New York · Private foundation
Waldron Rise Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $434k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $96,425
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 34
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations Waldron Rise Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $136k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 25 | $424k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $409k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $375k | 35% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $443k | 41% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $448k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $388k | 37% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $418k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $344k | 64% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breakthrough T1d | $346,925 | 6 | 0% |
| Rochester Fringe Festival Inc | $152,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Rochester Institute of Technology | $120,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Inc | $106,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Rochester General College of Health Careers | $100,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Starbridge Services Inc | $85,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Rochester Rotary Charitable Trusts Inc | $85,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum | $71,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Humane Society of Rochester & Monroe County for the Prevention of Cruelty To | $62,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The David Hochstein Memorial Music School Inc | $61,000 | 4 | 1% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Waldron Rise Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About Waldron Rise Foundation Inc
- How much does Waldron Rise Foundation Inc give?
- Waldron Rise Foundation Inc reported 26 grants totaling $433,925 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Waldron Rise Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (27%), Human Services (21%), Arts & Culture (18%).
- Who are Waldron Rise Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Breakthrough T1d ($347k), Rochester Fringe Festival Inc ($152k), Rochester Institute of Technology ($120k).
- Does Waldron Rise Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Waldron Rise Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Waldron Rise Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc, Rochester Area Community Foundation, Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Waldron Rise Foundation Inc based?
- Waldron Rise Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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