Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Rochester, New York

102
foundations with a Rochester address
$145.7M
grants paid, FY2024–FY2025
27
say they accept unsolicited
$6,860
median grant

Grantlas lists 102 foundations that gave a Rochester, New York address on their tax filing — 89 private foundations and 13 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2024–FY2025. Together they paid out $145.7 million in grants in their latest filing year, and 27 of them (26%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a Rochester foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.

Top 25 of 102 foundations

All 25 foundations below say on their 990-PF that they accept unsolicited requests. Another 2 in this list say so too. Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing.

Foundations in Rochester, New York
Esl Charitable Foundation$37,350$22.5M$500–$2.8MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Max and Marian Farash Charitable$27,500$13M$1,000–$2.2MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Greater Rochester Health Foundation$5,000$8.9M$250–$969,998FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation$20,000$2.7M$500–$208,250FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc$3,500$2.6M$100–$350,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Davenport-Hatch Foundation$2.5M$2.5M$2.4M–$2.5MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Louis S & Molly B Wolk Foundation$25,000$2.2M$1,000–$500,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Winley Foundation$20,000$1.5M$5,000–$450,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Charles and Mary Crossed Foundation$1,000$1.4M$72–$350,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Marie C and Joseph C Wilson$40,000$1.1M$20,000–$100,005FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Charles J & Burton S August Family$25,000$495,002$1,000–$50,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Polisseni Foundation Inc$3,125$491,700$1,000–$166,700FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Kmt Foundation Inc$2,500$429,000$500–$400,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Guido and Ellen Palma Foundation$7,470$256,193$1,000–$10,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Ashley Family Foundation Inc$2,000$241,750$250–$185,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The David T & Karen Della Penta Charitable$17,500$202,200$1,000–$102,500FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Robert G and Florence E Van Duyn$4,000$150,000$1,000–$25,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Pluta Family Foundation Inc$5,000$123,250$1,000–$50,500FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Williams Family Foundation$11,000$105,000$5,000–$20,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Ralph and Eleanor Cantisano Family$10,000$100,000$2,000–$50,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Joan Rothenberg Family Foundation Inc$5,000$72,486$486–$22,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Thomas F Judson Jr & Elisabeth W$500$61,985$50–$7,600FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Educational Fund of Rochester NY Branch$1,300$11,951$600–$3,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Gleason Works Foundation #xxx-XX-Xxxx$1,000$11,000$500–$2,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Lou Gramm Foundation LTD$5,500$11,000$1,000–$10,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from the 990-PF grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.

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Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2024–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.