Rochester Area Community Foundation Biennial Report TABLE OF CONTENTS

Stories of Change 2 CHANGE is in the air Grants 10 Can you feel it? A can-do spirit, built on optimism and collaboration. Initiative state grant targeting Rochester’s poverty and promise. Our poverty Your support makes this possible. Over two years, concerned and caring Applying for Grants and Scholarships 21 simulations and city-suburb dialogues have helped build community will people created 143 new philanthropic funds to make this a better place Can you see it? People working for students and against poverty, with broad and understanding. for their neighbors. The amazing $61 million Sands donation led a record Funds 22 community participation. $137 million in gifts. With continued above-market investments, Community After three years of a growing diversity of anti-racism work, two separate Your Guide For Giving 40 Will you be part of it? Regional change initiatives need your wisdom and support Foundation assets reached $388 million, up 55 percent in five years. The surveys show Monroe County residents are more aware of local racism, bottom line? A record $51 million in grants and scholarships. to be transformational. supportive of potential solutions, and willing to weigh cross-district Philanthropy Awards 42 We can help. educational opportunities. Urged by Facing Race, Embracing Equity leaders, Yes, change is in the air — thanks to all of us. Philanthropists 44 the Anti-Poverty Initiative expanded its participants to include people in Thanks to donors and community partners like you, Rochester Area Community poverty and adopted “structural racism” as an organizing principle. Financial Report 58 Foundation has helped galvanize change in our city and region by awarding more than $383 million in grants since 1972. In education, ROC the Future leaders are propelling cradle-to-career Volunteer Leadership 60 progress for Rochester’s children, the poorest of any comparably sized Jennifer Leonard José Coronas We’ve increased our impact by convening strategic conversations, educating American city. The national Campaign for Grade-Level Reading recognized President & CEO Chair, Board of Directors Foundation Staff 63 donors and policymakers, building individual and organizational effectiveness, and Rochester for improved attendance, summer learning, and third-grade Acknowledgments 64 sharing regional information through our award-winning ACTRochester.org. And reading. College aid applications from city students are up. A new school together, we’re starting to see results. code has been adopted and suspensions are down, spurred by the Power of Endowment 65 Community Task Force on School Climate that we co-convened and funded. State and local leaders have responded vigorously to our landmark poverty reports. The Rochester-Monroe Anti-Poverty Initiative launched a focused And we don’t forget joy. From the Jazz Festival to the Fringe Festival, from intervention in 2016, heartened by the $500 million Upstate Revitalization Geneseo to Sodus, we champion the arts, successful aging, and historical preservation to strengthen regional vitality.

Our Mission: We engage philanthropists and community partners to improve our region. Our Vision: The Community Foundation leads and inspires positive, enduring community change.

About the cover: We thought a public mural painted by Foundation supporters was the perfect way to capture our theme: “Change is in the air.” Enjoy a series of photos of the mural in progress throughout this report and then check out the finished artwork on the back cover or in person at 68 Scio Street in Rochester. The photos on the cover and at left are by Erich Camping.

racf.org 1 The gift of $61 million from brothers Richard and Rob Sands and their mother, Mickey, established the Endowment Keeps on Giving Sands Family Supporting Foundation at the Community Building and growing endowment for the future Endowment became a solution for Ann and her The Frames know how fortunate they are to have their Foundation to expand the family’s philanthropic legacy needs of our region is the heart of the Community siblings in 2005. They decided that for Christmas they extended family living close by. Much like a plant, they and to perpetuate it through future generations of Foundation’s existence. would open and contribute to an endowed fund at the have set down roots that have grown strong and deep their family. This gift was listed by The Chronicle of Community Foundation called the Robert C. and Jane K. with a lot of care and nourishment. But Bud and Peggy Philanthropy as the 18th largest from individuals in the Individuals, families, and organizations have chosen Stevens Legacy Fund, named for their parents. “All are interested in making sure those roots extend out United States that were made public in the first eight to establish permanently endowed funds that support of us were aware of all that they have done for us in into the community with “a desire to know more about months of 2016. a variety of causes that make a difference in our every facet of our lives. What better way to honor them the organizations they are involved with or supporting,” communities today and will continue to do so in the “The Sands Family Supporting Foundation adds a third than to set up something that extends their history of says Bud. “I hope that our kids get the same kind of years to come. pillar to our philanthropic enterprise, further enabling charitable giving?” Ann says. loyalty for and belief in the area that we have.” us to take a strategic, long-term approach to how Ann Stevens likens endowment to a college savings Bud Frame and his wife, Peggy, had a similar idea — Belief in endowment has benefitted the Ibero- Mickey, Richard, and Robert Sands —Photo by Matthew Klein, Reaching for the Stars we can benefit the community in a sustainable way,” plan that parents open when a child is born: “They but for the next generation. In 2015, they took a portion American Action League in two ways. A generation says Richard, chairman of the board of Constellation start investing now with small and regular contributions from an endowed advised fund they set up in 1994 and ago, organization leaders established a permanent Brands, Inc. so they’ll have enough money 15 to 20 years down split it into three permanent funds named for each of scholarship fund at the Foundation, which has the line.” The Impact of an The legacy of giving and community involvement for their sons and daughters-in-law. allowed the agency to expand its awards program this family, known for building Constellation Brands into for high school graduates and bolster its strategic A historical writer and researcher who is also a “It’s a great way to make sure our three boys and Extraordinary Gift a leading beer, wine, and spirits company around the plan to improve educational outcomes for the passionate preservationist, Ann set up an endowment daughters-in-law all stay involved in the community. world, began with Mickey Sands and her late husband, Latino community. fund at the Community Foundation to support those Our idea was for them to give small amounts of money Major gifts to local organizations or institutions Marvin. It is continued by their children through the specific interests. In six years, she and her husband to causes they believe in or to organizations on whose “We believe education is the key to people’s futures can be celebrated by many in our community. For family’s private foundation and long-standing corporate example: have distributed 28 grants to historical societies boards they serve,” says Bud. and the way to help them out of poverty,” says Hilda giving and employee outreach. and related organizations for restoration of historic • Music enthusiasts are enjoying improvements to the Rosario Escher, president and CEO of Ibero for the past “When our father founded Constellation Brands structures or the production of literature that has 11 years. “The Hispanic Scholarship Endowment Fund Eastman Theatre made possible by several gifts, along historic importance. with a $2.5 million grant — the largest-ever from the 70 years ago, he knew that our business would only What better way to honor has motivated individuals and local companies to offer their own scholarships to our students.” Davenport-Hatch Foundation. be successful if we could also make a positive and Ann also established and seeded a designated them than to set up lasting difference in our local community,” says Rob, endowment fund for Genesee Land Trust to provide For instance, a scholarship recipient from many years • Countless students have reaped the benefits of an president and CEO of Constellation Brands. “We commit something that extends ongoing operational support. She knew that an ago got his college fraternity brothers to contribute $8 million gift from Robert and Peggy Wegman to build to being actively involved in order to make our financial endowment was needed as she watched the to a 2016 scholarship in honor of the fraternity’s the Wegmans School of Nursing at St. John Fisher contributions more impactful.” their history of charitable College. organization successfully raise several hundred 20th year. The endowment fund also helps leverage thousand dollars in one year for a much-needed project giving? —Ann Stevens • Each year, more than 85,000 children and their families The Sands Family Supporting Foundation will allow the $25,000 a year in scholarships from the Greater family to further enhance its local giving for education, and then ask for donations that same year to help cover Rochester Health Foundation. get the medical help and healing they need at the new daily operating costs. Golisano Children's Hospital, which became a reality with health care, and the arts while beginning to involve the Giving back to the community is something that is important to the Frames. Bud’s maternal grandfather In all, 63 students received a total of $71,400 to help a $20 million gift from Tom Golisano. next generation and future generations in the Sands’ “You should not be scrambling year in and year out had led the Community Chest (forerunner to the United with college expenses for the 2016-17 academic year. philanthropic legacy. “We want the next generation to for operating money,” says Ann. “Endowment can help Way of Greater Rochester), and his own father became “None of this growth or success would have happened When the largest gift in the Community Foundation’s history have the freedom to develop their own philanthropic with that.” was announced, it was lauded as exciting news for the intent and endeavors. … It’s sort of like philanthropic a community fundraiser, with Bud following in his without the scholarship endowment,” Hilda adds. Sands family and for our region. succession planning,” explains Richard. footsteps. Board service is also a family tradition. Bud Frame, Ann Stevens, and Hilda Rosario Escher 2 Photo by Kate Melton racf.org 3 Giving Circles Reach $1 Million in Collective Giving

Philanthropy does not have to be a solitary Shirley and four others approached the Foundation needing to stay in a certified home and moving to a endeavor. You can join others and make more of about creating a fund to help women and girls gain the more independent setting.” an impact. education and skills they need to earn a living wage. A year later, RWGC members raised $33,500 and The LGBT Giving Circle supports organizations that That’s the gist behind the Community Foundation’s five awarded all of it in grants to six organizations. In 2016, help people in the LGBT community, but their interests giving circles, where individuals with similar interests nine organizations received grants totaling $175,000. are broader. Organizations applying for grants “need and passions pool contributions and decide together The largest was $50,000, representing the second to be inclusive of LGBT people and have that in their how the money will be distributed. Collectively since installment of a two-year, $100,000 grant. policies. If they don’t have it, we will contact them and 2008, grants from these groups surpassed $1 million in work with them and tell them what our requirements June 2016. The giving circles established in the years that followed are,” says co-chair Angela Bonazinga, a retired library adopted some of the RWGC’s guiding principles executive director. “Historically, I thought you had to be rich to be and created their own grant selection and follow-up philanthropic,” says Francis Clement, a wealth processes. Buy-in — or membership — ranges from The giving circle also helps raise the image of the management advisor who co-chairs the African- $100 to $1,000 or more, and participation in all five lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. American Giving Initiative. “This gives me the groups now stands at 300. “We really do care about the larger community. Many opportunity to not only be philanthropic but to be people who have been friends and allies a long time involved in the process of giving. You don’t always have The African American Giving Initiative, LGBT Giving know that.” those controls when you give to organizations.” Circle, and NextGen Rochester handle contributions similarly, setting aside some for current grantmaking NextGen Rochester, the giving circle for young Mary Faggiano is new to the nine-year-old Rochester and a portion for an endowment to produce additional professionals, changes its funding focus each year Women’s Giving Circle (RWGC) and insists that most of future income. and has previously supported programs related to the 160 members are not wealthy. “Some of us are just education, poverty, and downtown revitalization. normal people who work every day, some professionals, The Developmental Disabilities Giving Circle, formed Founding member Matthew Ray, a marketing director some retired,” says the sales associate at a local car in 2014, uses the RWGC model and distributes all the for a computer application and cloud provider, says dealership. money it raises to nonprofit agencies helping individuals members will sometimes work with applicants to with intellectual or developmental disabilities who are improve their grant application when the cause is The giving circle concept began in 2007 with a group 21 and older. worthy. This collaboration may result in a grant of of women who met to discuss how their donations to $2,500 or more. women’s organizations could be more effective. “The nonprofits are doing all they can to serve. They’re stretched thin and do not have resources “We can’t give $10,000, $50,000, $100,000, but we “All of us were a little frustrated with how we were for trying new technology that might be helpful for can still have an impact,” Matt says. giving,” says founding member Shirley King, who worked people,” says Dianne Newhouse, whose adult son in industry and state government before she retired. has a developmental disability. For example, assistive Learn more at racf.org/GivingCircles. technology sometimes can be “the difference between

Representatives from Five Giving Circles —Photo by Erich Camping racf.org 5 • Taking on leadership roles within the community, The local Kiva initiative was announced in late August. • Concerns over the state of public education led a on closing achievement and opportunity gaps working with local institutions and governments to The Rochester Economic Development Corporation group from local Presbyterian churches to look for between city students and their suburban peers. create progress by changing policies and systems. is supporting it with a $100,000 matching loan fund, answers elsewhere. Could the success documented in Chaired by Foundation President and CEO Jennifer which will augment the individual microloans to help Raleigh, N.C., work here? The group, which expanded Leonard, the initiative’s recent successes include a One Idea Will Help Many support the addition of more borrowers. The Foundation to include others interested in education, decided reduction in chronic absence in targeted elementary Take entrepreneur Mike Ingham. Several years ago, and the city have teamed up to pay the salary of an a trip to Raleigh was needed. With a grant from the schools by 10.7 percentage points during the this Community Foundation donor started volunteering AmeriCorps/VISTA coordinator for three years, and a Foundation, 11 traveled there in 2014 and interviewed 2014-15 school year; rollout of comprehensive at Kiva, an international, internet-based platform one-time cost for Kiva to launch the program. more than 75 community and school leaders. developmental screenings for 3-year-olds in the city; a 25 percent increase in summer learning (kiva.org) that connects small businesses with crowd- In addition to connecting the network of organizations Now formally organized and called Great Schools sourced microloans to help alleviate poverty. These for All, the group’s volunteers and work groups opportunities; and a one-year 9 percent boost in the already working with these small businesses, Henry’s number of federal student aid applications filed by zero-interest loans average $6,000 and are funded office, which focuses on poverty reduction and spent 2015 developing a proposal to create $25 at a time by individuals all over the world. socioeconomically integrated schools that cross Rochester City School District students planning to workforce development, is letting banks and other go to college. Henry Fitts and Mike Ingham —Photo by Kate Melton lenders know to encourage customers who are district lines. Its survey, released in 2016, found that unsuccessful in securing loans to consider applying to 75 percent of both city and suburban parents would These successes have been recognized nationally Kiva. These microloans are based on trust, not credit consider sending their children to a magnet school by the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading. A new scores and collateral. outside their own district. ROC the Future report card with updated statistics Leading, Connecting Spur Change • In March 2015, a grant from the Foundation covered will be issued in October. “This is a grassroots operation, making a difference transportation costs so that staff, representatives • Making sure Rochester’s children don’t go hungry one person at a time,” says Mike. “It’s not a handout; from the city, and others could visit Cleveland to when school is not in session has been the ongoing To guide its grantmaking and leadership work, “I was looking to give back to the community. … I have it’s a loan, and Kiva has a remarkable payback rate of learn more about that Ohio city’s worker co-ops. focus of a collaboration between the city, the school the Community Foundation debuted in 2014 two had my own businesses, so enabling others to do the well over 90 percent.” These neighborhood-based enterprises tap into the district, Foodlink, Finger Lakes Health Systems new and very broad goals — creating an equitable same seemed like a great way to help people help Agency, the Community Foundation, and other community and strengthening our region’s vitality. themselves,” says Mike, currently one of two local Kiva Spurring Community Action partners. The Foundation provided grants for studies trustees who find and endorse borrowers. These goals clearly help realize the Foundation’s vision A variety of Foundation grants and leadership efforts I have had my own businesses, that revealed 16,000 youth from low-income “to lead and inspire positive, enduring community He told the Community Foundation staff how Kiva are playing a role in community improvements. For so enabling others to do the families were not taking advantage of the free change.” We do that by working with a wide variety of could help Rochester. Hank Rubin, vice president example: meals (2013) and that local efforts should consider partners on tough issues while investigating and piloting for community programs, then introduced Mike to same seemed like a great way mobile meal distribution (2015). For several years, • The release of stunning local statistics on poverty new ideas. stakeholders working to reduce poverty, and several to help people help themselves. mini-grants have been awarded (see page 13) to and the concentration of poverty in 2013 and 2015 meal sites to purchase equipment or expand hours got on board with making Rochester a Kiva City. —Mike Ingham Making change happen is neither easy nor fast. It elicited reaction and action on the local, regional, of service. requires collective creativity, determination, and a “We liked the flexibility of the model because it does and state level. New York State provided $6.5 million The community-wide push by the Summer Meals deep understanding of how community strengths and not rely on the rigid underwriting process” used by to tackle this major issue, and the city of Rochester purchasing power of major institutions, hire mainly Partnership is paying off, with a 24.3 percent assets can be leveraged to address evolving needs. The traditional lenders, says Henry Fitts, director of the applied for and received $1.95 million from from the neighborhood, and give long-term employees increase in the number of meals — about 80,000 Foundation’s approach is two-pronged: City of Rochester’s Office of Innovation and Strategic Bloomberg Philanthropies to do the same. IBM sent equity in the business. Mayor Lovely Warren is — served in 2015 compared to the previous Initiatives. “Kiva will help those looking for small loans a skilled team to help. Foundation staff members • Connecting individuals who have the resources and enthused and believes investing in co-ops can help year. In 2016, locations of meal distribution to buy equipment or employ another individual or to continue to actively participate on committees of the desire to make a difference with the organizations that disadvantaged neighborhoods build “stairways out of and other details were made available at continue to grow their business in order to increase Rochester-Monroe Anti-Poverty Initiative at United poverty.” have the expertise to address the challenges; and SummerMealsROC.org, and mobile meal delivery revenue.” Way, which is leading the way on reforms. • We continue to support ROC the Future, our debuted in two neighborhoods. community’s cradle-to-career coalition focused 6 Summer Meals Lunch —Photo by Erich Camping impact of differences in skin color. “That’s the reason The documentary and student summits made an The depth and intensity of their conversations over I wanted to dive into more race issues and help break impression on Abby Terrigino, an IHS senior. “They coffee at The Golden Fox diner on Culver Road down barriers,” says Kayla, now a senior at Irondequoit made me think about things differently … more reinforced for Dan the importance of individual High School in the West Irondequoit Central School deeply.” When fellow students use language or make perspective. “You should not take anything for granted. District. references that are racist, she is quick to call them out. You should not assume anything.” “I ask people why they think like that, say things like The exhibit inspired the continuation of frank and that. I am prepared to challenge them.” Finding Avenues for Talking About Race sometimes difficult conversations about race and racial issues. Kayla, Joe, and Abby believe it is up to them and As the IHS students and Person2Person graduates others their age to deal with this issue and carry on the take on the roles of champions for change, others are Last year in West Irondequoit, the first district to crusade. “Extermination of ignorance in our generation working to improve racial and ethnic understanding in welcome city students in the Urban-Suburban is key to eliminating racism within our generation,” big and small ways, including: Interdistrict Transfer program in 1965, students were says Joe. • Eleven people — six black and five white — Kayla Robinson, Joe Buttino, and Abby Terrigino —Photo by Kate Melton invited to see the documentary I’m Not Racist … Am I? and talk afterward about how its message affected Bringing People Together randomly assigned to Table 23 during a summit on race in 2013 have continued to meet monthly for Really getting to know someone who is different from dinner and discussions at each other's homes. How a Museum Exhibit Galvanized you is more likely to happen one on one than in a • What began with a “Women and Race” weekend group. That’s the idea behind the YWCA of Rochester & retreat in March 2013, followed by a four-day Discussions on Race Monroe County’s Person2Person program, which pairs retreat later that year, has evolved into Shades of individuals from different racial and ethnic backgrounds Sisterhood. This group of about 20 women support and encourages them to learn more about each other. Rev. Michael Ware and Daniel DeLaus —Photo by Kate Melton When the Community Foundation’s board of them. The students decided to take these important each other personally and in community endeavors, discussions beyond their own school’s walls. directors approved a $200,000 grant to bring a In the past two years, more than 140 people have and work together to combat racial inequities. traveling race exhibit to our community in 2013, The training was led by Dr. Joy DeGruy, an Along with Superintendent Jeff Crane, they planned completed the Community Foundation-funded, nine- • In the first four months of 2014, issues of race and workshops based on the book Witnessing Whiteness: they provided a clear directive: The grant needed internationally known researcher, educator, and and hosted the first Summit on Race in January month program, including Rev. Michael Ware and identity were front and center stage at Geva Theatre The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It by to support more than just an exhibit. presenter who has worked on issues related to children 2016 for 180 high school students from across Daniel DeLaus. The biggest takeaway for both was that Center. Four productions provided a springboard to Shelly Tochluk. talk about race and different perspectives through and race for 30 years. She was impressed by the “The goal is to get the greater Rochester community Monroe County. A group from Missouri, which formed listening is crucial to learning from each other. • Recognizing that public policies and institutional panel discussions, before- and after-show talks, and group’s sincerity and openness in talking about race. talking more openly and honestly about race and how after protests following the 2014 killing of Michael practices perpetuate racial inequities, the Rochester- “It’s important to listen to his story and allow myself gatherings at the theater. “Rochester is much further along than other places I to best tackle the inequities that exist based on myths Brown, were invited to share their experiences and Monroe Anti-Poverty Initiative has identified to hear where he is coming from and give him respect have been.” to lead the program. “People sat with people they structural racism as one of three guiding principles and stereotypes,” then-Board Chair Dick Mengel said for who he was and who he is,” says Mike, pastor of • Facing Race, Embracing Equity, which planned and didn’t know, skipped all the pleasantries and went for its work to help move people out of poverty. at the time. Webster Baptist Church. hosted three community summits, also partnered More than 65 district top-level administrators, straight into ‘What is institutional racism and how with other organizations to bring I’m Not Racist … staff, union leaders, school board, and community During the three-month run of RACE: Are We So Can Change Happen? do you experience it in your community?’ It was very Born and raised in Irondequoit, Dan says, “I didn’t have Am I? to Rochester for two months in 2015. The film members participated, with plans for more in the Different?, more than 45,000 people visited the powerful,” says Joe Buttino, an IHS senior and one of that exposure to people of other races very much.” Yet was seen and discussed by more than 1,850 people. Along with establishing a new code of conduct for the coming year. With each day, more and more people Rochester Museum & Science Center, including the summit organizers. in his current job as general counsel for the Regional • In addition to Person2Person, the YWCA has Rochester City School District, the Community Task became engaged. “People did show up, rolled up their 8,500 school-aged children. Among them was Kayla Transit Service and in his previous job with Monroe expanded its Stand Against Racism breakfast to Force on School Climate recommended anti-racist sleeves, and didn’t want to offer lip service on this very Robinson, an eighth grader, who found the content “eye Students from IHS helped Penfield High School plan County, he witnesses “the effect of racial inequality on important issue,” she recalls. and execute a similar summit in May. And two more include deeper discussions about race amongst training to better define, understand, and address the opening” in its details on economic disparities and the our society on a daily basis.” summits are planned for the 2016-17 school year — attendees. The agency also offers a series of impact of racism and cultural bias in the schools. one in Greece and one in Rochester. 8 racf.org 9 Creating an Equitable Borinquen Dance Theatre: Self The Center for Youth Services: Rochester Community Place of Greater Rochester: EnCompass: Resources for Learning: Holiday Toys Development & Dance Program, $45,805 Teen Court, $10,000 Out-of-School-Time Learning Center, Pencil Partner Support at Rochester School Community (6)* ** $76,648 (2) 39, $14,018 (2) $12,268

