Rochester Area Community Foundation
Rochester, NY
EIN: 237250641
Tax returns
Among the funds encompassed by RACF:
Brockport Arts Fund
Typical grant size: Up to $2,000.
Bullis Fund
Purpose: Improving the quality of life of residents of Wayne County, especially in the Town of Macedon or within the area served by the Palmyra-Macedon Central School District.
Typical grant size: More than $10,000.
Feinbloom Family Fund
Purpose: Programs that prevent or reduce youth violence and juvenile crime; Programs for school-age children that strengthen connections with their families and communities and increase the likelihood of their success in school and beyond.
Typical grant size: Up to $20,000.
Glen Miller Grants for Emergency Health Care Costs
Purpose: To help needy individuals faced with unanticipated and/or emergency health care expenses for which there is no or inadequate health insurance or other reimbursement.
Typical grant size: Up to $3,000.
Hard of Hearing Clarity Fund
Purpose: For assistive listening devices and to help organizations assist those with partial hearing loss.
Typical grant size: Up to $4,000.
James M. and Olive Edmunds Memorial Fund for Brockport, Sweden, or Clarkson
Purpose: To help local community organizations in the Village of Brockport or towns of Sweden or Clarkson provide local arts or cultural opportunities to their residents, support programs that reduce poverty, enrich the beauty of the community, or restore historic buildings and sites within the same areas.
Typical grant size: $2,000 to $5,000.
John F. Wegman Fund
Purpose: Concerns of older adults, character-building opportunities for youth, and improved labor/management relations through education or other means.
Typical grant size: $1,500 to $10,000, with a median size of $7,300.
Kathleen Brenneman Grants for Autism
Typical grant size: Up to $5,000.
Katie Harper Youth Hope Grants
Purpose: To meet the emergency needs of individual children who have been injured or experienced catastrophic illness and whose families cannot afford to pay all of the related expenses.
Typical grant size: Up to $3,000.
Kathleen Brenneman Grants for Autism
Typical grant size: Up to $5,000.
Latino Giving Circle
Purpose: Unites donors to support organizations that serve, are inclusive of, or are allied with the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community to enhance and strengthen our region.
Typical grant size: $1,000 to $5,000.
LGBT+ Giving Circle
Purpose: Unites donors to support organizations, initiatives, and programs created by and for the Latino community to meet its needs and empower Latinos in the greater Rochester area.
Typical grant size: $1,000 to $3,000.
Margaret and Vito D’Ambruso Fund
Purpose: To help children who suffer from disfigurement or incapacitation from congenital abnormalities, genetic conditions, illness, or accidents and who require corrective treatment, specialized equipment, or adaptive capital improvements that their families cannot afford.
Typical grant size: Up to $5,000.
Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Legacy Fund for Youth Sports
Purpose: ToIn 2016, the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation established the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Legacy Fund for Youth Sports at the Community Foundation. The foundations jointly contracted with the Washington, D.C.-based Aspen Institute to produce an independent assessment of the state of play, sports, and recreation for youth in Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Seneca, Wayne, and Yates counties.
Typical grant size: $5,000 to $25,000.
Rochester Women’s Giving Circle
Purpose: Community of philanthropic women who combine their financial resources to support area women and girls on the journey to economic independence. Member donations fund annual grants to programs in the greater Rochester area that help women and girls gain the education, training, skills, and jobs necessary to gain economic independence.
Typical grant size: Up to $25,000 for single year grants.
Wayne County Community Endowment
Purpose: To improve the health and quality of life for residents in Wayne County (NY), especially youth and seniors.
Typical grant size: $1,000 to $5,000.
Yates County Community Endowment
Purpose: To support nonprofit organizations in Yates County.
Typical grant size: $5,000.