· Public charity
United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc
United way of greater rochester and the finger lakes' mission is to mobilize the goodwill and resources of our community so that everyone can thrive.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k105 grants · $750k
- $10k–50k152 grants · $3.1M
- $50k–250k54 grants · $5.7M
- $250k+18 grants · $8.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER | $871,769 |
| YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER | $750,804 |
| COMMUNITY PLACE OF ROCHESTER | $655,460 |
| HILLSIDE | $631,262 |
| CATHOLIC FAMILY CENTER | $599,318 |
| LIFESPAN | $583,556 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $564,122 |
| CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES | $548,961 |
| BADEN STREET SETTLEMENT OF ROCHESTER INC | $501,322 |
| CHARLES SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC | $443,070 |
| VISITING NURSE SERVICE ( UR MEDICINE HOME CARE) | $322,640 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES | $309,417 |
| ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $302,950 |
| MONROE COUNTY HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES | $300,402 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ROCHESTER INC | $292,195 |
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 (FY19–25, $50.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
353 repeat relationships — 244 still active in FY2025, 109 since wound down; 43 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; $662k 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
YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368)7× · 2019–2025 · $6.0M · revenue +33%
LIFESPAN OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC7× · 2019–2025 · $4.9M · revenue +78%- HCHILLSIDE CHILDREN'S CENTER7× · 2019–2025 · $4.8M · revenue +12%
Funded once
- AHAgape Haven of Abundance Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $688k · revenue +65%
- CRCity Roots Community Land Trust Incone grant, 2021 · $635k · revenue -110% · 48% of their budget
- HLHOPE LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $587k
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.
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.
To provide clean, safe, well maintained, and affordable apartments and townhouses, suitable for anyone, in many locations throughout rochester, new york.
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.
NeighborWorks Rochester collaborates with people and partners to strengthen, sustain and promote city neighborhoods. Our services are available to a wide spectrum of the community, including existing and potential homeowners, tenants and…
Greater rochester housing partnership, inc. (grhp) was established primarily to provide financing for affordable housing to social services and housing agencies, either directly or by participating with banks, in the rochester, new york…
United way of greater rochester's mission is to unite the good will and resources of the greater rochester community so that everyone can thrive. united way supports a broad network of human service organizations, community initiatives and…
Unity health system inc. 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 rochesterworks system stimulates local economic growth by providing outstanding employment education, support, and training services.
The organization is organized and operated for the benefit of all of the affiliates within rochester regional health system. the organization supports and assists the affiliates by reviewing and monitoring their missions, objectives,…
To provide safe and supportive emergency shelter, meals and assistance to homeless families in the geographic area.
Our mission is to provide skilled, compassionate, cost-effective care that promotes wellness and meets the community's healthcare needs.
The mission of Oswego Health, Inc. is to provide accessible quality care and improve the health of residents in our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Genesee Region Home Care Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Josh Rojas Foundation. 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.
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 39 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
439 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. 439 of the 543 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368) ↗
- Who funds LIFESPAN OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDE CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY PLACE OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds The Center for Youth Services Inc ↗
- Who funds BADEN STREET SETTLEMENT OF ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLES SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds UR MEDICINE HOME CARE LICENSED SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FOODLINK INC ↗
- Who funds UR MEDICINE HOME CARE CERTIFIED SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL OF THE FINGER LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds IBERO-AMERICAN ACTION LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF ROCHESTER NY INC ↗
- Who funds Sunset House Inc ↗
- Who funds Greater Rochester Summer Learning Association Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ROCHESTER AND MONROE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL MOTOR SERVICE OF ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds EMPIRE JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR YOUTH INC DBA BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER ROCH ↗
- Who funds MARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER REHABILITATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILDHOOD I ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ↗
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: Esl Charitable Foundation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester Inc · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · William & Sheila Konar Foundation · Finger Lakes Performing Provider System Inc · The Polisseni Foundation Inc · Charles J & Burton S August Family 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 United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc 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.