· Community foundation
Rochester Area Community Foundation
To build a permanent community endowment that meets the current and changing needs of this region through creative and effective philanthropy.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 554 grants below total $22,886,262 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $31,620,583 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $8,734,321 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k146 grants · $1.1M
- $10k–50k295 grants · $6.0M
- $50k–250k98 grants · $10M
- $250k+15 grants · $5.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY | $558,334 |
| NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INC | $500,000 |
| ST JOHNS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ACADIA | $500,000 |
| ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | $470,189 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER GIFTS & DONOR RECORDS | $456,014 |
| ROCHESTER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL LLC | $404,000 |
| U OF R DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY | $363,579 |
| ROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER | $333,640 |
| MARY PARKES ASTHMA CENTER ENDOWMENT OF RACF | $313,160 |
| FOODLINK INC | $281,607 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES | $274,082 |
| GEVA THEATRE CENTER | $263,218 |
| GREATER ROCHESTER AFTER SCHOOL ALLIANCE FUND OF RACF | $250,000 |
| DEPAUL HUTHER-DOYLE | $250,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $10.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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 +29% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
709 repeat relationships — 360 still active in FY2025, 349 since wound down; 117 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M 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
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER7× · 2019–2025 · $9.2M · revenue +54%- EUEmory University2× · 2021–2023 · $3.6M · revenue +32%
BUZZARDS BAY COALITION4× · 2019–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +83% · 26% of their budget
Funded once
- NANortheast Area Development Incone grant, 2019 · $388k
- CFCENTER FOR TEEN EMPOWERMENTone grant, 2020 · $191k
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF CENTRAL & WESTERN NYone grant, 2019 · $120k
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.
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.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…
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…
Mission: together we advance the quality of life for people with disabilities. vision: people of all abilities thrive in the world. values: impact- generate solutions that make a difference. choice - create opportunities for people to lead…
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…
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 improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our community.
Goodwill provides exceptional opportunities for people facing employment barriers.
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…
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
Empower people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative, inclusive programs and community partnerships.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communitygiving and the most unlike its peers is Seneca Falls Performing Arts Center. 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 31 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 — 2% 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.
1690 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. 1690 of the 2,000 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 UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds SEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GEVA THEATRE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds BUZZARDS BAY COALITION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds SENECA PARK ZOO SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Genesee Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds FOODLINK INC ↗
- Who funds Flower City Arts Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368) ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION OF ORLEANS AND GENESEE INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NEUROSURGEONS INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Acadia ↗
- Who funds The Children's Agenda Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIVITY PREPARATORY ACADEMY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GARTH FAGAN DANCE INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR TEEN EMPOWERMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WADSWORTH LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds The David Hochstein Memorial Music School 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: Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Esl Charitable Foundation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · William & Sheila Konar Foundation · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust · Charles J & Burton S August Family Foundation · The Florence M Muller Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Initiatives 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 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.
- Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Sea Education Association Inc — 12% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc — 7% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University — 2% 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.