· Private foundation
Saunders Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $255k
- $250k+2 grants · $6.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Rochester | $5,356,057 |
| Saunders Museum | $997,611 |
| Hope Hall School | $55,000 |
| Saranac Lake Civic Center | $50,000 |
| The Healing Connection Residential Trtmt | $50,000 |
| St John Fisher College | $50,000 |
| Education Success Foundation | $50,000 |
| Nativity Preparatory Academy of Rochester | $10,000 |
| Town of Ossian Historical Society | $10,000 |
| monroe community college foundation | $10,000 |
| Kiwanis Club of York-Leicester Foundation | $10,000 |
| Bivona Child Advocacy Center | $10,000 |
| Girls on the Run of Greater Rochester | $10,000 |
| monroe community college foundation | $10,000 |
| United Way of Greater Rochester | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
62 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 9 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER4× · 2018–2024 · $5.4M · revenue +65%- ESEDUCATION SUCCESS NETWORK INC6× · 2017–2022 · $300k · revenue +25%
- PSPAUL SMITHS COLLEGE4× · 2018–2021 · $167k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- FLFinger Lakes Museumone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
- PSPAUL SMITHS COLLEGE - CASH DONATIONone grant, 2021 · $141k
- VHVINCENT HOUSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $34k · revenue +159%
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.
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.
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.
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.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Rochester academy of science charter school (the school) is a not-for-profit education corporation that operates kindergarten through 12th grades and is dedicated to providing quality education to a diverse body of students in the…
To raise and manage funds in support of united memorial medical center and it's affiliates.
To create dialogue and build community through contemporary art exhibitions and related programs
St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.
Organization's missionas a university with the capacity to attract and engage the best scholars from around the world, yet small enough to support a personalized and academically rigorous student experience, syracuse university faculty and…
To provide high-school age youth with an academically challenging learning environment that prepares them to communicate effectively, think and reason critically, value diversity, engage in service learning, pursue academic excellence,…
Grcc passionately serves, promotes, and advocates for its over 1,200 members in order to bring economic prosperity to the nine-county finger lakes region of new york state. with a focus on business growth and job creation, grcc offers…
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…
New york medical college (nymc), a member of touro university, is a health sciences college whose purpose is to educate clinical and public health professionals as well as researchers, to conduct biomedical and population-based research…
How this is measured
46 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. 46 of the 113 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION SUCCESS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds PAUL SMITHS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Veterans Outreach Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOPE HALL ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION SUCCESS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SARANAC LAKE CIVIC CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GENESEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds VINCENT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368) ↗
- Who funds Breast Cancer Coalition of Rochester Inc ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds FINGER LAKES AREA COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT ↗
- Who funds NATIVITY PREPARATORY ACADEMY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds COLD CREEK FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Rochester Area Community Foundation · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Esl Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · The Florence M Muller Foundation · Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust · William & Sheila Konar Foundation · Summers Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Saunders Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Saunders Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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