Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY · EIN 16-0743140. Reported 111 grants totalling $1,915,746 to 60 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, 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 Rochester Institute of Technology, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B430) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 60 distinct organizations, with 12% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 48% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 56% median for grantmaking charities -- lower than the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $11,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $25,000; the smallest was $5,234 and the largest $157,360. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henrietta Fire District | W Henrietta, NY | $225,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Lexington School for the Deaf | East Elmhurst, NY | $157,360 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Greater Rochester Enterprise Inc | Rochester, NY | $144,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| National Association of the Deaf | Silver Spring, MD | $119,550 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Rochester Regional Health Foundation | Rochester, NY | $75,075 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Rochester Fringe Festival Inc | Rochester, NY | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Hands & Voices Inc | Boulder, CO | $64,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Aacsb International the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of | Tampa, FL | $61,400 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| California Educators of the Deaf | Lincoln, CA | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Alabama Space Science Exhibit Commission | Huntsville, AL | $56,913 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hockey Western New York LLC | Buffalo, NY | $55,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing | Washington, DC | $48,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Distributive Education Clubs of America | Reston, VA | $41,681 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Conference of Educational Administrators of Schools and Prog | Mt Rainier, MD | $41,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mark Seven Deaf Foundation Inc | Old Forge, NY | $40,500 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| American Society for Deaf Children Inc | Woodbine, MD | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Rochester | Rochester, NY | $34,250 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Center for Youth Services Inc | Rochester, NY | $33,830 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Genesee Country Museum | Mumford, NY | $33,268 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Atomic Hands | N Brentwood, MD | $32,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Southeast Regional Institute on Deafness Inc | Huntsville, AL | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| New York Battery and Energy Storage Technology Consortium | Albany, NY | $27,950 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Idaho Educational Services for the Deaf and the Blind Foundation Inc | Twin Falls, ID | $27,010 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Learning Center for the Deaf Inc | Framingham, MA | $24,198 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Women in Cyber Security | Cookeville, TN | $23,240 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Rochester Hockey LLC | Buffalo, NY | $22,566 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| State of Oklahoma | Sulphur, OK | $16,861 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Association of College Educators of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing | Saint Augustine, FL | $15,400 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Orange County Superintendent of Schools | Costa Mesa, CA | $14,091 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Greater Rochester Enterprise Foundation Inc | Rochester, NY | $13,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Junior Achievement of Central Upstate New York Inc | Rochester, NY | $13,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| USA Deaf Sports Federation Inc | Buckeystown, MD | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Clarke School for the Deaf | Northampton, MA | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Communication Service for the Deaf Inc | Austin, TX | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Washington Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Youth | Vancouver, WA | $11,341 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rochester Museum and Science Center | Rochester, NY | $11,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Deaf Kids Code | W Lafayette, IN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| National Black Deaf Advocates Incorporated | Raleigh, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| National Deaf Interscholastic Athletic Association | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Signlight Inc | Westlake Vlg, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| New York School for the Deaf | White Plains, NY | $9,914 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind Foundation Inc | Talladega, AL | $9,134 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| G R a S P | Rochester, NY | $9,001 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Georgia Department of Education | Atlanta, GA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| International Sculpture Center Inc | Pittsburgh, PA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Alliance for Partnership in Equity Inc | Parkesburg, PA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Breast Cancer Coalition of Rochester Inc | Rochester, NY | $7,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Deaf Seniors of America Inc | West Palm Beach, FL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce Inc | Rochester, NY | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Inc | Rochester, NY | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Distributive Education Clubs of America Group Return | Reston, VA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Susan B Anthony House Inc | Rochester, NY | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fivebyfive Inc | Rochester, NY | $6,496 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf | Arlington, VA | $6,400 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Pennsylvania School for the Deaf | Philadelphia, PA | $6,241 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| State of Indiana | Indianapolis, IN | $5,906 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Listen Foundation Inc | Greenwood Vlg, CO | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Metro Deaf School Inc | Saint Paul, MN | $5,370 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Italian Charities Inc | Rochester, NY | $5,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
25 of 60 (42%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Hands & Voices
Sponsorship/Event Sponsorship
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 38 of 60 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 14 | $250,941 | $12,000 |
| 2021 | 19 | $365,975 | $14,000 |
| 2022 | 30 | $577,853 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 26 | $414,214 | $10,670 |
| 2024 | 22 | $306,763 | $9,178 |
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
54% 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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
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 $11,000 -- 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 Rochester Institute of Technology's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 20 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 2 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: Controller 46 Lomb Memorial Dr, Rochester, NY, 14623.
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