· Private foundation
Summers Foundation Inc
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 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $173k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $96k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OUR LADY OF MERCY | $96,225 |
| FRIENDS OF CANANDAIGUA LAKE INC | $25,000 |
| PALMER CONTEXTUAL SOLUTIONS LLC | $20,000 |
| ROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $20,000 |
| SHRINERS CHILDREN'S | $20,000 |
| MONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $14,000 |
| VERTUS HIGH SCHOOL | $12,500 |
| THE NORMAN HOWARD SCHOOL | $11,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER | $10,500 |
| LEE HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE HIGHLAND FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ROCHESTER CAREERS IN CONSTRUCTION INC | $8,000 |
| IRONDEQUOIT UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST | $6,050 |
| WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER | $5,000 |
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, $225k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
48 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 21 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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $157k 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
- ESEDUCATION SUCCESS FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2025 · $353k · revenue +133%
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER4× · 2017–2025 · $295k · revenue +81%
Rochester Institute of Technology3× · 2017–2022 · $228k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $304k
- ULURBAN LEAGE OF ROCHESTERone grant, 2019 · $100k
- HFHILLSIDE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $38k · revenue -30%
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.
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.
Building and enhancing the quality of life in the greater rochester area through philanthropic leadership and community partnerships.
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,…
The rochesterworks system stimulates local economic growth by providing outstanding employment education, support, and training services.
Provide administrative and other support services to academic programs sponsored by rochester institute of technology both in the united states and abroad.
To benefit rochester regional health and its affiliates to accept, hold, invest, reinvest and administer gifts, grants, bequests, contributions, devises, benefits of trusts, endowments and property of any kind, without limitation as to…
To create dialogue and build community through contemporary art exhibitions and related programs
Through supportive friendships, enhance the wellness of those with social and emotional barriers.
To create, enhance, and promote a downtown experience that is welcoming, fun, and livable.
Provide rental space to affiliated and exempt organizations and to receive and hold real estate that otherwise would have been received by rochester area community foundation.
To raise and manage funds in support of united memorial medical center and it's affiliates.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rochester Regional Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Osc Charitable Foundation. 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 24. 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 1% 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.
70 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. 70 of the 121 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 EDUCATION SUCCESS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds NAZARETH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIND BODY AND SOUL OF WESTERN NY INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S COLLEGE PREP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLENDALE COLUMBIA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Center for Youth Services Inc ↗
- Who funds VERTUS CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EDCEPTIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds VENTURE JOBS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds KEEPING OUR PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds LIFESPAN OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368) ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ↗
- Who funds ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds MARGARET WOODBURY STRONG MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HOMESTEADS FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT 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 · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · William & Sheila Konar Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Charles J & Burton S August Family Foundation · The Florence M Muller Foundation · Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust
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 Summers Foundation 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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