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Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc

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

$3.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
130
Grants FY2025still arriving
18
States reached
$242k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$4.9MEducation$3.1MArts & Culture$2.8MPhilanthropy$2.5MReligion$2.0MEnvironment$1.7MHuman Services$1.3MAnimals$842kOther$0
02FY2025 · 130 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 130 grants below total $2,863,473, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,668,850 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $805,377 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k59 grants · $414k
  • $10k–50k56 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.4M
$10,100
Median grant
18
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
PROLIFE ACROSS AMERICA$78,230
GENERAL ENDOWMENT FUND$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
KENT SCHOOL$50,000
JACKSON HOLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL$50,000
WILLIAM J O'CONNOR JR ARTS & EDUCATION FUND$50,000
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 (FY19–25, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BETTER TOGETHER: $10k → 10%GUADALUPE CENTER INC: $8k → 10%SEXUAL MINORITY YOUTH ASSISTANCE LEAGUE: $10k → 14%BUILD PROMISE: $500k → 13%IBERO-AMERICAN ACTION LEAGUE INC: $10k → 14%URBAN LEAGUE OF ROCHESTER NY: $8k → 14%URBAN LEAGUE OF ROCHESTER NY: $8k → 14%GOODWILL OF THE FINGER LAKES: $32k → 14%THE CENTER FOR YOUTH: $17k → 14%HILLSIDE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%THE CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES: $15k → 14%THE CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES: $13k → 14%HILLSIDE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $12k → 14%HILLSIDE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $12k → 14%REFUGEES HELPING REFUGEES: $10k → 14%GOODWILL OF THE FINGER LAKES INC: $10k → 14%THE CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES: $8k → 14%THE CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES: $8k → 14%THE CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES: $7k → 14%THE CHILDREN'S AGENDA INC: $57k → 14%THE CHILDREN'S AGENDA INC: $8k → 14%THE CHILDREN'S AGENDA INC: $7k → 14%REFUGEES HELPING REFUGEES: $11k → 14%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $17k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $50k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $29k → 14%YWCA-ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY: $23k → 14%YWCA-ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY: $22k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $16k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $15k → 14%BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES OF NEW YORK: $10k → 14%YWCA-ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY: $9k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $8k → 14%ROCHESTER ROTARY CHARITABLE TRUSTS: $356k → 14%ROCHESTER ROTARY CHARITABLE TRUSTS: $29k → 14%ROCHESTER ROTARY CHARITABLE TRUSTS: $16k → 14%LIFESPAN OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC: $57k → 14%LIFESPAN OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC: $56k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $51k → 14%DAYSTAR KIDS: $31k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $21k → 14%LIFESPAN OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC: $17k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $15k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC: $15k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $12k → 14%DAYSTAR KIDS: $11k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $9k → 14%LIFESPAN OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC: $7k → 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

VT
NH
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PA
NJ
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CA
UT
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DC
LA
AL
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 149 repeat orgs$5.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

149 repeat relationships: 78 still active in FY2025, 71 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

149
100

Total granted

$13M
$5.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+8%

Still filing today

72%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $606k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalHealthEnvironmentOther
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

  • UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +54%
  • CS
    Climate Solutions Accelerator of the Genesee-Finger Lakes Region
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +352% · 42% of their budget
  • TH
    THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO
    7× · 2019–2025 · $601k · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • TB
    THE BUHITE-DIMINO CORRIDOR FOR ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL HEALTH INC
    one grant, 2020 · $2.1M · revenue -99%
  • PB
    PALM BEACH STATE COLLEGE FDN INC
    one grant, 2020 · $1.5M · revenue -3%
  • BUILD PROMISE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $500k · revenue 0% · 39% of their budget
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
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
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
5
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
6
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
7
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
8
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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12
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uncommon Schools Inc; the most unlike its peers is National Coalition Building Institute of Rochester New York Inc. 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

