New York · 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.
- $127k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 48
- Grants FY2025
- 41
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,630
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 41 to 66
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Rochester Female Charitable Society funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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 | 48 | $127k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 41 | $142k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 63 | $169k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 58 | $133k | 28% |
| FY2021 | 52 | $138k | 35% |
| FY2020 | 66 | $129k | 48% |
| FY2019 | 60 | $132k | 48% |
| FY2018 | 61 | $131k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ibero-American Action League Inc | $57,946 | 8 | 0% |
| Trillium Health Inc | $39,876 | 8 | 0% |
| The Child Advocacy Center of Greater Rochester | $30,800 | 8 | 0% |
| Willow Domestic Violence Center of Greater Rochester Inc | $23,977 | 8 | 0% |
| University of Rochester | $21,750 | 4 | 0% |
| YMCA of Greater Rochester (4368) | $20,400 | 4 | 0% |
| Hillside Foundation | $19,300 | 6 | 0% |
| Friends of the Gardenaerial Inc | $17,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Catholic Charities Family & Community Services | $16,009 | 2 | n/a |
| Foodlink Inc | $16,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 56 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 136 recipients with no EIN on record ($617k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rochester Female Charitable Society supplied at peak.
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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: 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
How this is measured
Compare Rochester Female Charitable Society with peer funders
About Rochester Female Charitable Society
- How much does Rochester Female Charitable Society give?
- Rochester Female Charitable Society reported 48 grants totaling $127,358 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 41 and 66 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Rochester Female Charitable Society fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (24%), Health (24%), Religion (8%).
- Who are Rochester Female Charitable Society's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Ibero-American Action League Inc ($58k), Trillium Health Inc ($40k), The Child Advocacy Center of Greater Rochester ($31k).
- Does Rochester Female Charitable Society fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rochester Female Charitable Society accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Rochester Female Charitable Society?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc, Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation, Esl Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Rochester Female Charitable Society based?
- Rochester Female Charitable Society is based in NY.
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