New York · Nonprofit
WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC
WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC (New York) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,464,828 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC ($1,171,131). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.7M
- Funders on record
- 68
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $6.0M
What Willow Domestic Violence Center of Greater Rochester Inc does
Mission
Willow domestic violence center of greater rochester, inc. Exists to prevent domestic violence and ensure every survivor has access to the services and supports needed along the journey to a safe and empowered life. The agency provides a full continuum of services, including emergency shelter services, coordinated community response services, crisis counseling, support and prevention education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Coordinated community response services: the coordinated community response services include willow's 24/7 hotline, the family justice center program, the mobile advocacy and deaf ignite team, and our court advocacy program. The 24/7 hotline providing crisis counseling, safety planning and informational services and responded to 12,662 calls. The family justice center (fjc) works in cooperation with county partners to assist survivors navigating the judicial system and provided 2,501 services to 236 individuals. Willow's mobile and deaf ignite advocates worked with 220 survivors of domestic violence in the community, providing 1,418 services, such as counseling, safety planning, referrals and support. Court advocates work with survivors of domestic violence in a separate and secure waiting room in the monroe county hall of justice as they obtain court orders of protection from their abuser, providing 2,757 services such as safety planning, counseling, referrals and court accompaniment to 1,150 survivors.
$2,522,174 spentof which $189,483 as grants$2,300,326 earned by the program43% of program spendingHousing services: willow's housing services include emergency shelter services through willow's 49 bed emergency shelter, and community placement program housing at-risk individuals in locations throughout the community, a pet program, a 30 unit supportive housing program, and a rapid rehousing program. Emergency shelter services for survivors of domestic violence and their families including lodging and foods, counseling, safety planning, case management and other support services were provided to 476 individuals including 191 adults, and 285 children. The pet program cared for 10 dogs and 5 cats. Willow's supportive housing provided 657 services to 33 families. Our rapid rehousing program provided 264 services to 21 individuals.
$2,649,141 spentof which $270,080 as grants45% of program spendingPrevention education: prevention education facilitated 430 presentations which reached a total of 8,610 students, professionals, and community members.
$377,174 spent6% of program spendingCounseling services: the counseling center provides 1:1 counseling and community support groups for survivors of domestic violence. Counselors provided 3,085 individual counseling sessions to 1,008 individuals, and facilitated 63 support groups with 174 attendees.
$328,141 spentof which $4,852 as grants$12,781 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,876,630.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $4.9M to $6.1M (+24%).
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: 2018 38% · 2019 27% · 2020 31% · 2021 38% · 2022 39% · 2023 42% · 2024 49% · 2025 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Meaghan Dechateauieux
President & CEO
Board chair
Tashanda Thomas
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $70k → $547k.
11 of 68 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 68 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
WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
58% 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 WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 22% · 2019 51% · 2020 50% · 2021 27% · 2022 34% · 2023 31% — 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
35% of WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
54% of WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER 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 $1.6M that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Against its field
WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC has grown faster than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.
- Department of Justice$850k
- Department of Health and Human Services$325k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER 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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 1 related entity
- Hg Holding Housing Development Fund Company Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC?
- WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC (New York) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,464,828 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC ($1,171,131). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 68 organizations giving $3,464,828 in grants to WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,171,131 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 68 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