GRANTS The Center for Youth Services: Violence GRANTS $7,582,728 Boys & Girls Clubs of Geneva: Positive Prevention and Alternatives to Suspension at Compeer Rochester: Youth and Family EnCompass Resources for Learning: 3D Grants from the Hubertus and Helmi Sprouts Gardening and Healthy Eating, School 39, $8,305** Mentoring, $20,000** Program Student Academic and Community Behrla Endowment Fund to nonprofits Closing Academic Achievement and $20,000 Support Liaison, $10,000* in our region help to make the holidays Opportunity Gaps Charles Settlement House: After-School Coordinated Care Services: Capacity brighter for children they serve. The following Boys & Girls Clubs of Rochester: and Summer Enrichment Program, $55,000 Building Project for Youth Development, Evaluation Services: In-depth Analysis of $3,789,073 Accelerated Reading & Accelerated Math (2) $30,000 (2) the Community Foundation’s Scholarship organizations received grants ranging from $415 to $884 (the total number of grants is Making a significant and sustainable Enhancements, $305,930 (2)** Program, $14,793 Investing in Charles Settlement House: Empower Cornell Cooperative Extension of in parentheses): reduction in academic achievement and Cameron Community Ministries: After- Positivity Inspire Change (EPIC) Teen Club, Livingston County: PROSPER (PROmoting FREE Partnerships: One 2 One opportunity gaps as experienced by many School and Summer Youth Program, $19,500 $20,000** School-community-university Partnership to Relationships for Success — Tutoring in the American Red Cross children, with emphasis on children living in (2)* ** Enhance Resilience), $20,000** Rochester City Schools, $10,000** POSITIVE Child Care Council: Early Literacy Ark of the Covenant Church of God by the City of Rochester. Catholic Charities of Livingston County: Connections in Monroe, Wayne and Cornell Cooperative Extension of Yates Friends & Foundation of the Rochester Faith (2) Allendale Columbia School: Allendale HOPE Youth Mentoring, $15,000** Livingston Counties, $15,000 County: Choose Healthy Food, Fun, and Public Library: Safe to be Smart Out-of- Columbia School's Summer LEAP Program, Fitness After-School Programs, $2,400°° School-Time Program, $60,000 (2) Boys & Girls Clubs of Rochester (2) CHANGE $8,305** Catholic Charities of Wayne County: The Children's Agenda: Community Childhood Counseling and Early Intervention Advocacy for Youth, $102,000 (4)** Court Appointed Special Advocates: Friends of Ganondagan: Youth Leadership Cameron Community Ministries (2) Two overarching goals drive our current AfterSchool Works! New York: School- Program, $243,940 (3)◊◊ Fostering Futures Curriculum for Youth, Job Readiness Program, $7,000* Catholic Charities of Livingston County grantmaking — creating an equitable community Age Care Professional Development Project, The Children's Agenda: Inventory of Out- $15,000** (2) $100,000 (2) Catholic Charities of Wayne County: of-School-Time Programs, $15,000 Gananda Dollars for Scholars: Alumni and strengthening our region’s vitality. This focus College Bound, $78,150 (4)◊◊° Cracker Box Palace Farm Animal Haven: Challenge, $10,000◊◊ Genesee Orleans Ministry of Concern helps us and our community partners close American Institutes for Research: In- Children's Institute: Behavioral Supports Work Program for Low-Income Youth, (2) achievement and opportunity gaps in city schools, Depth Evaluation of Student Data From Four Catholic Charities of Wayne County: for Children, $25,000 $5,000° Genesee Land Trust: Urban Youth Out-of-School-Time Programs, $35,000 Positive Attitude and Responsible Citizen Conservationists and Landscaper Apprentice foster racial understanding, and tackle the root Program, $267,000 (2)◊◊ Children's Institute: Rochester Early Crestwood Children's Center: Parents As Program, $5,000* Hillside Children's Foundation (2) Childhood Assessment Project, $60,000 (2) Teachers Program, $25,000 causes and devastating impacts of poverty, as American Red Cross/Greater Rochester Hope Hall (2) Chapter: Leadership Development Camp, Celebration of Life Community: Help Me Geva Theatre Center: P.L.A.Y. Education well as support the arts, preserve historical Children's Institute: Stage of Change $4,672* Read Program, $8,800* David P. Weikart Center for Youth Program, $15,000** assets, and promote successful aging. Approach to Parent Education and Program Quality: Youth Program Quality Quad A for Kids Center for Governmental Research: Professional Development, $40,000 (2) Geva Theatre Center: The Stage Door AmeriCorps/MCC: Youth Development Improvement, $50,000 (2) Rochester Childfirst Network Programs in Rochester City Schools, $20,000 Launching a Beacon School at Rochester Mentoring Project, $10,000* From April 1, 2014 to March 31, 2016, the Children's Institute: Strengthening PATHS School 17, $25,000 Dundee Library: iPads for Early Literacy, Rochester School for the Deaf (2) Community Foundation’s board of directors Ark of the Covenant Church of God by (Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies) in $2,000°° Greater Rochester After-School Alliance: approved the following competitive grants Faith: Training and Education Equity Project, The Center for Teen Empowerment: the Rochester City School District, $15,000** Social and Emotional Health Assessment of Sojourner House at PathStone (2) $7,601 Challenge Grant for Program Expansion, Earthworks Institute: Students, Science Out-of-School-Time Participants, $50,000 (2) (categorized under the two main goals and each $12,000 Children's Institute: Outside Assessment and Civic Engagement, $10,000* Spiritus Christi Prison Outreach (2) of their three action areas). Forever (unrestricted) Baden Street Settlement of Rochester: of Out-of-School-Time Program Quality, Greater Rochester After-School Alliance: The Center for Teen Empowerment: $105,000 (2) East House Corporation: Summer Camp Operating Support for Out-of-School-Time and field of interest funds make possible most Successfully Transitioning Youth to Trinity Inter-Faith Church (2) Adolescence, $4,000* Neighborhood Youth Organizing Initiative, for Low-Income Girls, $2,000 Coordinating Organization, $140,000 competitive grants. $55,000 (2) City of Rochester, Department of Volunteers of America of Western New Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Recreation & Youth Services: Youth Voice East Rochester Youth Activity Center: Greater Rochester Spelling Bee: York A number in parentheses indicates how many Rochester: Combating Truancy through The Center for Teen Empowerment: One Vision, $49,900 (2) Supporting GED or Employment Training, Scholarship Support for Spelling Bee Mentoring, $28,000 (3)* ** Southwest Youth Jobs Hub Connecting Youth $8,155* Winners, $3,000 Wayne ARC (2) grants were received during the two-year period to School and Work Opportunities, $7,250* Clyde-Savannah Central School District: and are included in the grant total. Symbols Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Community Garden, $2,500° EnCompass: Resources for Learning: Greater Rochester Summer Learning The Center for Youth Services: New Community Outreach to Families of Youth in Association: PreK-3rd Grade Summer listed in the key at the bottom of pages indicate Rochester: Wayne County Youth Mentoring Program, $10,000 (2)° Beginning House Program for Displaced Out-of-School-Time Programs: $7,534 Bridge, $40,000** grants from funds that have their own application Individuals, $10,000* processes. Learn more about our grants at 10 racf.org/Grants. *Includes support from the John F. Wegman Fund °Includes support from the Wayne County Community Endowment ◊Includes support from the Muriel H. Marshall Fund for the Aging racf.org 11 **Includes support from the Feinbloom Supporting Foundation °°Includes support from the Yates Community Endowment ◊◊Includes support from the Bullis Fund Hillside Children's Foundation: Livingston M.K. Gandhi Institute For Nonviolence: Quad A for Kids: Administrative Support, Rochester Hearing & Speech Center: Urban League of Rochester NY: Post- Fostering Racial and Ethnic Partnering Against Poverty Summer Meals Mini-Grants County Youth Court, $30,000 (3)** Northwest College Prep Middle School Social $62,454 (2) Summer Program Offering Speech Therapy Secondary Success Program, $14,805 (2)* ** Understanding and Equity Justice Program, $10,600* for Low-Income Youth, $42,500 (3)* ** $815,605 $43,000

Hillside Family of Agencies: Parents as Quad A for Kids: Summer Camp Experience Volunteers of America of Western NY: $490,131 GRANTS The Summer Meals Partnership of Rochester Advocates, $30,000 (2)** Monroe Community College Foundation: for Girls from Low-Income Households, Rochester Hope for Pets: Veterinary Summer Program for School-Age Children, Creating community awareness and Horizons at MCC Program Enhancement, $2,500 Medicine Explorers Post, $1,215* $8,305** Creating community awareness of racial understanding of the concentration of poverty works to ensure that all children up to age Hillside Family of Agencies: Parents As $21,400 and ethnic inequities and building sustained, and how it affects our community, and 18 in the City of Rochester have access to Teachers Program for Providers, $25,000 Quad A for Kids: Exploring Independence Rochester Monroe County Youth Bureau: Volunteers of America of Western NY: community-based collaborative initiatives that encouraging efforts that address its effects. free and healthy meals during the summer Monroe Community College Foundation: with New York Council on Nonprofits, Youth As Resources Youth Philanthropy, Camp HEROES Youth Mentoring Program, remediate and prevent such inequities. months. A coordinated, community-wide Horizons Student Enrichment Program: Support for ROC the Future, $25,000 $7,500 $46,900 (2) $4,865* The total also includes grants for Holiday Toys (page 11), Summer Meals (at right), and effort to get more youth to take advantage Generation.NEXT Youth Leadership Academy Action for a Better Community: Facing with Dale Carnegie, $5,000** Montezuma Audubon Center: Scouts In Quad A for Kids: Photo Voice Project for Rural & Migrant Ministry: Liturgia Summer Wayne ARC: Communication Devices for Race, Embracing Equity (FR=EE) Support, Wayne County Food Pantries (page 15). of the free meals resulted in a 24.3 percent Conservation, $5,000° After-School Program, $29,455 (2)** Youth Leadership Program, $5,000° Roosevelt Children's Center, $5,000° $110,631 (3) increase in meals served in 2015 compared Horizons Student Enrichment Program: Catholic Charities of Wayne County: to the previous year. Project F.A.C.E. (Family and Community Montezuma Audubon Center: Youth Quad A for Kids: Quality Enhancements Sanctuary at Crowfield Farm: Generation Wayne County Action Program: Parent Anthony Jordan Health Center: Healthcare Community Clothing Center, $5,000 (2)° Engagement), $10,000** Sportsman Camp, $5,000° to After-School Programs in City Schools, at Risk Program Connecting Youth and Education Program, $10,000◊◊ Business Academy Fellowship, $5,000 These grants helped organizations serve Center for Governmental Research: $62,060 (2) Seniors, $3,500° additional meals or increase the number of Horizons Student Enrichment Program: Nazareth College of Rochester: Aligning Wayne County Department of Aging and Mobile Summer Meals Study, $47,000 Community Microenterprise Center: days of summer meal service to city youth Project “Rule Yourself 2014” Social and Academics and Youth Development, $7,400 Regional Center for Independent Living: Sojourner House at PathStone: Youth: Families and Communities Together, Legacy of July '64, $30,000 Emotional Supports for Youth, $10,000 Ready to Achieve Mentoring Program Dreamseeds Jazz Band, $2,000* $90,000 (2)◊◊ The Center for Youth Services: Trauma- during 2014 and 2015 (the total number of New York State Afterschool Network: Robotics Kits, $2,100° George Eastman House: “The Birmingham Informed Care for Young Mothers and grants is in parentheses): Jewish Community Center of Greater Raising Awareness and Sustaining Out-of- Spiritus Christi Mental Health Center: Wayne Pre-Trial Services: Drop-In Center Project,” $15,000 Pregnant Teens, $10,000 Rochester: City Kids to Sisol Summer Camp, School-Time Systems, $20,000 Research Foundation of SUNY Brockport: Urban Youth Outreach, $2,500* G.E.D. Program, $6,500 (2)° 441 Ministries $10,000* Rochester School 17 Students Attend Judicial Process Commission: Faith Charles Settlement House: Neighbors in ORA Academy: Big Sister Project, $4,000* summerLEAP Program on Campus, $5,000* SUNY Geneseo Office of Sponsored YMCA of Greater Rochester: YMCA Asset Community Adult Mentoring Program, Action, $7,500 Ark of the Covenant Church of God by Judicial Process Commission: Young Research: Soaring Stars Summer Building and Mentoring Program, $24,175 $18,000 Faith Ex-Offenders Reentry Wrap-Around Services, Pal-Mac Raider Robotics: 6th-8th Grade ROC the Future: Support for Community Enrichment Program, $30,000 (2)** (2)** The Children's Agenda: Staff Development ◊◊ $7,000* Robotics Club Equipment, $1,500 Cradle-to-Career Initiative, $25,000 RCTV-15: July ‘14 Film Project, $60,000 (2) and Training, $3,670 Boys & Girls Clubs of Rochester (2) The Partnership For Ontario County: YMCA of Greater Rochester: Out-of- LDA Life and Learning Services: Tutoring Palmyra Community Center: Summer Day Rochester’s Child: Administrative Support, Ontario County Youth Court, $30,000 (2)** School-Time Quality Improvement Initiative, Rochester Contemporary Art Center: Community Action of Orleans & Genesee: Cameron Community Ministries (2) and Coaching Young Adults with Disabilities, Camp Program, $9,640 (2)° $48,000 (2) $40,000 “Question Bridge,” $5,000 Financial Assistance Grant Program, $26,000 $3,700* The Woodshop of St. Michael: Character (2) House of Judah Worship Ministries Palmyra Community Center: Summer Rochester Childfirst Network: Family Camp for Rochester Teens, $10,000* Young Audiences of Rochester: The Siena College: Community Social Capital Leadership Rochester: Emerging Leaders Camp, $5,000° Child Care Satellites of Greater Rochester, Cypher & New Directions, $40,000 Survey for Unite Rochester and the Democrat Community Food Cupboard of Rochester: New Life Church of Christ Program, $20,000 (2) $50,000 (2) Third Presbyterian Church: Teaching Artist and Chronicle, $18,000 Food Service to Elderly and Families, $3,000* Palmyra-Macedon School District: Programs, $5,000* Young Audiences of Rochester: The Outreach Community Center (2) LeRoy Christian Community Project: High School Supplemental Educational Rochester Childfirst Network: Early Possibility Project for Youth Engagement, Unite Rochester: Support for Unite Coordinated Care Services Inc.: Develop ◊◊ Research Foundation of State University After-School Program and Teen Drop-In Enrichment, $20,000 Learning Training Academy, $10,000 University of Rochester Center for $10,000 Rochester Challenge, $2,500 and Implement the Poverty Simulation Center, $44,743 (3)** Community Leadership: Urban Fellows Program, $49,854 College at Brockport Parent Leadership Training Institute: Rochester Childfirst Network: Bullying Program, $10,000 Young Women's College Prep Charter YWCA of Rochester & Monroe County: Salvation Army Literacy Volunteers of Wayne County: Support for Greater Rochester Parent Prevention and Child Safety Program, School: Girl's Leadership Conference and Community Stand Against Racism Initiative, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Wayne Mobile Migrant Literacy Project, $5,000° Leadership Training Institute, $30,000 (3) $10,000* University of Rochester: Horizons at Career Day, $4,000* $26,000 (2) County: Expanding Access, $7,553◊◊ Warner Graduate School of Education, True Gospel Church of God in Christ Magical Journey Thru Stages: Summer Prevention First Foundation: Peer-to-Peer Rochester Education Foundation: $19,000 (2)** E3 Rochester: Launch Connected YWCA of Rochester & Monroe County: YMCA of Greater Rochester Theatre Experience for Monroe County Safety Training, $7,400* Rochester College Access Network Support Person2Person Program to Match Leaders Communities Effort, $15,000 Students, $4,000* and Website Creation, $10,000* Visiting Nurse Service of Rochester & from Different Racial, Ethnic Backgrounds, Young & Gifted Global Ministries Public Policy & Education Fund: Monroe County: Nurse-Family Partnership, $200,000 (2) Empire Justice Center: C.A.S.H. Initiative Community Task Force on School Climate, Rochester Education Foundation: Support $14,980 for Earned Income Credit, $50,000 (2) $85,170 (2) for Urban Education, $7,000 Foodlink: Expand Access to Urban Garden for Refugees, $20,000

12 *Includes support from the John F. Wegman Fund °Includes support from the Wayne County Community Endowment ◊Includes support from the Muriel H. Marshall Fund for the Aging racf.org 13 **Includes support from the Feinbloom Supporting Foundation °°Includes support from the Yates Community Endowment ◊◊Includes support from the Bullis Fund Foodlink: Support for Urban Garden, Spiritus Christi Prison Outreach: Family Strengthening Regional Geneva Music Festival: Support for 2016 Preserving Historical Assets Kentucky's Mighty Wurlitzer: Vintage Promoting Successful Aging Wayne County Food Pantry Grants $20,000 Reunification Program, $4,492* Vitality Event, $2,500 $338,550 Organ Renovation, $5,000 $995,946 $64,000

Foodlink: Summer Meals and Kids Café, Spiritus Christi Prison Outreach: Geva Theatre Center: Rochester City Landmark Society of Western New York: GRANTS $168,750 (2) Women's Empowerment Program of Jennifer $1,710,566 School District Passport Program, $8,000 (2) Preserving our region’s rich historical assets 2015 Landmark Preservation Conference, Fostering successful aging by helping to With support from the Bullis Fund, the House, $10,000 and promoting educational efforts that build $7,500 create more age-friendly communities. Wayne County Community Endowment Heritage Christian Services: Financial Supporting Arts and Culture Greece Community Broadcasting: Jazz on these assets. awarded grants to food pantry programs, with Assistance Grant Program for Individuals Heritage Programming on 90.1 FM, $2,500 Association for the Blind and Visually St. Joseph's Neighborhood Center: Landmark Society of Western New York: more money going to those located in areas With Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities, Financial Assistance Grant Program, $24,000 $376,070 Charlotte-Genesee Lighthouse Historical Preservation of the Jonathan Child House, Impaired-Goodwill: Computer Training for $2,000 (2) (2) Hochstein School of Music & Dance: Older Adults, $9,800* with poverty rates higher than 15 percent. Encouraging vibrant and diverse arts and Association: Strengthening and Restoring $25,000 Honors Ensemble Program, $10,000 (2) the Lighthouse, $14,800 Fourteen programs received an additional Judicial Process Commission: New University of Rochester, Warner cultural offerings and improving the capacity Little Theatre Film Society: Marquee Bishop Sheen Ecumenical Housing $1,000 in 2015 to encourage their continued Hope Hall: Melodies of Hope Art Therapy, Foundation: Emergency Home Repair Journey Services for Women Leaving Prison, Graduate School of Education: Exploring of local arts organizations. The Empire State Winery Cupola Preservation Project, $20,000 partnership with Foodlink. Grants were $20,000 (2) the Feasibility of Establishing a Community- $1,500 Restoration Project: Restore 1898 Program for Families, Seniors, and Persons awarded to the following (the total number of Engaged Scholars Network, $4,773 Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Structure at Keuka Lake Outlet Entrance, Livingston County Historical Society: with Disabilities, $7,500◊◊ Ladies Attaining Self-Sufficiency: Rochester: Capacity-Building Grant Pegasus Early Music: Pegasus Early Music $1,000°° Planning for the Future of the Livingston grants is in parentheses): Transportation for Rochester City School Victim Resource Center of the Finger Program, $100,000 (2) Presents the Monteverdi Vespers, $5,000 County Museum, $14,500 Bishop Sheen Ecumenical Housing District Students, $4,200* Lakes: Financial Assistance Grant Program, Friends of Ganondagan: Haudenosaunee Foundation: Home Repair Program for Client Choice Emergency Food Pantry in Lyons (3) $29,500 (2) Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Picture Fest: Support for 2015 High Falls History in Today's Culture, $14,750 Macedon Historical Society: Challenge Monroe County Families, $5,000* RESOLVE of Greater Rochester, Inc.: Safe Rochester: Regional Events Calendar, Film Festival, $5,000 Grant to Raise Matching Funds, $15,000◊◊ Clyde United Methodist Church Food Journey Domestic Violence Intervention and Wayne County Rural Ministry: Emergency $6,000 Friends of Letchworth State Park: Bishop Sheen Ecumenical Housing Pantry (2) Prevention, $10,000 Heat/Rent Program, $5,000° The Publick Musick: Bach Cantatas at Preservation of Civilian Conservation Corps Macedon Historical Society: Historic Foundation: Home Repairs for Wayne Come-Unity Center in Williamson (3) The Center for Youth Services: Strings for Christ Church Rochester, $4,000 Legacy, $12,000 Macedon Academy Foundation Repair, County Seniors, $5,000° RESOLVE of Greater Rochester, Inc.: Western Presbyterian Church: Support Success, $8,000 (2) $10,000◊◊ Covenant Life Fellowship in Ontario (3) Safe Journey Survivor Transition Program, for the Good Neighbor Fund Utility Assistance Push Physical Theatre: “Zeros and Ones”: Friends of Mt. Hope Cemetery: African Catholic Charities of Buffalo: Home Daily Bread Food Pantry in Williamson (3) $10,000 Program, $5,000◊◊ DEEP Arts: “Moses Man” Play Production, A New Creative Dance, $5,000 American History Tour, $10,000 Perinton Historical Society: Audio-Visual Visitation Program for Older Adults in $2,500 System Access, $12,500 Genesee County, $132,000 (2)◊ Fairville Food Pantry (2) Rochester Area Interfaith Hospitality Willow Domestic Violence Center: Best Rochester City Ballet: “Peter & the Wolf,” Friends of Mt. Hope Cemetery: Civil War in Williamson (3) Network: Financial Assistance Grant Practices in Trauma-Informed Care, $15,000 Friends of Bristol Valley Playhouse $5,000 Sesquicentennial "Defenders of the Flag" Seashore Trolley Museum: New York State Community Action of Orleans & Genesee: God’s Store House Program, $8,500 (2) Foundation: Theater Programming For Kids, Monument Restoration, $10,000 Railways Rochester Division Car, $5,000 Assisted Transportation for Genesee County Lyons Community Food Pantry (3) Willow Domestic Violence Center: $3,500 Rochester City Ballet: “The Ugly Duckling” Older Adults, $163,500 (2)◊ (3) Rochester Regional Health: Patient Aid Expansion of Programs and Services, Dance Performances for Children, $3,920 Friends of the GardenAerial: High Falls Sodus Bay Historical Society: Lighthouse Macedon Food Pantry Fund, $5,000° $40,000 Friends of School of the Arts: Master Mobile Tour, $10,000 Rehabilitation, $2,500° Community Action of Orleans & Genesee: Newark Food Closet (3) Classes at Rochester Broadway Theatre Rochester Contemporary Art Center: Assisted Transportation for Orleans County Salvation Army of Rochester: Kids YWCA of Rochester & Monroe County: League, $3,250 Support for Winter/Spring Programming Genesee Country Village & Museum: Sonnenberg Gardens & Mansion State Older Adults, $24,000 North Rose Cougar Cupboard (2) Adventure Program, $2,300 Window Between Worlds Women's Season, $9,400 (2) Livingston-Backus House Preservation, Historic Park: Greenhouse Restoration North Rose Food Pantry (2) Workshops, $11,770 Friends of School of the Arts: Student $25,000 Project, $20,000 Genesee County Office for the Aging: Society for the Protection and Care of Participation in Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Rochester Fringe Festival: Support for Handyman Program Intake, $15,800 (2)◊ Ontario Food Pantry (2) 2014, 2015, and 2016 Festivals, $85,000 Children: Teen Age Parent Support Services, YWCA of Rochester & Monroe County: $20,000 George Eastman Museum: Restoration of Town of Clarendon: Hillside Chapel Palmyra-Macedon Food Pantry (3) $22,000 (2) Trauma-Informed Staff Development and (3) the Historic East Porch, $25,000 Restoration, $20,000 Genesee County Office for the Aging: Wellness Plan, $9,975 Garth Fagan Dance: Stop the Violence Marketing Coordinator for Marshall-Funded Red Creek Community Food Cupboard (2) Rochester International Jazz Festival: Sojourner House at PathStone: Financial Dance Alliance, $10,000 Geva Theatre Center: Interactive Lobby Town of Sweden: Soldiers Memorial Tower Programs, $26,472 (2)◊ Rose Emergency Food Pantry (3) Assistance Grant Program, $7,500 (2) Support for Free Performances on Gibbs Exhibit to Explore Geva's History, $25,000 Restoration, $5,000 Gateways Music Festival: 2015 Gateways Street Stage, $60,000 (2) Genesee County Office for the Aging: Savannah Community Food Pantry (2) Sojourner House at PathStone: Music Festival, $5,000* Jewish Community Center of Greater Transportation Coordination Services, Sodus Point United Methodist Church (2) Transitional Housing Program for Women, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra: World Rochester: Preserving the Rich History of $93,600 (2)◊ $12,000 Genesee Center for the Arts & Education: Premiere of New Work by Pops Conductor Jewish Rochester, $14,500 St. John's Food Pantry in Clyde (3) Flower City Pottery Invitational, $7,000 (2) Jeff Tyzik, $4,000 Genesee Senior Foundation: Recreation Tyre Food Pantry (2) Joseph Avenue Arts and Culture Mini-Grants, $37,123 (2)◊ Alliance: Center for Performing and Visual Walworth Food Pantry (1) Arts, $14,500 Wayne County Action Program in Lyons (3) Wolcott Food Pantry (3)

