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The Riedman Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
72
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$4.1MArts & Culture$2.9MHuman Services$1.6MAnimals$1.1MEducation$858kPhilanthropy$231kEmployment$200kFood & Nutrition$45kOther$0
02FY2024 · 72 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $71k
  • $10k–50k39 grants · $611k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $675k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$43M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC$200,000
ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$125,000
FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN WITH NEUROIMMUNE DISORDERS$50,000
ROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION$50,000
STUPID CANCER INC$50,000
LITTLE ANGELS SERVICE DOGS$50,000
MERCY FLIGHT CENTRAL INC$50,000
INTERVOL INC$50,000
ROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION$50,000
ROCHESTER MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER$30,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR SUPPORT NETWORK$30,000
YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER$25,000
BLUEPATH SERVICE DOGS INC$25,000
JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK$25,000
CONNECTICUT CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER$25,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $931k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LITTLE ANGELS SERVICE DOGS: $50k → 11%HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC: $200k → 14%LITTLE ANGELS SERVICE DOGS: $8k → 11%HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC: $200k → 14%MCC Foundation: $1k → 14%MCC Foundation: $1k → 14%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC: $20k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $400k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $25k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $15k → 14%YMCA of Greater Rochester: $10k → 14%Willow Domestic Violence Center: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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CA
CO
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.6M · 46 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

46 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
30

Total granted

$9.6M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+66%

Still filing today

72%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $537k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • RR
    ROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH
    6× · 2017–2022 · $2.9M · revenue +108%
  • MW
    MARGARET WOODBURY STRONG MUSEUM
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +89%
  • YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368)
    3× · 2018–2024 · $450k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • TR
    THE ROCHESTER GENERAL HOSPITALgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $650k · revenue +80%
  • SA
    ST ANN'S HOME FOR THE AGED
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +0%
  • RS
    ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILDHOOD Igraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +109%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Rochester General Health System

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.

Health
2
Rochester General College of Health Careers

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.

Education
3
Gouverneur Hospital

Our mission is to provide skilled, compassionate, cost-effective care that promotes wellness and meets the community's healthcare needs.

Health
4
The Unity Hospital of Rochester

See schedule oto make a positive difference in the lives and health status of individuals in the city of rochester, ny and western monroe county. we will educate our community, our providers, and future health care professionals in order…

Health
5
Rit Global Delivery Corporation

Provide administrative and other support services to academic programs sponsored by rochester institute of technology both in the united states and abroad.

Education
6
Canton-Potsdam Hospital

Canton potsdam hospital's mission is to provide skilled, compassionate, cost-effective care that promotes wellness and meets community needs.

Health
7
United Memorial Medical Center Foundation Inc

To raise and manage funds in support of united memorial medical center and it's affiliates.

Health
8
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Clifton Springs Sanitarium Co

Healthcare on a nonprofit basis to promote the health of the community as a whole.

Health
11
St James Hospital

St. james hospital is committed to the health and wellness of the communities we serve by providing the highest quality of care in a compassionate and trusted environment.

Health
12
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rochester Regional Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Salty Dog Charities Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPrivate FoundationsClassical Music Performance…Early Childhood and K-12 Ed…Disability Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and AdoptionVeterans Service Organizati…Rochester Community Organiz…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%6%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr17%21%20–35yr11%24%35–55yr16%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%33%10–20yr17%3%20–35yr11%15%35–55yr16%48%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/83
the rest of the field
12%
3,016/24,801

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.

04the grantee network

76 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. 76 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/76
Grantees still filing
45/76
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MARGARET WOODBURY STRONG MUSEUM — $2,534,000 · OtherMARGARET WOODBURY STRONG MUSEUMFish Hatchery at Powder Mills Park — $696,546 · OtherFish Hatchery at Powder Mills ParkYMCA — $500,000 · OtherYMCARochester Industries ROC2025 Fund — $200,000 · Other+54 more — $576,452 · Other+54 moreROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH — $2,941,400 · HealthROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTHTHE ROCHESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL — $650,000 · HealthTHE ROCHESTER GENERAL HOSPITALST ANN'S HOME FOR THE AGED — $200,000 · HealthROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $141,500 · Health+9 more — $227,523 · Health+9 moreYMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368) — $450,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF G…HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC — $400,000 · Human ServicesHERITAGE …LITTLE ANGELS SERVICE DOGS — $57,500 · Human ServicesLITTLE AN…+3 more — $23,000 · Human ServicesGREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC — $300,000 · EducationRochester Institute of Technology — $200,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $100,562 · EducationROCHESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY — $52,500 · EducationROCHESTER SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILDHOOD I — $50,000 · Education+13 more — $155,000 · EducationROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER — $187,000 · Arts & CultureInterVol Inc — $68,000 · Arts & CultureROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC — $26,000 · Arts & CultureGEVA THEATRE CENTER INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureGEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM — $12,500 · Arts & Culture+6 more — $49,500 · Arts & CultureSENECA PARK ZOO SOCIETY — $283,500 · AnimalsZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO — $25,000 · AnimalsBLUEPATH SERVICE DOGS INC — $25,000 · Animals+1 more — $10,000 · AnimalsROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $160,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC — $15,000 · PhilanthropySALTY DOG CHARITIES INC — $8,010 · Philanthropy+2 more — $3,000 · Philanthropy
Other$4,506,998Health$4,160,423Human Services$930,500Education$858,062Arts & Culture$368,000Animals$343,500Philanthropy$186,010

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH — $2,941,400 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetMARGARET WOODBURY STRONG MUSEUM — $2,534,000 over 8y, 6.1% of budgetTHE ROCHESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL — $650,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368) — $450,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHERITAGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC — $400,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC — $300,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetSENECA PARK ZOO SOCIETY — $283,500 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST ANN'S HOME FOR THE AGED — $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER — $187,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $160,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $141,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $100,562 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetInterVol Inc — $68,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetMARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC — $57,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE ANGELS SERVICE DOGS — $57,500 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetROCHESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY — $52,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY FLIGHT CENTRAL INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTUPID CANCER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetROCHESTER SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILDHOOD I — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN WITH NEUROIMMUNE DISORDERS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetCHARLEY HOFFMAN FOUNDATION — $32,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetSCRIPPS HEALTH — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC — $26,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCUREBOUND — $25,023 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGEVA THEATRE CENTER INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLUEPATH SERVICE DOGS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCURE RARE DISEASE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetROCHESTER BEACON INC — $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetFOODLINK INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVERTUS CHARTER SCHOOL — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCornell University — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Downtown Development Corporation — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMONROE COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION — $14,850 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY — $14,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S COLLEGE PREP CHARTER SCHOOL OF ROCHESTER — $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM — $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH — $12,477 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUM — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Rochester NY Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOLD GLOBE THEATRE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Esl Charitable Founda…Paychex Charitable Fo…Rochester Area Commun…Max and Marian Farash…Greater Rochester Hea…United Way of Greater…Daisy Marquis Jones F…Rochester Area Commun…The Sands Family Foun…Summers Foundation IncWaldron Rise Foundati…The Florence M Muller…
Esl Charitable FoundationNY55.3× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Esl Charitable Foundation · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · The Sands Family Foundation Inc · Summers Foundation Inc · Waldron Rise Foundation Inc · The Florence M Muller Foundation

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 Riedman Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Connecticut Children's Medical Center — 5% of income from government
  • Goodspeed Opera House Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 115 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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