228 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. 228 of the 296 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
48
Early backer (in before they grew)
226/228
Grantees still filing
152/228
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BUHITE-DIMINO CORRIDOR FOR ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL HEALTH INC: $2,100,000 · EducationTHE BUHITE-DIMINO CORRIDOR FOR ORAL…PALM BEACH STATE COLLEGE FDN INC: $1,500,000 · EducationPALM BEACH STATE COLLEGE FDN INCUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $1,363,497 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERTHE KING'S ACADEMY INC: $327,534 · Education+24 more: $1,446,888 · Education+24 moreTHE CENTER FOR TEEN EMPOWERMENT INC: $241,050 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $200,282 · OtherTEE OFF FORE LIFE INC: $228,000 · OtherFOODLINK INC: $269,805 · Other+106 more: $4,713,197 · Other+106 moreROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,940,906 · PhilanthropyROCHESTER AREA…UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC: $371,118 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF …JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER NY INC: $261,780 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNI…THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $91,250 · Philanthropy+3 more: $54,356 · PhilanthropyROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC: $460,725 · Arts & CultureROCHESTER …THE CENTER FOR KASHMIR INC: $290,001 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER…WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL: $252,505 · Arts & CultureWXXI PUBLI…GEVA THEATRE CENTER INC: $237,482 · Arts & CultureGEVA THEAT…THE LANDMARK SOCIETY OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $149,678 · Arts & CultureTHE LANDMA…The David Hochstein Memorial Music School Inc: $115,850 · Arts & CultureThe David …GENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUM: $101,500 · Arts & CultureROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER: $99,528 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $98,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $277,592 · Arts & Culture+11 moreBUILD PROMISE INC: $500,000 · Human ServicesBUILD PRO…ROCHESTER ROTARY CHARITABLE TRUSTS INC: $400,000 · Human ServicesROCHESTER…LIFESPAN OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC: $136,950 · Human ServicesLIFESPAN …JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC: $121,186 · Human ServicesJEWISH CO…YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368): $117,685 · Human ServicesYMCA OF G…The Children's Agenda Inc: $90,600 · Human ServicesThe Center for Youth Services Inc: $74,307 · Human Services+16 more: $441,160 · Human Services+16 moreClimate Solutions Accelerator of the Genesee-Finger Lakes Region: $1,194,920 · EnvironmentThe Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc: $148,400 · EnvironmentGenesee Land Trust Inc: $112,600 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $67,400 · Environment+4 more: $93,794 · EnvironmentTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO: $601,480 · AnimalsSENECA PARK ZOO SOCIETY: $108,900 · AnimalsCRACKER BOX PALACE INC: $68,200 · Animals+1 more: $10,580 · Animals
Education$6,737,919Other$5,652,334Philanthropy$2,719,410Arts & Culture$2,082,861Human Services$1,881,888Environment$1,617,114Animals$789,160

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%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,940,906 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetPALM BEACH STATE COLLEGE FDN INC: $1,500,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $1,363,497 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetClimate Solutions Accelerator of the Genesee-Finger Lakes Region: $1,194,920 over 6y, 42% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO: $601,480 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetBUILD PROMISE INC: $500,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC: $460,725 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetROCHESTER ROTARY CHARITABLE TRUSTS INC: $400,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC: $371,118 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE KING'S ACADEMY INC: $327,534 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR KASHMIR INC: $290,001 over 4y, 22% of budgetFOODLINK INC: $269,805 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER NY INC: $261,780 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetWXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL: $252,505 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR TEEN EMPOWERMENT INC: $241,050 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetGEVA THEATRE CENTER INC: $237,482 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetTEE OFF FORE LIFE INC: $228,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $200,282 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTrustees of Hamilton College: $196,694 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $190,830 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HARLEY SCHOOL: $188,100 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LANDMARK SOCIETY OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $149,678 over 1y, 11% of budgetThe Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc: $148,400 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetLIFESPAN OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC: $136,950 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPROLIFE ACROSS AMERICA: $128,230 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetUnited States Ski Association: $125,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC: $121,186 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetRochester Childfirst Network: $117,723 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetYMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368): $117,685 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $116,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe David Hochstein Memorial Music School Inc: $115,850 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $114,650 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetGenesee Land Trust Inc: $112,600 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetSENECA PARK ZOO SOCIETY: $108,900 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetGENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUM: $101,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER: $99,528 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $98,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MERKAZ CHASIDEI VIZNITZ INC: $97,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $91,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY: $90,761 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Agenda Inc: $90,600 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetNAZARETH UNIVERSITY: $89,375 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAL SIGL CENTER FOR REHABILITATION AGENCIES INC: $85,300 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE: $85,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUnitarian Universalist Service Committee Inc: $83,640 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetALLENDALE COLUMBIA SCHOOL: $82,793 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $79,155 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $77,000 over 7y, 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.

  • Who funds THE BUHITE-DIMINO CORRIDOR FOR ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PALM BEACH STATE COLLEGE FDN INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
  • Who funds Climate Solutions Accelerator of the Genesee-Finger Lakes Region ↗
  • Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ↗
  • Who funds BUILD PROMISE INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCHESTER ROTARY CHARITABLE TRUSTS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE KING'S ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR KASHMIR INC ↗
  • Who funds FOODLINK INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER NY INC ↗
  • Who funds WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR TEEN EMPOWERMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds GEVA THEATRE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds TEE OFF FORE LIFE INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Hamilton College ↗
  • Who funds ROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE HARLEY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE LANDMARK SOCIETY OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc ↗
  • Who funds LIFESPAN OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds PROLIFE ACROSS AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds United States Ski Association ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Rochester Childfirst Network ↗
  • Who funds YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368) ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds The David Hochstein Memorial Music School Inc ↗
  • Who funds ROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Genesee Land Trust Inc ↗
  • Who funds SENECA PARK ZOO SOCIETY ↗

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.

Rochester Area Community FoundationNY147.8× affinity127 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rochester Area Community Foundation · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Esl Charitable Foundation · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · William & Sheila Konar Foundation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust · Thomas F Judson Jr & Elisabeth W Judson Foundation · Charles J & Burton S August Family Foundation · The Joan and Harold Feinbloom Supporting 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 Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc: 7% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 1% of income from government
  • Guadalupe Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
59report 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.

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 296 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 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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