14 *Includes support from the John F. Wegman Fund °Includes support from the Wayne County Community Endowment ◊Includes support from the Muriel H. Marshall Fund for the Aging racf.org 15 **Includes support from the Feinbloom Supporting Foundation °°Includes support from the Yates Community Endowment ◊◊Includes support from the Bullis Fund Genesee Senior Foundation: Social CFLeads: Building Strong Communities Causewave Community Partners: Humane Society at Lollypop Farm: Large Town of Sodus: Water Line at Beechwood Hospice Grants Transportation Program, $27,500 (2)◊ Campaign, $25,000 Planning and Marketing Assistance for Wayne Animal Rescue, $10,000 (2) Camp East, $2,910° County Nonprofits, $15,000◊◊ $16,000

Irondequoit Senior Transportation United Way of Greater Rochester: Literacy Volunteers of Ontario and Yates Towpath Volunteers Fife and Drum GRANTS Ministry: Transportation Services for Older 2014 Ames-Amzalak Award for Nonprofit Children Awaiting Parents: Waiting Child County: Adult Literacy Services, $4,345°° Corps: Support for World Fife & Drum The following nonprofit organizations Adults, $5,500* Excellence, $10,000 Support Group, $2,250* Friendship Festival, $9,000◊◊ received $1,000 grants from the Joseph E. Macedon Public Library: Bullis Collection Brown Fund to provide training for hospice Jewish Family Service of Rochester: United Way of Greater Rochester: Council on Alcoholism of the Finger Letters and Paper Preservation Project, University of Rochester: Cancer Research, volunteers: Visiting Program for Homebound Older ROC the Day Online Giving Incentives for Lakes: Engaging Youth and Families in $10,430 (2)◊◊ $12,000 (2) Adults, $7,000* Participating Nonprofits, $24,000 (2) Addiction Prevention, $2,500° Advent House in Perinton Mary Cariola Children's Center: Nutrition Villa of Hope: Environment of Care Kirkhaven: Medical Equipment to Monitor Cracker Box Palace Farm Animal Haven: Clinic, $7,250* Improvements for Tuckahoe Adolescent Aurora House of Western Monroe County Residents, $7,500* Other Regional Grants Large Animal Shelter, $7,000 (2) Residence, $2,500° Metro Justice Education Fund: Worker Benincasa in Mendon Lifespan of Greater Rochester: Caregiver $504,765 CURE Childhood Cancer Association: Justice Kick-Off Campaign, $8,250* Wayne ARC: Emergency Housing Supplies, Resource Center, $10,000* Resource Library, $3,358* $4,555° Crossroads House in Batavia, Genesee Nazareth College of Rochester: Global Supporting a wide array of interests County Lifespan of Greater Rochester: Financial Families & Friends of the Mentally Ill Citizenship Conference, $4,975 (2) Wayne County Action Program: SureSight Management for Older Adults in Genesee throughout our eight-county region, including (NAMI Rochester): Mental Health Services Vision Screener, $5,000° Hospeace House in Naples, Ontario County County, $70,200 (2)◊ Hospice Grants (page 17) and NeighborGood in Wayne County, $5,000° NeighborWorks Rochester: Solar Panel Grants (page 18). Installations, $12,500 Wayne County Department of Social House of John in Clifton Springs, Ontario Lifespan of Greater Rochester: Monroe Farash Institute for Jewish Education: Services: Wayne County Coordinating County County Aging Alliance Coordinator, $82,951 American Red Cross – Wayne County Teen Israel Experience Travel Fund Program, New York State ARC, Wayne County Council, $20,000◊◊ (2) Chapter: Military Service Members and $25,000 Chapter: Gym Mats for Roosevelt Children's Isaiah House in Rochester Family Reconnection Project, $5,000° Center, $3,000° Wayne County Humane Society: Spay/ PathStone Corporation: Handyman Finger Lakes Visiting Nurse Service: Neuter Incentive Fund, $3,000° Journey Home in Greece Program for Older Adults in Genesee County, ARC of Yates County: Interactive Hospice Volunteer Recognition and Caregiver Pioneer Library System: Computer $144,500 (2)◊ Touchscreen Displays, $2,500°° Conference, $2,000 Upgrades for Wayne County Member Wayne County Rural Health Network: Keuka Comfort Care Home in Penn Yan, Libraries, $32,386◊◊ Youth Mental Health First Aid Training, Yates County Richmond Memorial Library: Library Bishop Sheen Ecumenical Housing Friends of the GardenAerial: Greentopia $5,000° Services for Older Adults in Genesee County, Foundation: Healthy Home Program for Festival, $7,500 RESOLVE of Greater Rochester: Safe Mount Carmel House in Hilton $121,000 (2)◊ Persons with Disabilities, $3,500°° Journey Teen Dating Violence Prevention, Worker Justice Center of New York: Genesee Land Trust: Celebrating Land and $5,000** People Organizing for Worker Empowerment Pines of Peace in Ontario, Wayne County Bivona Child Advocacy Center: Nature in Wayne County, $3,800° and Respect, $10,000* Broadly Aligned Strategic ChildFirst® Advanced Forensic Interviewing Rochester Regional Community Design Serenity House of Victor Training, $8,305** Genesee Land Trust: Cornwall Land Center: Reshaping Rochester Series, WXXI Public Broadcasting Council: Voice Grants Preservation, $50,000◊◊ $18,000 of the Voter, $25,000 (2) Shepherd Home in Penfield Boy Scouts of America, Seneca Sunset House/Lutheran Church $272,588 Waterways Council: Bullis Park Eagle Genesee Valley Conservancy: Livingston Safe Harbors of the Finger Lakes: Kids Yates Cultural & Recreational Resources: Resurrection in Irondequoit Project, $1,200° County Agricultural Tour, $4,000 (2) Rights to Personal Safety, $5,000°° Exercise for the Mind, Spirit, and Body, Supporting positive, enduring change through $2,500°° Teresa House in Geneseo, Livingston County information sharing, asset building, and Bridges for Brain Injury: Adaptive Heritage Christian Services: Springdale Society for the Protection and Care of Farm Tours, $10,000 (2) Children: Peer Support Network, $10,000* leadership. Horseback Riding Program, $4,621° Webster Comfort Care ACT Rochester: Community Indicators for Candy Apple: Operation Playground, Home Meal Service: Support for Meals on St. Luke Community Foundation: Healthy the Greater Rochester Region, $213,588 (3) $3,000° Wheels, $7,700 (2)° Youth Socials and Family Nights, $7,930* Catholic Charities Community Services: Gavitt House Renovation, $5,000°

16 *Includes support from the John F. Wegman Fund °Includes support from the Wayne County Community Endowment ◊Includes support from the Muriel H. Marshall Fund for the Aging racf.org 17 **Includes support from the Feinbloom Supporting Foundation °°Includes support from the Yates Community Endowment ◊◊Includes support from the Bullis Fund Herald Street Block Club: Various Activities Ontario Beach Park Program Committee: and Projects Big Band Series Total Grant Distributions

Hickory Neighbors United To Serve: Block Park-Meigs Neighborhood Association: GRANTS Club Activities and Projects Beautification and Education From April 1, 2014 to March 31, 2016, Youth and Aging the Community Foundation made grants Families 4% Highland Park Neighborhood Port of Charlotte Merchants Association: totaling $51 million. Women and 10% Association: Neighborhood Communications Banner Project Girls & Connecting Through Music Portland Avenue Business Association: The table below allocates all grants by 1% Huntington Park Neighborhood Neighborhood Identity Banner Project fund type, while the pie chart describes Humanitarian/ Association: Porch Decorating Contest Rauber Street Block Group: Urban Farm these grants by purpose. Competitive Global Arts and Inglewood Drive Block Club: Street Project grants from Forever and field of 1% Culture Improvement Project interest funds are further detailed on Sector 6 Neighbors Building 14% pages 10-18. 2013 Neighborhood Welcome Project —Photo by Mary Holleran Jefferson Avenue Business Association: Neighborhoods: Meeting Hospitality and Historical Unity Festival Enhancing Acoustics Preservation Joseph Avenue Business Association: South East Area Coalition: The Show on 2% NeighborGood Grants Charlotte Community Association: Annual Festival Monroe & South Clinton Goes Batty Membership and Volunteer Development $70,000 Lock 66 Neighborhood Association: South of Norton: Pride/Unity and Revival Grants and Distributions Health Church/ Charlotte Community Development Raising Lock 66 Religious The NeighborGood Program was established Summary 13% Corporation: 100th Anniversary and South Plymouth Avenue Business 5% in 1993 to help stabilize and strengthen Firehouse Celebration Maplewood Home Tour Committee: Association: Community Engagement Series city neighborhoods through small grants to Expansion of the Historic Maplewood District Grants, payments, or Coalition of North East Associations: Our South Wedge Farmers Market: Support for resident-led associations and block clubs. distributions from: Youth Gardens Maplewood Neighborhood Association: the Weekly Market Amount More than $664,000 has been awarded in Mural Project $8,322,336 Charitable Checking AccountsSM the program’s 23-year history. The following Conkey Cruisers: My El Camino on the St. Mark's and St John's Episcopal were NeighborGood grant recipients: Move Marketview Heights Collective Action Church: Merchants Street Garden of EDEN II $20,491,995 Donor Advised and Designated Project: Support for Partnership Activities Funds Civic 19th Ward Community Association: Cottage Street Block Club: Gardening and Swillburg Neighborhood Association: Financial, Engagement Beautification Menlo Place Block Club: Growing the Community Garden Renovation $10,511,600 Forever and Field of Interest Community Engagement Activities Economic, and 11% Block Club Funds Community Adams Street Block Club: Block Party Cutler Street Plus Neighbors Block Club: The Vineyards Neighborhood Community Garden Shed and Tool Lending Miller Street Block Club: Marketview Association: Engagement Project $7,484,300 Gannett Foundation Fund Development Arlington Street Neighbors Block Club: Heights of Hope Beautification Project $1,668,294 RACF Initiatives 4% SoFun Fests 2015 and 2016 Cypress/Linden Block Club: Block Party Thurston Brooks Merchants Association: Monroe Village Task Force: Farmers' Thurston Road Open House $1,566,017 Scholarship Funds Dewey/Driving Park Merchant Market Community Averill/Ashland Block Club: Growing $915,800 Tegna (formerly Gannett Co., Inc.) Community Participation Association: Dewey Avenue Open House Triangle Block Club: Annual Community Environment Assistance Neighborhood of the Arts: Taking It to the Picnic $50,960,342 Total 4% 4% Berlin/Wilkins Street Block Club: East Main, Mustard, & Atlantic Next Level Neighborhood & Business Association: Unity NE: Street Banners United for a Beautiful, Peaceful, and Safe Early Neighborhood Block Club Development and Coordination Neighborhood of the Arts Business Association: Annual Street Painting Washington Square Park Neighborhood Childhood Bernard Street Block Club: Sunshine East Ridge Association/Block Group: Association: Beautification Efforts 2% Garden Upkeep Preservation Project Neighbors Helping Neighbors Event North Clinton Avenue Business Association: Flowers Para La Avenida Westside Farmers Market: Improving Education Changing of the Scenes Neighborhood Henry Street Block Club: Garden Center Market Access 25% Association: Summer Block Party Expansion North Winton Village Association: Street Signs Project

18 racf.org 1919 Applying for Grants and Scholarships

Rochester Area Community Foundation • Muriel H. Marshall Fund for the Aging (improving Sometimes, donors passionate about a particular area matches the needs of our community with the quality of life for Genesee County's older adults); of interest, such as the arts, historical preservation, the philanthropic interests of our donors • NeighborGood (for City of Rochester neighborhood playgrounds for children, or community enrichment, through a wide variety of grant and scholarship groups); do request applications. These grant opportunities are opportunities. announced in the quarterly grant e-newsletter (see • Rochester’s Child (early childhood and youth details on how to sign up below) under the category Grant recipients are principally 501(c)(3) organizations enrichment); “Quick Review.” that serve the greater Rochester region — Genesee, • Wayne County Community Endowment Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Orleans, Seneca, Wayne, (improving health and quality of life for Wayne Nonprofits searching for funding for innovative and Yates counties. Nonprofit organizations that County residents, especially youth and seniors, with programs or projects outside the Foundation’s focus become grantees are considered our partners in grants of $5,000 or less); on equity and vitality or other announced opportunities improving our region. may submit a one-page request to [email protected]. • John F. Wegman Fund (concerns of the elderly, The Foundation's Competitive Grantmaking character-building opportunities for youth, and Stay Current on Grant Opportunities improved labor/management relations); and Our current grantmaking framework, approved by our Current and future competitive grantmaking board of directors, focuses on two main goals: • Yates Community Endowment (benefits Yates opportunities can be found at racf.org/Schedule. County residents). • Creating an equitable community; and The list is updated quarterly. You can also sign up at racf.org/Grants for our quarterly e-newsletter, Our five giving circles also award competitive grants • Strengthening our region’s vitality. “Grantmaking News You Can Use.” through us (learn more at racf.org/GivingCircles): Forever and broad field of interest endowment funds • African American Giving Initiative Scholarships enable these grants to address the region’s most pressing needs, today and into the future. • Developmental Disabilities Giving Circle Thanks to generous donors, the Community Foundation administers more than 125 different • LGBT Giving Circle Additional Competitive Grantmaking scholarship funds to help high school, college-bound, • NextGen Rochester We also accept grant applications for the following and adult learners further their education through committee-advised funds and initiatives tailored to • Rochester Women’s Giving Circle traditional academic programs, career training and specific interest areas (in parentheses): preparation, and other enrichment opportunities. Other Grant Opportunities • Bullis Fund (improving the quality of life for Wayne A searchable database at racf.org/Scholarships Many funds at the Community Foundation support County residents, especially in the town of Macedon contains detailed information on every scholarship. In general or specific purposes determined by the or in the area served by the Palmyra-Macedon general, the application cycle begins in January and donor(s) who established them. Typically, grants are Central School District); ends in June, with the majority of deadlines between recommended by donors and applications are not April 1 and June 1. • Feinbloom Supporting Foundation (arts and accepted. culture, violence prevention, and youth);

Volunteers at work, 68 Scio Street —Photo by Erich Camping racf.org 21 Funds that Support Joseph and Helen Brown Fund, 2012: Samuel Greenberg Community Lowenthal Family Fund, 2016: A Henri and Bessie Projansky Fund, Funds that Support the Community $268,871 Impact Fund, 2014: $86,596 |bequest from a Penfield man established 1986: $51,282 this general endowment fund to address Causes FUNDS 1982: FUNDS Brackett and Ruth Clark Fund, Jean Edgcumbe Groff Memorial the region's always-evolving needs, now Thelma Rawcliffe Fund, 2002: People who have a passion for making Forever Funds $351,994 Fund, 2014: Created by bequest, this $89,454 | and in the future. $123,038 a difference in broad or specific areas Forever Funds support the community fund will provide support for our region’s Mary W. Clark Fund, 1998: changing needs. $18,943 John F. Mahon Charitable Fund, Patricia I. Robinson Fund, 2006: of interest know they can rely on the and our role as a catalyst for positive $2,243,629 1986: $135,923 $947,609 Community Foundation’s expertise to GIVING change. The flexibility of Forever Funds John and AnneMarie Groth-Juncker evaluate and select appropriate local provides an effective means to match Howard and Marjorie DeNise Fund, |Community Impact Fund, 2015: An Thelma March Fund, 1992: $384,644 Bernie and Irma Rumbutis Memorial 1998: $228,973 Fund, 2011: $285,739 nonprofit organizations to receive grants donor generosity with the dynamic nature estate gift from a Pittsford couple created this fund to address the changing needs Marjorie McDowell Fund, 2006: from their funds. of our region’s ever-changing needs. Discretionary Grant Endowment of the community. $592,232 $26,823 William R. and Elizabeth N. Sheldon TOGETHER Fund, 1977: $64,077 Fund, 2015: Long-time residents of 21st Century Fund, 1996: $972,951 | Field of Interest Funds Hallowell Community Impact Fund, Memorial & Honorarium Fund, 1989: Livingston County used a planned gift Ebsary Charitable Fund, 1986: $124,007 to create this fund for broad purposes, A field of interest fund ensures William S. Allen Fund, 2007 2013: $1,419,100 $621,697 with a preference for supporting the permanent support for your favorite for impact Glenn and Henrietta Hammond Sam Merrill Memorial Fund, 1993: Caledonia-Mumford area. $47,194 Marilyn J. Aten Memorial Fund, 2014: charitable interests. Colonel William Hubbel Emerson This former advised fund now supports A bequest from this Penfield woman will Endowment Fund, 2002: $477,765 | | Memorial Fund, 1977: $15,063 broad community needs. Dean V. Stanley Fund, 2013: $200,211 help the Community Foundation address African American Giving Initiative At Rochester Area Community Foundation, you Joseph and Margaret Harris the region’s always-evolving needs. Fund, 2011: $40,080 Matthew and Ruth Fairbank Family Endowment Fund, 2011: $43,555 Robert A. Mertz Fund, 1993: Harmon V. Strong Discretionary can provide ongoing support to the community $172,816 Fund, 2006: $209,438 $792,386 Fund, 2010: $28,265 Fund for the Aging in Memory of Don now and in the future by creating flexible or Lawrence C. Harris Fund, 1996: Ben and Sylvia Atkin Fund, 1989 2013: and Evelyn Kimball, 1987: $223,014 broad-purpose funds that allow us to nurture high- Helen M. Fiske Memorial Fund, $125,812 Mabel Messinger Fund, 1984: Maxine Tillotson Memorial Fund, $111,918 $228,079 1984: $384,140 Bruce B. Bates Charitable Fund, G. Stanley and Teresa Ann Allen impact initiatives, convene diverse community Erma House Fund, 2001: $446,791 2008: $26,735 Gertrude Ford Fund, 1995: $41,629 Fund, 2006: $585,422 partners, and support cutting-edge programs that Edith and Oran Miller Fund, 1997: Adelaide and Bob Weinberg Family Daniel A. and Mary Louise Jones $166,705 Fund, 1990: $40,648 Bruce B. Bates Forever Fund, Mildred and Walter Fotch Fund, Loma Moyer Allen Arts for Youth are important to the vitality of the region. You can Fund, 2006: $169,939 Fund, 2010: $56,029 |2015: A Pittsford resident created this 1986: $29,107 Paul and Louise Miller Fund, 1979: Linda S. Weinstein Discretionary also create “your fund, your way” for personalized endowment fund to meet the changing Warren and Eunice Joslyn Fund, $911,397 Fund, 1993: $48,389 Ames-Amzalak Fund, 1984: $110,813 giving that helps your favorite charity or cause. needs of the community, now and Founders Fund, 1980: $22,067 2001: $144,711 forever. $50,275 Barbara H. and Richard P. Miller Ethan and Janet Welch Fund, 1992: Ruth Ericksen Andrews Fund, 2009: General Endowment Fund, 1989: Clayton F. Kaul Fund, 1998: $231,220 Fund, 1997 $105,541 If you are interested in learning more about the Alexander and Marcia Beach Fund, $3,163,385 $27,431 different ways you can create a named fund, see 1993: $229,210 Francis H. and Olive C. Kehoe Eleanor Eisenhart Morris Fund, 2008: Clement C. Wells Fund, 2001: Giles Family Fund, 1986: $1,064,110 Angelina C. Aravantinos Endowment “Your Guide for Giving” on pages 40-41. To support Memorial Fund, 2005: $1,597,976 $55,295 |Formerly an advised fund, grants now Fund, 2008: $296,644 Albert Beer Fund, 1994: $35,629 support broad community purposes. Phil and Jane Gilman Fund, 2014: the efforts of existing funds, you may make a Henry H. Kingston Fund, 1982: Marion Weston Neun Fund, 2006: $88,012 Chub and Ed Belcher, 1997: At the $38,927 Carolyn and Tom Argust Fund, 2010: donation at racf.org/Donate. $16,891 $161,046 $170,426 |donors’ request, this fund transitioned Marion and Ernest Whitbeck Fund, from an advised fund to one that will Edwin R. Glossner Fund, 2002: Laurence J. Kirwan Fund, 2002: Mary Z. and Lloyd C. Patchin Fund, 1993: $25,153 1980: support the changing needs of the region $1,715,643 Father Atwell Memorial Fund, New named funds established from April 1, 2014 $14,646 2000: $305,336 $35,121 forever. $113,441 Donald L. Wood Fund, 1999: through March 31, 2016 — as well as those that Louis and Mildred Goldstein Fund, Michael and Kathleen Kirwan Fund, George and Elizabeth Peters Fund $581,505 Beavers Family Fund for Autistic Bernstein, Neivert, Weinberg Family 2004: $230,750 converted to Forever Funds — are highlighted with 2000: $22,166 |2, 2014: A bequest from this Rochester Respite Care, 2002: $77,995 Fund, 1976: $562,238 couple created a fund for broad Tom and Pat Woodlock Fund, 1996: an orange bar before the name and have complete Virginia D. Gordon Fund, 1997: Carleton Lindsay Fund, 2008: community purposes. $50,724 $108,580 Hubertus and Helmi Behrla Jim and Karen Boucher Fund, 1995: $938,559 descriptions. Fund balances are current as of $268,948 1999: $153,146 $21,526 Endowment Fund, March 31, 2016. At the request of some donors, Marion D. and Jane E. Piper Fund, Robert and Martha Young Fund, 2009: $583,188 1984: $66,808 fund names or balances have been omitted.

