· 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 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 $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 |
| SHRINERS CHILDREN'S | $20,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $20,000 |
| ROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| PALMER CONTEXTUAL SOLUTIONS LLC | $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 |
| ROCHESTER POLICE LOCUST CLUB | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $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 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.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
71 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. 71 of the 121 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 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 MARGARET WOODBURY STRONG MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOMESTEADS FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Summers Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Summers Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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