· Private foundation
The Cotroneo Family Foundation
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 $10k9 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | $40,000 |
| ENDLESS HIGHWAY INC | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY | $8,400 |
| 13THIRTY CANCER CONNECT | $2,500 |
| ITALIAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF ROCH INC | $1,500 |
| SONS OF ITALY GENEVA | $1,000 |
| STACHEI STRONG | $1,000 |
| WILMOT CANCER INST | $1,000 |
| NAZARETH UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of its 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 38% of The Cotroneo Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 88% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 51%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 5 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2025 · $155k · revenue +45%
Endless Highway Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $52k · revenue +656%
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER4× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- RLROCHESTER LYRIC OPERA INCone grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +38%
- CACUSE ATHLETICS OPPORTUNITY FUNDone grant, 2021 · $10k
- THTHE HIGHLAND FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -53%
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 rpo fund, inc. is operated for the purpose of assuring the continued availability of high quality, live performances of orchestral music in the general rochester, new york community.
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.
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To provide funds to or for the benefit of rochester regional health and affiliates by:a) soliciting, accepting, holding, investing, reinvesting and administering any gifts, bequests, devises, benefits of trusts and propery of any sort,…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide administrative and other support services to academic programs sponsored by rochester institute of technology both in the united states and abroad.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To support and strengthen the fundraising programs of the state university of new york at oneonta so that gifts and grants are raised for student scholarships, faculty/student research, lectureships, and numerous academic and institutional…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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…
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 48 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 SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Endless Highway Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds NANCY & FRIENDS FIGHTING CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER LYRIC OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds FINGER LAKES WRESTLING CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds ARTISANWORKS AND EVENTS INC ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE GOLF CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds FINGER LAKES OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds ITALIAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds SIGNAL 30 TROOPERS BENEFIT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds 13THIRTY CANCER CONNECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE HIGHLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds JAIMIE'S BRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER NY INC ↗
- Who funds NAZARETH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE FILLED MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds STACHESTRONG INC ↗
- Who funds UNCOMMON SCHOOLS 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: Rochester Area Community Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Cotroneo Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cotroneo Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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