22 | New funds created April 1, 2014 through March 31, 2016 racf.org 23 Rachel Susan Beimler Campership Margaret and Vito D'Ambruso Fund, Thomas E. Goldman Memorial Fund, Housing Education Fund, 1988: Helen Gladys Ritter Mohr Fund, 1998: Thomas P. Ryan Jr. Youth in Action Thomas and Mildred Tulloch Fund, Fund, 1997: $24,075 1999: $105,712 1990: $61,278 $396,012 $399,168 Fund, 1994: $72,068 2007: $178,696 Supporting

Foundations FUNDS Olga Berg Memorial Fund, 1987: Christine Mertz Dear Arts Fund, Gonsenhauser Family Fund, 1987: Louis P. and Betty A. Iacona Youth Winona E. Moore Fund, 1995: Sayre Family Incentive Fund, 1986: Urban Education Fund, 1986: $56,989 2012: $110,530 $466,066 |Success Fund, 2014: An endowment $43,785 $72,960 $138,060 Through shared governance, supporting fund established by this Pittsford couple foundations offer customized Kathleen Brenneman Fund, 2001: Arley Mae and Louis Delisio Youth Gouvernet Arts Fund, 1991: supports after-school and summer John and Annabel Muenter Fund II, Elmer Schwittek Free Enterprise Esther Usdane Memorial Fund, 1979: philanthropy within a public charity $59,803 Fund, 2000: $73,777 $1,623,869 enrichment programs for low-income 2013: $51,319 Fund, 1978: $228,415 $53,541 structure. Fund balances are current as youth. of March 31, 2016. W.R. and Dorothy Brogan Fund, 2007: Dunn Martin Fund, 2008: $472,449 Greater Rochester Women's Fund, Nearby Nature Fund, 1997: $16,676 Fund for Self Esteem, 1990: $410,230 Robert and Ann Van Niel Fund, 2015: $938,573 1986: $1,510,933 Jazz Street Fund, 2012: $51,933 |A Pittsford couple created this fund to Feinbloom Supporting Foundation, Early Childhood Education Fund, NeighborGood Program Fund, 1993: Albert C. Snell Memorial Fund, 2000: support early childhood education. 1989: Established after the sale of Joseph E. Brown Environmental 1987: $992,191 H Fund, 2013: $1,377,550 Junior League of Rochester $11,808 $136,720 family-owned Champion Products, the Education Fund, 2006: $60,005 Endowment for Children & Youth, William P. and Abigail Roberts Van foundation currently supports programs Raymond P. Eckert Fund II, 2004: Katie Harper Youth Hope Fund, 1997: 1982: $155,576 Dolores and Philip Neivert Ages and The Spirit Fund, 2000 Wagenen Fund II, 2000: $1,625,375 that prevent violence and connect Joseph E. Brown Fund, 1997: $133,376 $149,344 Stages Fund, 1997 Spring Hill Fund, 1995: $389,809 young people to arts and culture, $299,732 Judith Lasker Kaufman Fund, 2001: Wayne County Community education, their families, and community. Environmental Endowment Fund, Ruth and Manville Harris Fund, 1988: $423,357 Philip and Dolores Neivert “Fun Endowment Fund, 1984: $205,932 Edna Jeanne Brush Fund, 1992: 1998: $67,799 $34,656 Fund,” 1993 VJ Stanley Sr. Fund, 2014: A bequest $5,511,289 $427,659 from the estate of this businessman Lucile B. Kesel Fund, 1995: $143,154 | Wayne County GTF Corporate Fund, Helen L. Morris Supporting Walter A. and Shirley B. Fallon Fund, Lester Harrison Family Fund, 1999: Ann and Irving Norry Fund, 1997: created a fund for children’s education, 1987: $111,972 Bullis Fund, 2000: $15,187,924 2007: $57,063 $344,824 $45,112 health, and veterans’ causes. Foundation, 1999: Established by Dorothy Kitzing and Elizabeth Kitzing Joseph Deblinger and his daughter in Fund, 2010: $188,024 $1,244,881 Wayne County Health and Quality Betty & Greg Calender Education and Family Talk Fund 2, 2012 Rodney Hatch Family Fund, 2012: Nonprofit Advisory Services Life Fund, 1984: $114,253 honor of his wife and her mother. It has Health Fund, 2006 $2,273,091 Lloyd E. Klos Historical Fund, 2000: Endowment Fund, 1987: $62,815 Bernice Stauber Fund, 2014: A been the primary supporter of Lifespan’s Farash Fund for Manufacturing $3,932,785 |bequest established this endowment Wayne County Youth and Seniors Partners in Caring Respite Program, Claire Brewster Castle Fund II, 2001: Education, 2009: $252,685 Ben Haymes Campership Fund, 2000 Margaret and Herbert Paaschen fund to assist Monroe County children Fund, 1983: $51,670 which connects trained volunteers to $100,456 Hugh Knapp Fund for Early Fund, 2001: $353,294 under 21 who suffer from a physical, families caring for a loved one with B. M. Feinberg Fund, 1986: $48,818 Gloria Westphal Haynie Fund, 2003: Childhood Education, 1995: $36,964 mental, or medical disability. $1,156,704 Elizabeth and Pierce Webb dementia. Castle Fund for Music Education, $105,702 Ron Pettengill Labor Education Fund, |Community Education Fund, 2014: 1994: $249,623 Fund for the Fine and Performing L. Ruth Kohler Fund, 2002: $465,701 1998: $59,704 Clinton O. and Mary M. Steadman This Pittsford couple wants to support Sands Family Supporting Arts, 1978: $105,221 Anne Heneghan Fund for Infant Care, Fund, 2012: $137,273 urban education programs. $31,240 |Foundation, 2015: With the largest Arthur Chatman Memorial Fund, 1995: $39,273 LGBT Fund for Greater Rochester, Gerald C. Pfrengle Fund, 2006: gift in Community Foundation history, 1980: $46,829 Fox-Knoeferl Family Fund, 2012: 2011: $115,081 $309,612 Wilson and Frances Stewart Fund, John F. Wegman Fund, 1989: the family that built Constellation $797,431 Historic Preservation, Restoration |2015: Proceeds of a pooled life income $3,179,358 Brands, Inc. established this supporting Children's Fund, 1978: $175,931 and Literature Fund, 2009: $89,156 Justine M. Lynes Children's Fund, Playground Fund, 1981: $90,301 gift endowed this fund to honor an organization to expand its charitable Lorma E. Gardner Endowment Fund 2003: $149,552 Irondequoit couple and support programs Weigl Family Arts Fund, 1986: giving in education, health care, and the Children's Success Fund, 2010 |II, 2014: A bequest created this fund Dr. Marvin J. Hoffman Fund, 1977: Plumb-Miller Fund, 1995: $722,671 benefiting children from preschool $29,739 arts, and engage future generations in to provide ongoing support to programs $153,907 Muriel H. Marshall Fund for the through high school. $198,673 philanthropy. $63,152,406 (see story on Mark and Bobbie Hargrave Hard of and organizations that assist children. Aging, 1998: $9,732,264 Joe U. Posner Children's Sports and The Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation page 2) Hearing Clarity Fund, 1995: $191,134 $315,848 Elizabeth Gibson Holahan Children's Recreation Fund, 1983: $635,492 Dolores S. and Richard S. Stover |Fund for Smart Strategy, 2015: Fund, 2002: $1,084,734 Maxion Family Charitable Fund, Fund, 2012: $51,008 An inaugural grant from the major Donald and Elizabeth Cohn Fund, Genesee Valley Club Preservation 1999: $1,131,678 Ruth Proctor Fund, 2009 foundation created from the estate of 1986: $41,780 Fund, 2011: $22,826 Elizabeth Gibson Holahan Fund Willie Taaffe Memorial Fund of the the Buffalo Bills owner will strengthen Rochester's Child Endowment Fund, for Historic Preservation I, 2000: McCoy Family Fund, 2012: Yates Community Endowment, 2013: our ability to deliver data, analyses, and Community Arts Fund, 1985: 1988: $2,402,761 Henry E. and Emily L. Gillette Fund, $502,312 $1,945,079 $32,726 information leading to positive change in $527,399 1999: $90,791 Rochester Guild for Special Children Greater Rochester. $539,881 (see story Edna Holland Fund, 1996 Anne McQuay Arts and Cultural Fund Darryl Talley Foundation Fund, 1995: Mary Elizabeth Conlon Fund, 2004: Fund, 1997: $26,713 on page 51) Marion Gleason Medical Education II, 1998: $248,314 $110,741 $3,625,634 and Accident Research Fund, 1990 Thomas A. Horey Memorial Fund, Rogerson Fund for Handicapped 1982: $58,747 Glen E. Miller Endowment Fund, Tin Mountain Fund, 1996: $104,726 2000: $58,520 Children, 1990

24 | New funds created April 1, 2014 through March 31, 2016 racf.org 25 WSW Basic Needs Fund, 2015: A Jacqueline and Richard Archer Bullis Family Scholarship Fund, Joseph Delibert Memorial Lorraine Halsch Memorial |Fairport professional advisor used a gift Women's Scholarship Fund, 2006: 1982: $2,277,695 Scholarship Fund, 1999: $26,167 Scholarship Fund, 2009: $142,277 $226,494

of life insurance to establish this fund to FUNDS support disaster relief efforts in the local GFLNLA/Ted Burnett Memorial TWA Molly Efron Scholarship Fund, Katie Harper Memorial Scholarship area. Armenian Scholarship Fund in Scholarship Fund, 1998: $83,865 2013 Fund, 1994: $52,437 Memory of Charles J. Churukian, Winters Family Fund to Promote 2013 Clifford B. Bushnell Scholarship Everest Institute Student Alumni James Francis Harris Memorial Diversity & Inclusion, 1996: $34,309 Fund, 1999: $42,955 Fund, 1991: $41,390 Fund, 1987: $28,511 Gertrude M. and Donald E. Armstrong Clara T. Wolfard Fund, 2010: $43,629 Scholarship Fund, 1987: $321,912 Elvira Caroselli Creative Spirit Finks-Bulkeley Memorial Fund, 2010: William Jackson Hawley Scholarship Scholarship Fund, 2003 $14,384 Fund, 2002: $81,113 Woman's Education and Industrial Sidney and Carol Aroesty Family Union, 1990: $1,180,910 |Scholarship Fund, 2014: A Rochester Tina Cerino Memorial Scholarship Joseph and Lorraine Finley Marion F. Hersey Scholarship Fund, family established this scholarship to Fund, 1999: $25,227 Scholarship Fund, 1990: $495,647 1999: $53,292 Gertrude Wynar Fund for Jewish support and encourage the educational Education, 2011: $1,023,771 endeavors of promising East High Abraham D. Chatman Fund, 1985: Rosemary Fisher Memorial Derek Hill Memorial Scholarship School students who are first-generation $268,516 Scholarship Fund, 2011 Fund, 2007: $57,824 Yates Community Endowment Fund, immigrants, have strong ambitions, and 2011: $353,851 (see story on page 47) are pursuing a degree in science. Justin Chlebus Memorial Jonathan D. Foster Designated Fund, Heidi Hoenig Memorial Fund, 1984: Sherry Crumity and Kristin D'Amico —Photo by Kate Melton Scholarship Fund, 2014: $37,629 2013 $63,459 Scholarship Funds Andrew G. Attinasi Memorial Scholarship Fund, 2003: $144,794 Cholish Engineering Scholarship, France Scholarship Fund for Louis P. and Betty A. Iacona Nursing 2013: $38,468 Rochester Junior Academy, 1999 Fund, 2011 A Scholarship that Helps Those Who Help Others Joining with the Community Foundation, you can assist diligent students with their Nancy Barie-Turner Fund, 1999: After two decades in the nonprofit and Now in its 11th year, the scholarship fund Sherry, a mother of three grown daughters, $61,854 Peter A. Ciaccia Jr. Memorial Randy Freeland Memorial Rodney B. Janes Scholarship Fund, education by creating a scholarship fund. Scholarship Fund, 2004: $31,582 Scholarship Fund, 1997: $31,695 1999: $344,839 public education sectors, Sherry Crumity has awarded more than $500,000 to assist worked full time at the YWCA of Rochester From April 1, 2014 to March 31, 2016, Donald M. Barnard Fund, 1991: realized how the ripple effects of trauma individuals obtaining advanced degrees in & Monroe County while taking classes Clark Family Scholarship Fund, 2006: Harry B. Frost and Esther B. Frost KajjecK Scholarship Fund, 2002: these and other funds awarded 900 $127,881 needed more attention in the urban the mental health field. for a master’s degree in mental health $1,208,877 (see story on page 27) Memorial Scholarship Fund, 2003 $37,518 scholarships totaling nearly $1.5 million community. With a bachelor’s degree counseling and helping to care for three Barnard-Kuichling-Acorn Society “Our hopes were that the recipients would to help students pursuing college or Myrna C. Clark Scholarship Fund, James H. L. Gallagher Scholarship Barry Kaplan Accounting in human development and psychology, terminally ill relatives. Receiving three Fund, 1988: $341,768 earn a master’s in their field, continue to trade school and those working on 1997: $91,295 Fund, 1989: $19,383 Scholarship Fund, 2006 she felt that in her work she “was always consecutive awards totaling $10,000 work in the area and be key employees advanced degrees or taking advantage John H. Berman Memorial Fund, missing the mental health piece” to fully allowed her to “focus on school and Frank Commisso Scholarship Fund, Henry E. Gillette Fund, 1991: Patrick J. Kelly II Memorial Fund, of the many fine agencies that serve the of special enrichment opportunities. Get 1986: $121,482 address the emotional and behavioral relieved me of some financial stressors,” 1997: $127,626 $242,476 2004: $79,302 developmentally disabled and mentally more details about our scholarships at issues some children experience. says Sherry, who graduated in May 2015. The Henry and Lorraine Brierly compromised,” says G. Thomas Clark of racf.org/Scholarships. Memorial Scholarship, 2015: A gift Community Scholarship Fund, 2003 Sally Gordon Memorial Scholarship Max Landow Memorial Fund, 1988: She recently was hired at the YWCA of | Kristin D’Amico worked on and off for two Rochester, who established the scholarship of stock established this fund named for Fund, 2001: $38,092 $293,550 Cuvelier Family Scholarship Fund, Genesee County as a domestic violence Joel Ayite Ajavon Memorial two long-time teachers that supports years with developmentally disabled and with his wife, Barbara. “We were also 1995: $515,948 Glen H. & Juliette C. Ray and LGBTQ Susan A. Cowell Scholarship support services coordinator. Scholarship Fund, 2013: $39,168 graduating students from Massena physically challenged children at Mary aware that the pay scale … in the field was Raymond & Blanche C. Gray Fund, 2015: This fund honors a Central Schools in St. Lawrence County | Jeanette Marie Daigler and Laird Scholarship Fund, 1988: $125,976 longtime Rochester leader and advocate Cariola Children’s Center. “But I found relatively modest, and an advanced degree Kristin believes the Clark scholarship fills a Algonquin Campership Fund, 2000: who intend to major in education. $441,102 |McKean Scholarship Fund, 2014: and supports members of the lesbian, myself more interested in the parents and was paramount for promotion and earning a great need, “as mental health professions A former Steuben County resident Greece Community Scholarship Brighton Retirees Scholarship Fund, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer everything they were going through,” she livable wage.” are often overlooked.” Sherry views the established this scholarship fund Fund, 2000: $46,932 Sharon Marie All Memorial 2008: $28,245 community with college expenses. says. After getting a bachelor’s degree in financial support as a gift that “just says Scholarship Fund, 2013: $87,657 to benefit graduates from Wayland- $29,531 Once Kristin decided to continue her Greater Rochester Spelling Bee psychology, she decided to continue on somebody believes in you and sees the William Edward Browne and Dorothy Cohocton High School pursuing post- schooling at a private university, reality set secondary education. $37,746 Fund, 2011: $27,988 and get a master’s degree in marriage and need for these kinds of careers.” Altobelli Family Fund, 2003 Denton Brown Fund II, 2006: Jennifer Grimes Lindley Scholarship in, and she worried, “I’m not sure how I $265,200 Fund, 2005: $53,500 family therapy. Harvey E. Anderson Fund, 1987: Bruce B. Davidson Student Loan Kathleen McElligott Hall Memorial am going to be able to afford this.” But she Fund, 1999: $48,313 $226,494 Dr. Abraham R. Bullis Medical Fund, 1991: $203,646 Locust Hill Caddie Scholarship Fund, Both were able to pursue their dreams with received back-to-back Clark scholarships Scholarship Fund, 1981: $156,754 2000: $50,694 help from the Clark Family Scholarship. totaling $8,000 and is on track to complete her degree in August 2017.

26 | New funds created April 1, 2014 through March 31, 2016 racf.org 27 James F. Maloney Scholarship Fund, Notre Dame Club of Rochester – Elizabeth Rizzo Scholarship Fund, Richard S. Stover Scholarship Fund, RACF Initiatives Gold Star Memorial Fund, 2014: 2003: $129,926 Social Concerns Fund, 1982: $24,542 2008: $35,401 1999: $36,463 |Supported the construction of the Gold Rochester Area Community Foundation Star Families Memorial at White Haven FUNDS Holly Marshall Memorial Fund, 1994: NYS Restaurant Association Rochester Cavalry Troops Barbara D. Sutherland Memorial Initiatives, Inc. is a separately Memorial Park in Pittsford. $59,430 (Rochester Chapter) Fund, 1988: Designated-Scholarship Endowment Fund, 1987: $41,149 incorporated nonprofit organization $53,847 Fund, 2001: $1,379,720 affiliated with Rochester Area Community Greater Rochester After-School Erin Marie Masling Scholarship Anna and Lester Swang and |Alliance DESSA Program Fund, 2014: Fund, 2005: $82,473 Oaks Family Scholarship, 2015: A Rochester Step-Off Education Fund, Margaret Swang Scholarship Fund, Foundation. Established in 2001, it Established to administer implementation |Wayne County family created this fund to 1999: $37,665 2012: $278,447 provides fiscal and program sponsorship of the Devereux Student Strengths William E. McKnight Fund, 1986: recognize six generations of community for charitable projects that further the Assessment (DESSA) to measure the $191,495 involvement in the North Rose area. A Rochester Telecommunications Peter B. Taub Memorial Scholarship purposes of the Community Foundation, social, emotional well-being and personal scholarship will be awarded to a North Scholarship Fund, 2004: $620,338 Fund, 1993: $17,598 skills of out-of-school-time program Natalie K. Meyer Memorial Fund, benefit the local community, and meet Rose-Wolcott High School senior who participants citywide. 1981: $47,210 plans to attend college full time. Rochester Tooling and Machining Hon. Michael A. Telesca Scholarship certain application criteria. Institute Scholarship Fund, 1993: Fund, 2002: $24,148 Greater Rochester After-School Joseph and Nancy Briggs, Richard Kaplan, and Richard Markus —Photo by Mary Holleran Jacqueline Hall Minet Memorial Oblak/Farrell Student Scholarship $57,357 ACT Rochester Fund, 2008 Alliance Program Fund, 2001 Scholarship Fund, 2007: $65,918 Fund, 2013: $521,088 Tomaino Family Scholarship Fund, Dale Lawrence Rockwell and Rosalie 2010: $59,838 Black Male Achievement Coalition, India Fund of Rochester, 2010 Minority Science Scholarship Fund, Warren H. and Maria R. Olmsted Viener Rockwell Scholarship Fund, 2014 Rochester’s Child: 25 Years of 1994: $117,210 Fund, 1989: $205,488 2005: $295,840 Tops Friendly Markets Music NextGen Rochester Fund, 2009 Scholarship Fund, 1993: $26,262 State of Black Rochester, 2012 Making a Difference James J. Monley Memorial Fund, William and Irene Rolfe Scholarship Pace Scholarship Fund, 1984: One City 2 Fund, 2010 Through fundraising, strategic grants, and fifth year, this intensive 20-week program 1987: $183,604 $26,252 Fund, 1989: $152,681 Dobe E. Ulmer Memorial Scholarship, Caregiver Respite Program Fund, 2012: $34,100 2013 Quad A for Kids partnering with experts in the field of early is helping parents become community Monroe Tractor Scholarship Fund, Robert M. Paddock Scholarship Victor and Janet Salitan BOCES 2 childhood, Rochester’s Child promotes leaders and more effective advocates for Community Schools Initiative Fund, • Current Needs Fund, 1994 2001: $93,707 Fund, 2007: $49,287 Fund, 1979: $139,437 Urban League of Rochester's Black the very best early care and education for their own children and others. Scholars Fund II, 1987: $170,604 |2016: This fund was established to assist • Administrative Fund, 1996 Sylvia Mooney Memorial Fund, 2008: Monroe County’s most vulnerable children. E. R. Parker Scholarship Fund, 1993: Mark L. Sasso Scholarship Fund, with the creation of Beacon Schools. In recognition of its 25th anniversary, $32,771 $178,890 2000: $186,714 Sam Urzetta Scholarship Fund, 2012: • Schools Fund $47,248 DESSA Fund for Cohort, 2015: Since 1991, this initiative of Rochester Rochester’s Child honored Joe and Nancy John J. Morton, M.D. and John H. Joseph S. Parungao Memorial Barbara Wheeler Schneider |Established to assist four out-of-school- RCSD Expanded Learning Initiative Area Community Foundation has forged Briggs, Richard Kaplan, and Richard Morton, M.D. Medical Scholarship, Scholarship Fund, 1999: $42,565 Memorial Fund, 1981: $21,304 David H. Utter Memorial Scholarship time programs with their use of the |Fund – 4, 2015: Established by a Ford public-private partnerships and driven Markus as Champions of Young Children. Foundation grant to support work with 2005: $1,175,818 Fund, 1997: $30,381 Devereux Student Strengths Assessment changes in policy and practice to improve Coordinator Nancy Kaplan also announced George J. and Maude A. Peterson Sheldon Scholarship Fund, 2015: tool to measure social and emotional local partners to embed more and better early childhood and development for the establishment of the Robert Hursh Peter Scot Mueller Memorial/ Memorial Scholarship Fund, 2005: |A bequest from long-time residents Frederick C. and Helen W. Watson health of youth and the COMET web tool learning time within Rochester City Spencerport Rotary Fund, 1985: $74,142 of Livingston County created this fund Memorial Scholarship Fund, 1991: that collects, links, and manages student School District schools. children birth to age 8. Generous donations Quality Matters annual competitive grant $46,815 to benefit students graduating from $45,305 data. from contributors passionate about early for early childhood innovation. Bob passed Rochester’s Child Petry-Lomb Scholarship Fund, 2000: Caledonia-Mumford High School. childhood have allowed Rochester’s Child to away in June 2015 and had served on Edward T. Mulligan, MD Memorial Thomas G. Welch Memorial $68,153 $79,987 Developmental Disabilities Giving • Administrative Fund, 1992 award 410 grants totaling $3.78 million to: the organization’s working committee for |Scholarship Fund, 2015: A bequest |Scholarship, 2015: Family, friends, and Circle, 2014 from a Rochester man supports Madge M. and Ward H. Preston Fund, St. Julian and Adrienne Simpkins co-workers of this Dansville High School • Current Needs Fund, 1995 • Improve the quality of early care and more than 20 years. the Monroe County Medical Society 1989: $164,091 Scholarship Fund, 1998: $58,121 graduate created a fund to provide Downtown Area Youth Initiative, • Early Childhood Education education; The $10,000 grant, which will be awarded scholarship program. $98,733 scholarships to students at his alma 2010 Scholarship Fund, 1998 Gay R. Maney Reach for the Green Eli and Mildred Sokol Awards Fund, mater in Livingston County who want to • Provide enhancements to quality for the first time in October 2016, will • Parent Leadership Training Fred Murray Memorial Scholarship, Golf Scholarship Fund, 2008: 1985: $62,875 pursue higher education in engineering, Facing Race, Embracing Equity Fund, programs that meet the changing needs mirror Bob’s interests in improving and 2000: $39,645 $248,818 information technology, or other 2013 Institute, 2012 of children; and maintaining high quality standards of care James R. Spencer, Jr. Memorial technology fields. $27,153 • Joe U. Posner Memorial Fund, Natale Scholarship Fund, 2009: and early learning for children, with a Reineman Family Fund, 1986: Scholarship Fund, 2011: $55,993 Gates Foundation Secondary Schools 2001 • Help parents in their role as the child’s $678,949 $112,243 Women's Week Fund, 1984: $76,048 Project, 2004 special emphasis on high-needs children first — and most important — teacher. Harry W. and Irene L. Staley and their families. Thomas M. Nichols Fund, 1986: Elizabeth and Eric Rennert Family Scholarship Fund, 1999: $36,219 Joseph M. Yacono Memorial Award Rochester’s Child has been a major $70,968 MCC Scholarship Fund, 2013 Fund, 1999: $38,479 Learn more at racf.org/RochestersChild. supporter of the Greater Rochester Parent Leadership Training Institute. Now in its 28 | New funds created April 1, 2014 through March 31, 2016 racf.org 29 Rochester Women's Giving Circle, Funds that Support WC Baird Capital Fund, 2010: • William W. Dieck Fund, 1999: David L. DeHaven Twelve Corners Barbara K. Fellows Fund for Open 2007 Rochester Friendly Home. $83,549 $38,944 Presbyterian Church Organ Fund, Door Mission, 1999: $270,472 Charities 2005 • Endowment Fund, 1992: $200,231 FUNDS Rochester Safe and Efficient Homes People who want to help their favorite Donald and Janet Barnard Fund, Friends of SOTA (Benefits School of |Initiative, 2015: Created to support 2012: Eastman School of Music • W. Todd Harper Fund, 2000: Marietta H. Dryer Fund, 1993: Medical the Arts in Rochester) a collaboration with the New York nonprofit organizations can turn to the community education programs, Humane Motor Services and the Friendly Home. $43,641 • Chuck Mangione-“Dizzy” Gillespie State Office of the Attorney General to Community Foundation to achieve their Society of Rochester and Monroe County, $577,138 • Alan L. Lewis Fund, 2001: $20,127 Fund, 1994: $44,956 help low-income homeowners in the goals. and students in graduate engineering, Rufus K. Dryer II Charitable • 2011 City of Rochester make their homes science, and technology at University of Brighton Memorial Library Gift Fund, General Purpose Fund, Endowment Fund, 1979: Benedictine more energy efficient and safe from Designated Funds Rochester. $2,256,217 2002: $15,984 • Performing Arts Scholarship Fund, Monastery of Mt. Savior, Rochester environmental hazards, including lead. 2012: $52,832 (see story on page 31) Individuals or organizations created Drs. Dorothy Johnson and Leo E. William Edward Browne and Dorothy Philharmonic Orchestra, and United Way these funds to benefit named charitable |Beavers Fund, 2015: The estate of Denton Browne Fund I, 2006: Avon of Greater Rochester. $269,608 • Principal's Discretionary Fund, ROC the Future Fund, 2015: Supports two Eastman Kodak Co. scientists Free Library. $560,757 1994: $26,660 organizations. The Community Rufus K. Dryer II Fund for Rochester |the ongoing work of Rochester’s cradle- created this endowment fund to provide • Sara Fraser Rial Fund, 1995 Foundation ensures that these funds 1979: $231,192 to-career initiative. ongoing support to several nonprofit Claire Brewster Castle Fund I, 1986: Friendly Home, A GENEROUSMohamed BEQUESTGazali —Photo by Elizabeth McDade continue to be useful through the years. organizations. $3,560,136 St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Rochester. Lorma E. Gardner Endowment Rufus K. Dryer II Fund for Sisters of Speaking of Education Fund, 2012 Typically, grants are distributed annually $87,090 Fund I, 2014: A bequest created this Roy E. VanDelinder, Jr., a longtime Rochester Mercy, 1979: $134,280 | to the named organization(s). Carol and John Bennett Family endowment fund to provide ongoing City School District vice principal, left a $1.9 Summer Meals Program Mini-Grant Designated Fund I, 2000: Benefits Center for Environmental Information support to First Presbyterian Church Making Homes Safe and Sound Fund, 2015: Created by the Community East Irondequoit Education million bequest to support promising college | Albion Central School District cultural institutions, schools, colleges, Fund, 1993: $53,863 of Pittsford and the National Braille Foundation to provide capacity-building Enrichment Foundation, 2002 students in disciplines that were important to Superintendent's Discretionary and Jewish organizations. $32,454 Association, Inc. $824,280 Mohamed Gazali, a native of Somalia who The initiative involves a collaboration of grants to local organizations distributing Gertrude Chanler RPO Fund, 2003: him — European history, organ studies, Fund, 2007 Raymond P. Eckert Fund I, 2004: has lived in Rochester for 20 years, is partners already involved in dealing with meals during summer months. Allen and Joyce Boucher Designated $412,588 Rochester Public Library. $112,712 Garrity Memorial Fund, 1983: Clinical the first to have work done on his house andunsafe ecumenism. and inefficient homes. Loma Moyer Allen Designated Fund, Fund, 1980: Junior Achievement of Immunology and Rheumatology Unit at TEDxFlourCity Fund, 2013 Rochester, Memorial Art Gallery, Planned Childs Family Fund, 1987: Benefits through the Rochester Safe and Efficient 2010: Planned Parenthood of Central James S. Ely, Jr. Fund to Benefit University of Rochester Medical Center. Eligible upperclassmen or graduate students Parenthood of Central and Western First Presbyterian Church in Canisteo, Homes Initiative. Mohamed, for example, qualified through and Western New York, Inc. $53,895 Family Resource Centers, 2005: $172,116 will come from the University of Rochester, Veterans Memorial Fund, 2000 New York, Inc., Rochester Museum & Steuben County. $48,227 Monroe County for a HUD grant to remove $564,866 his alma mater, the Eastman School of Music Louise E. Allison Fund, 2006: The Science Center, Rochester Philharmonic Kenneth E. Gell Fund, 1991: Writers & This initiative was created with a $1 million lead and other health hazards. Action for Wallace Foundation Summer Orchestra, United Way of Greater Community Health Care Fund for in conjunction with Christ Church, and the Community Foundation’s Community The George M. and Marie-Merrill Books’ Gell Writers Center of the Finger grant from the Office of the New York State a Better Community had done some work Learning Demonstration Fund, 2011 Rochester, and WXXI. $466,113 Seniors, 1991: To Blue Cross/Blue Sponsors annual campaign and Planned Ewing RPO Fund, 2014: A gift from Lakes. $1,323,653 Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg. Shield for coverage for low-income | Attorney General. The money came from a on the home in Northwest Rochester that Young Women of Distinction Fund, Parenthood of Central and Western New a private foundation created this fund Branch-Wilbur Fund,1984: Rochester seniors. $9.5 million court-ordered settlement with he has owned for three years. But the 2010 York, Inc. $54,110 to support the Rochester Philharmonic Genesee Land Trust Endowment Starting in 2013, the Roy E. VanDelinder, Rotary Charitable Trusts, United Nations American Electric Power for violations of need for a new roof became more urgent Orchestra. |Fund, 2014: A supporter of the Genesee Jr. Fund at the Community Foundation will Alzheimer's Disease and Related Association of Rochester, Association John and Verna Couper Fund for Land Trust established this fund to the federal Clean Air Act. The Community as he and his wife plan to provide child for Teenage Diplomats, and the John Rochester Guild for Special Children, annually finance a college fellowship up to Disorders Fund, 1984: Alzheimer’s Family Service of Rochester support its ongoing work. $30,749 Foundation is providing $50,000 a year for care there for refugee families. Association. $94,235 and Hon. Caroline Branch International 1996: $118,392 $80,000 and possibly more in later years. Endowment Fund, 2010 four years to support administration of this Student Fund at Rochester Institute of Ginkel Family Designated Fund, The fellowships will be awarded on a rotating Amy Jenkins Cutler Fund, 1987: effort. Partners are essential because every Arts Tomorrow Fund for Garth Fagan Technology. $418,362 Anne and Sherman Farnham 1981: Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity Humane Society of Rochester and andapproved ongoing project basis. has to leverage funding Dance, 1994, $92,199 Scholarship Fund, 2015: Established School and First Baptist Church of 1992 Monroe County and the Rochester | Brighton Education Fund, by a Fairport couple, this endowment Rochester. $37,475 Rochester was selected for this program from other existing sources. Mohamed Arts Tomorrow Fund for Geva Childfirst Network. $161,026 VanDelinder believed that blessings should • Cultural Life Endowment Fund, fund supports scholarships for because 87 percent of the housing stock contributed a portion of the cost for the Theatre, 1994: $212,434 Goodwin Fund, 1981: The Community be shared — and he made a conscious 2003: $48,776 youth through the Hillside Children’s was built before 1978, and more than 60 new roof, and grants from PathStone Dambrowski/Donahue Community Foundation and the Friendly Home. decision to do that with a heartfelt gesture Foundation. $50,130 percent was built prior to 1940. Corp. and the Rochester Safe and Arts Tomorrow Fund for Rochester • David DeHaven Alpine Ski |Enrichment Fund, 2014: A Churchville $54,831 that has created an incredible legacy for Philharmonic Orchestra, 1994: couple established this fund to benefit Scholarship Fund, 1996: $83,948 Mildred Feinbloom Endowment Fund, Efficient Homes Initiative Fund rounded $926,345 organizations that support the most The goal of this effort is to help low-income the future. • David DeHaven Memorial 1992: Rochester International Friendship Henrietta Hammond Fund for Hope out support for the project. vulnerable in our community. Hall, 1999: $11,966 families lower their energy bills and Baden Street Settlement's Project Fellowship Fund, 1996: Twelve Council. $65,963 eliminate serious home health and safety RISE Fund, 1984: $37,594 Corners Middle School. $67,593 William and Mildred Feinbloom hazards in older homes that they own. New Beginnings Fund for Wilson Commencement Park, 2003: $29,091

30 | New funds created April 1, 2014 through March 31, 2016 racf.org 31 VanBuren N. Hansford Fund, 1996: T. Spencer and Mabel A. Knight Fund John and Annabel Muenter Fund I, Elizabeth and Eric Rennert Family Robert F. Sykes Fund, 2012: United Dominic and Sharon Viscardi Organization Endowments Camp Stella Maris Planned Parenthood of Central and 2003: $71,937 2013: Flower City Habitat for Humanity, 2013 Way of Greater Rochester. $38,559 1999: Benefits for WXXI, Geva Fund, Endowment Fund, • Camp Stella Maris Fund, 2010: Western New York, Inc., Humane Society Foodlink, Salvation Army, and Willow Aquinas Institute. $17,488 Nonprofit organizations that place $267,846 FUNDS of Rochester and Monroe County, Leo R. and Charlotte K. Landhuis Domestic Violence Center. $33,052 The Rochester Arts Center Fund, Charles and Mary Torrey Family their endowments with the Community Rochester General Hospital Foundation, |Fund for RGH Foundation – Youth 2010: Supports the Genesee Center for Fund, 1989: Elba United Methodist Lillian Vollmer Fund for St. Margaret Foundation enjoy permanent • Campership Endowment Fund, Apprenticeship Program, 2015. A John and Eleanor Norris Fund, 2007: the Arts. $3,251,495 Church, Elba Volunteer Firemen, Elba Mary Church, 2001: $22,019 2010: $52,621 and Massachusetts Institute of stewardship, access to planned giving Technology. $2,450,784 Pittsford couple used an IRA distribution Rochester School for the Deaf. $23,816 Central School District, Houghton to establish this designated fund to Rochester Friendly Home Fund, 2013: College, and University of Rochester. Margaret J. Webster Fund, 2001: tools, and the benefit of participating in a Causewave Community Partners Nunda Historical Society Endowment $111,900 WXXI, Flower City Habitat for Humanity, Burton and Ellen Hendershot provide Rochester City School District $602,600 multimillion-dollar investment pool. • Endowment Fund, 2012 Endowment Fund, 2005: Research students with an opportunity to prepare Fund, 2012: $101,949 and Open Door Mission. $28,789 in mental health and mental illness at for careers in healthcare. Rochester Rotary Charitable Trusts Grace Murray Trebert Memorial 1+1+1 Alumni Foundation Fund, • Long-Term Investment Fund, 2012 NY District Kiwanis Foundation Fund, Fund, 1999: $137,503 Nancy and Norman Wetterau Fund, 2009 University of Rochester. $6,586,113 Fund, 2008: Hochstein School of Music • Short-Term Investment Fund, 2012 J. Edward Lawson and Blanche 2010: $44,415 & Dance. $842,705 2002: Supports the biennial B.T. Roberts Rochester Philharmonic League 19th Ward Community Association Historic Palmyra, Inc. Fund, 1987 Ollie Lawson Endowment Fund, Symposium on the church, justice, and CGR Fund for the Public Interest, Helen C. O'Leary and Elizabeth J. Endowment Fund, 2006: $128,206 Endowment Fund, 2007: $106,084 2007: Benefits a number of religious Unite & Write Fund, 2004: James the community at Northeastern Seminary 1992: $120,834 Elizabeth Gibson Holahan Fund institutions, schools, and social service |O'Leary Fund, 2015: Sisters from Monroe High School of International on the campus of Roberts Wesleyan Rosenfeld Professorship Fund, 2013: Greater Rochester American for Historic Preservation II, 2006: organizations, including Rochester Livingston County used the remainder Studies College. $57,030 Church of Love Faith Center Supports professorship in Allergy and Association of University Women Landmark Society of Western New York. General Hospital and local chapters of value of a charitable remainder trust to Endowment Fund, 2011: $26,783 Clinical Immunology at University of $201,454 the American Red Cross, Alzheimer’s create this permanent endowment fund Urban Suburban Program Fund, Velma Isam White Fund, 2008: • AAUW Fund, 2001: $145,829 Association, and Salvation Army. to support several nonprofit organizations Rochester Medical Center. |2015: Jim and Jane Littwitz created this Professional development of music Cornell Coop Extension of Monroe • Women Helping Girls Program, Honeoye Falls-Lima Education Fund, $1,639,090 they deeply care about. $122,617 fund to support the Urban-Suburban faculty at Wiley College in Texas. County Fund, 2011: $90,856 2011: $48,132 Margaret E. Roth Memorial Fund, Interdistrict Transfer Program. The $23,827 2001: $36,103 1993: Monroe Community Hospital. Cynthia H. Little Endowment Fund, P. D. Oviatt Fund, 2000: Lewis Street purpose of the program is to voluntarily • GRAB AAUW Educational Loan Council of Agency Executives Fund, $20,549 Ray Hutch Family Designated Fund, 2007: Greater Rochester Chapter Center, Rochester Museum & Science reduce racial isolation and the Vera O. White Fund, 2002: Lifetime Fund, 2015: Offers financial support |2014: Created to provide endowed 1986: Faith Lutheran Church in Penfield. of American Red Cross, St. Paul’s Center, YMCA of Greater Rochester, and segregation of academic opportunities Care hospice program. $232,409 support for this association of nonprofit Victor and Janet Salitan Jewish to women who want to further their $60,987 Episcopal Church, Rochester Museum & several other Rochester cultural and in elementary and secondary schools. leaders. Community Fund, 1979: Jewish education. Science Center, Rochester Philharmonic educational organizations. $553,758 $27,053 Nancy G. Williams Fund, 2011: Federation of Greater Rochester. Louis & Betty Iacona Open Door Orchestra, Hillside Children’s Center, and Humane Society of Rochester and John Ackley Pittsford Little League The CURE Childhood Cancer $134,983 Mission Fund, 2014 Camp Good Days and Special Times. Mary Parkes Asthma Center Fund, Constance Valk Endowment Fund, Monroe County. $10,526 |Endowment Fund, 2015: A local couple Association Inc. Fund, 2009 $39,350 2004: $809,154 2010: Children’s Institute and Rochester made a generous gift to Pittsford Little Randy Imburgia Memorial Fund, School of the Holy Childhood Fund, Willow Domestic Violence Fund, Area Interfaith Hospitality Network. League in memory of their late son John, Downtown Program Trust Fund, 1990: Camp Good Days and Special Mary Parkes Asthma Center 2007: $164,621 1987: $14,499 Lyons Public Library Endowment $120,059 who played in the league as a boy. The 1981: City of Rochester special events. Times. $98,472 Fund, 2006: $16,851 Endowment, 2006: $1,499,123 $29,411 Margaret and Stephen Schwartz Wilson Commencement Park league then created this endowment Roy E. VanDelinder, Jr. Fund, 2011: fund to help families unable to pay. Nan Johnson Legacy Fund, 2008: Richard L. Perlman Tennis Fund, Endowment Fund, 2011: Alzheimer’s Supports fellowships to individuals who Endowment Fund, 2004: $27,992 Dundee Dollars for Scholars: These J. Stuart and Phyllis I. MacDonald Association, Rochester General Hospital’s $47,094 Underwrites an internship at the Fund, 2008: Hearing Loss Association 1987: Benefits the YMCA’s Love-15 excel in music, history, and ecumenism. five funds provide scholarships to Women’s Rights National Historic Park in Tennis program. $54,718 Lipson Cancer Center, St. Ann’s Home, Dorothy M. Young Endowment Fund, of America and the HLAA Rochester Association for Teenage Diplomats graduates of the Dundee Central School Seneca County. $52,747 and the Community Foundation. 1992: Humane Society of Rochester and chapter. $362,690 Louise H. Van Heyst Memorial Fund, Fund, 1985: $100,528 District in Yates County. George and Elizabeth Peters Fund $1,052,108 1993: Benefits Children’s Institute. Monroe County, Boy Scouts of America Colin F. Kennedy Fund, 2007: Athletic 1, 2014: A bequest from this Rochester Seneca Waterways Council, Girl Scouts • Clarence & Mary Decenburg Fund, Anne McQuay Arts and Cultural Fund | $41,011 Kathryn and Wesley Bahler Fund, programs supported by Quad A for Kids. couple created a fund to support several The Seneca Art and Culture Center at of Western New York, Association of 2013: $34,669 I, 1998: Garth Fagan Dance. $973,617 2014: A bequest from an Irondequoit $39,850 of their favorite nonprofit organizations. Ganondagan Fund, 2013 the Blind and Visually Impaired, United | William P. and Abigail Roberts Van couple established this fund to support • General Fund, 2013: $46,800 Mental Health Support, Education $179,092 Wagenen Fund I, 2000: Supports a Way of Greater Rochester, and Shriners The Smith² Fund for Rochester's the Irondequoit Public Library. • Phillip Kendall Fund, 2013: Kirkhaven Endowment Fund, 2000: and Advocacy Fund, 2010: Mental post-graduate fellowship program of the Hospitals for Children in Boston. Children, 2006: The Freedom School of $31,057 $27,530 Health Association of Rochester/Monroe Joe U. Posner Quad A for Kids American Association of Neurosurgeons. $1,441,125 North East Area Development. BOA Editions, Ltd. Endowment Fund, County and NAMI Rochester. Endowment Fund, 1995: $238,730 $6,647,960 • Ruth and Ken Taylor Fund, 2013: Kiwanis International Foundation 2007 T.J. Sullivan Memorial Fund, 1987: $88,117 Fund, 2010: $44,415 Herbert and Celia Mittleman Elizabeth and Eric Rennert Family School of the Holy Childhood and Boys & Girls Clubs of Geneva Fund, • Roy Wood Fund, 2013: $128,816 2001: Supports nine Fund for Jewish Family Services, Endowment Fund, Brighton High School athletic department. 2004: $296,582 Jewish organizations. $1,187,638 2013 $65,431

32 | New funds created April 1, 2014 through March 31, 2016 racf.org 33 First Presbyterian Church of Ontario • Philip Seymour Hoffman Literacy Volunteers of Rochester – Perinton Historical Society Fund, Shepherd Home • Paul E. Richardson Endowment Advised Funds Beilfuss Charitable Giving Fund, 2014: Created to support an |Center Endowment Fund, 2014: For Scholarship Fund, 2015: Established |Bahler Fund, 2015: This endowment, 2000: $79,088 • Board Directed Fund, 2013 Fund, 2000 ongoing operations of this Wayne County by Geva in memory of the famed established by the organization and ethnic minority law student intern Individuals, families, and businesses FUNDS church. actor and Rochester native, this fund named in memory of a major benefactor, Perinton Pride Fund, 2000: $270,333 • Capital Reserve Fund, 2013 interested in pursuing a civil legal may recommend grants from their Belden Family Fund, 1986: $86,671 will support the theater’s education will support literacy activities. • Shepherd Home Fund, 2012 services litigation practice. $15,378 funds to nonprofit organizations in our Friends Endowment for the Macedon Pittsford Youth Services Fund, 2013: Carol and John Bennett Family programs and student scholarships. • Sydney R. Rubin Memorial Fund, eight-county region and beyond. The Public Library $25,703 Livingston County Education Alliance $131,642 Advised Fund II, 2000: $12,146 Sodus Bay Junior Sailing Association 2006: $30,715 Community Foundation provides grant |Scholarship Fund, 2014: Created to Scholarship Endowment Fund, 2007: • Fund A, 2005: $108,985 • Restricted Endowment Fund, The Palmyra King's Daughters John and Erika Berggren Fund, 1996: provide endowed current support for $65,107 • Michael S. Schnittman Endowment suggestions, information on community 2007: $582,221 $498,244 • Fund B, 2005: $105,635 scholarships to Livingston County high • Bullis Fund, 2014: A Palmyra Fund, 2013: $15,372 needs, administration, and investment • Unrestricted Fund, 2013: $521,775 school seniors attending college. Sonnenberg Gardens & Mansion attorney assisted in the creation of a management. Bergmann Associates Fund, 2007 The Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery fund named for businesswoman and Endowment Fund, 2010: $365,945 Wadsworth Library Endowment Girl Scouts of Western New York, Livingston County Historical Society Fund, 2008 AAIR Charitable Trust Fund, 2000: • Allen/Jenkinson Fund, 2012: philanthropist Nettie Bullis to provide | Daniel & Elizabeth Berl Fund, 2015 $24,784 2003: $30,326 ongoing support for this organization. SouthWest Area Neighborhood $60,570 • Capital Fund, 2010 Friends of the Walworth-Seely Public $136,521 Association, Inc. Endowment Fund, Robert H. Berl Fund, 2003 • Henry Brodie Fund, 2013: $23,232 HCR Cares Woerner Fund, 2015: • Endowment, 2006: $63,943 1996: $12,033 Library Fund, 2011 Advised Grant Expenditure Fund, • Cator Fund, 2010: $100,780 • Hurlbut Fund, 2013: $45,984 |Provides endowed current support to 1990 The Gilbert G. McCurdy Scholarship Wayne County Humane Society Richard A. Bloom, MD Fund, 2006 address barriers to independent living • Endowment Fund 1, 2010: Summerville Presbyterian Church • Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery Fund, 1997: Supports Boys & Girls Clubs Endowment Fund, 2002: $1,529,635 through research, education, and $136,027 Fund, 2008 Alcibiades Fund, 2001 BOA Editions, Ltd./Gardner Fund, 2012: $116,004 programs. $268,856 of Rochester's scholarship program. David Gordon Webster Memorial Foundation Fund, 2010: $98,967 $73,073 Rochester Academy of Medicine Susan B. Anthony House Standing Aldridge Tinker Fund, 2002 Friends of the Pittsford Community Trust Fund, 2007: $33,717 Highland Park Conservancy Fund, 2011: $146,827 The Bonadio Group Community Library The Mercy Flight Central Gift of Life • Alliance McAnarney Fund, 2013: Children's Pavilion Fund, 2014: George and Vee Angle Charitable Support Fund, 2004: $67,430 $498,502 Fund, 2010: $144,581 $38,883 Threshold Fund, 1982: $28,221 Webster Arboretum Sustaining Fund, |Fund, 2015 • Fund A, 2001: $115,937 2000: $158,818 • Barnell Fund, 2013: $67,906 Allen and Joyce Boucher Advised • Fund B, 2003: $56,932 Opera Guild of Rochester, Inc., 2010: Hispanic Scholarship Endowment United Nations Association of | Animal Welfare Fund, 2016 Fund, 1980: $1,198,859 Fund, 1990: $376,294 $119,425 • Lyons Fund, 2013: $43,731 Rochester Fund, 2009: $15,891 West Irondequoit Foundation Gay Alliance Community Center AOF Fund, 2007: $390,697 • Pulsifer Fund, 2013: $47,372 • Suzanne Dreher Scholarship Fund, Ted and Peggy Boucher Family Fund, Fund, 2007 Monroe 2 – Orleans Educational Dr. Ruth P. Oakley Fund for HLAA- Urban League of Rochester's Black 2007: $30,785 1994: $254,308 Rochester Chapter, 2013 Foundation Fund, 2006: $1,495,537 Scholars Fund I, 1987: $238,291 Archibald Family Fund, 2010 Genesee Land Trust Stewardship Rochester Civic Garden Center • Foundation Fund, 2004: $140,863 Brandt Family Fund, 2010 Endowment Fund, 2000: $24,489 Jacqueline and Richard Archer Fund, 2004: $507,234 Historic Palmyra NAMI Rochester Endowment Fund, Veterans Endowment Fund, 2013: • Helmer Nature Center, 2015: The 2006: $189,327 2011 $150,137 organization created this endowment Advised Fund, Herbert and Elaine Brauer Fund, Geva Theatre Center • Fund I, 2013 Rochester Education Foundation Endowment Fund, 2013: $25,618 fund to assist with the ongoing 1985: $43,075 Newark-Arcadia Historical Society Arts in Education Fund, 2010: • Dawn and Jacques Lipson, • Fund II, 2013 Victor Free Library Fund, 2006: support of the nature center, named Endowment Fund, 2002: $290,872 $39,118 MD Endowed Fund for Artistic Rochester Oratorio Society $35,657 for former superintendent Earle James and Paula Briggs Advised Excellence, 2015: Named for two Hugs Foundation Fund, 2007 Endowment Fund, 2003: $150,814 Fund, 1989: $221,914 Ontario Historical Society Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Helmer. $143,123 Rita “Vi” Augustine Memorial Fund, prominent philanthropists, this fund Huther Doyle Memorial Institute Endowment Fund, 2006: $68,676 1996: $453,630 2002: $15,513 was established by Geva to support Rochester Contemporary Art Center Williamson Central School District Nancy and Joseph Briggs Advised Endowment Fund, 2013: $279,391 Fund, 1989: $3,439,987 future endeavors. $75,795 Palmyra Community Library Fund, • Endowment – Future Fund, 2013: Visionary Architects of the 20th Scholarship Fund, 2007 Baird Family Fund, 2011: $593,195 • Donna Fielding Memorial Fund, ImageOut Programming Fund, 2015: 2009 $60,806 Century Fund, 2012 Bright Horizons Fund, 2011: $20,611 Young Audiences of Rochester Fund, Bancroft-Tubbs Family Fund, 2008: 2012: $438,548 |This film festival created an organization • Endowment – Program & Palmyra-Macedon Dollars for Volunteer Legal Services Project 1986 $172,125 fund to support LGBTQ films, artists, or Operations Fund, 2013: $166,284 Brush Family Fund, 1999: $3,818,043 • Hildebrandt Family Artistic other cultural experiences. Scholars Enhancement Fund, 2011: $74,292 • Gary Amendola Endowment Fund, Tony Mordaci Beautiful Fund, 1995: Seneca Park Zoo 2006: $13,744 Josephine Buckley Fund, 1997: Isaiah House Fund, 2008: $554,899 • Goldsmith Scholarship Fund, 2003: $51,323 $52,433 $383,761 • Intern Endowment, 2007: $95,767 • Hanna Cohn Fund for the Future, Beilfuss Family Advised Fund, 1997: LDA Life and Learning Services • Palmyra-Macedon Chapter, 2003: • Zoological Society Fund, 1986: 2006: $82,435 Leah Lillian Louise Bullard Memorial Fund, 2013: $268,108 $276,044 $572,590 $948,407 • Reserve Account Fund, 2006: Fund, 2003: $27,790 $185,859

