New York · Community foundation
Rochester Area Community Foundation Initiatives Inc
Sponsors programs and projects that address the needs of the community. The organization operates exclusively for the benefit and support of rochester area community foundation.
- $2.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.9M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,109,265
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 24
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Rochester Area Community Foundation Initiatives Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k 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 | 26 | $1.9M | 50% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $1.2M | 29% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $828k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $1.1M | 17% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $1.2M | 20% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $1.0M | 35% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $1.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pathstone Corporation | $3,235,790 | 7 | 2% |
| The Children's Agenda Inc | $1,039,250 | 3 | 27% |
| Center for Governmental Research | $723,804 | 6 | 26% |
| City of Rochester | $366,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Greater Rochester Summer Learning Association Inc | $225,500 | 5 | 7% |
| Action for a Better Community Inc | $210,243 | 6 | 0% |
| Judicial Process Commission Inc | $175,000 | 7 | 12% |
| Encompass Resources for Learning Inc | $164,583 | 1 | 2% |
| Spiritus Christi Prison Outreach Inc | $159,333 | 6 | 4% |
| The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc | $150,000 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 59 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($7k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Rochester Area Community Foundation Initiatives Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 53 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: Esl Charitable Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · William & Sheila Konar Foundation · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The Joan and Harold Feinbloom Supporting Foundation Inc · Waldron Rise Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Rochester Area Community Foundation Initiatives Inc with peer funders
About Rochester Area Community Foundation Initiatives Inc
- How much does Rochester Area Community Foundation Initiatives Inc give?
- Rochester Area Community Foundation Initiatives Inc reported 27 itemized grants totaling $1,938,465, out of $1,998,637 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 24 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Rochester Area Community Foundation Initiatives Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (27%), Human Services (19%), Environment (17%).
- Who are Rochester Area Community Foundation Initiatives Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Pathstone Corporation ($3.2M), The Children's Agenda Inc ($1.0M), Center for Governmental Research ($724k).
- Does Rochester Area Community Foundation Initiatives Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Rochester Area Community Foundation Initiatives Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Esl Charitable Foundation, Rochester Area Community Foundation, United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc.
- Where is Rochester Area Community Foundation Initiatives Inc based?
- Rochester Area Community Foundation Initiatives Inc is based in NY.
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