· Private foundation
William & Sheila Konar Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k38 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k32 grants · $2.8M
- $250k+4 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Alzheimer's Association | $1,000,000 |
| Jewish Federation of Greater Rochester | $500,000 |
| Jewish Family Services | $257,500 |
| Greater Rochester Housing Project | $250,000 |
| US Holocaust Museum | $200,000 |
| University of Rochester East EPO | $200,000 |
| Common Ground Foundation Inc | $175,000 |
| Greater Rochester Enterprise Foundation | $150,000 |
| JCC of Greater Rochester | $150,000 |
| WXXI Public Broadcasting Council | $150,000 |
| HOPE585 Inc | $105,000 |
| George Eastman Museum | $100,000 |
| Foodlink Inc | $100,000 |
| Rochester Industries Education Fund | $100,000 |
| Tides Center | $100,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $3.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +36% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
138 repeat relationships: 73 still active in FY2024, 65 since wound down; 23 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TUThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum8× · 2017–2024 · $7.2M · revenue +25%
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER8× · 2017–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +81%- GEGEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM7× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +62%
Funded once
- BIBES INCone grant, 2018 · $412k · revenue -39%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $200k
- NCNATIONAL CIVIC LEAGUEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue +32%
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.
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.
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,…
To create dialogue and build community through contemporary art exhibitions and related programs
Through supportive friendships, enhance the wellness of those with social and emotional barriers.
Rochester academy of science charter school (the school) is a not-for-profit education corporation that operates kindergarten through 12th grades and is dedicated to providing quality education to a diverse body of students in the…
The rochesterworks system stimulates local economic growth by providing outstanding employment education, support, and training services.
Building and enhancing the quality of life in the greater rochester area through philanthropic leadership and community partnerships.
To engage the community in life-long learning for all through equal access to information, technology, gathering spaces and expert staff.
Provide administrative and other support services to academic programs sponsored by rochester institute of technology both in the united states and abroad.
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 create, enhance, and promote a downtown experience that is welcoming, fun, and livable.
How this is measured
172 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 172 of the 263 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER NY INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GREATER ROCHESTER ENTERPRISE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NAZARETH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Children's Agenda Inc ↗
- Who funds Common Ground Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION SUCCESS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds CONNECTED COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MARGARET WOODBURY STRONG MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOODLINK INC ↗
- Who funds BES INC ↗
- Who funds GEVA THEATRE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOMESTEADS FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Flower City Arts Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Rochester Summer Learning Association Inc ↗
- Who funds WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds GREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE THEATRE FILM SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds The Center for Youth Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Hope585 Inc ↗
- Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
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: Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Esl Charitable Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust · Charles J & Burton S August Family Foundation · Thomas F Judson Jr & Elisabeth W Judson Foundation · Summers Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization William & Sheila Konar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William & Sheila Konar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children: 21% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc: 12% of income from government
- Silent Spring Institute Inc: 12% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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