New York · Nonprofit
GREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC
GREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,161,850 to it, the largest being THE SANDS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($1,460,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.1M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $8.9M
What Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc does
Mission
The company's purpose is to:a. Promote, supplement, and enrich the education and welfare of students in the rochester, new york area; b. Promote, supplement, and enrich the study of science and mathematics by high school and junior high school students in the rochester, new york area;c. Provide training and related assistance and supportive service to adult workers, employed, unemployed, and unemployable persons, including those from economically disadvantaged areas of monroe county, in order to increase their self-sufficiency, improve work competencies, and maximize job opportunities; andd. Support the charitable activities of other organizations and community initiatives that promote economic development in the greater rochester area of new york.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Training: promote, supplement and enrich workforce training of regional employees. (147 individuals, 97 companies served)
$45,785 spent$115,317 earned by the program2% of program spendingCoordination and convening: establish relationships with charitable, educational, and business organizations in the greater rochester & finger lakes region to strategically coordinate efforts in furtherance of economic vitality and opportunity for the region's workforce. This includes providing administrative support for the one roc initiative, a powerful alliance of economic development organizations dedicated to making greater rochester, new york one of the most dynamic and rapidly growing regional economies in the united states.
$1,869,509 spent98% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,915,294.
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 2024 to 2025, from $5.4M to $9.3M (+73%).
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.
96% of GREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Robert Duffy
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $550k → $675k.
1 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $150k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The John R Oishei Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money GREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of GREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION 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
GREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 73% · 2020 69% · 2021 46% · 2022 23% · 2023 44% — 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.
How long its funders stay
60% of GREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
58% of GREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION 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. $13k 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.
Against its field
GREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like GREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION 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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
35%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce Inc · exempt
- Rochester Industries Placement Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC?
- GREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,161,850 to it, the largest being THE SANDS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($1,460,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $4,161,850 in grants to GREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC?
- THE SANDS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,460,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION 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 12 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing