New York · Private foundation
Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 121
- Grants FY2025
- 110
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 51%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $350,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 79 to 110
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 18
- Total assets, FY2025
- $18M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 51% of the organizations Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $243k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 114 | $2.6M | 41% |
| FY2024 | 110 | $1.9M | 51% |
| FY2023 | 99 | $1.7M | 57% |
| FY2022 | 79 | $1.0M | 61% |
| FY2021 | 91 | $1.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc | $1,010,000 | 4 | 33% |
| Feeding America | $761,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Junior Achievement USA | $750,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Mental Health America Inc | $750,000 | 3 | 2% |
| National Urban League Inc | $502,500 | 3 | 0% |
| United Way of Greater Cincinnati | $350,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Golisano Autism Center Inc | $250,000 | 5 | 9% |
| Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum | $200,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Junior Achievement of Central Upstate New York Inc | $190,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Nazareth University | $90,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 218 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 80 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 196 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc
- How much does Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc give?
- Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc reported 121 grants totaling $2,567,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 79 and 110 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (25%), Health (16%), Education (15%).
- Who are Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc ($1.0M), Feeding America ($762k), Junior Achievement USA ($750k).
- Does Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 51% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc, Esl Charitable Foundation, Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc based?
- Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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