How much does Thomas F Judson Jr & Elisabeth W Judson Foundation give?

Thomas F Judson Jr & Elisabeth W Judson Foundation reported 47 grants totaling $61,985 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 58 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Thomas F Judson Jr & Elisabeth W Judson Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (40%), Arts & Culture (36%), Health (10%).

Who are Thomas F Judson Jr & Elisabeth W Judson Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Rochester ($127k), Allendale Columbia School ($49k), Friends of Ganondagan Inc ($42k).

Does Thomas F Judson Jr & Elisabeth W Judson Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Thomas F Judson Jr & Elisabeth W Judson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Where is Thomas F Judson Jr & Elisabeth W Judson Foundation based?

Thomas F Judson Jr & Elisabeth W Judson Foundation is based in NY.

Thomas F Judson Jr & Elisabeth W Judson Foundation

Thomas F Judson Jr & Elisabeth W Judson Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Thomas F Judson Jr & Elisabeth W Judson Foundation

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as Thomas F Judson Jr & Elisabeth W Judson Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rochester Area Community Foundation, Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation, Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc.

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$62k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$8k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$205kArts & Culture$183kHealth$50kHuman Services$21kInternational$14kAnimals$6kRecreation & Sports$6kCivil Rights$4kOther$0

02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500

Median grant

States reached

$237k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
WXXI	$7,600
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER	$6,000
ALLENDALE COLUMBIA SCHOOL	$5,600
FRIENDS OF GANONDAGAN	$5,500
MERCY FLIGHT CENTRAL INC	$5,000
GEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM	$5,000
GEVA THEATRE	$2,000
FRIENDS AND FOUNDATION OF THE ROCHESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY	$2,000
GENESEE COUNTRY VILLAGE & MUSEUM	$2,000
ROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER	$2,000
GENESEE VALLEY CONSERVANCY	$1,300
WRITERS AND BOOKS	$1,250
SENECA PARK ZOO SOCIETY	$1,000
ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA	$1,000
DEERFIELD ACADEMY	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$471k · 64 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$471k

$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%

+66%

Still filing today

67%

39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesInternationalEnvironmentAnimalsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 ROCHESTER
9× · 2017–2025 · $127k · revenue +81%
AC
ALLENDALE COLUMBIA SCHOOL
9× · 2017–2025 · $49k · revenue +46%
FRIENDS OF GANONDAGAN INC
8× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +67%

Funded once

WM
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARTgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +125%
GOODWILL OF THE FINGER LAKES INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +68%
AH
American Heart Association Incgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +25%

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.

04Its field

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.

Rochester Public Library

To engage the community in life-long learning for all through equal access to information, technology, gathering spaces and expert staff.

Education

Rochester Art Center

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…

Arts & Culture

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

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

Hudson River Museum of Westchester

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.

Arts & Culture

University of New Haven

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…

Education

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

New York Botanical Garden

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…

Environment

Heckscher Museum

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.

Arts & Culture

Detroit Historical Society

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.

Arts & Culture

Randolph College Inc

See detailed description of organization's primary mission provided on schedule o

Education

The Frick Collection

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.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Genesee Country Museum; 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.

04the grantee network

71 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

70/71

Grantees still filing

57/71

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$207,250Arts & Culture$94,850Community Improvement$78,550Other$82,184Human Services$17,450International$16,900Health$9,800

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.

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.

Rochester Area Community FoundationNY71.6× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Thomas F Judson Jr & Elisabeth W Judson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas F Judson Jr & Elisabeth W Judson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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