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Waldron Rise Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$434k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$96k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$975kHuman Services$759kArts & Culture$668kEducation$367kCommunity Improvement$308kAnimals$131kCrime & Legal$111kYouth Development$105kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $181k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $216k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BREAKTHROUGHT1D$96,425
ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC$70,000
ROCHESTER GENERAL COLLEGE OF HEALTH CAREERS$50,000
DAVID'S REFUGE$35,000
ROCHESTER ROTARY CHARITABLE TRUSTS INC$25,000
AUTISMUP INC$25,000
MARY CARIOLA CENTER INC$16,000
THE ROCHESTER FRIENDLY HOME$15,000
SHEPARD HOME - END OF LIFE CARE$15,000
EQUICENTER$10,000
SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEASE INC$10,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER AND MONROE PCA INC$10,000
THE UPSTATE FOUNDATION INC$10,000
WXXI$10,000
VETERANS OUTREACH CENTER INC$8,500
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $385k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FREEDOM GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $7k → 16%FREEDOM GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $5k → 16%HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC: $10k → 14%SARAH'S GUEST HOUSE: $40k → 14%THE UPSTATE FOUNDATION INC: $26k → 14%UPSTATE GOLISANO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $25k → 14%THE UPSTATE FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 14%THE UPSTATE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 14%ROCHESTER REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $50k → 14%GOODWILL OF THE FINGER LAKES INC: $15k → 14%R COMMUNITY BIKES INC: $10k → 14%R COMMUNITY BIKES: $5k → 14%R COMMUNITY BIKES: $3k → 14%R COMMUNITY BIKES: $2k → 14%ISIAH HOUSE: $1k → 14%ISIAH HOUSE: $500 → 14%THE ISAIAH HOUSE: $500 → 14%THE ISIAH HOUSE: $500 → 14%THE ISIAH HOUSE: $500 → 14%THE ISIAH HOUSE: $500 → 14%THE ISAIAH HOUSE: $500 → 14%ISIAH HOUSE: $500 → 14%LIFETIME ASSISTANCE INC: $10k → 14%LIFETIME ASSISTANCE INC: $8k → 14%CHARITY FOR CHILDREN: $15k → 14%CHARITY FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 14%CHARITY FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $10k → 14%WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER: $2k → 14%ROCHESTER ROTARY CHARITABLE TRUSTS INC: $30k → 14%ROCHESTER ROTARY CHARITABLE TRUSTS INC: $25k → 14%ROCHESTER ROTARY CHARITABLE TRUSTS INC: $20k → 14%ROCHESTER ROTARY CHARITABLE TRUSTS INC: $10k → 14%ROCHESTER FRIENDLY SENIOR SERVICES: $10k → 14%LIFESPAN: $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.

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.7M · 47 repeat orgs$813k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

47 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
65

Total granted

$2.7M
$803k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+16%

Still filing today

74%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationCrime & LegalYouth 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

  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1D
    6× · 2020–2025 · $347k · revenue +42%
  • RF
    Rochester Fringe Festival Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $152k · revenue +69%
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
    3× · 2018–2024 · $120k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • R
    RIT
    one grant, 2017 · $55k
  • NI
    NYSARC INC MONROE COUNTY CHAPTER
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +16%
  • GC
    GOLISANO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2017 · $50k

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
Compeer Rochester Inc

Through supportive friendships, enhance the wellness of those with social and emotional barriers.

Health
3
Rochester Management Inc

To provide clean, safe, well maintained, and affordable apartments and townhouses, suitable for anyone, in many locations throughout rochester, new york.

Housing & Shelter
4
The Rochester General Hospital

To establish, erect and maintain a general hospital and dispensary in the county of monroe, ny for medical and surgical aid, care and treatment of persons in need thereof; to carry on and conduct a training school for nurses; to promote…

Health
5
Greater Rochester Regional Health Information Organization Inc

The mission of the rochester rhio is to provide the rochester medical service area with a system for a secure health information exchange that allows for timely access to clinical information and improved decision making. the primary goal…

Public Benefit
6
Rochester Regional Health

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,…

Health
7
Gouverneur Hospital

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

Health
8
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
9
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
10
Rochesterworks Inc

The rochesterworks system stimulates local economic growth by providing outstanding employment education, support, and training services.

Employment
11
East House Corporation

To provide residential, rehabilitation and support services in the rochester, ny area to adults recovering from major mental illnesses, chemical dependency and other disabling conditions.

