· Private foundation
McDermott Family Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD FOR THE POOR | $3,600 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY - LOLLYPOP FARM | $3,500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $3,000 |
| NATIVITY PREPARATORY ACADEMY | $3,000 |
| VETERANS OUTREACH CENTER INC | $3,000 |
| HOUSE OF MERCY | $2,700 |
| LIFESPAN | $2,500 |
| MONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| ALFRED STATE COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| ST THOMAS MORE | $2,000 |
| ST MICHAEL'S WORKSHOP | $1,500 |
| WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING | $1,500 |
| OWEN'S HOUSE - CRISIS NURSERY OF GREATER ROCHESTER | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| DIOCESE OF VENICE IN FLORIDA | $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 (FY17–18, $18k) 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.
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 +91% since the first grant, against +81% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
LIFESPAN OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC2× · 2017–2018 · $8k · revenue +91%
HOUSE OF MERCY INC2× · 2017–2018 · $6k · revenue +135%
Veterans Outreach Center Inc2× · 2017–2018 · $6k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- FCFLOWER CITY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +203%
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +81%- RPRochester Presbyterian Home Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +41%
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.
Unity health system inc. 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 friendly home is a non-profit, non-denominational 200 bed nursing care and rehabilitation facility for older adults. located at 3156 east avenue in brighton, the friendly home offers a variety of health care services including 24-hour…
Hospice of Michigan, Inc. meets our patients and families where they are with urgency, purpose and compassionate accountability surrounding them with decades of dedicated hospice expertise.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
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…
To provide residential, rehabilitation and support services in the rochester, ny area to adults recovering from major mental illnesses, chemical dependency and other disabling conditions.
We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. the community hospice is a member of st. peter's health partners…
To raise and manage funds in support of united memorial medical center and it's affiliates.
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.
The mission of hebrew health care is to provide highly personalized quality programs and services to the seniors of our community. we assure dignified, informed, quality care to all regardless of source of payment for services. (see…
The mission of the foundation for health care continuums is to strengthen each community we serve by providing a wide spectrum of housing and health care services that honor the evolving, aging population.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Rochester. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 29 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 FLOWER CITY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds LIFESPAN OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds Veterans Outreach Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds Rochester Presbyterian Home Inc ↗
- Who funds WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ST MICHAEL'S WOODSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds Retirement Home For Horses Inc ↗
- Who funds Sustain Inspire Survive ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER 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 · Esl Charitable Foundation · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Charles J & Burton S August Family Foundation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Alstom Signaling Foundation Inc · The Bernard and Patricia Iacovangelo Family Foundation Inc · Finger Lakes Area Community Endowment · William & Sheila Konar 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 McDermott Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% 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.