· Private foundation
The Polisseni Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| KEYS | $5,000 |
| ROCOVERY FITNESS | $5,000 |
| HUNTERS HOPE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MERCY FLIGHT CENTRAL | $5,000 |
| THE MARGARET HOME | $4,000 |
| ARTISTS UNLIMITED | $3,500 |
| ROCHESTER ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| SPIRITUS CHRISTI MENTAL HEALTH CENTER | $3,125 |
| UNITY HOUSE OF CAYUGA COUNTY | $3,125 |
| DAVID HOCHSTEIN MEMORIAL MUSIC SCHOOL | $3,125 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
73 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Project Stork Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SUSIE REIZOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RESOLVE OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds SERENITY HOUSE OF VICTOR INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Polisseni Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Polisseni Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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