· Private foundation
Tones Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Bethel Express of America | $12,750 |
| Upendo Children's Village Inc | $12,550 |
| Margaret Home | $10,000 |
| People on a Hill Inc | $8,850 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,650 |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $5,400 |
| Rochester Youth for Christ | $4,000 |
| Guitars for Glory | $2,850 |
| LifeTree Fellowship | $2,800 |
| Congregation Shema Yisrael | $2,000 |
| G-Force Ministries Inc | $1,900 |
| Bethel Christian Fellowship | $1,650 |
| Go Ministries | $1,600 |
| A-Praise Ministries | $1,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $700 |
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 (FY20–25, $110k) 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BEBETHEL EXPRESS OF AMERICA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $110k · revenue +41%
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES8× · 2018–2025 · $37k · revenue +100%
- GFGUITARS FOR GLORY INC4× · 2019–2025 · $12k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- OCOASIS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIPone grant, 2020 · $31k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $9k
- HBHarvest Bible Chapel Rochesterone grant, 2023 · $8k
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.
Befriending, outreach, and preaching of Christianity
Reaching Out To The Nations' mission is to both preach and demonstrate the love of Go through its projects and programs which include preaching, food distribution, widow and orphan assistance and leadership training.
Religious Purposes
Create faith-filled environment for chil
The church provides the following program services : Weekly Bible Studies, Friday night prayer meetings, Weekly Sunday School, Weekly youth Meetings and weekly singles ministries
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 59 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 Upendo Children's Village Inc ↗
- Who funds G-FORCE Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FOR CHRIST USA INC ROCHESTER YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC ↗
- Who funds BETHEL EXPRESS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds GUITARS FOR GLORY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARGARET HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Flower City Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds Friend of God Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ROCHESTER 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: Esl Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tones Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tones Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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