How much did ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION reported 130 grants totaling $3,668,850 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION based?

ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is based in NY.

ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

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· Community foundation

ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

To provide grants to 501(c)(3)public charities, exempt under irc 509(a)(1),(2) and (3) whereby donors choose organizations based on charitable, educational, or community purposes in furtherance of their exempt missions.

$3.7M

Granted FY2025

130

Grants

Communities

$242k

Largest

01What you fund

0184% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.

Education$6.8MPhilanthropy$2.8MArts & Culture$2.1MHuman Services$1.9MEnvironment$1.6MAnimals$795kHealth$658kInternational$617kRecreation & Sports$457kOther$4.3M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

wellspreparescreationhandstewardshipfallsemerging

2020

teamsdiminotreesdentaldonationschicagoarc monroe

2021

ywcpbridgeyoung women'swomen's prepparentsuuscleaders

2022

commitmentlibrarypines perintonparentsreliefuuscrefugees

2023

advertisingcameronintellectuallyritdaystar kidsthoughtfulpediatric

2024

treatmentbostonwinslow homerclass scholarshipuncommon furthersgun safetygun violence

2025

religionarts cultcult humntschild youthserv genlresidential caremary

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 130 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k59 grants · $414k
$10k–50k56 grants · $1.1M
$50k–250k15 grants · $1.4M

$10,100

Median grant

States reached

$5.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

CLIMATE SOLUTIONS ACCELERATOR OF THE GENESEE-FINGER LAKES REGION$241,850
HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER ROCHESTER$181,650
LANDMARK SOCIETY OF WESTERN NEW YORK$149,678
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER JAMES P WILMOT CANCER CENTER$113,700
ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA$78,525
GENERAL ENDOWMENT FUND$78,230
PROLIFE ACROSS AMERICA$78,230
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER GIFTS & DONOR RECORDS$75,818
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER$72,080
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NEW YORK$62,455
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ADVANCEMENT$60,000
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND$52,650
WILLIAM J O'CONNOR JR ARTS & EDUCATION FUND$50,000
KENT SCHOOL$50,000
JACKSON HOLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL$50,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$16M · 157 repeat orgs$6.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

157 repeat relationships — 83 still active in FY2025, 74 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

157

104

Total granted

$16M

$5.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+34%

Still filing today

73%

79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $606k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

WOLCOTT J AND PATRICIA K HUMPHREY FOREVER FUND
7× · 2019–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +65%
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER WILLIAM E SIMON SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
7× · 2019–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +39%
RP
ROCHESTER PEOPLE'S CLIMATE COALITION
6× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +352% · 42% of their budget

Funded once

TB
THE BUHITE-DIMINO CORRIDOR FOR ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL HEALTH
one grant, 2020 · $2.1M · revenue -99%
PB
PALM BEACH STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $1.5M · revenue +260%
BUILD PROMISEgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $500k · revenue +2623% · 39% of their budget

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.

Rochester General College of Health

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

The Baruch College Fund

The fund engages in generating, encouraging & promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education

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

University of New Haven

See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.

Education

Rochester Public Library

To engage the community in life-long learning for all through equal access to information, technology, gathering spaces and expert staff.

Education

Genesee Community Charter School -

Providing an educational experience valuing intellectual rigor, diversity, & responsibility.

Education

New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes.

Education

Rit Global Delivery Corporation

Provide administrative and other support services to academic programs sponsored by rochester institute of technology both in the united states and abroad.

Education

LeMoyne-Owen College

Provide a transformative experience educating students for urban-focused leadership, scholarship, service, and professional careers.

Education

Rochester Area Foundation

Building and enhancing the quality of life in the greater rochester area through philanthropic leadership and community partnerships.

Philanthropy

Boston Architectural College

Founded 131 years ago, the boston architectural college is a recognized institution providing excellence in practice-integrated design education to members of diverse communities with students representing 35 countries. the bac offers…

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Hartwick College

Hartwick College, an engaged community striving towards inclusion and equity while increasing diversity, integrates a liberal arts education with experiential learning to inspire curiosity, critical thinking, creativity, personal courage…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rochester Area Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is George Eastman Museum. 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 43 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.3% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.3%1/292

the rest of the field

10,117/120,468

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.

05the grantee network

228 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

225/228

Grantees still filing

182/228

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$6,814,644Other$6,032,923Philanthropy$2,773,573Arts & Culture$2,130,276Human Services$1,935,038Environment$1,629,971Animals$794,660

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.

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.

United Way of Greater Rochester AndNY152.5× affinity84 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 · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Max and Marian Farash Charitable · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Esl Charitable Foundation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · William & Sheila Konar Foundation · The Joan and Harold Feinbloom Supporting · Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust · Finger Lakes Area Community Endowment · JM McDonald 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 organisation ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

8get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ROCHESTER PEOPLE'S CLIMATE COALITION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.5× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 475562806 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on ROCHESTER PEOPLE'S CLIMATE COALITION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 42% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Rochester Area Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Rochester Area Community Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

228 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Rochester Area Community Foundation?

More from the funding graph

ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

228 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Rochester Area Community Foundation?

More from the funding graph