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Rochester Regional Library Council

To act as a regional reference and research library system, coordinate library services, and strengthen library programs.

$165k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Itemized grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
43%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$130k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$62,142
Organizations funded a year
4 to 8
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 43% of the organizations Rochester Regional Library Council funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$130k33%
FY20247$123k43%
FY20238$141k63%
FY20224$105k50%
FY20217$126k29%
FY20206$123k17%
FY20198$136k38%
FY20185$119k40%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$543kHealth$511kArts & Culture$75k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Rochester General Hospital$493,83390%
University of Rochester$262,65890%
St John Fisher University$76,25080%
Rochester Public Library$42,92230%
Geneva Historical Society$22,64811%
Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum$21,55520%
Wood Library Association$17,84511%
Brighton Memorial Library Brighton Town Hall$16,6752n/a
Owwl Library System$16,28020%
Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library$15,39010%
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All grantees of Rochester Regional Library Council by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Rochester General Hospital$493,83390%
University of Rochester$262,65890%
St John Fisher University$76,25080%
Rochester Public Library$42,92230%
Geneva Historical Society$22,64811%
Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum$21,55520%
Wood Library Association$17,84511%
Brighton Memorial Library Brighton Town Hall$16,6752n/a
Owwl Library System$16,28020%
Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library$15,39010%
State University of New York College at Purchase$13,7032n/a
Livingston County Historical Society$12,77726%
Friends of Gates Public Library Inc$11,5471n/a
The Unity Hospital of Rochester$10,98220%
Greece Historical Society$10,9001n/a
Colgate Rochester Divinity School$9,9101n/a
Seymour Library$9,3561n/a
Geneva Public Library$7,8301n/a
Rochester Institute of Technology$7,72010%
Genesee Country Museum$6,65510%
Unity Health System Inc$6,4391n/a
Perry Public Library$6,2271n/a
Monroe 2 Orleans Boces-Youth$6,0001n/a
Parma Public Library$5,9861n/a
Rochester City School District$5,8351n/a
Nazareth University$5,80010%
Monroe Community College Association Inc$5,43510%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rochester Regional Library Council supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Rochester General Hospital: $493,833 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Rochester: $262,658 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSt John Fisher University: $76,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Public Library: $42,922 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGeneva Historical Society: $22,648 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMargaret Woodbury Strong Museum: $21,555 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWood Library Association: $17,845 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOwwl Library System: $16,280 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFriends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library: $15,390 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLivingston County Historical Society: $12,777 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetThe Unity Hospital of Rochester: $10,982 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $7,720 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGenesee Country Museum: $6,655 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNazareth University: $5,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMonroe Community College Association Inc: $5,435 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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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 Commun…Max and Marian Farash…Friends and Foundatio…Esl Charitable Founda…The Riedman FoundationDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Rochester Area Community FoundationNY22.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rochester Area Community Foundation · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library · Esl Charitable Foundation · The Riedman Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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Find your warmest path to Rochester Regional Library Council through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Rochester Regional Library Council

How much does Rochester Regional Library Council give?
Rochester Regional Library Council reported 6 itemized grants totaling $130,018, out of $165,027 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Rochester Regional Library Council fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (48%), Health (45%), Arts & Culture (7%).
Who are Rochester Regional Library Council's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Rochester General Hospital ($494k), University of Rochester ($263k), St John Fisher University ($76k).
Does Rochester Regional Library Council fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Rochester Regional Library Council?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rochester Area Community Foundation, Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation, Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library.
Where is Rochester Regional Library Council based?
Rochester Regional Library Council is based in NY.

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 27 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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