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Rochester Regional Library Council at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$62k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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$543kHealth$511kArts & Culture$75k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $130,018, the rows itemized in this filing. The $165,027 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $35,009 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 $10k3 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $43k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Rochester General Hospital - Werner Medical Library$62,142
Edward G Miner Library$32,984
Brighton Memorial Library$10,000
Brockport Seymour Library$9,356
St John Fisher College - Lavery Library$7,816
RIT Archives co University Advancement$7,720
02The need
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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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The Strong: $12k → 15%Historic Geneva (Geneva Historical Society): $23k → 10%Livingston County Historical Society: $6k → 11%Perry Public Library: $6k → 12%Edward G Miner Library: $33k → 14%The Strong: $9k → 15%Geneva Public Library: $8k → 10%Livingston County Historical Society: $6k → 11%Edward G Miner Library: $32k → 14%Wood Library: $18k → 10%Edward G Miner Library: $31k → 14%Pioneer Library System: $9k → 10%Edward G Miner Library: $29k → 14%Pioneer Library System: $7k → 10%Edward G Miner Library: $28k → 14%Edward G Miner Library: $27k → 14%Edward G Miner Library: $27k → 14%Edward G Miner Library: $27k → 14%Edward G Miner Library: $22k → 14%Rochester General Hospital - Werner Medical Library: $62k → 14%Rochester General Hospital - Werner Medical Library: $59k → 14%Rochester General Hospital - Werner Medical Library: $57k → 14%Rochester General Hospital - Werner Health Sciences Library: $57k → 14%Rochester General Hospital - Werner Medical Library: $56k → 14%Rochester General Hospital - Werner Health Sciences Library: $54k → 14%Rochester General Hospital - Werner Medical Library: $51k → 14%Rochester General Hospital - Werner Medical Library: $50k → 14%Rochester General Hospital - Werner Medical Library: $46k → 14%Brockport Seymour Library: $9k → 14%College of Brockport - Drake Memorial Library: $8k → 14%Unity Health System: $6k → 14%Genesee Country Village & Museum: $7k → 14%Greece Historical Society: $11k → 14%Gates Public Library: $12k → 14%Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School: $10k → 14%Memorial Art Gallery - Charlotte Whitney Allen Libary: $6k → 14%Rochester Public Library: $20k → 14%Friends & Foundation of the RPL: $15k → 14%Rochester Public Library: $13k → 14%Rochester Public Library: $10k → 14%St John Fisher - Lavery Library: $19k → 14%St John Fisher - Lavery Library: $14k → 14%Brighton Memorial Library: $10k → 14%St John Fisher - Lavery Library: $10k → 14%St John Fisher College - Lavery Library: $8k → 14%St John Fisher College - Lavery Library: $7k → 14%St John Fisher College - Lavery Library: $7k → 14%Brighton Memorial Library: $7k → 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.
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$968k · 10 repeat orgs$162k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
15

Total granted

$968k
$144k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
-4%

Still filing today

80%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
EducationHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • TR
    THE ROCHESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $494k · revenue +80%
  • UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $263k · revenue +81%
  • SJ
    ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $76k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • GH
    Geneva Historical Society
    one grant, 2022 · $23k · revenue -65%
  • WL
    WOOD LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue -4%
  • FA
    Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -38%
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 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
2
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
3
Rochester Historical Society

The purpose of the Rochester Historical Society is to seek out, collect, preserve and restore those materials, records, and artifacts which relate to the history of Rochester.

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4
Gouverneur Hospital

Our mission is to provide skilled, compassionate, cost-effective care that promotes wellness and meets the community's healthcare needs.

Health
5
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
6
United Memorial Medical Center

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…

Health
7
Rochester Museum & Science Center

The mission of the rochester museum and science center is to create a better world through inspiring curiosity, exploration, and engagement across history, science, culture, and the natural world.

Arts & Culture
8
The Rockefeller University

The rockefeller university (the university) is a world renowned center for research and graduate education in the biomedical sciences, chemistry, bioinformatics, and physics. the university's 73 laboratories conduct both clinical and basic…

Education
9
Rochester Public Library Foundation

The foundation's mission is to raise private funds for educational and informational resources and projects in a manner that does not diminish the need for strong public funding, and to educate the community about the library's vital role…

Philanthropy
10
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
11
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
12
Jervis Public Library Association Inc

The library's mission is to provide services and materials to meet the information/reference, education, and cultural needs of the general public in the community and surrounding areas. through its reference service, collection, and…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rochester Public Library; the most unlike its peers is Livingston County Historical Society. 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

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ROCHESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL: $493,833 · HealthTHE ROCHESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL+2 more: $17,421 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $262,658 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY: $76,250 · EducationST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITYROCHESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY: $42,922 · EducationROCHESTER PUBLIC LIBRARYOWWL LIBRARY SYSTEM: $16,280 · EducationFriends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library: $15,390 · Education+3 more: $18,955 · EducationMARGARET WOODBURY STRONG MUSEUM: $21,555 · OtherMARGARET WOODB…WOOD LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $17,845 · OtherWOOD LIBRARY A…BRIGHTON MEMORIAL LIBRARY BRIGHTON TOWN HALL: $16,675 · OtherBRIGHTON MEMOR…STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK COLLEGE AT PURCHASE: $13,703 · OtherSTATE UNIVERSI…LIVINGSTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $12,777 · OtherLIVINGSTON COU…FRIENDS OF GATES PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $11,547 · OtherFRIENDS OF GAT…COLGATE ROCHESTER DIVINITY SCHOOL: $9,910 · OtherCOLGATE ROCHES…SEYMOUR LIBRARY: $9,356 · OtherSEYMOUR LIBRAR…GENEVA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $7,830 · OtherGENEVA PUBLIC …PERRY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $6,227 · OtherMONROE 2 ORLEANS BOCES-YOUTH: $6,000 · OtherParma Public Library: $5,986 · OtherROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $5,835 · OtherGeneva Historical Society: $22,648 · Arts & CultureGreece Historical Society: $10,900 · Arts & CultureGENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUM: $6,655 · Arts & Culture
Health$511,254Education$432,455Other$145,246Arts & Culture$40,203

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 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
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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rochester Regional Library Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rochester Regional Library Council. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Rochester Regional Library Council?

    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.

    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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