New York · Nonprofit
Friendship Children's Center Inc
Friendship Children's Center Inc (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $345,067 to it, the largest being Greater Rochester Summer Learning Association Inc ($228,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $345k
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Friendship Children's Center Inc does
Mission
Non-denominational, not-for-profit organization, which provides a wide range of family, and child support services to an economically and culturally diverse population of families in the greater Rochester area. (Continued on Schedule O)Aware of the continuing changing needs of families, services are designed to strengthen and supplement family life through age-appropriate educational, emotional, social and physical experiences in a nurturing environment. Highest quality of care is assured through access to community services, continued professional growth of staff and the initiation of new experiences for children and families. Friendship has been providing care for children for over 90 years.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Daycare - Friendship Children's Center provides education to young children about themselves and the world around them while kindling their curiosity and strengthening their desire to learn. This is done in a nurturing environment that recognizes both the value and uniqueness of each child and how they learn. Approximately 62 children attended through a DSS subsidy - Friendship provides a home away from home for these children while their parents are at work. Families and children have been with Friendship for many years based on the uniqueness of our "community center".
$246,007 spent$738,152 earned by the program23% of program spendingEPK/UPK - Learning begins with active interaction between the child and his or her environment. In Friendship's program, this often takes the form of play, a natural behavior of children. Friendship recognizes play- dynamic, creative and constructive activity - as one of the most profound means available to children for constructing and reconstructing, formatting and reformatting knowledge. We adopted the RCSD as a partner in collaboration on a curriculum adapted to the young child. The curriculum helps children by giving them a reliable and dependable structure to their day, a social emotional component and a curriculum that is appropriate for early learners. (Continued on Schedule O)27 Expanded Pre-Kindergarten (EPK) children attended and received a RCSD educational program. EPK is defined as any child who lives in the city of Rochester and is 3 before Dec. 1st of the school year. These children receive a free Pre-Kindergarten program paid for with funds from the RCSD. 36 Universal Pre-Kindergarten (UPK) children attended and received a RCSD educational program. UPK is defined as any child who lives in the city of Rochester and is 4 by Dec. 1st of the school year. The curriculum…
$803,615 spent$640,000 earned by the program77% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,049,622.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.8M to $2.2M (+20%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 20% · 2023 3% · 2024 8% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of Friendship Children's Center Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Joi McMurtry
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $25k → $74k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 Friendship Children's Center Inc’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
Friendship Children's Center Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 Friendship Children's Center Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 47% · 2020 100% · 2021 49% · 2022 93% · 2023 61% — diversifying over time.
“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 Friendship Children's Center Inc'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. $94k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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.
Against its field
Friendship Children's Center Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Friendship Children's Center Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 Friendship Children's Center Inc: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Friendship Children's Center Inc?
- Friendship Children's Center Inc (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $345,067 to it, the largest being Greater Rochester Summer Learning Association Inc ($228,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Friendship Children's Center Inc have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $345,067 in grants to Friendship Children's Center Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Friendship Children's Center Inc?
- Greater Rochester Summer Learning Association Inc is the largest funder on record, with $228,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friendship Children's Center Inc 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing