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Rochester Institute of Technology

Rochester Institute of Technology (rit) shapes the future and improves the world through creativity and innovation.

$421M
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$708kHealth$599kCommunity Improvement$563kPublic Safety & Disaster$415kEnvironment$255kArts & Culture$237kRecreation & Sports$223kYouth Development$149kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 22 grants below total $306,763, the rows itemized in this filing. The $421,007,940 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $420,701,177 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 $10k12 grants · $87k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $220k
$9,356
Median grant
9
States reached
$3.0B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HENRIETTA FIRE DISTRICT$45,000
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF THE DEAF$40,000
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER$26,250
ROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION$25,000
AACSB INTERNATIONAL - THE ASSOCIATION TO ADVANCE COLLEGIATE SCHOOLS OF BUSI$21,600
NEW YORK BATTERY AND ENERGY STORAGE TECHNOLOGY CONSORTIUM INC$13,975
GREATER ROCHESTER ENTERPRISE FOUNDATION INC$13,750
DISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION CLUBS OF AMERICA INC$12,981
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL ASSOCIATION FOR THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING$11,000
NATIONAL DEAF INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION$10,000
THE LEARNING CENTER FOR THE DEAF INC$9,356
GRASP INC$9,001
INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE CENTER INC$9,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL UPSTATE NEW YORK INC$8,000
BREAST CANCER COALITION OF ROCHESTER INC$7,800
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 (FY17–25, $139k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COMMUNICATION SERVICE FOR THE DEAF INC: $12k → 10%DEAF SENIORS OF AMERICA INC: $8k → 11%ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL ASSOCIATION FOR THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING: $15k → 14%ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL ASSOCIATION FOR THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING: $12k → 14%ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL ASSOCIATION FOR THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING: $11k → 14%ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL ASSOCIATION FOR THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING: $11k → 14%THE CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES INC: $15k → 14%CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES: $11k → 14%CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES: $10k → 14%CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES: $10k → 14%CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES: $10k → 14%CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES: $8k → 14%CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES INC: $8k → 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

WA
ID
MN
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
DC
OK
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 32 repeat orgs$774k to everyone else

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

32 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
39

Total granted

$2.7M
$708k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+8%

Still filing today

84%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • GR
    GREATER ROCHESTER ENTERPRISE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $307k · revenue +73%
  • SM
    SUSTAINABLE MANUFACTURING INNOVATION ALLIANCE CORP
    2× · 2017–2018 · $255k · revenue ×17 · 27% of their budget
  • NA
    NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF THE DEAF
    9× · 2017–2025 · $206k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • TL
    The Lexington School for the Deaf Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $157k · revenue +7%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY SERVICES CORPORATION
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -63%
  • AS
    ALABAMA SPACE SCIENCE EXHIBIT COMM
    one grant, 2024 · $57k
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
Rochester Institute of Technology

Rochester institute of technology (rit) shapes the future and improves the world through creativity and innovation. as an engaged, intellectually curious, and socially conscious community, rit leverages the power of technology, the arts,…

Education
2
Rochester School for the Deaf

Mission: rochester school for the deaf (rsd) provides exemplary opportunities in a bilingual environment to meet students' unique learning. together, as a community, rsd challenges and prepares students for participation in the…

Education
3
Global Deaf Research Institute

create, develop, and conduct deaf focus assessment and data gathering

International
4
Rochester Deaf Festival Inc

Fund raising for deafhard of hearing people needs

Human Services
5
National Organization On Disability

To work with employers and policymakers to increase opportunities, eliminate barriers and maximize success for people with disabilities while driving business performance.

Civil Rights
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
Hearing and Speech Center of Rochester Inc

To preserve the uniquely human right to enjoy communication for life by helping children and adults achieve dreams through innovative, caring speech and hearing services.

Health
8
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
9
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
10
Rochester Regional Health

The organization is organized and operated for the benefit of all of the affiliates within rochester regional health system. the organization supports and assists the affiliates by reviewing and monitoring their missions, objectives,…

Health
11
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
12
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communication Service for the Deaf Inc; the most unlike its peers is National Deaf Interscholastic Athletic Association. 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

66 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. 66 of the 81 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/66
Grantees still filing
43/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HENRIETTA FIRE DISTRICT: $415,000 · OtherHENRIETTA FIRE DISTRICTNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF THE DEAF: $206,025 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF THE DEAFAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR DEAF CHILDREN: $90,000 · OtherAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR DEAF CHILDRENHOCKEY WESTERN NEW YORK LLC: $86,500 · OtherHOCKEY WESTERN NEW YORK LLCCALIFORNIA EDUCATORS OF THE DEAF: $70,000 · OtherALABAMA SPACE SCIENCE EXHIBIT COMM: $56,913 · OtherMark Seven Deaf Foundation: $55,800 · OtherUNITED WAY SERVICES CORPORATION: $100,000 · OtherUNITED WAY SERVICES CORPORATION+38 more: $530,304 · Other+38 moreThe Lexington School for the Deaf Inc: $157,360 · EducationThe Lexington Scho…AACSB INTERNATIONAL - THE ASSOCIATION TO ADVANCE COLLEGIATE SCHOOLS OF BUSINESS: $131,700 · EducationAACSB INTERNATIONA…HANDS & VOICES INC: $64,500 · EducationHANDS & VOICES INCDISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION CLUBS OF AMERICA INC: $47,681 · EducationDISTRIBUTIVE EDUCA…Women In Cyber Security: $39,740 · EducationWomen In Cyber Sec…UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $34,250 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCH…ATOMIC HANDS: $32,000 · EducationATOMIC HANDS+5 more: $62,914 · Education+5 moreGREATER ROCHESTER ENTERPRISE INC: $306,500 · Community ImprovementGREATER ROCHEST…NEW YORK BATTERY AND ENERGY STORAGE TECHNOLOGY CONSORTIUM INC: $92,950 · Community ImprovementNEW YORK BATTER…GREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $61,500 · Community ImprovementGREATER ROCHEST…+3 more: $29,675 · Community Improvement+3 moreROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $150,075 · HealthROCHESTER…CONFERENCE OF EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATORS OF SCHOOLS: $41,500 · HealthCONFERENC…SOUTHEAST REGIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS: $30,000 · HealthSOUTHEAST…American Heart Association Inc: $22,000 · HealthAmerican …MARCH OF DIMES INC: $10,000 · HealthAMERICAN DEAFNESS & REHABILITATION ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Health+4 more: $30,334 · Health+4 moreSUSTAINABLE MANUFACTURING INNOVATION ALLIANCE CORP: $254,876 · Science & TechRochester Fringe Festival Inc: $150,000 · Recreation & SportsNational Deaf Interscholastic Athletic Association: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsThe Center for Youth Services Inc: $71,330 · Human ServicesALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL ASSOCIATION FOR THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING: $48,500 · Human ServicesCommunication Service For The Deaf Inc: $12,000 · Human ServicesDeaf Seniors of America Inc: $7,500 · Human Services
Other$1,610,542Education$570,145Community Improvement$490,625Health$293,909Science & Tech$254,876Recreation & Sports$160,000Human Services$139,330

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREATER ROCHESTER ENTERPRISE INC: $306,500 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MANUFACTURING INNOVATION ALLIANCE CORP: $254,876 over 2y, 27% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF THE DEAF: $206,025 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetThe Lexington School for the Deaf Inc: $157,360 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $150,075 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetRochester Fringe Festival Inc: $150,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetAACSB INTERNATIONAL - THE ASSOCIATION TO ADVANCE COLLEGIATE SCHOOLS OF BUSINESS: $131,700 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK BATTERY AND ENERGY STORAGE TECHNOLOGY CONSORTIUM INC: $92,950 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR DEAF CHILDREN: $90,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetThe Center for Youth Services Inc: $71,330 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA EDUCATORS OF THE DEAF: $70,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetHANDS & VOICES INC: $64,500 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetGREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $61,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMark Seven Deaf Foundation: $55,800 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL ASSOCIATION FOR THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING: $48,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetDISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION CLUBS OF AMERICA INC: $47,681 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCONFERENCE OF EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATORS OF SCHOOLS: $41,500 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetWomen In Cyber Security: $39,740 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $34,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUM: $33,268 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetATOMIC HANDS: $32,000 over 3y, 34% of budgetNEXTCORPS INC: $30,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHEAST REGIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS: $30,000 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetNational Black Deaf Advocates Inc: $28,500 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetIdaho Educational Services for the Deaf and the Blind Foundation Inc: $27,010 over 1y, 43% of budgetTHE LEARNING CENTER FOR THE DEAF INC: $24,198 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSENECA PARK ZOO SOCIETY: $19,120 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLeadership Rochester Inc: $17,500 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetGREATER ROCHESTER ENTERPRISE FOUNDATION INC: $13,750 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL UPSTATE NEW YORK INC: $13,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION CLUBS OF AMERICA INC GROUP RETURN: $13,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUSA DEAF SPORTS FEDERATION INC: $12,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCommunication Service For The Deaf Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLARKE SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF CLARKE SCHOOLS FOR HEARING AND SPEECH: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCornell University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetON COURSE FOUNDATION USA: $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetDEAF KIDS CODE: $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN DEAFNESS & REHABILITATION ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetSIGNLIGHT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetNew York School for the Deaf: $9,914 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALABAMA INSTITUTE FOR DEAF & BLIND FOUND: $9,134 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE CENTER INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PARTNERSHIPS IN EQUITY: $8,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE RESEARCH: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBreast Cancer Coalition of Rochester Inc: $7,800 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

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.

Esl Charitable Founda…Max and Marian Farash…Rochester Area Commun…Rochester Area Commun…William & Sheila Kona…Paychex Charitable Fo…Daisy Marquis Jones F…Greater Rochester Hea…The Riedman FoundationFinger Lakes Area Com…United Way of Greater…Ames-Amzalak Memorial…
Esl Charitable FoundationNY36.9× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Esl Charitable Foundation · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · William & Sheila Konar Foundation · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · The Riedman Foundation · Finger Lakes Area Community Endowment · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust

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 Institute of Technology funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rochester Institute of Technology. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • National Association of the Deaf: 58% of income from government
  • Atomic Hands: 51% of income from government
  • The Learning Center for the Deaf Inc: 9% of income from government
  • The Clarke School for the Deaf Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech: 1% of income from government
  • Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business: 0% of income from government
  • American Society for Deaf Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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 81 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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