anyone, in many locations throughout rochester, new york.
The mission of rochester civic theatre is to engage community organizations through collaboration and shared resources, enrich lives through education and outreach, and elevate human connection through theatre arts.
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…
Through supportive friendships, enhance the wellness of those with social and emotional barriers.
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…
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…
Provide administrative and other support services to academic programs sponsored by rochester institute of technology both in the united states and abroad.
To promote successful aging for adults age 50 and older through lifelong learning, health programs and volunteer engagement. our vision is that adults age 50 plus have opportunities to pursue vibrant, healthy, productive and meaningful…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lost Bird Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
296 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. 296 of the 435 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 SENIOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER NY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds TALMUDICAL INSTITUTE OF UPSTATE NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Center for Youth Services Inc ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds NAZARETH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368) ↗
- Who funds RELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY PLACE OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH SENIOR LIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TECHSOUP GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds THE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COORDINATED CARE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNISTREAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE MIND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VERTUS CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EDCEPTIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTED COMMUNITIES 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: Esl Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · William & Sheila Konar Foundation · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust · Charles J & Burton S August Family Foundation · Waldron Rise Foundation Inc · Rochester Female Charitable Society
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 Max and Marian Farash Charitable 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.
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
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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