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Wegman Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $627k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $700,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER | $612,500 |
| EQUICENTER INC | $100,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY | $80,000 |
| LIFESPAN OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC | $75,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK | $62,000 |
| MFC FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| ROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| GREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $50,000 |
| NEW YORK KITCHEN | $50,000 |
| VERTUS HIGH SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| FOODLINK INC | $50,000 |
| THE HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC | $25,000 |
| ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $461k) 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 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.
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 +55% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- ERENCOMPASS RESOURCES FOR LEARNING INC3× · 2020–2022 · $2.0M · revenue +76%
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER5× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +55%- SAST ANN'S FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2023 · $200k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- BKBISHOP KEARNEY HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $500k
- ESEDUCATION SUCCESS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $375k · revenue +40%
- RRROCHESTER ROTARY CHARITABLE TRUSTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $226k · revenue +99% · 29% of their budget
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.
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.
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.
Provide administrative and other support services to academic programs sponsored by rochester institute of technology both in the united states and abroad.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
To raise and manage funds in support of united memorial medical center and it's affiliates.
The rochesterworks system stimulates local economic growth by providing outstanding employment education, support, and training services.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
The company's mission is to create new jobs, increase regional wealth, raise regional gdp and enhance opportunity; to invest in a world-class economic development ecosystem where incumbent businesses are thriving, new firms are locating,…
Building and enhancing the quality of life in the greater rochester area through philanthropic leadership and community partnerships.
To create, enhance, and promote a downtown experience that is welcoming, fun, and livable.
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stop Foodborne Illness Inc. 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 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 37 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
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 ENCOMPASS RESOURCES FOR LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION SUCCESS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER ROTARY CHARITABLE TRUSTS INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDBERG CHARITABLE CORPORATION TO IMPROVE THE FOOD SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIFESPAN OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds DAYSTAR FOR MEDICALLY FRAGILE CHILDREN D/B/A DAYSTAR KIDS ↗
- Who funds Veterans Outreach Center Inc ↗
- Who funds EQUICENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY FLIGHT CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds VERTUS CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK STATE WINE AND CULINARY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds STOP FOODBORNE ILLNESS INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOODLINK INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR PRODUCE SAFETY ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Summers Foundation Inc · Esl Charitable Foundation · William & Sheila Konar Foundation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Charles J & Burton S August Family Foundation · The Sands Family 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 Wegman Family Charitable Foundation 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.
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