New York · Nonprofit
ROCHESTER AREA FOUNDATION
ROCHESTER AREA FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,700 to it, the largest being THE JOSEPH AND ANNA GARTNER FOUNDATION ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $173k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $160k
What Rochester Area Foundation does
Mission
Provide rental space to affiliated and exempt organizations and to receive and hold real estate that otherwise would have been received by rochester area community foundation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Providing rental space to affiliated and exempt organizations. The entire building, which is approximately 11,000 square feet, is leased to 1 non-profit tenant.
$160,615 spent$173,000 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $160,615.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $2.4M to $429k (−82%).
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.
0% of ROCHESTER AREA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
David R Ferris Esq
Chair
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 fell $5k → $1k.
From the IRS filings of ROCHESTER AREA FOUNDATION’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 AREA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2023 83% — 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
98% of ROCHESTER AREA FOUNDATION'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. 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 AREA FOUNDATION's revenue grew 21% between 2019 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ROCHESTER AREA FOUNDATION
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Rochester Area Community Foundation · exempt
- Rochester Area Community Foundation Initiatives Inc · exempt
- Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · exempt
- Sands Family Supporting Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ROCHESTER AREA FOUNDATION: 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 AREA FOUNDATION?
- ROCHESTER AREA FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,700 to it, the largest being THE JOSEPH AND ANNA GARTNER FOUNDATION ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ROCHESTER AREA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $12,700 in grants to ROCHESTER AREA FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROCHESTER AREA FOUNDATION?
- THE JOSEPH AND ANNA GARTNER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROCHESTER AREA FOUNDATION 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 3 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