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Rome Community Foundation
The mission of the foundation is to assist in providing monetary resources for the present and future enrichment of the rome area community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $266,356 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $477,014 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $210,658 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $220k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAPITAL CIVIC CENTER INC | $34,000 |
| MVHS FOUNDATION | $31,433 |
| ROME CEMETERY ASSOC | $27,000 |
| MVCC FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ROME MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| KELBERMAN CENTER | $20,000 |
| ZION EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $14,000 |
| ROME ART AND COMMUNITY CENTER | $13,000 |
| COPPER CITY COMMUNITY | $12,042 |
| MERCY FLIGHT CENTER | $12,000 |
| SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE | $11,750 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF WESTERNVILLE | $8,971 |
| NEW YORK DISTRICT KIWANIS | $8,750 |
| HOSPICE AND PALLATIVE CARE | $8,600 |
| LEATHERSTOCKING COUNCIL - BSA | $7,725 |
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 (FY17–24, $141k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
28 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k 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
- RCROME COMMUNITY THEATER INC7× · 2017–2024 · $165k · revenue +257% · 50% of their budget
- RCRome Cemetery Association8× · 2017–2024 · $108k · revenue +13%
- RMROME MEMORIAL HOSPITAL5× · 2017–2024 · $87k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- PFPROJECT FIBONACCI FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $37k · revenue -5%
- RRROME RESCUE MISSION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $17k · revenue +189%
- RCROME CATHOLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $16k
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.
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 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.
To raise and manage funds in support of united memorial medical center and it's affiliates.
The rochester cemetery association was formed as a non-denominational, nonprofit, lot-owner operated corporation to establish a final resting place as desired by the people of rochester and surrounding areas.
To provide clean, safe, well maintained, and affordable apartments and townhouses, suitable for anyone, in many locations throughout rochester, new york.
Catholic charities of the roman catholic diocese of syracuse, ny operates throughout the diocese from area offices located in the following counties: onondaga, oneida/madison, oswego, cortland, broome and chenango. catholic charities of…
Crouse community center, inc is a residential health care facility whose mission is to provide long term health care, rehabilitation, and adult day care services to area residents requiring 24 hour skilled nursing residential health care…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
In the spirit of our founders, the sisters of st. rita, we provide a compassionate, safe, loving family home environment that respects the dignity of all residents. we strive to meet the physical, emotional, social and spiritual needs of…
St. camillus is a residential healthcare facility dedicated to caring for life through a broad range of healthcare services. the organization operates a 284 bed skilled nursing facility which includes a 20 bed unit dedicated to traumatic…
Wmc new york, inc. shall at all times be operated exclusively for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes within the meaning of section 170(c)(2)(b) and 501(c)(3) of the code, and for the purpose of engaging in various activities…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Citizens Council of Rome Ny Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rome Art and Community Center. 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 55 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 56 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 ROME COMMUNITY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds Rome Cemetery Association ↗
- Who funds ROME MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds JERVIS PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HERKIMER AND ONEIDA COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY FLIGHT CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds MOHAWK VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL OF ROME NY INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROME INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT FIBONACCI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMFORT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Youth and Family Center of the Mohawk Valley ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN AND WOMEN'S COMMUNITY CENTER OF ROME N ↗
- Who funds WESTERN TOWN LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds KELBERMAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROME HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ROME ART AND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROME RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE 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: The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties Inc · Hazen B Hinman Sr Foundation Inc · Sears Family Foundation of Rome Ny · The Griffin Charitable Foundation Inc · Indium Corporation and Macartney Family Foundation Inc · The James H Wurz Jr and Edward T Wurz Sr Foundation · Bank of Utica Foundation Inc · United Way of Rome & Western Oneida County Inc · Joseph and Inez E Carbone Foundation · Utica National Group Foundation Inc · Edwin J Wadas Foundation Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc
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 Rome Community Foundation 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.
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