· Private foundation
The Polisseni Foundation Inc
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 $10k21 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $392k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RIT | $166,700 |
| ST JOHN FISHER COLLEGE | $150,000 |
| VILLA OF HOPE | $75,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $25,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| HUNTERS HOPE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ROCOVERY FITNESS | $5,000 |
| MERCY FLIGHT CENTRAL | $5,000 |
| KEYS | $5,000 |
| THE MARGARET HOME | $4,000 |
| ARTISTS UNLIMITED | $3,500 |
| ROCHESTER ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| UNITY HOUSE OF CAYUGA COUNTY | $3,125 |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF ROCHESTER | $3,125 |
| DAVID HOCHSTEIN MEMORIAL MUSIC SCHOOL | $3,125 |
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, $104k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% 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 +34% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 7 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- SJST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +29%
- MFMERCY FLIGHT CENTRAL INC5× · 2018–2025 · $37k · revenue +62%
- DHDIMITRI HOUSE INC7× · 2018–2024 · $24k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- THTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TOgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $60k · revenue +118%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $25k
- ECEMPREINTE CONSULTING GATES TO RECOVERYone grant, 2022 · $15k
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.
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.
Accesscny offers personcentered services that empower individuals of all ages and abilities to reach their full potential as part of our shared community. services are provided with dedication, compassion, innovation, and commitment. the…
To provide clean, safe, well maintained, and affordable apartments and townhouses, suitable for anyone, in many locations throughout rochester, new york.
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.
It is the mission of carefirst ny, inc. to affirm life through extraordinary, compassionate support and care to patients and families in chemung, steuben and schuyler counties.
To promote successful aging for adults age 50 and older through lifelong learning, health programs and volunteer engagement. our vision is that adults age 50 plus have opportunities to pursue vibrant, healthy, productive and meaningful…
Crouse community center, inc is a residential health care facility whose mission is to provide long term health care, rehabilitation, and adult day care services to area residents requiring 24 hour skilled nursing residential health care…
Erie homes for children and adults operates as a private, non-profit agency providing programs for individuals with intellectual and physical disabilities.
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 mission of Oswego Health, Inc. is to provide accessible quality care and improve the health of residents in our community.
To be the leading provider of behavioral and physical healthcare through compassionate and quality services in our community.
To create dialogue and build community through contemporary art exhibitions and related programs
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifetime Assistance Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Susie Reizod Foundation. 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 32 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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 115 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 ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VILLA OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds GREATER CANANDAIGUA FAMILY YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ↗
- Who funds MERCY FLIGHT CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds DIMITRI HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CDS MONARCH INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368) ↗
- Who funds KEYS CORP ↗
- Who funds THE MARGARET HOME INC ↗
- Who funds 13THIRTY CANCER CONNECT INC ↗
- Who funds ROCOVERY FITNESS INC ↗
- Who funds Sunset House Inc ↗
- Who funds Hearing and Speech Center of Rochester Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF ONTARIO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ALLENDALE COLUMBIA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds STARBRIDGE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTER'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RESOLVE OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE SUSIE REIZOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Project Stork Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICESINC ↗
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: United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Esl Charitable Foundation · Charles J & Burton S August Family Foundation · Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust · William & Sheila Konar Foundation · Waldron Rise 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 Polisseni 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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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