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The Louise and Henry Epstein Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$19k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
23
Grants FY2026
21
Organizations funded FY2025
10%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$100
Largest grant, FY2026
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 30
FY2019 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
2
Total assets, FY2026
$54k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 10% of the organizations The Louise and Henry Epstein Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthReligionHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving22$17k9%
FY202521$16k10%
FY202423$13k9%
FY202330$22k47%
FY20224$5k75%
FY20212$2k0%
FY202011$6k45%
FY20191$1k0%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$47kHealth$13kEducation$13kPhilanthropy$11kReligion$10kCivil Rights$2kHuman Services$750Food & Nutrition$700Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 31 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($44k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Louise and Henry Epstein Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRochester Philharmonic Orchestra Inc: $13,540 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Senior Life Foundation Inc: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWxxi Public Broadcasting Council: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Senior Life: $8,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetGeva Theatre Center Inc: $7,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Rochester: $5,900 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInterVol Inc: $1,295 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Regional Health Foundation: $950 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Flight Central Inc: $700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBrighton Volunteer Ambulance: $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFoodlink Inc: $600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFriends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHillside Foundation: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJoseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance Inc: $400 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe David Hochstein Memorial Music School Inc: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetArc Foundation of Monroe Inc: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTrillium Health Inc: $350 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGarth Fagan Dance Inc: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEquicenter Inc: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $210 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSeneca Park Zoo Society: $110 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVisiting Nurses Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGood Causes Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHillside Family of Agencies: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLiteracy Volunteers of Rochester Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

Rochester Area Community FoundationNY49× affinity23 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 · William & Sheila Konar Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Esl Charitable Foundation · Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust · Harold & Joan Feinbloom Family Foundation · Alstom Signaling Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to The Louise and Henry Epstein Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Louise and Henry Epstein Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Louise and Henry Epstein Family Foundation Inc

How much does The Louise and Henry Epstein Family Foundation Inc give?
The Louise and Henry Epstein Family Foundation Inc reported 23 grants totaling $19,005 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 30 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
What does The Louise and Henry Epstein Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (48%), Health (13%), Education (13%).
Who are The Louise and Henry Epstein Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Inc ($14k), Jewish Senior Life Foundation Inc ($13k), Wxxi Public Broadcasting Council ($11k).
Does The Louise and Henry Epstein Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Louise and Henry Epstein Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Louise and Henry Epstein Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rochester Area Community Foundation, Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation, William & Sheila Konar Foundation.
Where is The Louise and Henry Epstein Family Foundation Inc based?
The Louise and Henry Epstein Family Foundation Inc is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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