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GREATER ROCHESTER ADVOCATES FOR UNIVERSITIES & COLLEGES
GREATER ROCHESTER ADVOCATES FOR UNIVERSITIES & COLLEGES (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,000 to it, the largest being MAYO CLINIC ($22,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $333k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $32k
- Net assets
- $33k
What Greater Rochester Advocates for Universities & Colleges does
Mission
To operate exclusively for charitable and educational purposes and specifically, to advance public higher education in the greater rochester area.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Grauc leads an initiative to expand access to simulation technology for underserved rochester area healthcare students and workers. The simulation collaborative with membership from winona state university, rochester community and technical college, saint mary's university, university of minnesota-rochester, luther college, olmsted medical center, mayo simulation center, hga architects,hawthorne education center, healthforce mn, destination medical center, and southeast service coop, is planning and implementing phase 2 of the simulation. Grauc oversaw development of a healthcare training center. The training center utilized virtual reality with trainees using vr goggles to train in real life scenarios vs using mannequins as in the past - much more life like.
$255,661 spent$290,924 earned by the program82% of program spendingGrauc linked rochester area business with area higher education institutions - including rochester community and technical college, winona state university - rochester, the university of minnesota - rochester, luther college, saint mary's university of mn, mayo school of health sciences and riverland community college to ensure that rochester's academic programs meet the needs of the community and region.
$56,161 spent$1,018 earned by the program18% of program spendingGrauc teamed with workforce innovators to award autism resource guide 1,500.
$1,500 spentof which $1,500 as grants0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $313,322.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $47k to $9k (−80%).
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: 2024 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $16k → $10k.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 GREATER ROCHESTER ADVOCATES FOR UNIVERSITIES & COLLEGES’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
GREATER ROCHESTER ADVOCATES FOR UNIVERSITIES & COLLEGES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 GREATER ROCHESTER ADVOCATES FOR UNIVERSITIES & COLLEGES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2022 100% — 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
100% of GREATER ROCHESTER ADVOCATES FOR UNIVERSITIES & COLLEGES's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k 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.
Organizations like GREATER ROCHESTER ADVOCATES FOR UNIVERSITIES & COLLEGES
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 GREATER ROCHESTER ADVOCATES FOR UNIVERSITIES & COLLEGES: 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 GREATER ROCHESTER ADVOCATES FOR UNIVERSITIES & COLLEGES?
- GREATER ROCHESTER ADVOCATES FOR UNIVERSITIES & COLLEGES (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,000 to it, the largest being MAYO CLINIC ($22,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GREATER ROCHESTER ADVOCATES FOR UNIVERSITIES & COLLEGES have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $32,000 in grants to GREATER ROCHESTER ADVOCATES FOR UNIVERSITIES & COLLEGES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER ROCHESTER ADVOCATES FOR UNIVERSITIES & COLLEGES?
- MAYO CLINIC is the largest funder on record, with $22,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER ROCHESTER ADVOCATES FOR UNIVERSITIES & COLLEGES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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