34 | New funds created April 1, 2014 through March 31, 2016 racf.org 35 Chester and Dorris Carlson D'Amato Family Endowment Fund, Killick Fowler Endowment Fund, Ginkel Family Advised Fund, 1981: John J. and Edna M. Holahan Fund, Anne E. Konar Fund, 2012 Litt Family Fund, 2007 Jean and Mike Morley Fund, 2004 Charitable Fund, 2005 2001 |2015: $23,737 $37,682 1991: $172,253 Tyler Kopp Memorial Fund, 2012: Littwitz Family Advised Fund, 1992 Ginny Morris Memorial Fund, 2010: Angelo and Marie Casciani Family Mariá P. DeJesús Memorial Fund, Duncan and Jane Frame Endowment David F. Gipner Fund, 2002 Robert C. and Mary K. Horton Fund, $47,186 $141,600 FUNDS Fund, 2011 |2014 |Fund, 2015: $75,628 1991: $317,429 Lovejoy/Lewis Family Fund, 1994: John and Aline Glavin Family Fund, Kotlarz Fund for Families, 2012: $357,081 Ruth I. Morton Fund, 2006: $40,197 Herbert and Barbara Chamberlain Draper Family Fund, 2005: $10,549 Bud and Peggy Frame Advised Fund, 2001 Miles and Lizzie Houck Fund, 2004 $24,976 Family Fund, 1997: $125,959 1994: $40,290 Cricket and Frank Luellen Fund, Gary & Karen Muisus Family Fund, The Edgcomb Family Charitable Richard and Joyce Glazier Charitable Catherine Violet Hubbard Memorial Kwong Rubin Fund, 2011: $15,265 1999: $252,993 2013: $27,785 | Champion Academy Fund, 2014 Fund, 2003: $99,501 Katherine K. and Scott D. Frame Fund, 2011: $159,214 Fund, 2012 Fund, 2006: $32,406 Margaret F. and Raymond A. Lander Lundback Family Charitable Gift My Hands My Voice – Annabelle Lee Sarah Bogue Clapper Memorial Elizabeth Wende Breast Care Fund, Gradinger Family Fund, 1999: Hunter Family Fund, 2004: $157,139 Fund, 1981: $365,507 Fund, 2011 Korolko Memorial Fund, 2006 |Fund, 2014 2009: $30,407 Katherine K. and Scott D. Frame $12,983 |Endowment Fund, 2015: $76,623 Ray Hutch Family Advised Fund, Andrew J. Laughlin Memorial Fund, Lyke-Vittum Starfish Fund, 2003: Dolores and Philip Neivert Fund, Clark Family Fund, 1997 Kurt Enslein Fund, 1981: $23,138 Greenfield Fund, 2000: $11,310 1986: $1,708,243 2008 $131,967 |2016: $760,735 Michael and Suzanne Frame Cleary Family Fund, 2010 William and Anne Erdle Family Fund, |Endowment Fund, 2015: $76,623 George and Helen Greer Advised | Hutch Family Fund, 2014: $582,100 Jeffrie and Robert Leahy Fund, 1996: Andrew Harper MacDonald Memorial Kendra Nelson Memorial Foundation 2000: $549,442 Fund, 1989: $241,863 $32,538 Fund, 1997: $36,802 Fund, 2013: $25,129 Patricia and E. Garrett Cleary Frazer Family Fund, 1998: $51,175 Louis P. and Betty A. Iacona Fund, Memorial Fund, 1999: $75,867 The Yavuz Erkan Donor Advised Griffith McLouth Foundation Fund, 1990 Leccese Family Charitable Fund, Susan and Saul Marsh Family Fund, Thaddeus S. and Sherley S. Newell Fund, 2007: $63,734 Freeman Family Fund, 2002 2007 |2015 2002 |Fund, 2015: $92,356 Hanna S. Cohn Memorial Fund, 2003: Imagination Foundation Fund, 2000 $157,623 Wolfgang and Carolyn Ettinger Fund, Marion and Harry Fulbright Fund, | Growney Family Fund, 2015 Nelson and Nancy Leenhouts Gil and Ina Marshall Family Fund, Jeffrey M. Newland Memorial Fund, 2000 2013: $135,912 Marc and Roberta Johnson Family |Charitable Fund, 2015: $24,948 1993: $680,454 2013: $11,178 Colby Family Fund, 1986: $40,248 Mary and Bob Gulick Fund, 2004: Fund, 2011: $115,387 Anne and Sherman Farnham Fund, Gannett Foundation Fund, 1999: $119,305 Norman and Arlene Leenhouts Fund, | Hank Mastalski Fund, 2015 J. Browning and Barbara L. Newman | Community Development Fund, 2014 2001: $276,299 $520,624 Vincent S. and Nancy P. Jones 1985: $49,233 Fund, 2002: $126,146 Ben Gutenberg Memorial Fund, 2007 Advised Fund 1, 2012: $183,000 Ann and Patrick McCormick Fund, Community Enrichment Fund, 2005: William and Mildred Feinbloom Fund, David and Patricia Gardner Fund, Jennifer Leonard and David Cay |2015 Angelo and Diana Nole Charitable $156,076 2001: $252,803 |2015: $367,938 Charles N. Hall Fund, 2003 Vincent S. and Nancy P. Jones |Johnston Fund, 2015: $85,324 |Fund, 2014 Advised Fund 2, 2012: $190,810 McKelvey Family Fund, 1986: Condemi Charitable Fund, 2001: Frank and Janet Fisher Fund, 1999: The Garrett Family Fund, 1983: Donald S. Hall Fund, 2006 Levey Family Fund, 2006: $112,068 $104,740 Gail M. and Michael D. Norris Fund, $36,627 $45,316 $218,840 Judd's Children's Fund, 2008: |2014 Herbert and Monika Hallman $15,556 Sherman F. Levey Charitable Investor The McMullen Family Fund, 2013 Anne W. Cooney Memorial Fund, Betty Fisher Advised Fund, 1993: Gaudion Family Fund, 1995: $73,197 Charitable Fund in Memory of Fund, 2001: $44,861 Robert “Bob” Novak Scholarship 2013 $28,534 Maynard W. and Edna B. Hallman, Susan B. and Donald M. Kitchen Lorraine and Gordon McNeil Family |Fund, 2015: $41,326 Jim and Sue Genthner Endowment 2005 Fund, 2013 Sarah and Sanford Liebschutz Fund, Fund, 2012: $47,208 Jeffrey and Valorie Cordes | Fleming/Murray Family Fund, 2015 |Fund, 2015: $46,249 1998: $33,731 The Opus Vitae Fund, 2002 Charitable Fund, 2013 Paul E. Haney Fund, 2001: $64,526 Lawrence R. Klepper Advised Fund, Richard and Theresa Mengel Fund, Robert F. Flickinger Memorial Fund Jim and Sue Genthner Charitable 1980: $56,724 James G. and Gerald E. Lill Fund, 2004 Richard C. and Mary Anne Palermo The Cornerstone Group Fund, 2011 of the Yates Community Endowment, |Fund, 2015: $43,286 Hasman Family Fund, 2013 2007: $30,454 Family Fund, 1999: $580,830 2012: $104,667 Louise Hoyt Klinke Endowment Fund, Pete and Sally Merrill Advised Fund, Corvette Fund, 1994: $65,190 Gianniny Family Fund I, 1981: Hayden Family Fund, 2005: $117,730 1999: $47,407 | Lipson RPO Annual Fund, 2015 1997: $121,713 Peter and Marcia Palermo Family Seymour and Joan Fogel Advised $113,158 Fund, 2005 Burch and Louise Craig Charitable Fund, 1989: $403,027 Henderson Family Legacy Fund, 2010 Klipstein Family Fund, 2008 Drs. Dawn and Jacques Lipson Hannah Metzler Memorial Fund, |Fund, 2015 Gianniny Family Fund II, 1994: |Community Enhancement Fund, 2015 |2014: $47,313 Payson and Wiley Fund, 2001: Timothy and Marie Forget Family $509,415 | The Hirsh-Gartner Charitable Fund, David Klos Family Memorial Fund, $30,665 David and Lorraine Curtis Charitable Fund, 1989: $379,897 2015 2005: $576,333 Drs. Dawn and Jacques Lipson Mitchell Family Community |Fund, 2015: $88,372 Lynn Vacanti and John Gilroy Fund, |Enhancing Life Fund, 2014 Leadership Fund, 2010: $88,206 George J. and Maude A. Peterson Forsyth Family Fund, 1982: $52,357 |2014 HLM Family Fund, 1994: $108,019 Kluge Endowment Fund, 1996: Memorial Fund, 2004 $21,839 Bob and Linda Morgan Fund, 2006: $70,715

36 | New funds created April 1, 2014 through March 31, 2016 racf.org 37 Sammy Pierson Memorial Fund, Michael and Linda Riordan Family Anthony C. and Rose G. Sepe Fund, Ann B. Swett Charitable Investor Willis and Marjorie Van Demark Eric I. Zeller Fund, 2001: $385,984 2012: $35,324 Fund, 2012: $103,211 1998 Fund, 2006 Fund, 2012: $108,702 Rolf Zerges and Lynda Rummel Richard Pine Memorial Fund, 1988: Robertson Family Fund, 1997: Claudia Powell Sheridan Charitable Bill and Lisa Sykes Family Fund, van der Stricht Family Fund, 2005: Fund, 2013 FUNDS $143,380 $60,681 Fund, 2006 2009 $19,752 Ziegler Family Fund, 2012 Pitoni Family Fund, 2003: $47,358 Rochester LGBTQ Scholarship Fund, M & M Siewert Family Fund, 2008 Sykes Fund, 2014: $53,519 The Venture Go Fund, 2005: $132,516 |2015 Zweigle's Inc. Fund, 2003: $129,172 Robert E. Powell Fund, 2003: Robert C. and Janice E. Silver Fund, Symington Family Fund, 2013: Judy and Erik von Bucher Advised $413,589 Rubery Advised Fund, 2000: 1996: $251,000 $108,568 Fund, 1989: $293,562 $174,615 The Andrew Richard Primerano St. Julian and Adrienne Simpkins The Tara Fund, 2005 Lilly von Bucher Fund, 2011: $31,281 |Memorial Fund, 2014 Raymond H. Ruby Family Fund, 1986: Fund, 2010: $57,233 $189,628 Taranto-Dunne Family Fund, 1986 Peter von Bucher Fund, 2011: Pulsifer Family Fund, 1989: $258,832 John T. and Leona Skalny Fund, 2000 $34,154 Bud and Joan Rusitzky Charitable Ian and Eve Tatlock Family Fund, John and Jane Pyles Fund, 2011: Fund, 2001 Jeremy and Michelle Smith Family 2000 Geoffrey and Peter Waasdorp $30,512 Fund, 2013 Palliative Care Fund, 2013: $49,219 Samloff Family Fund, 2005 The Robert and Jean Taylor Fund, Rainbow Fund, 1986: $452,060 Kimberly Ann Smith Memorial Fund, 2002: $660,604 Bonita W. and George F. Wallace Robert and Jeanne Sandholzer 2007 Fund, 1992: $37,098 Raines Family Fund, 1983: $65,764 Charitable Investor Fund, 2013: | TEGNA Foundation Fund, 2015 $13,167 Dr. Sidney and Barbara Sobel Philip and Marilyn Wehrheim Fund, John W. Randall Advised Fund, 1998: |Charitable Fund, 2014 Dr. Richard E. and Kay G. Ten Haken 1986: $261,294 $116,994 Raymond A. Santirocco Memorial Fund, 2002: $126,677 Piano Fund, 2007 Sorrentino Family Fund, 2010 Irene and Alan Weinberg Advised Reeder Family Fund, 2000: $44,124 Robert and Carolyn Thomson Fund, Fund, 2012 Virginia Sawdey Memorial Fund, Dr. Burton Spiller Fund, 2005: 2005 Reifsteck Family Fund, 2002: $12,714 2011 $14,385 Beulah M. and Mark W. Welch Fund, Thorley Memorial Fund, 2011 1990: $196,942 Reinhardt-Hagood Fund, 1996: Schieven Family Endowment Fund, The Pat and Peter Spinelli Charitable $29,797 2004: $190,738 Fund, 2014 Karen A. Tipple Urban Youth Fund, Kenneth and Lucille Williams Fund, 2009: $45,788 1996: $217,533 Tyler and Brianna Ricks Fund, 2013: Schroeder Charitable Investor Fund, Karen Steele Memorial Fund, 2009 $102,543 2001 Michael Tobin Memorial Fund, 2000 Nancy and Bob Witmer Endowment Gary and Marcia Stern Family Fund, 1999: $96,284 Frank and Norma Riedman Advised Joan M. Schumaker Fund, 2012 Advised Fund, 2009: $11,935 Janis T. Tomei Endowment Fund, Fund, 1992 |2014 Woerner Kollmorgen Community Richard & Vicki Schwartz Fund, 2000 Robert C. and Jane K. Stevens Fund, 2010 Frank and Norma Riedman Family Legacy Fund, 2005 William and Donna Torpey Advised Fund, 2000 Richard and Vicki Schwartz Family Fund, 2002: $132,136 William and Kathryn Woodard Advised Fund, 1990 Stiles Family Fund, 2012 |Charitable Fund, 2015 RIJF LLC Education Fund, 2011 Robert and Susan Touhsaent Robert and Carol Schwartz Bob and Gayle Stiles Fund, 2012 Charitable Fund, 2006: $83,720 Claude G. and Geraldine A. Wright Riley Family Fund, 1986: $26,302 Charitable Foundation Fund, 2011 Family Fund, 2007 Sharon Stiller Charitable Fund, 2010: Trident Fund, 1995: $114,164 Stephen and Mary Jane Riley Terry K. Schwartz Fund, 2006 $96,820 Caroline and Richard Yates |Charitable Fund, 2014 The Tschang Family Fund, 2002: |Charitable Fund, 2014: $143,696 Fred and Mary Schwertz Fund, 1996: Sussman Family Fund, 2007 $10,908 $168,814

38 | New funds created April 1, 2014 through March 31, 2016 Shawn Dunwoody —Photo by Erich Camping Your Guide for Giving

Fulfilling Your Charitable Perhaps you have a passion for a FUNDS THAT SUPPORT OUR any amount to benefit the Community our online DonorCentralSM service to PLANNED GIVING wish) one other person. Your gift Why Create a Fund CHANGING COMMUNITY Goal specific charity, or just a general idea of Scholarship Fund, which expands our make grants to your favorite nonprofits. Bequests: Remembering the community then creates or adds to a permanent with Us? Since 1972, thousands of community how you might like to support a broad Philanthropists can create and add to ability to help local students with higher charitable fund at the Community Organization Endowment Fund: in your will is easy. You may leave a Opening a fund at the Community philanthropists have fulfilled their cause. Maybe your professional advisor funds that support both the urgent and education expenses. Foundation. Nonprofits can establish their own percentage share of your estate, a Foundation is an excellent way to fulfill philanthropic goals by joining with suggested charitable giving. Whatever evolving needs of the community. specific dollar amount, or make the your philanthropic goals while helping the FUNDS THAT SUPPORT SPECIFIC funds. This is an easy way to create a Pooled Life Income Fund: Your Rochester Area Community Foundation your charitable intent may be, the Community Foundation a contingent community you love. In addition, you will Forever Fund: Your named fund allows CHARITIES permanent endowment and have access contribution of cash or publicly traded to improve our eight-county region. Community Foundation can help you beneficiary. Through a bequest, you can receive: grants to be awarded at the discretion Philanthropists also may create named to our planned-giving options and stock is pooled with other donations These are recent examples of how think through the best way to meet both establish a named fund or add to an of the Community Foundation board of funds to help their favorite charitable administrative support for contributions. and invested for maximum income while • The flexibility to designate how the gift donors have carried out their charitable your philanthropic goals and financial existing fund. directors to make a difference in the protecting capital. Quarterly payments is to be used — locally or elsewhere; goals: needs. We can also work with your legal organizations. or financial advisor, if you prefer. community. For example, we currently How You Can Make a Gift Individual Retirement Account: You are made to you for life and (if you wish) • Increased impact, since your gift can • A Brockport couple used a gift of Donor Advised Endowment Fund: use two broad goals, based on the may gift the proceeds of your IRA upon one other person. Your gift then creates work with others to make an even stock to establish an endowment fund Offers you an excellent alternative CURRENT GIVING current needs in the communities your passing. Such a gift provides a or adds to a permanent charitable fund. greater difference; to support racial, ethnic, and global What Are Your Options? we serve, to drive our grantmaking to a private foundation. You provide Cash and most other kinds of assets can charitable deduction for your estate and Charitable remainder and lead trusts • Confidence that your charitable understanding for K-12 students; When you create your fund at the decisions: grant suggestions to the Community be used to start or add to your fund. Your avoids taxes for your heirs. also can be used to open or add to a interests will be carried out forever; • To honor six generations of community Community Foundation, the first step Foundation to support your favorite gift of long-term appreciated securities, • Creating an equitable community fund. involvement in North Rose, a Wayne is to choose how you want to make a nonprofits and rely on our knowledgeable including closely held stock, can be Life Insurance: A donation of a life • Professional and prudent investment difference in the community. Would you • Strengthening our region’s vitality staff to identify additional, worthwhile insurance policy can create a substantial County family created a scholarship deducted at full fair market value while For detailed information, visit racf.org/ management; prefer to support: giving opportunities. You also may future gift from small annual payments. for local students who plan to attend avoiding capital gains taxes. Planned-Giving. • Freedom from ongoing paperwork, FUNDS THAT SUPPORT BROAD engage family members as current or college; • The changing needs of the community CAUSES The ongoing annual premium payments bookkeeping, or government reporting; successor advisors. An IRA Charitable Rollover is available may provide you with an income tax • A home-based healthcare company’s now and in the future; Philanthropists who have a passion for donors over 70½ who may direct deduction. • Local grantmaking expertise, support, endowed fund supports research, • Broad causes or fields of interest; or for making a difference in a specific Designated Endowment Fund: up to $100,000 from their IRAs to the and counsel; and education, and programs that address Support one or more of your favorite • Specific charities? area know that they can rely on the Foundation each year. This satisfies Life Estate: You may contribute your • Maximum tax deductibility for gifts to barriers to independent living; and nonprofits permanently with annual Community Foundation’s expertise to minimum withdrawal requirements, but home or farm, yet retain the right to the fund. • A gift from a Pittsford couple created Nearly two-thirds of our assets are evaluate and select outstanding local grants in your name. cannot be added to donor advised funds, remain there for the rest of your life. endowment funds, created with an initial recipients for grants and scholarships. Charitable Checking AccountsSM or Then its value will be used to create At the Community Foundation, you have a Forever Fund to address changing Charitable Investor FundSM: Offers gift that is invested prudently for growth. charitable gift annuities. or add to your fund at the Community the opportunity to create your own fund community needs, including poverty donor advisors or nonprofit organizations A portion of the earnings (interest, Field of Interest Endowment Fund: Foundation. With this gift, you receive for broad or specific charitable purposes. and education. a choice of investment blends and dividends, and appreciation) then Create your own named fund or add to All gifts of property, other than publicly an immediate income tax deduction, The fund can bear your name or a name spending policy. What is your charitable goal? What do becomes available for grantmaking. Over existing funds that allow the Community traded securities, are subject to the avoid capital gains tax, and exempt the you choose, receive gifts in honor or Foundation to select nonprofit grantees Community Foundation’s review and you want your philanthropic legacy to time your principal grows, too, ensuring Charitable Checking AccountSM: property from estate taxes. memory of someone special, or represent in one or more broad areas of interest. approval. be? that your charitable goal can be met Make a tax-deductible gift of appreciated something else important to you. Charitable Gift Annuities: Your forever despite inflation. stock or cash to your account and use Scholarship Endowment Fund: Your For detailed information, visit racf.org/ contribution of cash or publicly traded For more information, call 585.271.4100 named fund can assist students with Current-Giving. stock is exchanged for a fixed lifetime or email [email protected]. their education. Or you can give a gift of stream of income for you and (if you

40 racf.org 41 Philanthropists Lead by Example

Each fall, we recognize several of our outstanding donors at the Philanthropy Awards 2015 and Annual Report to the Community Luncheon. The passion of these individuals, families, and JOE U. POSNER organizations helps the Community Foundation FOUNDERS AWARD inspire positive and enduring community change Nathan J. Robfogel: Born and raised in Rochester, in our eight-county region. Nick was invited by Joe U. Posner to be on the Peter Carpino (retired from United Way), Matt Augustine, Linda Wells Davey, Tom Argust, and Bob Sykes —Photo by Denise Batiste inaugural board of directors when the Greater Pin and Shirley Tschang, Nick Robfogel, and Charlotte and Leo Landhuis —Photo by Erich Camping Rochester Community Foundation of the Genesee Valley incorporated in 1972. Nick was involved in a 2014 Joe Wilson worked with civic leaders to start FightOn, The Robert Sykes Family: Bob and Catherine Pin-Seng and Shirley Tschang: It was a chance wide array of community activities in addition to his Inc. (later Eltrex Industries), a contract manufacturing “Katie” Sykes saw firsthand the impact of community meeting in the parking lot of a summer convention corporate, securities, and government affairs law JOE U. POSNER company. When the company was facing shutdown in giving through work their fathers did on behalf of the in the Poconos that brought together this Irondequoit Our Philanthropy Award recipients are FOUNDERS AWARD practice at Harter Secrest & Emery LLP and a stint at 1976, supporters launched a national search for a new Community Chest, forerunner of the United Way of couple. And it was also by chance that this couple chosen for their creativity, effectiveness, Rochester Institute of Technology. His involvement in Tom Argust: Community organizing has been Tom's CEO — and they found Matt. He helped to reinvent Greater Rochester. It was no surprise that supporting read a newspaper story about the Community and inspiration. philanthropy has continued in retirement as board chair passion — from his first job as an associate minister Eltrex and raise its profile. He also got involved in a the community would be a way of life for this Brighton Foundation and decided to open a fund. The of the Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation. Honorees receive this loving cup, through more than four decades of government and variety of local organizations, including the Community couple and their own family. In 2009, the Sykes organizations they support are wide-ranging, but align Inspired by his father’s generosity, Nick has decided designed by Scottsville artist volunteer board service. After retiring as Rochester’s Foundation board of directors. Matt’s reasons for giving diverted the balance from their fund at the Community with their beliefs and show promise of promoting he “would like to see my money at work during my Wendell Castle. Commissioner of Community Development, this former back are grounded in encounters with racism and Foundation into four new donor advised funds, one change. The Tschangs’ volunteering also is linked to lifetime, too.” Community Foundation board chair learned that the discrimination he faced throughout his life. for each of their adult children and their spouses. Bob what they believe in. Shirley, a retired nurse, was a Foundation was interested in establishing a community called it a “foolproof way to make sure my family keeps volunteer interpreter for Chinese patients and a CPR About the Joe U Posner Award: Linda Wells Davey: A gift from her maternal PHILANTHROPY AWARD indicators project and immediately volunteered for giving.” RECIPIENTS instructor. Pin, a retired Eastman Kodak Co. engineer, This award recognizes individuals who the planning team. Tom also got involved in the grandfather allowed Linda to attend the University served on WXXI’s Community Advisory Board and as have shown significant commitment to the Leo and Charlotte Landuis: Because of their work Foundation’s efforts to expand to Yates County, of Rochester and start down a lifelong path of giving AMES-AMZALAK AWARD FOR NONPROFIT president of the Rochester Chinese Association. As Community Foundation and its mission of EXCELLENCE with eye and tissue banks, this Brighton couple where he has a second home. As one of the founding back and volunteering. Early on, she discovered she they look to the future, they hope that “younger people community philanthropy. understands the power that one donation can have. co-chairs of the Yates Community Endowment, Tom was “born to volunteer” and skilled at organizing United Way of Greater Rochester: When it was start the habit of giving early and keep it up.” Individually, before they married in 1980, and together has worked with the other advisory board members people. Linda founded the Volunteer Forum at the local founded in 1918, the initial intent was to combine About the Ames-Amzalak Award for later on, they learned even more about the power of to exceed a $1 million fundraising goal (see story on American Red Cross, which matched volunteers with fundraising appeals of many agencies that supported Nonprofit Excellence:This award is giving back to their community through their volunteer page 47). organizations. She worked on WXXI’s first auction and World War I soldiers and their families. Today, our generally given every other year in memory work and charitable giving. Char believes that giving launched the Friends of 21 volunteer effort, now called United Way continues to set standards for community of three immigrant brothers who established back is “just part of life.” For Leo, it’s answering a call PHILANTHROPY AWARD the Volunteer Leadership Council. Linda connected fundraising and carefully invests dollars in proven successful retail shops here. to others: “We feel it is necessary to support programs RECIPIENTS with the Community Foundation through her volunteer strategies that help overcome challenges. United Way that help children and issues related to poverty.” For For a list of all Philanthropy Award and Ames- Matt Augustine: In a roundabout way, Matt came to efforts and served on the Program/Distributions has collaborated with the Community Foundation on the Landhuises, giving is not about having their names Amzalak recipients, visit racf.org/Awards. Rochester because of the 1964 uprising. To create jobs Committee. projects that promote the use of independent data on things — it’s simply about supporting organizations for the city’s poor and unemployed, Xerox Corp. founder in decision-making, strengthen the cradle-to-career that they believe can make a difference. continuum, and address the concentration of poverty. 42 racf.org 43 Philanthropists Sidney and Barbara Sobel Jennifer Leonard and $10,000 to $24,999 Nannette Nocon and Karl Wessendorf Scott A. Forsyth Robert F. Sykes David Cay Johnston William J. O'Connor Jr. John L. and Lindsay R. Garrett Mr. and Mrs. Daniel C. Abbas We appreciate the generosity of all of Mr. and Mrs. Donald R. Tomeny Dr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Leone Jr. Mrs. Richard C. Palermo Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey S. Gifford The Hon. and Mrs. Gerard J. Alonzo Jr. our supporters. Donors listed below Susan van der Stricht Sherman F. Levey and Deborah Ronnen Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Palermo III John and Roslyn Goldman Anonymous (7) Bill and Kathy Woodard Jane and Jim* Littwitz Katie and Scott Peterson Mrs. Melvyn Gurell gave $500 or more to the Community Mr. Jason Aroesty Dr. and Mrs. Norman R. Loomis Lois Posner Ms. Nancy D. Hessler Foundation and/or its initiatives between Michael and Lindsay Aroesty James R. Low Mr. and Mrs. William C. Powell Joan Jacobs April 1, 2014 and March 31, 2016. $25,000 to $99,999 Mr. Glenn W. Arthurs Arthur E. Lowenthal* Laurie and Richard Riedman Gerald P. and Karen S. Kral Lois R. Atkin PHILANTHROPISTS Mr. and Mrs. Edward Ackley John and Judy Lynd Mr. John Nugent Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Kubiak PHILANTHROPISTS Mr. Robert August $5,000,000+ Carol and Doug Acomb Mr. J. Robert Maney Mr. Edwin G. Saphar Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William W. Lloyd Ted and Peggy Boucher Anonymous (22) Mr. and Mrs. James R. McMullen Mr. and Mrs. Mark Schenkel Mr. Justin Mahanna Mickey, Richard, and Robert Sands Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Buchan Mr. and Mrs. Gerald J. Archibald George R. Michaels Terry K. Schwartz Mr. and Mrs. William G. Mankin Ms. Elizabeth Chatwin Mr.* and Mrs. Sidney A. Aroesty Mr. and Mrs. J. Scott Miller Mr. and Mrs. Peter D. Schwarz Ms. Marcia O. McCarthy Dr. Benjamin and Twanda Christensen $1,000,000 to $4,999,999 John and Sarah Banks James E. Morris, Esq. Mr. Richard P. Spencer Richard J. and M. Theresa Mengel Mary Ellen Collinge Anonymous (3) Mr. Bruce B. Bates Ruth I. Morton Dr.* and Mrs. John D. States Christina Mitchell and Shannon Manley Mr. Peter Collinge and Ms. Carol Thiel Suzanne Gouvernet Mr. Avery S. Beer Michael Moss Charlie and Maggie Symington Mr. and Mrs. Robert Oaks PARTNERS Joe and Judy Darweesh Mr. James P. Growney Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Berl Mr. and Mrs. Thaddeus S. Newell III Mr. Gregory T. Topping Mr. Leon Oaks-Lee Ms. Lonny H. Dolin and Mr. Flip Engleson Dr. Dawn Lipson Richard A. Bloom, MD Kathy and Ted Nixon Connie Valk Mrs. Suzanne A. Olson Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dotterer Philip Neivert Dick and Peggy Burton Gail and Michael Norris Mrs. Nancy D. Waasdorp Mr. and Mrs. Timothy F. Parsons Dan and Mary Draper in philanthropy Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Campbell Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Prairie Bonita and George Wallace Richard and Pam Poduska Elizabeth Fisher Betsy and John Carver Stephen and Mary Jane Riley Rudolph and Margaret Warren Mrs. Elliott H. Press* $500,000 to $999,999 Suressa and Richard Forbes Joanne and Chuck Chada Tom Riley and Barbara Kelley Ms. Linda Cornell Weinstein John C. Pyles Mr. and Mrs. Michael H. Frame Anonymous (2) Mr. David R. Clapper Linda and Michael Riordan Henry W. Williams Jr., Esq. Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Roberts Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Gavagan Michele Ely Ms. Christine M. Colucci Bud and Joan Rusitzky Mr. Rolf Zerges and Mrs. Lynda Rummel Dr. Suzanne H. Rodgers Since 1972, people from all walks of life in Mrs. John H. Glavin Ray and Erika Hutch John W. and Mary G. Crowe Mr. and Mrs. James D. Ryan Ms. Roxanne M. Ziegler Ms. Marianne Rosica-Brand and Mr. and Mrs. Steven Gordon our eight-county greater Rochester-Finger Louis P. and Betty A.* Iacona Mr. and Mrs. Edward P. Curtis Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Samloff Mr. Michael Ziering Mr. Allyn M. Brand Mr. and Mrs. David C. Heiligman Lakes region have trusted Rochester Area Sheila Konar Dr. James S. Fleming and James and Daria Shaw Ms. Emily Jennifer Rouin Mrs. Mary Louise Huff Dr. Christine Murray Mrs. Shirley Shumway Ms. Denise-Marie Santiago and Community Foundation to help achieve their Mr. and Mrs. Marc Iacona Sr. $5,000 to $9,999 Jonathan D. Foster Mark and Marcia Siewert Mr. Christopher Dorsey $100,000 to $499,999 Mr. and Mrs. Michael Ingham philanthropic goals. Katherine K. and Scott D. Frame Gary and Marcia Stern Mrs. Carol T. Aldridge Mr. and Mrs. Andrew D. Saum Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Judson Jr. Mr. and Mrs. George Angle Ms. Ruth Freeman Ann H. Stevens and William J. Shattuck Ms. Barbara E. Ames Ms. Peggy W. Savlov Arthur and Susan Kaufman Anonymous (7) Jim and Sue Genthner Sarah T. Stevens-Miles Anonymous (10) Mrs. Raymond C. Shaheen Sr. Generous gifts from the individuals, families, Mr. James E. Keenan Tom and Heather Bonadio Mr. Thomas E. Gompf* Sharon P. Stiller Rachel Baker August Ms. Janet C. Shipman Mrs. Frederick A. Klipstein organizations, and businesses listed on the Nancy and Joe Briggs Ms. Elizabeth P. Gordon Ms. Dolores S. Stover Dr. Christopher T. Barry and Carol and Harvey Simmons Mr. Harry H. Lang Jr. Mr. and Mrs. P. David Caccamise Donald S. Hall Arthur Streb Mr. David Omdahl Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Stein following pages reflect record contributions Linda Shafer Layer Mr. and Mrs. Burch Craig Croft D. Hangartner and Susan J. Scanlon Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Testa Mr. and Mrs. Peter C. Berg Ms. Jane A. Stevens Christopher and Helen Lindley totaling $137 million between April 1, 2014 David and Lorraine Curtis Ms. Doris E. Harrington Janis T. Tomei Jim Brush Mr. and Mrs. William C. Stevens Mr. and Mrs. B. G. Staffan Lundback Ms. Judith A. Emmanuel Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Hauf Mrs. Mary W. Torrey Josephine Buckley Mr. and Mrs. John W. Van Heel and March 31, 2016. We thank each of them Edward and Kathleen Lynd Mr. Gerard E. Fisher Michael and Carol N. Hirsh Ms. Lynn Vacanti and Mr. John A. Gilroy Ms. Barbara J. Case Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Vigdor for their vision, commitment, and continued Ms. Marcy Matthes Marion Fulbright Dr. Marvin and Nancy Yanes* Hoffman Robert and Ann Van Niel Mrs. John W. Chanler Allan J. and Andrea L. Vittum Linda McGinley support, which allows us to lead and inspire Mr. and Mrs. David P. Gardner Mrs. Marjorie S. Humphrey Dilip R. Vellodi June M. Clase Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Walsh Mr. Gordon H. McNeil Mr. William B. Hale II* Emil J. Karcich Elizabeth and Pierce Webb Mr. John Coraggioso Mr. and Mrs. James Willer positive, enduring community change. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Meikle Dr. and Mrs. Gregory Harper Mrs. Joyce Killick Fowler and David and Claudia Weber Mr. Jim Cross Mr. Michael R. Willett Ms. E. Gay Mills and Dr. Yeates Conwell Ann and Patrick McCormick Mr. Paul C. Fowler Dr. Sidney and Linda S. Weinstein Mr. and Mrs. R. Michael Davis John and Laurie Witmeyer Laura v. Morrissey Ms. Helen O'Leary Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert K. Krulee Caryl and Gerry Wenzke Theresa R. and Daniel J. Eckert Dr. Joseph and Elise Wojciechowski Mr. and Mrs. Allen Mosher Mrs. Frank J. Riedman Tai C. Kwong and Joan Shelley Rubin Mr. Richard E. Williams Ms. Susan Eisinger Ms. Marion Munzer Janet Buchanan Smith Leo R. and Charlotte K. Landhuis Mr. and Mrs. Peter Willsea Mr. and Mrs. Paul C. Ericson Mr. and Mrs. John J. Murphy IV Mr. and Mrs. Nelson B. Leenhouts Louise Woerner and Don Kollmorgen Mr. George Ewing Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James J. Leo Cynthia L. Nelson Sally and Benn Forsyth

44 *Recently deceased racf.org 45 $1,000 to $4,999 Mrs. John D. Brush Jr. Mr. Brad DeHond Ms. Rita E. Garretson Mrs. Edgar R. Hopkins Mr. Robert C. Kraus Mike Buckley Mr. and Mrs. David H. Dieck Patrick George, CPA Mr. Norman Horton Mr. and Mrs. David Krusch Susan E. Acker Ms. Holli Budd Ms. Phyllis A. DiPaola Mr. and Mrs. Richard N. George Mr.* and Mrs. Donald J. Hughes Ms. Christine R. Kurland Mrs. Carol H. Adams Ms. Vilma Burgos-Torres Ms. Jacqueline B. DiSalvo Jacquie and Andy Germanow Ms. Leslie A. Hulbert Ms. Laura R. Lacy Ms. Rachel Adonis Dr. Laureen Burke Linda Donahue and Sue Dambrowski Essie Germanow Dr. and Mrs. William C. Hulbert Mr. and Mrs.* Raymond A. Lander Jr. Ms. Patricia M. Albanese Philip and Sharon Burke Ms. Katherine E. Donovan Ms. Linda J. Getman Mrs. Robert Hursh Mrs. Patricia S. Larrabee Ms. Kathleen Albertini Mr. and Mrs. David J. Burns Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth K. Doolittle Ms. Teresa Gianni Mimi Hwang Ms. Cheryl E. Lawless Mr. and Mrs. Quincy Allen Mr. and Mrs. W. Alan Burris Ms. Florence Dorsey Judy and David Gilberg Mr. Anthony Iacovangelo Ms. Jean Lazeroff and Ms. Janet B. Anderson Mr. and Mrs. John L. Burt Dr. Eric M. Dreyfuss Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Gilchrist Ms. Patricia D. Impson Ms. Cinthia Garcia PHILANTHROPISTS Mr. and Mrs. Ross Anderson Ms. Jacque Cady Mr. and Mrs. Edward D. Driscoll Ms. Linda G. Gillim Ms. Amy S. Irish Ms. Carolynn L. Leccese Ms. Melinda Andolina Mr. and Mrs. Clint W. Campbell Ms. Roberta S. Dubeshter Mr. and Mrs. R. Thompson Gilman Mr. and Mrs. David Irish Mr. Vincent Lenti Ms. Vee Angle Ms. Patricia Reddick Carey Lisa MacDonald Dunn Mr. Raymond T. Gilman and Mr. and Mrs. James B. Isaac Mr. James Lesch and Mr. and Mrs. Adam P. Anolik Ms. Paula Carter Dr. and Mrs. James A. Durfee Ms. Kelly A. Nagle Dr. Reginald Ishman Mr. Richard K. LeRoy Anonymous (13) Mr. and Ms. Robert Carter Mr. A. Paul Durham Ms. Joanne Giuffrida Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Jaschik Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Linder Mr. Bradford T. Atwood Ms. Diane G. Caselli Ms. Lorraine A. Dvorin Dr. and Mrs. Warren Glaser Ann M. Johnson Ms. A. Sue Lione Dr. Gloria Baciewicz James Cerone Jr. Ms. Shirley J. Edwards and Ms. Kerry E. Glavin Mrs. Nan Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Daniel G. Loughran Announcing $1 Million Raised —Photo by John Christensen/ Mr. and Mrs. Philip L. Bailey The Chronicle-Express Mr. and Mrs. Russell D. Chapman Ms. Shirley Kelley Sandra and David Goldman Ms. Barbara J. Jones Mr. Andrew MacGowan III Mr. Peter A. Ballantine Mrs. Angelo J. Chiarella Ms. Marcia Eisenberg Mrs. Tracey E. Golini Ms. Christina S. Jones Mr. and Mrs. Mike Madison Mrs. Ruth C. Baltzer Kathy and Dan Cholish Mr. and Mrs. Andrew G. Elder Rita and Michael Gow Ms. Emily Jones and Jim and Catherine Malvaso Ms. Kimberlie Barrett $1 Million Strong and Growing Ms. Sonya Christensen Mr. Giuseppe Erba and Mr. James Graves Ms. Deborah Hughes Mr. Pedro A. Maneiro and Ms. Kate Bennett Mr. and Mrs. Richard Cianciotto Mr. Mark Pierzynski Mr. and Mrs. Mandel Green Ms. Heather M. Jones Mrs. Laura Tai-Maneiro When the Yates Community Endowment time generates money for grants to Yates Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Bennett Jill M. Cicero and Paul D. MacAulay Mr. and Mrs. Alan T. Eusden Ms. Carol Griffith Mr. and Mrs. Michael G. Kane Mr. Saúl A. Maneiro Mr. and Mrs. Joel G. Benzel was founded in 2011, early organizers set County nonprofits. Several affiliate funds Ms. Cathleen E. Clancy The Hon. and Mrs. W. Patrick Falvey Ms. Joanne Guarnere Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Kaplan Paul Marc and Pamela Miller Ness Ms. Saralee B. Berger and an ambitious goal to raise $1 million by designated to support Yates County have Ms. Pauline Clark Ms. Lori Farr Mr. and Mrs. Earl J. Gurell Mr. and Mrs. Peter W. Kelderhouse Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Markus Ms. Virginia Lee Tucker Ms. Terry A. Clark Mr. Thomas Ferrarese Mr. Matthew Haag and Mr. Bill Schaefer Mr. and Mrs. James C. Kelly Ms. Lori A. Marra 2016 to support Yates County — and they been established under the Endowment’s Ms. Margaret C. Berliant Mr. Francis Clement David and Anne Ferris Ms. Suzanne A. Hagen Mr. Sean Kelly Kathleen and Bruce Martin surpassed it. umbrella, and all together have awarded Louis and Linda Betstadt Mr. David Cohn and Ms. Eve Collen H. Taylor and Lyn Fitch Ms. Susan Halpern Ms. Carlin Kennedy Mr. and Mrs. Raymond A. Martino more than $162,000 in grants to local Ms. and Ms. Lynn J. Bisha Mr. Joseph S. Cohn and Mr. Charles E. Fitzgibbon* Mr. and Mrs. Roy E. Hanson Dr. Daniel Kennedy Sandy and Suzanne Mayer The Endowment’s advisory board hosted Ms. Martha L. Blair nonprofit organizations since 2012. Ms. Amy L. Chosky Ms. Janet E. Fitzpatrick Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth J. Harper Ms. Laurie Kennedy Ms. Nancy C. McAfee a celebration of this milestone at Keuka Michael and Jane Ellen Bleeg Rev. Joy M. Collins and Mr. and Ms. Timothy R. Flaherty Mr. and Mrs. Edward R. Harris Mr. Martin Kennedy Mr. and Mrs. James H. McBride Ms. Nancy E. Bloom and College with several dozen contributors and The Yates Community Endowment’s all- Dr. Margaret M. Finn Brian and Karen Flanagan Ms. Bette Marie Heger Ms. Kathleen B. Keogh Ms. Jennifer A. McCall Mr. Alan M. Cohen members of the community. local advisory board members are truly Sarah H. Collins* Ms. Barbara Flickinger and Warren and Joyce Heilbronner Robert and Susan Kessler Mr. and Mrs. Paul McClure Ms. Mary Joan Bodensteiner Ms. Judith Columbus Mr. Kim Christiansen Mr. and Mrs. Matt Heimberger Mr. Robert E. King Mrs. Gilbert K. McCurdy committed to their community. When Ms. Andrea Bonafiglia Dr. and Mrs. Gary H. Conners Caryl A. Flickinger Mr. and Mrs. Randy Henderson Ms. Shirley King Mr. Eric H. McGahey and A group of citizens committed to securing flash flooding devastated many areas Ms. Angela Bonazinga and Ms. Ms. Elizabeth B. Cook Mr. Jason Flickinger Mr. and Mrs. David Henion, CPA Mr. and Mrs. Michael F. Kirwan Mr. Douglas W. Lyon the future of Yates County established the throughout the county in May 2014, they Catherine Lewis Jeremy A. Cooney, Esq. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Flickinger Dr. and Mrs. Richard Herbison Susan B. Kitchen Mr. Richard W. McGrath Endowment at the Community Foundation. Ms. Gail Bouk quickly established a disaster relief fund Mr. and Mrs. José J. Coronas Mr. and Mrs. Mark Foerster Mr. Bryan and Dr. Susan Hetherington Mr. John Kivinen and Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. McGraw III Mr. and Mrs. Norman J. Bovay A $100,000 challenge grant from the to raise money for neighbors in need. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Cottone Ms. Mary Ford Walter B. D. Hickey Jr. Mrs. Michelle R. Leon-Kivinen Mrs. Jeanne McHugh Ms. Shirley Bowen and family foundation of Katie Nord Peterson Mr. John Coyle and Mr. Jerry Young Ms. Lee F. Fox Dirk and Linda Hightower David and Dawn Klein Ms. Annette Meade Several contributors offered to match, Ms. Tracy L. Perkins Skip and Kathy Creveling Ms. Mary Anne Fox Mr. and Mrs. A. Thomas Hildebrandt Martin and Margaret Kleinman Ms. Sandra H. Meade of Penn Yan launched the endowment- dollar for dollar, all donations to the fund Ms. Margit Brazda Poirier and Ms. Patricia Criticos Mrs. Margaret Mary Z. Foxx Mr. and Mrs. William A. Hillberg Christine Klos Ms. Carol H. Medley building effort and matching gifts were up to certain amounts. In the end, the Mr. Dave Poirier Ms. Carol Crossed Dr. and Ms. Elmar Frangenberg Ms. Melissa A. Hix David and Beverly Kluge Ms. Sally S. Meisenzahl made within six months. The fact that all Ms. Chari Briggs-Krenis fund collected and distributed more than Mr. Joseph G. Curran Mrs. Barbara L. Frank Mr. and Mrs. Patrick W. E. Hodgson Mr. and Mrs. Leslie J. Knox Jr. Ms. Catherine J. Mercury Harry B. Bronson, Esq. money raised stays in Yates County was $177,000. Mr. John Dash Lauren D. Frank and Annette H. Miller Amy and David Hoffman Mr. Mark P. Kokanovich and David and Mara P. Metzger Ms. Beverly Brooks an essential element of the Endowment’s Ms. Gail S. Daugherty Mr. Kevin J. Frisch Mary and James Holleran Ms. Jean E. Maess Ms. Madeline A. Metzler Michelle Hutchinson Mrs. Linda W. Davey Mrs. Debra D. Galbraith Mr. William F. Holly Mrs. Mona Kolko Ms. Elaine K. Miller steady growth. Congratulations to the Yates Community Mr. Marc Brown and Ms. Teri Davis Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Galbraith Jr. Richard Holzer Dr. and Mrs. James E. Koller Mr. Roger L. Miller and Endowment! Ms. Susan Taylor-Brown Richard* and Simoura Greene Ms. Sarah E. Gardener John B. and Bonnie R. Hood Charles and Ellen Konar Mrs. Joyce C. Burwell-Miller The Endowment is a permanent fund, Mr. Ronald DeHaan Mr. and Mrs. Kent E. Gardner Dr. and Mrs. Gregory J. Krapf Mr. and Mrs. Sanford S. Miller which means that the principal is never spent and the accumulated interest over

