· Private foundation
Thomas F Judson Jr & Elisabeth W Judson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WXXI | $7,600 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER | $6,000 |
| ALLENDALE COLUMBIA SCHOOL | $5,600 |
| FRIENDS OF GANONDAGAN | $5,500 |
| GEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| MERCY FLIGHT CENTRAL INC | $5,000 |
| GEVA THEATRE | $2,000 |
| GENESEE COUNTRY VILLAGE & MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| ROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS AND FOUNDATION OF THE ROCHESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY | $2,000 |
| GENESEE VALLEY CONSERVANCY | $1,300 |
| WRITERS AND BOOKS | $1,250 |
| ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | $1,000 |
| THE LITTLE THEATRE FILM SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| DEERFIELD ACADEMY | $1,000 |
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, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
64 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 6 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; $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
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER9× · 2017–2025 · $127k · revenue +81%- ACALLENDALE COLUMBIA SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $49k · revenue +46%
FRIENDS OF GANONDAGAN INC8× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- WMWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARTgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +125%
GOODWILL OF THE FINGER LAKES INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +68%- AHAmerican Heart Association Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +25%
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.
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…
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.
Situated on the banks of the hudson river in yonkers, new york, the hudson river museum's mission is to engage, inspire, and connect diverse communities through the power of the arts, sciences, and history.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
Museum has a mission to create opportunties for everyone to experience art that broadens understanding of the past, fosters community connections to the present, and creates diverse possbilities for the future.
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
See detailed description of organization's primary mission provided on schedule o
The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Genesee Country Museum and the most unlike its peers is Whitney Museum of American Art. 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 37 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
71 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. 71 of the 127 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 UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds ALLENDALE COLUMBIA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GANONDAGAN INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY FLIGHT CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MISS HALL'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds KEEPING OUR PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE THEATRE FILM SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Agenda Inc ↗
- Who funds Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds WRITERS & BOOKS INC ↗
- Who funds Victor Hiking Trails Inc ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL OF THE FINGER LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds SENECA PARK ZOO SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds EQUICENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MK Gandhi Institute For Nonviolence ↗
- Who funds GARTH FAGAN DANCE INC ↗
- Who funds FINGER LAKES OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds FOODLINK INC ↗
- Who funds 1816 FARMINGTON QUAKER MEETINGHOUSE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BEYOND THE SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds Genesee Valley Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds SONNENBERG GARDENS AND MANSION- STATE HISTORIC PARK ↗
- Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds THE SUSAN B ANTHONY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL SENIORLIFE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Rochester Childfirst Network ↗
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 · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Esl Charitable Foundation · William & Sheila Konar Foundation · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Summers Foundation Inc · The Florence M Muller Foundation · Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust
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 Thomas F Judson Jr & Elisabeth W Judson 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.
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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