New York · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC
UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC (New York) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,816,123 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($20,102,450). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programUNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$161M
Recipients
541
Contributions on record
$44M
Donors on record
53
Payments out run 3.6x the contributions on record, which says the incoming side is incomplete rather than that the vehicle is unusually busy: most donors to a fund like this are individuals, who file no return for us to read.
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.
- The Joan and Harold Feinbloom Supporting Foundation Incshared funderslocal
- Siemer Instituteportfolio match
- Park National Bank Employees' Community Service Fundportfolio match
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.
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: 2019 7% · 2020 5% · 2021 3% · 2022 16% · 2023 18% · 2024 10% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $439k → $3.0M.
16 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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: $3.2M from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest United Way of Greater Rochester Inc); $1.0M from 10 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Brevard County Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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.
Where its funders are
66% of UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES 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 $14M that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 statesis 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.
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 41 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Joan and Harold Feinbloom Supporting Foundation Incshared funderslocalNY · backs 40 organizations that share your funders · funds 47 organizations near you
- Siemer Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Park National Bank Employees' Community Service Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Tri County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of North Carolinaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Compassion and Charity Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- HD Supply Charitable Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Ways of Tennesseeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Plymouth Community United Wayportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan Association of United Ways Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- FINRA Investor Education Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The United Way of Greater Waterbury Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 3 related entities
- Systems Integration of Monroe County LLC · disregarded
- Uwgr Holding Company Inc · exempt
- Wegmans Family Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC (New York) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,816,123 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($20,102,450). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $39,816,123 in grants to UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $20,102,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 41funders 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