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The Guido and Ellen Palma Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$256k
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0167% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.

Arts & Culture$440kHuman Services$61kAnimals$53kEducation$51kYouth Development$35kPhilanthropy$18kHealth$15kEnvironment$6kOther$332k
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k34 grants · $206k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GENESEE-ORLEANS REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL$10,000
ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA$10,000
DEEP ARTS INC$10,000
DISCOVERY ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND ART (DASA) PRESCHOOL$10,000
ROCHESTER CITY BALLET$10,000
PUSH PHYSICAL THEATRE$9,000
GENESEE COUNTRY VILLAGE AND MUSEUM$7,500
FLOWER CITY ARTS CENTER$7,500
MEMORIAL ART GALLERY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER$7,500
CAYUGA MUSEUM OF HISTORY & ART$7,500
WRITERS & BOOKS$7,500
HOPE HALL$7,500
LANDMARK SOCIETY OF WESTERN NEW YORK$7,500
CORN HILL WATERFRONT & NAVIGATION FOUNDATION$7,500
THE KEYS PROGRAM$7,500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CAMP PUZZLE PEACE INC: $3k → 11%CAMP PUZZLE PEACE INC: $3k → 11%RAINBOW JUNCTION LTD: $7k → 15%RAINBOW JUNCTION LTD: $6k → 15%CAMP PUZZLE PEACE INC: $2k → 11%CAMP PUZZLE PEACE INC: $2k → 11%THE CENTER FOR YOUTH: $15k → 14%THE CENTER FOR YOUTH: $5k → 14%REFUGEES HELPING REFUGEES: $5k → 14%THE CENTER FOR YOUTH: $4k → 14%WILSON COMMENCEMENT PARK: $4k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $6k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$870k · 47 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

47 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
16

Total granted

$870k
$88k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+3%

Still filing today

79%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • GR
    Genesee-Orleanse Regional Arts Council
    3× · 2022–2025 · $35k · revenue +50%
  • GC
    GENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUM
    4× · 2020–2025 · $33k · revenue +78%
  • WB
    WRITERS & BOOKS INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $33k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • DI
    DASAP Incgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +26%
  • AI
    ASSISI INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • HF
    HILLSIDE FAMILY OF AGENCIES
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue -9%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Rochester Opera House Inc

The rochester opera house is a nonprofit performing arts organization. its mission is to entertain, stimulate and educate audiences of all ages with high quality artistic programming, and to preserve historic rochester opera house as a…

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2
Rochester Civic Theatre

The mission of rochester civic theatre is to engage community organizations through collaboration and shared resources, enrich lives through education and outreach, and elevate human connection through theatre arts.

Arts & Culture
3
Seneca Falls Performing Arts Center
Arts & Culture
4
Rochester Repertory Theatre

The rep's mission is to provide theater productions of the highest quality that will challenge, develop and enhance the skills of directors, actors, designers and technicians, while intriguing, challenging and delighting our audiences.

Arts & Culture
5
Rochester Public Library

To engage the community in life-long learning for all through equal access to information, technology, gathering spaces and expert staff.

Education
6
Rochester Contemporary Art Center Inc

To create dialogue and build community through contemporary art exhibitions and related programs

Arts & Culture
7
Rochester Art Center

Rochester art center offers the opportunity for all people to understand and value the arts through innovative experiences with contemporary art. through world-class exhibitions and programs, we present a welcoming, integrated, and diverse…

Arts & Culture
8
White Plains Performing Arts Center

Productions

Arts & Culture
9
Great Lakes Center for the Arts

The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.

Arts & Culture
10
Syracuse Children's Theatre Inc

The mission of Syracuse Children's Theatre is to provide cultural enrichment to the children of Central New York through enjoyable, exciting and enlightening theatrical experiences, as well as highly acclaimed children's theatrical…

Arts & Culture
11
Binghamton Philharmonic Inc

The mission of the Binghamton Philharmonic is building community through the power of live music.

Arts & Culture
12
Rockland Center for the Arts Inc

A summer arts program for children, exhibitions, performances, literary events, and community arts in education outreach.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Geva Theatre Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Humane Society of Rochester & Monroe County for the Prevention of Cruelty to. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyRegional Economic Developme…Disability Services Organiz…Community Libraries and Cen…Senior Care & ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Children & Family Support S…Community Civic Organizatio…Regional Community Developm…Arts and Cultural Organizat…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 34 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number14%4%<5yr11%6%5–10yr18%16%10–20yr18%26%20–35yr14%26%35–55yr25%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value14%2%<5yr11%4%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr18%21%20–35yr14%29%35–55yr25%30%55yr+

The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/58
the rest of the field
8%
388/5,173

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.

04the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 71 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
34/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Genesee-Orleanse Regional Arts Council — $35,000 · Arts & CultureGenesee-Orleanse Regional Arts CouncilGENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUM — $32,500 · Arts & CultureGENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUMWRITERS & BOOKS INC — $32,500 · Arts & CultureWRITERS & BOOKS INCROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INCKEYS CORP — $30,000 · Arts & CultureKEYS CORPA MAGICAL JOURNEY THRU STAGES INC — $27,500 · Arts & CultureA MAGICAL JOURNEY THRU STAGES INCFlower City Arts Center Inc — $27,500 · Arts & CultureFlower City Arts Center IncJoseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance Inc — $26,000 · Arts & CultureJoseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance IncDeep Arts Inc — $25,000 · Arts & CultureDeep Arts IncTHE LANDMARK SOCIETY OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC — $22,750 · Arts & CulturePush Physical Theatre Inc — $22,000 · Arts & CultureFINGER LAKES OPERA INC — $19,500 · Arts & CultureGirls Rock Rochester INC — $17,600 · Arts & Culture+12 more — $91,700 · Arts & Culture+12 moreROCHESTER CITY BALLET INC — $24,000 · OtherROCHESTER CITY BALLET INCMARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC — $23,740 · OtherMARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INCHOCHSTEIN SCHOOL OF MUSIC — $22,500 · OtherHOCHSTEIN SCHOOL OF MUSICTHE STRONG MUSEUM OF PLAY — $21,653 · OtherTHE STRONG MUSEUM OF PLAYTHE CENTER FOR TEEN EMPOWERMENT — $20,000 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR TEEN EMPOWERMENTVILLA OF HOPE — $17,920 · OtherSPIRITUS CHRISTI CHURCH PRISON OUTREACH — $17,000 · OtherCanandaigua Lake Watershed Association — $16,500 · OtherMACEDON PUBLIC LIBRARY — $16,490 · OtherTHE CORN HILL WATERFRONT & NAVIGATION FOUNDATION — $15,000 · OtherMERRY-GO-ROUND PLAYHOUSE DBA THE REV THEATRE COMPANY — $14,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY OF GREATER ROCHESTER — $13,500 · OtherAUTISMUP INC — $14,500 · Other+18 more — $116,142 · Other+18 moreThe Center for Youth Services Inc — $24,000 · Human ServicesRAINBOW JUNCTION LTD — $12,250 · Human ServicesCAMP PUZZLE PEACE — $10,570 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesREFUGEES HELPING REFUGEES INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesWilson Commencement Park — $3,500 · Human ServicesSENECA PARK ZOO SOCIETY — $32,500 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO — $20,500 · AnimalsUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $26,000 · EducationClyde Savannah Public Library — $15,000 · EducationDASAP Inc — $10,000 · EducationBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ROCHESTER INC — $26,500 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC — $8,500 · Youth DevelopmentEndless Highway Inc — $12,500 · PhilanthropyGOLISANO AUTISM CENTER INC — $5,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$439,550Other$352,945Human Services$61,320Animals$53,000Education$51,000Youth Development$35,000Philanthropy$17,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGenesee-Orleanse Regional Arts Council — $35,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetGENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUM — $32,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSENECA PARK ZOO SOCIETY — $32,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWRITERS & BOOKS INC — $32,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKEYS CORP — $30,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetA MAGICAL JOURNEY THRU STAGES INC — $27,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetFlower City Arts Center Inc — $27,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ROCHESTER INC — $26,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetJoseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance Inc — $26,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $26,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDeep Arts Inc — $25,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetThe Center for Youth Services Inc — $24,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetROCHESTER CITY BALLET INC — $24,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetMARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC — $23,740 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LANDMARK SOCIETY OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC — $22,750 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPush Physical Theatre Inc — $22,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO — $20,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFINGER LAKES OPERA INC — $19,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetVILLA OF HOPE — $17,920 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGirls Rock Rochester INC — $17,600 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetCanandaigua Lake Watershed Association — $16,500 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetMACEDON PUBLIC LIBRARY — $16,490 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetClyde Savannah Public Library — $15,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CORN HILL WATERFRONT & NAVIGATION FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetAUTISMUP INC — $14,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEndless Highway Inc — $12,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCAYUGA MUSEUM OF HISTORY & ART INC — $12,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetBORINQUEN DANCE THEATRE INC — $12,500 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetRAINBOW JUNCTION LTD — $12,250 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCAMP PUZZLE PEACE — $10,570 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER — $10,150 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGEVA THEATRE CENTER INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDASAP Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC — $8,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAUBURN PUBLIC THEATER INC — $8,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMERRY-GO-ROUND PLAYHOUSE INC — $8,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGENEVA MUSIC FESTIVAL INC — $7,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetHOPE HALL — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetShake on the Lake Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetWomen's Foundation of Genesee Valley Inc — $6,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRochester Ecology Partners Inc — $6,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGOLISANO AUTISM CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMERON COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetREFUGEES HELPING REFUGEES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGATEWAYS MUSIC FESTIVAL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetROSE FREE LIBRARY — $3,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budget
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.

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.

Rochester Area Commun…Max and Marian Farash…Esl Charitable Founda…United Way of Greater…Daisy Marquis Jones F…Rochester Area Commun…William & Sheila Kona…Paychex Charitable Fo…Ames-Amzalak Memorial…JM McDonald Foundatio…Greater Rochester Hea…The Joan and Harold F…
Rochester Area Community FoundationNY77.7× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rochester Area Community Foundation · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Esl Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · William & Sheila Konar Foundation · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · The Joan and Harold Feinbloom Supporting Foundation Inc

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 Guido and Ellen Palma 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 71 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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