The Rochester General Hospital
Rochester, NY · EIN 16-0743134. Reported 75 grants totalling $65.1M to 41 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For The Rochester General Hospital, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E220) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 41 distinct organizations, with 92% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is extreme concentration. A grantmaker sending three quarters of its money to one organization is in practice a support fund for that organization, whatever its classification says, and an unsolicited request is very unlikely to go anywhere.
- How much its list changes. 60% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $18,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $27,000; the smallest was $5,500 and the largest $60.0M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canton-Potsdam Hospital | Potsdam, NY | $60.0M | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rochester Regional Health Foundation | Rochester, NY | $3,319,195 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| ROC2025 Inc | Rochester, NY | $300,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Rochester International Jazz Festival LLC | Rochester, NY | $250,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Heart Association Inc | Dallas, TX | $160,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Greater Rochester Enterprise Inc | Rochester, NY | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Rochester Institute of Technology | Rochester, NY | $100,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mercy Flight Central Inc | Canandaigua, NY | $95,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Intervol Inc | Rochester, NY | $91,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Cancer Society Inc | Atlanta, GA | $76,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Yellow Jacket Racing LLC | Rochester, NY | $60,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Greater Rochester Enterprise Foundation Inc | Rochester, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Inc | Rochester, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Anthony L Jordan Foundain Inc | Rochester, NY | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Medical Society of the County of Monroe Inc | Rochester, NY | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of the Constellation Brands Marvin Sands Performing Arts Ctr | Canandaigua, NY | $34,240 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Jewish Community Center of Greater Rochester Inc | Rochester, NY | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Lsb Consultants LLC | Pittsford, NY | $29,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Batavia Airshow Foundation Inc | Batavia, NY | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Trillium Health Inc | Rochester, NY | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Batavia Concert Series LLC | Batavia, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cancer Action Inc | Rochester, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine Inc | Erie, PA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Monroe Community College Foundation Inc | Rochester, NY | $19,100 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Center for Youth Services Inc | Rochester, NY | $18,900 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Action for a Better Community Inc | Rochester, NY | $17,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| American Diabetes Association Inc | Arlington, VA | $17,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Bridgetower Opco LLC | Atlanta, GA | $14,480 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Finger Lakes Health Systems Agency | Mount Morris, NY | $10,050 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Human Rights Campaign Inc | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New York State Wine and Culinary Center Inc | Canandaigua, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rochester Police Foundation Inc | Rochester, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St Joseph's Neighborhood Center Inc | Rochester, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Harley School | Rochester, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Young Womens Christian Association of Rochester and Monroe County | Rochester, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| National Center for Healthcare Leadership | Chicago, IL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Partners in Community Development | Rochester, NY | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Puerto Rican Festival Inc | Rochester, NY | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Rochester Ny Inc | Rochester, NY | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Child Advocacy Center of Greater Rochester | Rochester, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Foundation for Suicide Prevention | New York, NY | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
21 of 41 (51%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 31 of 41 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 15 | $369,900 | $20,000 |
| 2022 | 21 | $452,600 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 15 | $388,000 | $20,000 |
| 2024 | 24 | $63.9M | $17,370 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
100% of its giving went to organizations in New York. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $18,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Rochester General Hospital's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 21 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 5 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1425 Portland Avenue, Rochester, NY, 14621.
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