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ROCHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC

ROCHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,737,794 to it, the largest being ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($405,426). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$1.0M
Revenue FY2025
43
Funders on record
$1.7M
Grants received
$622k
Net assets
21/43 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 100%

Against its field

ROCHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC is better cushioned than half of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve7.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($439k) Expenses 100 ($461k) Net assets 100 ($268k)2018 Revenue 86 ($379k) Expenses 74 ($343k) Net assets 111 ($298k)2019 Revenue 91 ($397k) Expenses 80 ($367k) Net assets 124 ($331k)2020 Revenue 101 ($445k) Expenses 77 ($353k) Net assets 161 ($431k)2021 Revenue 143 ($626k) Expenses 96 ($442k) Net assets 231 ($620k)2022 Revenue 129 ($567k) Expenses 107 ($494k) Net assets 241 ($646k)2023 Revenue 46 ($203k) Expenses 63 ($289k) Net assets 209 ($559k)2024 Revenue 197 ($865k) Expenses 173 ($796k) Net assets 235 ($629k)2025 Revenue 237 ($1.0M) Expenses 227 ($1.0M) Net assets 232 ($622k)
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Revenue (237)Expenses (227)Net assets (232)Peer revenue range

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.

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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 7% · 2021 9% · 2024 26% · 2025 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of ROCHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,312 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$22k
17
$36k
18
$30k
19
$91k
20
$184k
21
$73k
22
$87k
23
$69k
24
$7k
25
7.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $29k → $202k.

12 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)57% 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 ROCHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 funders by total. 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 EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

62% 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 EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC.

23%
largest funder
50%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 55% · 2019 26% · 2020 31% · 2021 42% · 2022 38% · 2023 37%growing more concentrated.

“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

43% of ROCHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

57% of ROCHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC'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. Of the $754k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from New York funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $983k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 43 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like ROCHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New York

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 10%Fundraising 3%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

95%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ROCHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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 ROCHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
ROCHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,737,794 to it, the largest being ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($405,426). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ROCHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $1,737,794 in grants to ROCHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ROCHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $405,426 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ROCHESTER EDUCATION 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.

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 43funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing