· Private foundation
Sears Family Foundation of Rome Ny
Its FY2025 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ABRAHAM HOUSE | $13,650 |
| HOSPICE CARE FOUNDATION | $12,043 |
| ROME HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| JERVIS PUBLIC LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS - MOHAWK VALLEY CHAPTER | $10,000 |
| COPPER CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONSENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL OF ROME NY INC | $9,000 |
| ROME COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $7,700 |
| CAPITOL THEATRE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $6,800 |
| RESCUE MISSION OF ROME | $6,800 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF ROME NY | $6,000 |
| ROME ART & COMMUNITY CENTER | $5,838 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $4,000 |
| ROME CEMETERY ASSOCIATION | $4,000 |
| ROME COMMUNITY CONCERT BAND | $3,000 |
| KEYS | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–23, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
34 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AHABRAHAM HOUSE7× · 2019–2025 · $81k · revenue +13%
- RMROME MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2025 · $71k · revenue +351%
- RCRome Cemetery Association8× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSS - MOHAWK VALLEYone grant, 2018 · $5k
- DLDELTA LAKE BIBLE CONFERENCE CENTER INCone grant, 2020 · $3k
- MVMOHAWK VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING IN RETIREMENTgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +46%
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 Rome Chamber Music Festival, Inc. is a New York not-for-profit corporation established to promote and advance the public perception and awareness of music in its cultural environment by organizing and promoting concerts and musical…
Promote commerce for the local area
Live performing arts for the residents and students of northwest georgia.
Community improvement
The organization intends to revitalize and provide economic sustainability for the city of rome, ny, by cleaning up contamination, rehabilitating buildings that are inhabitable, and then, sell or lease the property at a reasonable price.
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.
An organization for the purpose of educating the citizens in ways of improving the community's appearance.
To inspire, educate, and entertain through excellence in musical performances.
To promote and defend Romes cultural heritage through educational programs, projects, and public outreach in archaeology and Mediterranean culture, conservation, video, and social media.
Pregnancy counseling and medical support for pregnant mothers. parenting educational services for parents of newborn babies.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 40 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 ABRAHAM HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ROME MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Rome Cemetery Association ↗
- Who funds ROME COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL OF ROME NY INC ↗
- Who funds ROME ART AND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROME INC ↗
- Who funds ROME HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ROME RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds ROME BASEBALL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Deerpark Area Senior Citizens Council ↗
- Who funds KEYS CORP ↗
- Who funds CAPITOL CIVIC CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MOHAWK VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING IN RETIREMENT ↗
- Who funds ROME COMMUNITY THEATER 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.
Open a dossier: Hazen B Hinman Sr Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties Inc · Rome Community Foundation · Bank of Utica Foundation Inc · Utica National Group Foundation Inc · The Griffin Charitable Foundation Inc · Dorothy G Griffin Charitable Foundation · The Shirley W & William L Griffin Charitable Foundation · The William G Pomeroy Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sears Family Foundation of Rome Ny funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sears Family Foundation of Rome Ny. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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