New York · Nonprofit
Community Design Center Rochester
Community Design Center Rochester (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $87,050 to it, the largest being ESL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($42,010). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Community Design Center Rochester runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Joan and Harold Feinbloom Supporting Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- The Guido and Ellen Palma Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio match
- The Arts Council of the Southern Finger Lakes Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
66% of Community Design Center Rochester’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $7k → $12k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Community Design Center Rochester’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Community Design Center Rochester leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
42% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Community Design Center Rochester.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 73% · 2019 50% · 2020 80% · 2021 96% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
99% of Community Design Center Rochester's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Joan and Harold Feinbloom Supporting Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchNY · backs 38 organizations that share your funders · funds 47 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Guido and Ellen Palma Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchNY · backs 34 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Arts Council of the Southern Finger Lakes Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Mid-Hudson Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Preservation League of New York Stateportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Erie Canalway Heritage Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Tianaderrah Foundation (NY)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tom E Dailey Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The William G Pomeroy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Center for Transformative Actionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Safe Routes to School Nationalportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rochester Area Community Foundation Initiatives Incshared funderslocalNY · backs 40 organizations that share your funders · funds 55 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Community Design Center Rochester
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Community Design Center Rochester: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Community Design Center Rochester?
- Community Design Center Rochester (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $87,050 to it, the largest being ESL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($42,010). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Community Design Center Rochester have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $87,050 in grants to Community Design Center Rochester, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Community Design Center Rochester?
- ESL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $42,010 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Community Design Center Rochester find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing