· Private foundation
The Florence M Muller Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k10 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $390k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $637k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Finger Lakes Community College Foundation | $636,751 |
| Holy Childhood | $50,000 |
| Finger Lakes Community Action Program | $50,000 |
| Children's Institute | $49,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $45,000 |
| Hope Hall School | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $34,893 |
| Cancer Support Community at Gilda's Club | $30,000 |
| Veterans Outreach Center | $25,000 |
| GiGi's Playhouse | $25,000 |
| Greater Rochester Summer Learning Association | $25,000 |
| Junior Achievement | $25,000 |
| Mercy Flight Central | $20,000 |
| Disability EmpowHer Network | $17,905 |
| Laurel House | $15,000 |
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, $819k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 93% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 10 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $195k 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
- FLFINGER LAKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +442% · 40% of their budget
- HHHOPE HALL7× · 2017–2025 · $560k · revenue +242%
- RPROCHESTER PREP CHARTER SCHOOLS4× · 2021–2025 · $260k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- YOYWCA of Greater Rochester & Monroe Countyone grant, 2022 · $50k
- YCYates Community Centerone grant, 2022 · $50k
- FOFRIENDS OF TRYBE ECOTHERAPY INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · 86% of their budget
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.
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.
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.
The center strives to provide a range of services that support working parents while fostering the emotional, social, physical and intellectual growth of their children. special consideration is given to low income families and families…
The rochesterworks system stimulates local economic growth by providing outstanding employment education, support, and training services.
NeighborWorks Rochester collaborates with people and partners to strengthen, sustain and promote city neighborhoods. Our services are available to a wide spectrum of the community, including existing and potential homeowners, tenants and…
Rochester Ecology Partners helps all people find nature where they live, work, and play.
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 organization is organized and operated for the benefit of all of the affiliates within rochester regional health system. the organization supports and assists the affiliates by reviewing and monitoring their missions, objectives,…
The friendly home is a non-profit, non-denominational 200 bed nursing care and rehabilitation facility for older adults. located at 3156 east avenue in brighton, the friendly home offers a variety of health care services including 24-hour…
The mission of the rochester rhio is to provide the rochester medical service area with a system for a secure health information exchange that allows for timely access to clinical information and improved decision making. the primary goal…
United way of greater rochester's mission is to unite the good will and resources of the greater rochester community so that everyone can thrive. united way supports a broad network of human service organizations, community initiatives and…
Central ny quest has been established to serve the needs of persons with intellectual, developmental and mental health disorders in the central new york region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partnership for Ontario County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Trybe Ecotherapy Inc. 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 30 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
73 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. 73 of the 119 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 FINGER LAKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HALL ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER PREP CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Children's Agenda Inc ↗
- Who funds Veterans Outreach Center Inc ↗
- Who funds NAZARETH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds Greater Rochester Summer Learning Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDE WORK SCHOLARSHIP CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF WAYNE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ROCHESTER AND MONROE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ENCOMPASS RESOURCES FOR LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR YOUTH INC DBA BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER ROCH ↗
- Who funds Rochester Childfirst Network ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Rochester NY Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Center for Youth Services Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROCHESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds UR MEDICINE HOME CARE INC ↗
- Who funds FOODLINK INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF TRYBE ECOTHERAPY INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILDHOOD I ↗
- Who funds THRIVE TO SURVIVE ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds Cancer Action Inc DBA Cancer Support Community Rochester ↗
- Who funds Child Advocacy Center of the Finger Lakes ↗
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: Rochester Area Community Foundation · Esl Charitable Foundation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · William & Sheila Konar Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Charles J & Burton S August Family Foundation
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 The Florence M Muller Foundation 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.
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% 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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