· Public charity
Rochesterworks Inc
The rochesterworks system stimulates local economic growth by providing outstanding employment education, support, and training services.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 39 grants below total $1,485,473 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,682,692 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,197,219 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $400k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES INC | $236,197 |
| COMMUNITY PLACE OF GREATER ROCHESTER | $218,505 |
| STARBRIDGE SERVICES INC | $151,732 |
| ACTION FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY | $103,567 |
| THE CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES INC | $71,463 |
| GREENTOPIA | $70,139 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ROCHESTER | $59,587 |
| TAPROOT COLLECTIVE | $57,306 |
| PEARL RESOURCES INC | $55,477 |
| STARBRIDGE SERVICES INC | $48,417 |
| NEW BORN FELLOWSHIP | $38,061 |
| ROCHESTER TECHNOLOGY AND MANUFACTURING ASSOCIATION | $33,964 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF CENTRAL & WESTERN NY INC | $31,958 |
| COMMUNITY PLACE OF GREATER ROCHESTER | $26,799 |
| O'CONNELL ELECTRIC COMPANY INC | $19,691 |
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 (FY17–25, $6.8M) 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 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 +21% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 19 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $291k 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
The Center for Youth Services Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +165%- SSSTARBRIDGE SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +123%
- ULURBAN LEAGUE OF ROCHESTER NY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $744k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- TITRILOGIX IT LLCone grant, 2017 · $68k
- CRCOMMUNITY RESOURCE COLLABORATIVE INCone grant, 2024 · $66k
- CTCHANGING THE COMMUNITY INCone grant, 2018 · $34k · revenue -66%
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.
To provide clean, safe, well maintained, and affordable apartments and townhouses, suitable for anyone, in many locations throughout rochester, new york.
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.
The company's mission is to create new jobs, increase regional wealth, raise regional gdp and enhance opportunity; to invest in a world-class economic development ecosystem where incumbent businesses are thriving, new firms are locating,…
NeighborWorks Rochester collaborates with people and partners to strengthen, sustain and promote city neighborhoods. Our services are available to a wide spectrum of the community, including existing and potential homeowners, tenants and…
The rochesterworks system stimulates local economic growth by providing outstanding employment education, support, and training services.
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…
Through supportive friendships, enhance the wellness of those with social and emotional barriers.
Rochester Ecology Partners helps all people find nature where they live, work, and play.
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.
Provide a safe, caring, and dynamic environment to help nurture the development of pre-school aged children.
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,…
To create dialogue and build community through contemporary art exhibitions and related programs
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rochester Rehabilitation Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Our Coffee Connection. 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 33 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 135 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 THE COMMUNITY PLACE OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Center for Youth Services Inc ↗
- Who funds STARBRIDGE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF ROCHESTER NY INC ↗
- Who funds ACTION FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368) ↗
- Who funds University Preparatory Charter School for Young Men ↗
- Who funds EAST ROCHESTER YOUTH ACTIVITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds Northeast Area Development Inc ↗
- Who funds PEARL RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds TAPROOT COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE GARDENAERIAL INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGEES HELPING REFUGEES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDE FAMILY OF AGENCIES ↗
- Who funds IBERO-AMERICAN ACTION LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds WRITERS & BOOKS INC ↗
- Who funds OUR COFFEE CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds CHANGING THE COMMUNITY INC ↗
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: Esl Charitable Foundation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Finger Lakes Performing Provider System Inc · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Rochester Female Charitable Society · Rochester Area Community Foundation Initiatives Inc · Charles J & Burton S August Family Foundation
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 Rochesterworks Inc 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.