New York · Private foundation
The Polisseni Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $492k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,125
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $166,700
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 33
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The Polisseni Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $492k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $556k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $276k | 41% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $445k | 41% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $522k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $511k | 46% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $485k | 63% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $605k | 76% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St John Fisher University | $1,350,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Villa of Hope | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Greater Canandaigua Family YMCA Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 2% |
| The Humane Society of Rochester & Monroe County for the Prevention of Cruelty To | $60,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Mercy Flight Central Inc | $37,332 | 5 | 0% |
| Dimitri House Inc | $23,500 | 7 | 3% |
| Cds Monarch Inc | $19,000 | 3 | 0% |
| New Faith Community | $17,625 | 9 | n/a |
| The Salvation Army | $17,500 | 3 | n/a |
| YMCA of Greater Rochester (4368) | $16,000 | 3 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Polisseni Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About The Polisseni Foundation Inc
- How much does The Polisseni Foundation Inc give?
- The Polisseni Foundation Inc reported 26 grants totaling $491,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Polisseni Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (75%), Human Services (10%), Health (6%).
- Who are The Polisseni Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St John Fisher University ($1.4M), Villa of Hope ($150k), Greater Canandaigua Family YMCA Inc ($100k).
- Does The Polisseni Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Polisseni Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Polisseni Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc, Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation, Rochester Area Community Foundation.
- Where is The Polisseni Foundation Inc based?
- The Polisseni Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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