New York · Nonprofit
Rochester Alliance of Communities Transforming Society
Rochester Alliance of Communities Transforming Society (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $71,000 to it, the largest being BEN & JERRY'S FOUNDATION INC ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $47k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $71k
- Net assets
- $11k
What Rochester Alliance of Communities Transforming Society does
Mission
RocACTS is grassroots, multi-racial, urban-suburban, interfaith organization working for racial and economic equality that is a part of the Faith in Action Network, a faith-based community organizing network. RocACTS trains and empowers people to shape the political, social, and economic decisions that impact their lives. Since incorporating in 2014, Rochester ACTS has been organizing on issues related to economic and racial equity. The task forces, Education, Poverty/Jobs/Housing, and Justice System have successfully organized across a range of issues. Two new additional task forces, Climate Justice and Voting Rights were added in 2021.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
RocACTS is committed to bringing faith communities together to build relationships and understanding across racial lines and address structural racism.The Climate Justice Task Force advocated and encouraged advocacy on the NY Climate Action Scoping Plan. They encouraged RocACTS to join other Faith in Action organizations in becoming members of NY Renews and joining them in advocating for climate justice. The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act set up a Climate Action Council and charged them with assembling a scoping plan to give the details of keeping NYS on the schedule of reduction of Green House Gases and transitioning the state to a renewable energy economy. Co-sponsored and participated in a garden build on Samuel McCrea Way with Flower City Noire Collective.The Education Task Force continues to focus on the inclusion of an anti-racist curriculum, increased diversity in teacher hiring, professional development in cultural responsiveness and restorative practice, and improvement in the school culture.The Task Force and The Children's Agenda partnered on a project to reduce the use of exclusionary discipline practices in the PreK environment and to use proven…
$98,187 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $98,187.
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 $77k to $13k (−83%).
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.
72% of Rochester Alliance of Communities Transforming Society’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (77% 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
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $11k → $20k.
From the IRS filings of Rochester Alliance of Communities Transforming Society’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
Rochester Alliance of Communities Transforming Society leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
28% 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 Rochester Alliance of Communities Transforming Society.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 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
Rochester Alliance of Communities Transforming Society draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Rochester Alliance of Communities Transforming Society's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,376 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Rochester Alliance of Communities Transforming Society
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
79%
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 Rochester Alliance of Communities Transforming Society: 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 Rochester Alliance of Communities Transforming Society?
- Rochester Alliance of Communities Transforming Society (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $71,000 to it, the largest being BEN & JERRY'S FOUNDATION INC ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Rochester Alliance of Communities Transforming Society have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $71,000 in grants to Rochester Alliance of Communities Transforming Society, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Rochester Alliance of Communities Transforming Society?
- BEN & JERRY'S FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Rochester Alliance of Communities Transforming Society 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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