· Private foundation
The Louise and Henry Epstein Family 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of THE LOUISE AND HENRY EPSTEIN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | $4,000 |
| JEWISH SENIOR LIFE | $2,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION | $2,000 |
| WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING | $2,000 |
| ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $2,000 |
| GEVA THEATRE CENTER | $1,500 |
| CHABAD LUBAVITCH ROCHESTER NY | $400 |
| INTERVOL | $200 |
| MEMORIAL ART GALLERY | $200 |
| OPEN DOOR MISSION | $200 |
| ROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $200 |
| AL SIGL CENTER | $150 |
| US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $105 |
| FOODLINK | $100 |
| HOCHSTEIN SCHOOL | $100 |
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 (FY20–25, $400) 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.
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 +70% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- RPROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC4× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +15%
- WPWXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL4× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +34%
- JSJEWISH SENIOR LIFE4× · 2022–2025 · $8k · revenue +303%
Funded once
- NCNARARETH COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $10k
- GTGEVA THEATERone grant, 2017 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $500
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.
To raise and manage funds in support of united memorial medical center and it's affiliates.
Building and enhancing the quality of life in the greater rochester area through philanthropic leadership and community partnerships.
To create, enhance, and promote a downtown experience that is welcoming, fun, and livable.
Rochester Downtown Development Corporation drives economic vitality in Downtown Rochester through innovation and collaboration.
To create dialogue and build community through contemporary art exhibitions and related programs
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
To improve the health, well being, and quality of life of our jewish community's elderly, as well as that of our general community, being mindful of the values implicit in our jewish heritage.
Provide administrative and other support services to academic programs sponsored by rochester institute of technology both in the united states and abroad.
To engage the community in life-long learning for all through equal access to information, technology, gathering spaces and expert staff.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Senior Life Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 59 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 JEWISH SENIOR LIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH SENIOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds GEVA THEATRE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds InterVol Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MERCY FLIGHT CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds FOODLINK INC ↗
- Who funds Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library ↗
- Who funds Brighton Volunteer Ambulance ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRILLIUM HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds GARTH FAGAN DANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Joseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds EQUICENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ARC FOUNDATION OF MONROE INC ↗
- Who funds The David Hochstein Memorial Music School Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UR MEDICINE HOME CARE INC ↗
- Who funds SENECA PARK ZOO SOCIETY ↗
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 · 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
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 Louise and Henry Epstein Family 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.
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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