· Private foundation
Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k93 grants · $247k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $320k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
- $250k+6 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| United Way of Greater Rochester | $350,000 |
| United Way of Greater Cincinnati | $350,000 |
| Junior Achievement USA | $250,000 |
| Mental Health America Inc | $250,000 |
| National Urban League | $250,000 |
| Feeding America | $250,000 |
| Greater Rochester Chamber Foundation | $200,000 |
| Junior Achievement | $50,000 |
| Golisano Autism Center | $50,000 |
| Imagination Playground Inc | $25,000 |
| American Red Cross - Western New York Region | $25,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity | $25,000 |
| American Red Cross | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Golisano Children's Hospital | $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 (FY21–25, $839k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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 +19% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
105 repeat relationships — 67 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 47 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $855k 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
- GRGREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +828% · 33% of their budget
Feeding America4× · 2021–2025 · $762k · revenue +23%- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA3× · 2023–2025 · $750k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- HFHILLSIDE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +166%
- CACancer Action Inc DBA Cancer Support Community Rochesterone grant, 2022 · $45k · revenue +22%
- THTHE HEALING CONNECTION RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -48%
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.
United way of greater rochester's mission is to unite the good will and resources of the greater rochester community so that everyone can thrive. united way supports a broad network of human service organizations, community initiatives and…
To provide rehabilitative housing services and support to help people with psychiatric disabilities reintegrate into the community.the agency provides rehabilitative housing services and staff support as a primary mechanism for achieving…
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.
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…
We partner with children and adults with disabilities and their families so they may live more meaningful, healthy, and independent lives in their homes and communities.
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 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,…
Goodwill nynj empowers people with disabilities and other barriers to employment to gain independence through the power of work. goodwill nynj provided services to more than 11,087 adults in fiscal year 2025 through all programs.
Job path supports people with autism and other developmental disabilities as they make choices about their lives and play valued roles in their communities. job path encourages people to explore what they want out of life and to chart…
Dedicated to improving the quality of life and increasing the self sufficiency of individuals with emotional, social and economic barriers. this is accomplished by providing direct support and assistance needed to enable individuals to…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Morgan-Manning House. 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 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
212 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. 212 of the 302 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 GREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds GOLISANO AUTISM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MARGARET WOODBURY STRONG MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL UPSTATE NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds NAZARETH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDE WORK SCHOLARSHIP CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER PREP CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cancer Action Inc DBA Cancer Support Community Rochester ↗
- Who funds Veterans Outreach Center Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds THE HEALING CONNECTION RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT INC ↗
- Who funds IMAGINATION PLAYGROUND INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOOD CUPBOARD OF ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Center for Youth Services Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ROCHESTER 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: United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Esl Charitable Foundation · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · William & Sheila Konar Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust · Charles J & Burton S August Family Foundation · The Polisseni Foundation Inc · Waldron Rise Foundation Inc
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 Paychex Charitable 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.
- Chadd Inc Children and Adults With Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder — 31% of income from government
- United Way of Broward County Inc — 27% of income from government
- Association for Autism and Neurodiversity Inc — 24% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.
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