Health
12
Rochester Child Care Center Inc

The center strives to provide a range of services that support working parents while fostering the emotional, social, physical and intellectual growth of their children. special consideration is given to low income families and families…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rochester Friendly Senior Services and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. 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 45 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number14%1%<5yr12%3%5–10yr17%10%10–20yr18%21%20–35yr13%34%35–55yr25%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value14%5%<5yr12%1%5–10yr17%14%10–20yr18%16%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr25%40%55yr+

The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/73
the rest of the field
8%
334/4,320

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

69 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. 69 of the 116 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/69
Grantees still filing
48/69
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AL SIGL COMMUNITY OF AGENCIES — $613,000 · OtherAL SIGL COMMUNITY OF AGENCIESWXXI — $125,000 · OtherWXXISTARBRIDGE SERVICES INC — $85,000 · OtherMARGARET WOODBURY STRONG MUSEUM — $71,000 · Other+70 more — $987,030 · Other+70 moreBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $346,925 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1DNYSARC INC MONROE COUNTY CHAPTER — $50,000 · HealthNYSARC INC MONROE C…AUTISMUP INC — $50,000 · HealthAUTISMUP INCDAVID'S REFUGE INC — $50,000 · HealthDAVID'S REFUGE INCROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $32,000 · HealthROCHESTER FRIENDLY HOME — $25,000 · Health+7 more — $62,000 · Health+7 moreTHE UPSTATE FOUNDATION INC — $86,000 · Human ServicesTHE UPSTATE…ROCHESTER ROTARY CHARITABLE TRUSTS INC — $85,000 · Human ServicesROCHESTER R…ROCHESTER REHABILITATION CENTER INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesROCHESTER R…SARAH'S GUEST HOUSE INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesSARAH'S GUE…CHARITY FOR CHILDREN INC — $22,500 · Human ServicesCHARITY FOR…R COMMUNITY BIKES INC — $19,500 · Human ServicesLIFETIME ASSISTANCE INC — $17,000 · Human ServicesGOODWILL OF THE FINGER LAKES INC — $15,000 · Human Services+7 more — $49,500 · Human Services+7 moreRochester Institute of Technology — $120,000 · EducationROCHESTER GENERAL COLLEGE OF HEALTH CAREERS — $100,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $51,000 · EducationROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC — $106,000 · Arts & CultureThe David Hochstein Memorial Music School Inc — $61,000 · Arts & CultureROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER — $23,000 · Arts & CultureInterVol Inc — $19,500 · Arts & CultureGEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM — $18,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $5,500 · Arts & CultureRochester Fringe Festival Inc — $152,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER — $55,500 · Crime & LegalSPIRITUS CHRISTI PRISON OUTREACH INC — $34,000 · Crime & LegalVOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES PROJECT OF MONROE COUNTY INC — $5,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,881,030Health$615,925Human Services$384,500Education$281,000Arts & Culture$233,000Recreation & Sports$152,000Crime & Legal$94,500

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 budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $346,925 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Fringe Festival Inc — $152,000 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology — $120,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC — $106,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetROCHESTER GENERAL COLLEGE OF HEALTH CAREERS — $100,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetTHE UPSTATE FOUNDATION INC — $86,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSTARBRIDGE SERVICES INC — $85,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetROCHESTER ROTARY CHARITABLE TRUSTS INC — $85,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetMARGARET WOODBURY STRONG MUSEUM — $71,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO — $62,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe David Hochstein Memorial Music School Inc — $61,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER — $55,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $51,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNYSARC INC MONROE COUNTY CHAPTER — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUTISMUP INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDAVID'S REFUGE INC — $50,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetROCHESTER REHABILITATION CENTER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVeterans Outreach Center Inc — $49,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHOMESTEADS FOR HOPE INC — $40,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetSARAH'S GUEST HOUSE INC — $40,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetSPIRITUS CHRISTI PRISON OUTREACH INC — $34,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $32,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC — $31,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE HALL — $30,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetVILLA OF HOPE — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ROCHESTER INC — $27,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR YOUTH INC DBA BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER ROCH — $25,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetNAMI ROCHESTER NY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetROCHESTER FRIENDLY HOME — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER — $23,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHARITY FOR CHILDREN INC — $22,500 over 3y, 13% of budgetKARA FUND INC — $20,000 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetEQUICENTER INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budget441 Ministries Beechwood Inc — $19,800 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetInterVol Inc — $19,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetR COMMUNITY BIKES INC — $19,500 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetGEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM — $18,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLIFETIME ASSISTANCE INC — $17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOODWILL OF THE FINGER LAKES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESOLVE OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetEPISCOPAL CHURCH HOME FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFreedom Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc — $12,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNEXTCORPS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROCHESTER FRIENDLY SENIOR SERVICES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368) — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF THE ROCHESTER AREA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRochester Childfirst Network — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROCHESTER OASIS — $10,000 over 1y, 12% 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.

United Way of Greater…Rochester Area Commun…Max and Marian Farash…Daisy Marquis Jones F…Esl Charitable Founda…Greater Rochester Hea…Paychex Charitable Fo…William & Sheila Kona…Ames-Amzalak Memorial…Rochester Area Commun…Charles J & Burton S …JM McDonald Foundatio…
United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes IncNY88.3× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Esl Charitable Foundation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · William & Sheila Konar Foundation · Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Charles J & Burton S August Family Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc

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 Waldron Rise Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    25report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Waldron Rise Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Waldron Rise Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 116 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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