· Private foundation
Rochester Female Charitable Society
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k47 grants · $117k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $10,500 |
| ENCOMPASS RESOURCE FOR LEARNING | $8,250 |
| TRILLIUM HEALTH | $8,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| COMMUNITY PLACE OF ROCHESTER | $5,500 |
| HILLSIDE FAMILY OF AGENCIES | $5,450 |
| ROCHESTER CHILDFIRST NETWORK | $5,000 |
| FOODLINK | $5,000 |
| NATIVITY PREPERATORY ASSOCIATES | $5,000 |
| GREENTOPIA | $5,000 |
| AUTISMUP | $5,000 |
| HOMESTEAD FOR HOPE | $5,000 |
| SPIRITUS CHRIST PRISON OUTREACH | $5,000 |
| ASBURY CHURCH FIRST STOREHOUSE | $5,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICE COMMUNITIES | $4,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $183k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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 +33% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
91 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 53 since wound down; 10 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
IBERO-AMERICAN ACTION LEAGUE INC8× · 2018–2025 · $58k · revenue +69%
TRILLIUM HEALTH INC8× · 2018–2025 · $40k · revenue +187%
THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER8× · 2018–2025 · $31k · revenue +365%
Funded once
- UOU OF R MED INCLUDES HIGHLAND VNS ASSOCIATESone grant, 2019 · $7k
- 3E321 EAST AVEone grant, 2020 · $6k
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2018 · $6k
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.
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.
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…
To provide clean, safe, well maintained, and affordable apartments and townhouses, suitable for anyone, in many locations throughout rochester, new york.
See schedule oto make a positive difference in the lives and health status of individuals in the city of rochester, ny and western monroe county. we will educate our community, our providers, and future health care professionals in order…
The friendly home is a non-profit, non-denominational 200 bed nursing care and rehabilitation facility for older adults. located at 3156 east avenue in brighton, the friendly home offers a variety of health care services including 24-hour…
Our mission is to provide skilled, compassionate, cost-effective care that promotes wellness and meets the community's healthcare needs.
The center strives to provide a range of services that support working parents while fostering the emotional, social, physical and intellectual growth of their children. special consideration is given to low income families and families…
Healthcare on a nonprofit basis to promote the health of the community as a whole.
To provide residential, rehabilitation and support services in the rochester, ny area to adults recovering from major mental illnesses, chemical dependency and other disabling conditions.
United memorial medical center is the only acute care hospital in genesee county, with 131 licensed acute care beds that provide the necessary healthcare services to a regional population of approximately 138,000 residents and operates the…
The Rochester/Monroe County Homeless Continuum of Care (CoC) is a collaborative partnership which provides leadership, linkages, education, and guidance to eliminate homelessness.
Through supportive friendships, enhance the wellness of those with social and emotional barriers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rochester School of the Holy Childhood I and the most unlike its peers is Hcr Manor Care Foundation Inc. 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 40 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 193 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
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 IBERO-AMERICAN ACTION LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds TRILLIUM HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368) ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE GARDENAERIAL INC ↗
- Who funds FOODLINK INC ↗
- Who funds Restoration Rochester Inc ↗
- Who funds UR MEDICINE HOME CARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LIFESPAN OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds ENCOMPASS RESOURCES FOR LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDE FAMILY OF AGENCIES ↗
- Who funds AUTISMUP INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL OF THE FINGER LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds ALLENDALE COLUMBIA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH ↗
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: United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Esl Charitable Foundation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Finger Lakes Performing Provider System Inc · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Charles J & Burton S August Family Foundation · William & Sheila Konar Foundation · Marie C and Joseph C Wilson 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 organization Rochester Female Charitable Society 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.
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.