· Private foundation
William & Sheila Konar Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| University of Rochester East EPO | $200,000 |
| US Holocaust Museum | $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 |
| Tides Center | $100,000 |
| George Eastman Museum | $100,000 |
| Foodlink Inc | $100,000 |
| Urban League of Rochester | $100,000 |
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 (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 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 +35% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you 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
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
- TUThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum8× · 2017–2024 · $7.2M · revenue +9%
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%
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rochester Area Community Foundation Initiatives Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Maya Spaull Johnsen Legacy Fund 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 32 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
172 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. 172 of the 263 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 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 GREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Rochester Summer Learning Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL ↗
- 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 Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds Hope585 Inc ↗
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 · 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
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 William & Sheila Konar 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.
- 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
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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