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Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
121
Grants FY2025still arriving
18
States reached
$350k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Philanthropy$2.2MHealth$1.4MEducation$1.4MYouth Development$1.1MFood & Nutrition$807kCivil Rights$550kHuman Services$459kArts & Culture$252kOther$0
02FY2025 · 121 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k93 grants · $247k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $320k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
  • $250k+6 grants · $1.7M
$3,500
Median grant
18
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
United Way of Greater Rochester$350,000
United Way of Greater Cincinnati$350,000
Feeding America$250,000
Mental Health America Inc$250,000
Junior Achievement USA$250,000
National Urban League$250,000
Greater Rochester Chamber Foundation$200,000
Junior Achievement$50,000
Golisano Autism Center$50,000
American Red Cross$25,000
Habitat for Humanity$25,000
American Red Cross - Western New York Region$25,000
Hillside Work Scholarship Connection$25,000
Imagination Playground Inc$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Heritage Christian Services: $25k → 14%Children's Bereavement Center of South Texas: $10k → 16%Wounded Veterans Relief Fund: $3k → 11%The Gathering Place: $4k → 17%Asian Counseling and Referral Service: $10k → 9%Project 150: $3k → 13%Urban League of Palm Beach County: $3k → 11%Heritage Christian Services: $25k → 14%The Gathering Place: $3k → 17%The Gathering Place: $3k → 17%National Black Child Development Institute: $5k → 8%National Black Child Development Institute: $5k → 8%Cay Galgon Life House: $4k → 11%Battle Borne: $3k → 11%Rochester Accessible Adventures: $5k → 14%National Urban League: $250k → 17%National Urban League: $250k → 17%Buffalo Urban League: $10k → 13%National Urban League: $3k → 17%Episcopal Senior Life Communities: $4k → 14%Brightstar Community Inc: $4k → 14%Agape Haven of Abundance: $4k → 14%Penfield Hope: $10k → 14%Penfield HOPE: $5k → 14%House of Mercy: $4k → 14%Community Place of Greater Rochester: $4k → 14%The Community Place of Greater Rochester: $4k → 14%House of Mercy: $4k → 14%House of Mercy - Operation Food Basket: $4k → 14%Ibero-American Action League Inc: $3k → 14%House of Mercy: $3k → 14%Community Place of Greater Rochester: $3k → 14%Ibero American Action League: $3k → 14%YWCA of Rochester and Monroe County: $5k → 14%YMCA of Greater Rochester: $4k → 14%YMCA of Greater Rochester: $4k → 14%CDS Monarch: $4k → 14%Hillside Children's Foundation: $50k → 14%Center for Youth: $10k → 14%Goodwill of the Finger Lakes: $5k → 14%Goodwill of the Finger Lakes: $5k → 14%St John's Home Foundation: $5k → 14%Episcopal Senior Life Communites: $5k → 14%The Center for Youth: $3k → 14%Rochester Rehabilitation Center: $3k → 14%Rochester Rehabiltiation Center Inc: $3k → 14%The Center for Youth: $3k → 14%Family Promise of Greater Rochester: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
NV
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.7M · 105 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

105
146

Total granted

$6.7M
$615k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
0%

Still filing today

83%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $855k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • GR
    GREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +828% · 33% of their budget
  • Feeding America
    4× · 2021–2025 · $762k · revenue +23%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA
    3× · 2023–2025 · $750k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • HF
    HILLSIDE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +166%
  • CA
    Cancer Action Inc DBA Cancer Support Community Rochester
    one grant, 2022 · $45k · revenue +4%
  • TH
    THE HEALING CONNECTION RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -48%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
United Way of Greater Rochester Inc

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…

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3
The Way Back Inc

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…

Human Services
4
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
5
Neighborhood Housing Services of Rochester Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
6
Residential Opportunities Inc

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.

Human Services
7
Unity Health System Inc

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.

Health
8
One Roc Inc

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,…

Community Improvement
9
Goodwill Industries of Greater New York & Northern New Jersey Inc

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.

Employment
10
Job Path Inc

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…

Employment
11
Search for Change Inc

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…

Human Services
12
The Rochester General Hospital

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

212 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
208/212
Grantees still filing
115/212
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

United Way of Greater Rochester: $1,000,000 · OtherUnited Way of Greater RochesterMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC: $750,000 · OtherMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INCGreater Rochester Chamber Foundation: $200,000 · OtherGreater Rochester Chamber FoundationMARGARET WOODBURY STRONG MUSEUM: $200,000 · OtherMARGARET WOODBURY STRONG MUSEUM+124 more: $1,334,750 · Other+124 moreUNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC: $805,200 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREA…United Way of Greater Cincinnati: $350,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Grea…GOLISANO AUTISM CENTER INC: $250,000 · PhilanthropyGOLISANO AUTISM CE…+9 more: $68,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC: $1,010,000 · EducationGREATER ROCHEST…NAZARETH UNIVERSITY: $90,000 · EducationNAZARETH UNIVER…ROCHESTER PREP CHARTER SCHOOLS: $60,000 · Education+8 more: $74,500 · Education+8 moreNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $502,500 · Human ServicesNATIONAL U…HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC: $52,000 · Human ServicesHERITAGE C…HILLSIDE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesHILLSIDE F…+29 more: $236,317 · Human Services+29 moreFeeding America: $761,500 · Food & NutritionFeeding Am…+3 more: $37,500 · Food & NutritionJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $750,000 · Youth DevelopmentJUNIOR ACH…+5 more: $41,500 · Youth DevelopmentJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL UPSTATE NEW YORK INC: $190,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 · International+5 more: $25,000 · International
Other$3,484,750Philanthropy$1,473,200Education$1,234,500Human Services$840,817Food & Nutrition$799,000Youth Development$791,500International$280,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC: $1,010,000 over 4y, 33% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC: $805,200 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFeeding America: $761,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $750,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC: $750,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $502,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati: $350,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGOLISANO AUTISM CENTER INC: $250,000 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetMARGARET WOODBURY STRONG MUSEUM: $200,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL UPSTATE NEW YORK INC: $190,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetNAZARETH UNIVERSITY: $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROCHESTER PREP CHARTER SCHOOLS: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHERITAGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC: $52,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSIDE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCancer Action Inc DBA Cancer Support Community Rochester: $45,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetVeterans Outreach Center Inc: $42,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $37,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $29,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HEALING CONNECTION RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetHOUSE OF MERCY INC: $19,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOOD CUPBOARD OF ROCHESTER INC: $19,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $18,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROCHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $16,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetThe Center for Youth Services Inc: $16,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ROCHESTER INC: $15,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPenfield Hope Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetThe Martin Luther King Jr Center For Nonviolent Social Change Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThurgood Marshall College Fund: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDIMITRI HOUSE INC: $13,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetAUTISMUP INC: $13,300 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVENTURE JOBS FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetUNITED WAY INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY PLACE OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY FLIGHT CENTRAL INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROCHESTER REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSPIRIT NYS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetHOMESTEADS FOR HOPE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATION SUCCESS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEAST HOUSE CORPORATION: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

United Way of Greater…Esl Charitable Founda…Max and Marian Farash…Greater Rochester Hea…Rochester Area Commun…Daisy Marquis Jones F…William & Sheila Kona…Rochester Area Commun…Ames-Amzalak Memorial…Charles J & Burton S …The Polisseni Foundat…Waldron Rise Foundati…
United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes IncNY166.8× affinity89 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 24%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
74report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 302 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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