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Rochesterworks Inc

The rochesterworks system stimulates local economic growth by providing outstanding employment education, support, and training services.

$2.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$236k
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.

Youth Development$11MScience & Tech$1.0MArts & Culture$378kEducation$291kEnvironment$274kHealth$206kHuman Services$206kEmployment$86kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 39 grants below total $1,485,473, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,682,692 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,197,219 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 $10k9 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $400k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.0M
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES INC: $255k → 14%THE CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES INC- WIOA: $254k → 14%THE CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES INC: $251k → 14%THE CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES INC: $250k → 14%THE CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES INC: $247k → 14%THE CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES INC: $236k → 14%THE CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES INC: $205k → 14%THE CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES INC: $205k → 14%THE CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES INC: $164k → 14%THE CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES INC: $71k → 14%REFUGEES HELPING REFUGEES: $63k → 14%THE CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES INC- GVP: $56k → 14%THE CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES INC: $54k → 14%REFUGEES HELPING REFUGEES: $39k → 14%COMMUNITY PLACE OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $325k → 14%COMMUNITY PLACE OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $314k → 14%COMMUNITY PLACE OF GREATER ROCHESTER- WIOA: $295k → 14%COMMUNITY PLACE OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $273k → 14%COMMUNITY PLACE OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $262k → 14%COMMUNITY PLACE OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $248k → 14%COMMUNITY PLACE OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $219k → 14%COMMUNITY PLACE OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $190k → 14%COMMUNITY PLACE OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $178k → 14%URBAN LEAGUE OF ROCHESTER INC: $114k → 14%URBAN LEAGUE OF ROCHESTER INC- WIOA: $109k → 14%URBAN LEAGUE OF ROCHESTER INC: $101k → 14%URBAN LEAGUE OF ROCHESTER INC: $89k → 14%URBAN LEAGUE OF ROCHESTER INC: $74k → 14%URBAN LEAGUE OF ROCHESTER INC: $65k → 14%COMMUNITY PLACE OF GREATER ROCHESTER- GVP: $60k → 14%COMMUNITY PLACE OF GREATER ROCHESTER- SYEP: $59k → 14%URBAN LEAGUE OF ROCHESTER INC: $55k → 14%URBAN LEAGUE OF ROCHESTER INC: $51k → 14%COMMUNITY RESOURCE COLLABORATIVE INC: $40k → 14%URBAN LEAGUE OF ROCHESTER INC SYEP: $36k → 14%ACTION FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY: $104k → 14%ACTION FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY: $93k → 14%ACTION FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY: $72k → 14%ACTION FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY: $69k → 14%ACTION FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY: $68k → 14%ACTION FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY: $43k → 14%ACTION FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY INC: $106k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $98k → 14%ACTION FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY: $72k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $65k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $61k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $59k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $58k → 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 50 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
66

Total granted

$12M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+6%

Still filing today

40%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $291k 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
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • The Center for Youth Services Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +160%
  • SS
    STARBRIDGE SERVICES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +123%
  • UL
    URBAN LEAGUE OF ROCHESTER NY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $744k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • TI
    TRILOGIX IT LLC
    one grant, 2017 · $68k
  • CR
    COMMUNITY RESOURCE COLLABORATIVE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $66k
  • CT
    CHANGING THE COMMUNITY INC
    one grant, 2018 · $34k · revenue -66%
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 Management Inc

To provide clean, safe, well maintained, and affordable apartments and townhouses, suitable for anyone, in many locations throughout rochester, new york.

Housing & Shelter
2
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
3
One Roc Inc

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,…

Community Improvement
4
Neighborhood Housing Services of Rochester Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
5
Rochesterworks Inc

The rochesterworks system stimulates local economic growth by providing outstanding employment education, support, and training services.

Employment
6
Rochester Child Care Center Inc

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…

Human Services
7
Compeer Rochester Inc

Through supportive friendships, enhance the wellness of those with social and emotional barriers.

Health
8
Rochester Ecology Partners Inc

Rochester Ecology Partners helps all people find nature where they live, work, and play.

Environment
9
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
10
Community Child Care Center of the Third Ward Inc

Provide a safe, caring, and dynamic environment to help nurture the development of pre-school aged children.

Human Services
11
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
12
Rochester Contemporary Art Center Inc

To create dialogue and build community through contemporary art exhibitions and related programs

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rochester Rehabilitation Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 135 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/41
Grantees still filing
23/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE COMMUNITY PLACE OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC: $2,513,725 · Human ServicesTHE COMMUNITY PLACE OF GREATER ROCHESTER INCThe Center for Youth Services Inc: $2,249,186 · Human ServicesThe Center for Youth Services IncURBAN LEAGUE OF ROCHESTER NY INC: $744,307 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF ROCHESTER NY INCACTION FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY INC: $670,333 · Human ServicesACTION FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY INCYMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368): $340,794 · Human Services+6 more: $265,029 · Human ServicesSTARBRIDGE SERVICES INC: $1,217,370 · OtherSTARBRIDGE SERVICES INCMONROE 2 ORLEANS BOCES-YOUTH: $992,430 · OtherMONROE 2 ORLEANS BOCES-YOUTHGREECE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT: $237,489 · Other+108 more: $2,799,243 · Other+108 moreEAST ROCHESTER YOUTH ACTIVITY CENTER INC: $194,197 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ROCHESTER INC: $182,324 · Youth DevelopmentUniversity Preparatory Charter School for Young Men: $242,236 · EducationHOPE INITIATIVES CDC INCORPORATED: $25,561 · EducationRochester Academy Charter School: $16,020 · Education+1 more: $7,500 · EducationPEARL RESOURCES INC: $158,773 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $31,958 · Health+1 more: $5,100 · HealthFRIENDS OF THE GARDENAERIAL INC: $124,225 · Recreation & SportsCHANGING THE COMMUNITY INC: $34,322 · Recreation & SportsTAPROOT COLLECTIVE INC: $134,242 · Community ImprovementPATHSTONE CORPORATION: $19,565 · Community Improvement
Human Services$6,783,374Other$5,246,532Youth Development$376,521Education$291,317Health$195,831Recreation & Sports$158,547Community Improvement$153,807

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE COMMUNITY PLACE OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC: $2,513,725 over 9y, 7.8% of budgetThe Center for Youth Services Inc: $2,249,186 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetSTARBRIDGE SERVICES INC: $1,217,370 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF ROCHESTER NY INC: $744,307 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetACTION FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY INC: $670,333 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetYMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368): $340,794 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity Preparatory Charter School for Young Men: $242,236 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetEAST ROCHESTER YOUTH ACTIVITY CENTER INC: $194,197 over 4y, 48% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ROCHESTER INC: $182,324 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetPEARL RESOURCES INC: $158,773 over 3y, 43% of budgetTAPROOT COLLECTIVE INC: $134,242 over 3y, 19% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE GARDENAERIAL INC: $124,225 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetREFUGEES HELPING REFUGEES INC: $102,265 over 2y, 10% of budgetHILLSIDE FAMILY OF AGENCIES: $62,716 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIBERO-AMERICAN ACTION LEAGUE INC: $51,295 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWRITERS & BOOKS INC: $46,552 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetOUR COFFEE CONNECTION: $40,007 over 3y, 12% of budgetFOODLINK INC: $32,928 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $31,958 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRegional Center For Independent Living Inc: $31,041 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetHOPE INITIATIVES CDC INCORPORATED: $25,561 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE LANDMARK SOCIETY OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $25,380 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetROCHESTER REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $24,608 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRochester Community TV Inc: $22,058 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetGenesee Land Trust Inc: $19,660 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPATHSTONE CORPORATION: $19,565 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRochester Academy Charter School: $16,020 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHis Branches Inc: $15,558 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGOODWILL OF THE FINGER LAKES INC: $15,544 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVILLA OF HOPE: $13,797 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF GREATER NEW YORK & NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $12,456 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON LEOPOLD DAY CARE CTR ASSOC INC: $10,211 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetRenaissance Academy Charter School of the Arts: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER INC: $7,488 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetST JOHN'S HEALTH CARE CORPORATION: $5,100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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…Greater Rochester Hea…United Way of Greater…Max and Marian Farash…Rochester Area Commun…Daisy Marquis Jones F…Finger Lakes Performi…Rochester Area Commun…Paychex Charitable Fo…Rochester Female Char…Rochester Area Commun…Charles J & Burton S …
Esl Charitable FoundationNY56.5× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
    21report 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.

    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 135 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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