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Melvin and Mildred Eggers Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$5.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$4.2M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 77% of MELVIN AND MILDRED EGGERS FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k30 grants · $86k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $93k
  • $250k+2 grants · $4.9M
$3,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VANGUARD CHARITABLE (21624 TRANSFER OF SECURITIES AT FMV BV 2938170)$4,220,717
VANGUARD CHARITABLE$696,502
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY$35,000
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY$25,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER$18,000
SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND$15,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$7,500
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY LANGONE HEALTH$7,500
PRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NYS$5,000
FINGER LAKES LAND TRUST$5,000
CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS$5,000
ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA$5,000
SYRACUSE STAGE$3,000
CENTER FOR YOUTH$3,000
FOODLINK$3,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PROJECT HOME: $1k → 22%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%CENTER FOR YOUTH: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%HILLSIDE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%HILLSIDE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%CENTER FOR YOUTH: $2k → 14%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $1k → 14%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $1k → 14%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $2k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

15%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$759k · 37 repeat orgs$4.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

37 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
11

Total granted

$759k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+10%

Still filing today

70%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthEnvironmentInternationalOther

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

  • SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $355k · revenue +29%
  • TF
    The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +24%
  • TC
    THE CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS
    4× · 2021–2024 · $25k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • FA
    Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -38%
  • CM
    CHALLENGER MIRACLE FIELD OF GREATER ROCHESTER
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
  • TL
    THE LANDMARK SOCIETY OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -1%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Rochester General Health System

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.

Health
2
New York Restoration Project

New york restoration project ("nyrp") believes that nature is a fundamental right of every new yorker. nyrp works collaboratively with residents in communities across the five boroughs to renovate gardens, restore parks, plant trees,…

Environment
3
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
4
New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc

The conservancy preserves and revitalizes new york's architecture. by doing so, it contributes to new york's economy, tourism and quality of life.

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5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.

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8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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9
Rochester General College of Health Careers

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.

Education
10
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
11
The Frederick Ferris Thompson Hospital

FF Thompson Hospital is a community hospital which exists to serve the health care needs of the people in partnership with regional health care providers. FF Thompson Hospital serves as the center of a health care network to provide a full…

Health
12
F F Thompson Health System Inc

Thompson Health is dedicated to providing an integrated health care system, comprised of affiliated health-related corporations, to continuously improve the health of the residents and communities of the Finger Lakes and the surrounding…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Henry Street Settlement and the most unlike its peers is Rochester Olmsted Parks Alliance. 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 45 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr19%24%20–35yr14%27%35–55yr15%39%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr19%16%20–35yr14%10%35–55yr15%73%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/44
the rest of the field
12%
5,814/49,721

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.

04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 55 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/41
Grantees still filing
27/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VANGUARD CHARITABLE (21624 TRANSFER OF SECURITIES AT FMV BV 2938170) — $4,220,717 · OtherVANGUARD CHARITABLE (21624 TRANSFER OF SECURITIES AT FMV BV 2938170)+23 more — $244,000 · Other+23 moreVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM — $696,502 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHARI…DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $30,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $10,000 · PhilanthropySYRACUSE UNIVERSITY — $355,000 · Education+4 more — $21,000 · EducationThe Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc — $45,000 · EnvironmentHighland Park Conservancy Inc — $5,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $4,000 · EnvironmentROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC — $12,000 · Arts & CulturePRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE — $5,000 · Arts & CultureGENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUM — $5,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF PARROTT HALL INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureTHE LANDMARK SOCIETY OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC — $2,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $4,500 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN OF BELLEVUE INC — $11,500 · HealthAuxiliary to Bellevue Hospital Center Inc — $6,000 · HealthAmerican Liver Foundation — $6,000 · HealthBreast Cancer Coalition of Rochester Inc — $2,000 · HealthAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $11,500 · Human ServicesHILLSIDE CHILDREN'S CENTER — $5,000 · Human ServicesThe Center for Youth Services Inc — $4,500 · Human ServicesFamily Promise of Greater Rochester Inc — $2,000 · Human ServicesHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT — $1,500 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOME — $1,000 · Human Services
Other$4,464,717Philanthropy$736,502Education$376,000Environment$54,000Arts & Culture$51,000Health$25,500Human Services$25,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM — $696,502 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY — $355,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc — $45,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS — $24,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC — $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN OF BELLEVUE INC — $11,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetFOODLINK INC — $11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFLOWER CITY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetON POINT FOR COLLEGE INC — $7,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAuxiliary to Bellevue Hospital Center Inc — $6,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican Liver Foundation — $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHighland Park Conservancy Inc — $5,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetHILLSIDE CHILDREN'S CENTER — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUM — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Center for Youth Services Inc — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetF F THOMPSON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOLMSTED NETWORK INC — $4,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF PARROTT HALL INC — $2,500 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetFamily Promise of Greater Rochester Inc — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LANDMARK SOCIETY OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBreast Cancer Coalition of Rochester Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRADDOCK BAY BIRD OBSERVATORY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetPROJECT HOME — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTISTS UNLIMITED INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGUSTAV STICKLEY HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budget
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.

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.

Rochester Area Commun…United Way of Greater…Paychex Charitable Fo…Rochester Area Commun…Max and Marian Farash…Esl Charitable Founda…Alstom Signaling Foun…Daisy Marquis Jones F…Davenport-Hatch Found…Ames-Amzalak Memorial…JM McDonald Foundatio…Mary S Mulligan Chari…
Rochester Area Community FoundationNY26× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rochester Area Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Esl Charitable Foundation · Alstom Signaling Foundation Inc · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Davenport-Hatch Foundation · Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Mary S Mulligan Charitable Trust

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 Melvin and Mildred Eggers Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 55 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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