46 *Recently deceased racf.org 47 Ms. Mary Miller-Gleason Ms. Maryann L. Platania Mr. Bernard F. Sheehan and Dr. William M. Valenti and $500 to $999 Ms. Cynthia Childs Ms. Carol A. Genecco Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Kinyoun Jr. Mr.* and Mrs. Bill H. Mitchell Ms. Jane R. Plitt and Mr. James Bruen Ms. Erika S. Ange Mr. James Wolk Dr. Michelle Chin and Dr. Carl Gerard Mr. and Mrs. Terence M. Klee Dr. G. Richard and Elaine Abbott Mr. and Mrs. David C. Mitchell Catherine Pollicove Ms. Carol C. Shulman Ms. Sigrit Van Damme Ms. Marybeth Cerrone Mr. and Mrs. Philip E. Gerwert Mr. and Mrs. Raymond T. Koenig Edward F. and Elizabeth K. Adams Mr. Stephen Moeller and Ms. Virginia A. Potter Mr. and Mrs. Danny R. Shultz Ms. Maxine S. Van de Wetering Mr.* and Mrs. Thomas E. Clement Mr. and Mrs. Theodore E. Glende The Hon. Joan S. Kohout Carol L. Adler Ms. Vivian Arias Ms. Ann E. Prince Ms. Bridget Shumway Ms. Alyce Van Patten Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Clouser Deborah G. Goldman Julie and Brian Kopp Mr. Frank All Ms. Marilyn A. Monkelbaan Don and Karen Pryor Ms. Jody Siegle and Dr. Reuben Epstein Ms. Beth E. Vanfossen Mr. and Mrs. William M. Colby Mr. and Mrs. Arthur V. Goodwin Dr. Anne Kress and Mr. Ned Davis Dr. Paul D. Allen and Mr. David C. Quick Mr. James S. Moser Edward C. Radin, Esq. Ms. Dale Skivington Kim VanGelder Marlene A. Cole W. Bruce Gorman Marcus W. Kroll, Esq. Anonymous (6) Ms. Ruth J. Myers Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Ralph Mrs. Patricia G. Sladden Mrs. Deborah A. Vangellow Mr. Raymond Coller Mr. and Mrs. Richard N. Gray Mr. and Mrs. Harold A. Kurland Ms. Karen S. Arnold Mr. W. Jay Nannen Ms. Gita Ramachandran Mr. and Ms. Arthur E. Smart Dr. Christine Waasdorp Hurtado and Mr. and Mrs. Matthew M. Comeau Dr. and Mrs. Donald R. Grinols Mr. H. Darrell Lance PHILANTHROPISTS Mr. and Mrs. Christopher C. Arthur Mr. Brian J. Napolitano Mr. Gopal A. Ramaraju and Mr.* and Mrs. Harold Smith Dr. Timothy R. Hurtado Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Condella Jr. Howard J. Grossman, Esq. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Langdon Dr. Dennis and Dr. Barbara L. Asselin Ms. Jacqueline T. Nasso Ms. Jyothi Desai Mr. Clifford W. Smith Jr. and Rev. Anne Barden Waasdorp Mr. Richard J. Connett Ms. Jeni Guerreiro Dora and Paul Lange Mr. Jay B. Baker Emily Neece Ms. Sue Ann Raymond Bernie Todd Smith Tom and Ann Ward Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Copek Dr.* and Mrs. Robert P. Gulick Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Larter Mr. Nathaniel Bank Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Neilson III Ms. Janet S. Reed Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand J. Smith III Ms. Diane N. Wardlow Russell D. Cranston, MD Ms. Deborah Hale Ms. Judy Lawrence and Ms. Pat Collins James Barger Mr. Lewis J. Neisner Dr. and Mrs. Ronald Reed Jeremy and Michelle Smith Ms. Linda M. Wayland-Smith Mr. Thomas Crawford Mr. Michael J. Hardy and Mr. Todd Gray Mr. Wilfred J. LeBlanc Mr. and Mrs. Richard Barney Ms. Dianne W. Newhouse Rene Reixach Jr. Ms. Joanne D. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Wayland-Smith Frank T. Crego, Esq. Mr. and Mrs. David A. Hargrave Mr. and Mrs. R. Wayne LeChase Pamela R. Barres and Suzanne Barres Kathy Nixon Marjorie Relin and Cary Ratcliff Ms. Jolene M. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Weber Dr. Barry Culhane and Mr. and Mrs. Lee Z. Hasiuk Dr. and Mrs. Edward D. Lewis Ms. Gail Bedell Mr. and Mrs. James H. Norman Sr. Mrs. Nancy B. Rencis Mr. Stephen L. Smith Rev. Gordon V. Webster Dr. Christine M. Licata Mr. Michael Hausknecht Dr. Fei Li Mr. and Mrs. Morton L. Bittker Mr. Philip R. Nothnagle and Ms. Constance Rice Ms. Kathleen H. Spencer Mr. and Mrs.* Philip Key Wehrheim Mr. and Mrs. John L. Cummings Mr. and Mrs. Fred Havens Ms. Lynn Lillie Mr. and Mrs. Edward D. Bloom Mr. Bob Malone Mr. and Mrs. Thomas S. Richards Ms. Fran Springer Dr. and Mrs. Geoffrey A. Weinberg Dr. Alan E. Curle and Mr. Andrew London Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Heinig Ms. Joyce H. Lindley Ms. Billie Blough Dr. Stanley F. Novak and Ms. Mary E. Richardson Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Steblein Ann D. Weintraub Ms. Patricia Daley Mrs. Daniel W. Hemming Mr. Richard J. Link Dr. and Mrs. Dennis Boike Mr. F. M. Paul Lyons Mr. Marvin E. Ritzenthaler and Ms. Joni M. Steinman Dr. Robin L. Weintraub Ms. Effie K. Datson Ms. Mary J. Herman Ms. Judith A. Lonnquist Jeff and Kathy Bowen Mr. and Mrs.* Harvey M. Nusbaum Mr. Steven A. Jarose Mr. and Mrs. David A. Still Drs. Michael and Robin Weintraub Mr. and Mrs. Howard M. Davidson Mrs. Hubert G. Hill Nick and Carol Love Mr. Eric Brambani Elaine O'Brien Mrs. Nancy Robbins Mrs. Corinne Stork Mr. and Mrs. William F. Weir Mr. Stewart Davis and Ms. Anne Havens Mrs. Sarah B. Varhus Hill and Mr. and Mrs. Ronald MacDonald Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Briggs Mr. Peter Oddleifson and Dr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Rodenhouse Mr. and Mrs. Gary P. Stottler Ms. Suzanne D. Welch Ms. Susan Hopkins Davis Mr. David W. Hill Mr. Stephen Mack Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Bristow Ms. Kay A. Wallace Dr. and Mrs. M. Richard Rose Ms. Judith Straw Ms. Elissa Werner Mrs. Christine Dear Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth L. Hines Dr. James A. and Mr. and Mrs. Steve Brookstein Mr. Fritz J. Odenbach Geoffrey and Janet Rosenberger Kathy Strong Mr. and Mrs. Douglas M. West Barbara de Leeuw David and Gwendolyn Hoffberg Dr. Mary Parke Manning Ms. Nancy L. Brown Ms. Kelly L. Olczak Dr. Stephen and Elise Rosenfeld Dr. Stephen B. Sulkes and Ms. Kathleen R. Whelehan Mr. Tyler Devin Jay and Teresa Holmes Mr. Paul A. Marcus Mr. and Mrs. Donald V. Burch Mr. Connor O'Mara Ms. Rosemary A. Roth Dr. Melissa Schiff Mr. and Mrs. Derrick R. Wilborn Mr. Edward J. Doherty and Ms. Marion S. Holmquist Ms. Noreen L. Mastro and Ms. Sonya Burgher Mr. and Mrs. Clayton H. Osborne Dr. Alice Rubenstein Nancy Swett* Ms. Helen P. Wiley Ms. Patrice Mitchell Mr.* and Mrs. Daniel Hoover Ms. Arlene Sherman Eric and Lee Caine Barbara and Scott Osterman Dr. and Mrs. G. Theodore Ruckert Bob and Amy Tait Ms. Helen R. William Ms. Yvonne M. Donnelly Glen A. Jeter Mr. Christopher J. McCormack Mr. Joseph Calarco Barbara Osterman Ms. Genevieve R. Russo Mr. William E. Tarasuk Mrs. Mitchell T. Williams Mr. and Mrs. Kreag Donovan Jeffrey Hough Ms. Mary W. McLaughlin Dr. Michael A. Carafos and Mr. John B. Owen Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Ruth R. Ian and Eve H. Tatlock John Williams and Chuck Lundeen Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Durkin Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence M. Howk Marvin A. and Peggy McMickle Mr. Mark Joseph Ms. Mary Margaret Krill Palmer Ms. Nancy Rutherford Ms. Susan Taylor-Brown Mr. Christopher J. Wilmot Mr. Martin Dvorin Dr. Clifford Hurley Mr. and Mrs. Christopher McNinch Dr. Marlene Caroselli Ms. Shree K. Pandya Ms. Joanne M. Ryan Sue and Gary Tebor Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Wilson Jr. Mr. and Mrs. David J. Elias Ms. Starr Hurst Dan Meyers Ms. Patricia A. Caroselli Mr. John S. Parke Ms. Regina Salis Ms. Marilyn Tedeschi Timothy and Teresa Wilson Mrs. Louise W. Epstein Mr. Jack Huttner Mr. Ron Milone Mr. David J. Carpenter Ms. Sandra A. Parker Ms. Roberta Saraceno Dubeshter Mr. and Mrs. Douglas M. Tepper W. Steven Wilterdink Ms. Carole C. Evans Mr. and Mrs. Richard Iacona Mr. and Mrs. Frederick J. Minges Ms. Maria B. Carrone and Mr. Peter Parks Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Sarratori Mr. and Mrs. Robert Terwilliger Mrs. Sergeant W. Wise Mr. and Mrs. Malik Evans Mr. Kirk L. Jensen Ms. Lisa D. Moosbrugger Ms. Gabriella G. Rood Katharine S. Parsons Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Sasso Drs. Jaimala and Krishan Thanik Ms. Felicity Wohltman Ms. Moira Evans Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey M. Johnstone Mr. Jack W. Morrissey Diane and Roger Cass Audrey P. Peartree, Esq. Carole Saunders Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Thau Ms. Audrey S. Wolcott Dr. and Mrs. R. Craig Evans Ms. Lawana Jones Brian S. Mosman Ms. Nancy Catarisano Ms. Dorothy R. Pecoraro Mr. and Mrs. William J. Schirmer Elizabeth Thorley Mr. and Mrs. William J. Woodward Preston K. Faulkner Judy and Stuart Kaplan Dr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Moss Jerry J. Cellura Dr. Thomas E. Penn Mrs. Melvin B. Schlank Mr. Pongsak Tiengtum and Ms. Mary A. Worboys-Turner and Mr. and Mrs. David Fay Mr. and Mrs. Laurence I. Kaplan Ann M. Mulligan* Mr. C. William Champlin and Mr. and Ms. Francis R. Perticone Dr. Kim Schmidt Ms. Laura Schirmuhly Mr. Scott M. Turner Mr. and Mrs. William Feinstein Mr. and Mrs. William W. Kaser Mr. and Mrs. George Murray Jr. Ms. Nancy McConnell Ms. Ann W. Pettinella Mr. and Mrs. Donald Schneider Ms. Marianne E. Timmons and Ms. Mary Worth and Mr. Dyke Smith Ms. Maria Ferrante Ms. Shannon Kaupp Mr. and Mrs. Raymond E. Naber Jr. Mrs. Merritt Chandler Mr. Douglas W. Phillips Dr. Nina F. Schor Ms. Lynne M. Hamilton Ms. Trude F. Wright The Hon. and Mrs. Kenneth R. Fisher Ms. Patricia G. Keane Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Napp Ms. Heidi A. Chapman and Dr. and Mrs. Michael E. Pichichero Joan M. Schumaker Ms. Paige Michelle Torrens Norm and Ellen Wrona Mary V. Fisher, Esq. Ms. Beth H. Keigher Emily Neece and Alan Ziegler Ms. Lisa McCollum Mr. Mitchell Pierson III Ms. Ernestine Schuster Mr. and Mrs. Pin-Seng Tschang Mr. Joseph Yacono Mr. and Mrs. John T. Fitzgerald Jr. Mr. and Ms. Wade Keller Mildred Ness Mr. and Mrs. Stan Cheo Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Pierson Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen G. Schwarz Mrs. Joyce J. Underberg Mr. Ira Ziering Mr. Bruce Forsyth Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Kelly Mr. Richard Nowlin Ms. Kathryn Cherre Lawrence J. Schwind, Esq. Mario and Linda Urso Tim Fox and Laura Burgart Mr. Patrick J. Kennedy Mr. and Mrs. James Odorczyk Mr. and Mrs. Neal Seely Mr. Norman H. Geil and Mr. Steven Price Mr.* and Mrs. John T. Kerwin

48 *Recently deceased racf.org 49 Mr. and Mrs. Theodore A. Olson Mr. and Mrs. James Stiefbold Organizational Donors The Capital Group Companies Charitable Fairport High School, Class of 2015 HCR Cares Mr. and Mrs. Mark S. Orloff Mr. and Mrs. Jim Stork Foundation Advisors High Falls Brewing Co. Ralph Wilson's Ms. Tiffany Paine-Cirrincione Mr. and Mrs. Steven D. Stork These organizational donors — Capstone Information Technologies Inc. Max M. and Marian M. Farash Charitable Highland Park Conservancy Legacy in Rochester Dr. and Mrs. Kishan J. Pandya Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. Strong Jr. businesses, foundations, and nonprofits Center for Governmental Research Foundation Homestead Mr. Gregory H. Partridge and Mr. and Mrs. James P. Sullivan — gave $500 or more to the Community Champlin & Associates The Father's House Honeoye Central School Extra Curricular The foundation created by Buffalo Bills Mr. Douglas Potter Dr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Suter Foundation and/or its initiatives between The Children's Agenda, Inc. Federated Clover Investment Advisors Honeoye Falls-Lima PTA Middle School founder Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. awarded Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Pasquarella Mr. Franklin E. Sweet Church of Love Faith Center Finger Lakes Region Sports Car Club Hough Builders, Inc. April 1, 2014 and March 31, 2016. Bob and Penny Peterson Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Szymkowiak Citizens for Joseph Robach of America, Inc. The Hutchins Family Foundation $500,000 to the Community Foundation

to find, analyze, and share data that can PHILANTHROPISTS Thomas W. Petrillo Ms. Leigh C. Tilden 100 Carlson Road, LLC City of Rochester First Baptist Church and Society F. I. Hutchins Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. Trip Pierson Sam and Mimi Tilton 246 West Ridge Road LLC Civil Service Employees Association, First Presbyterian Church of Ontario Iberdrola USA, Inc. advance powerful solutions for positive Mr. and Mrs. Erich K. Postler Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Tobin A Bakery Creation Local 828 Center ImageOut community change. Mr. and Mrs. Domenico Primerano Beverly A. and Michael T. Tomaino A Quiet Place of Healing Cloverwood Senior Living, Inc. Fishers Asset Management Isaiah House Inc. Ms. Kathy S. Rand Dr. Seanelle Tracy ABR Wholesalers Inc. Coach & Equipment Five Star Bank Insero & Co. The gift established The Ralph C. Wilson, Mr. Michael J. Ransford Mr. and Mrs. David Trimble Coalition of Black Trade Unionists FLX Creative International Brotherhood of Electrical AccuCoat, Inc. Jr. Foundation Fund for Smart Strategy Mr. Matthew W. Ray Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tripp Cobblestone Capital Advisors, LLC The Ford Foundation Workers Max A. Adler Charitable Foundation, Inc. and will provide ongoing grant support for Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Rees Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Trouskie Sr. Advanced Glass Industries, Inc. Comella Orthodontics, PLLC Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Irondequoit Public Library Foundation, Inc. expert research, evaluation, intelligence Mr. Steven S. Robertson and Ruth Unzicker and Christopher Husson Advanced Motion Systems, Inc. Committee to Re-Elect Joe Morelle of Buffalo Karen K. and R. James Irwin Fund Mrs. Martha Oschrin Robertson Mr. C. J. Urlaub Joel Ajavon Memorial DWI Awareness Conifer Realty LLC Friends of Ganondagan Jacobstein Food Service gathering, and assessment of best practices Nancy Rosenbloom and Trilby de Jung Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Vail Jr. Basketball Tournament Connecticut Association for Human Friends of Harry Bronson Rodney B. Janes Memorial Fund at for community improvement. In addition, The Justice and Mrs. Richard D. Rosenbloom Mr. and Mrs. Eric VanAuken Services Friends of the Macedon Public Library JPMorgan Trust Co. American Association of University Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation also awarded Ms. Marilyn Roy Ms. Kathleen Vande Connecticut Commission On Children Friends of Mt. Hope Cemetery Jet X Courier & Delivery Women, Greater Rochester Area $25,000 to immediately begin the necessary Mr. David C. Ryder and Mr. Jose M. Vazquez Jr. and Branch Consolidated Real Estate Solutions, Inc. Friends of the Walworth-Seely Public JPMorgan Chase data gathering and analysis. Ms. Sandra Rothenberg Ms. Dilia Olmeda The Andrew G. Attinasi Memorial Coordinated Care Services, Inc. Library Kearns Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Saltzman David P. Veniskey Foundation Cornell Cooperative Extension/Monroe Friends of Women's Rights National Kenlou Foundation Inc. Margaret A. Sánchez Mr. and Mrs. Justin L. Vigdor Baker Commodities, Inc. County Historic Park Inc. Keuka Comfort Care Home, Inc. ACT Rochester used a Wilson Fund grant to Hilda Satran Erik and Judy von Bucher Bank of America Merrill Lynch Cornerstone Eye Associates Federation of Social Workers Union Frederick B. Kilmer Foundation update detailed poverty information for the Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Scheible Mr. Charles D. Warren Benefit Link, LLC Costanza Family Foundation Local 381 Konar Foundation nine-county region using the most recent Mr. Duane M. Schenk Mr. and Mrs. Frederick M. Weis Benevity Community Impact Fund Council on Accreditation Gamma Sigma Chapter Phi Sigma Pi Kotlarz Classic Mr. Jeffrey M. Schwartz Mr. and Mrs. Armin K. Weiss Country Club of Rochester Gannett Foundation Kovalsky-Carr Electric Supply Co. Inc. U.S. Census information from the American The Birkett Mills Community Survey (2010-2014). Ralph C. Wilson —Photo provided The Hon. and Mrs. Anthony J. Sciolino Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. West BJ Mann & Associates Mediation Crosby-Brownlie, Inc. The Garden Factory, Inc. La Croix Optical Co. Mr. and Mrs. I. C. Shah Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Wien Services CSEA Western (NY) Region 6 Gates Automotive Center Lake Keuka Baptist Church Mr. and Mrs. William G. Shaheen Mr. and Mrs. Arthur H. Wilder Communications Workers of America Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley Launch New York, Inc. Wilson’s foundation is also partnering with Blue Star Mothers of America, Inc. The Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation John D. Griffith and Ms. Sally D. Wilkins Blueberry Hill Associates, LP Local 1170 GCP Discount Liquors, Inc. The Law Firm of Janice M. Iati, P.C. the Community Foundation on a project to Charlene C. Sherwood Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Willers BOA Editions Ltd. Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation Generations Child and Elder Care Inc. Lidestri Food and Drink assess current youth sports programs and received $1.2 billion from Wilson’s Mr. Jay P. Shimshack Ms. Betty Marie Wilson David Andersen Farms Genesee Land Trust Lifetime Care Bonadio & Co., LLP facilities and determine what is needed. irrevocable trust after he passed away in Anurag Shrivastava Mr. Howard A. Wilson DeCarolis Truck Rental Genesee Regional Bank Linden Oaks Management Co., Inc. Bordner Enterprises, LLC The Community Foundation convened a March 2014. The foundation is dedicated Drs. Michael and Nancy Silber Mr. and Mrs. John R. Wilson Boys & Girls Clubs of Geneva Democrat and Chronicle Media Group The Genesee Valley Chapter of BMW Car Lisa's Liquor Barn, Inc. Bertha E. Simpkins Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Witmer Dollars for Scholars — Club of America, Inc. Literacy Volunteers of Rochester task force of stakeholders who work directly primarily to sustained investment in Brighter Days Foundation quality of life for the people in Western Mr. Mark Siwiec and Mr. Duffy Palmer Rosemarie Wolf and Johann Wolf Brighton High School Class of 2017 Palmyra-Macedon Chapter Geva Theatre Center Litron Laboratories or indirectly in youth sports to help shape Mr. David W. Smith and Patty Yarmel, PhD Brighton High School Senior Student The Dolomite Group Grand Central Plaza Inc. Little Brook Farms, Inc. priorities for this project. The goal is to New York and Southeastern Michigan. Mr. Fernelle Rodriguez Dr. Alice H. Young Douglas B. Miles Agency, Inc. Greater Rochester Health Foundation The Little Speed Shop LLC Council establish community strategies for investing Mr. Steven P. Snyder Mrs. Marilyn Ziering Dundee Dollars for Scholars, Inc. Greater Rochester Vietnam Veterans Livingston County Education Alliance Burroughs Audubon Nature Club in a broad spectrum of character-building Mr. Stephan Spencer Ms. Heidi N. Zimmer-Meyer and Busgo, Inc. Eastman Kodak Co. Memorial Corporation, Inc. Livingston County Historical Society sports for youth ages 18 and younger. Mr. Alfred R. Stalker Mr. Paul Meyer The Calamus Foundation, Inc. Elizabeth Wende Breast Care, LLC Greece Community Partners Louis Heindl & Son, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce W. Steele Sy and Karen Zivan Caldwell Manufacturing Co. The Elster Foundation Harter Secrest & Emery LLP The Lyons National Bank Mr. Barry L. Steinberg Dr. Jules Zysman and Dr. Nadette Jacob Campus Construction Management Environmental Protection Bureau Hearing Loss Association of America, M & M Foundation Fund at Tulsa Mr. Robert C. Stevens Group, Inc. ESL Charitable Foundation Rochester NY Community Foundation Mr. Jim Stewart Canandaigua National Bank & Trust Co. Excellus Health Plan Inc. Hershel Woody Williams Medal of Honor The M&T Charitable Foundation Foundation Manning & Napier, Inc.

50 *Recently deceased racf.org 51 Marine Corps Coordinating Council Park-Meigs Neighborhood Association Spindler Family Foundation Legacy Society Carole Cooper-Haims Roger and Rosemary Herendeen Carmel S. Merrill Bertha E. Simpkins Marine Corps League Det. #468 Paychex Community Foundation, Inc. St. James Episcopal Church Linda W. Davey David D. Hoesley Pete and Sally Merrill Stephen L. Smith Marjorie Harris Reynolds Foundation Penn Yan Academy Class of 1972 St. John's Church, Parishioners, and By remembering the community in Michael and Amy Davis William and Cynthia Hosley Richard Millard David and Nina Somers MBIA Foundation, Inc. Penn Yan Little League Second Seasons Consignment your estate plans, you can make a Stewart Davis Jeffrey Hough and Marlea Allan Glen E. Miller Jim and Marie Sorrentino McArdle Burkhardt, LLC Perinton Historical Society Boutique real difference in our region’s future. Ellen and Beatrice de Buono G. Jean Howard-Cherubim Laura v. Morrissey Robert and Jacqueline Sperandio Monroe Community College Faculty Pittsford Youth Services The John and Jayne Summers This cumulative list of Legacy Society Peter and Ann Dillon Donald J.* and Margot M. Hughes Deanne Molinari Burton Spiller Association P.R. Hoffman Machine Foundation, Inc. Linda Donahue and Sue Dambrowski Laura Humphrey James S. Moser Fran Stewart* members recognizes individuals and Monroe County Medical Society Products Professional Golfers' Summerville Presbyterian Church Mike Donoghue Nancy M. Huppert Ernest G. Mount Dolores S. Stover

William G. McGowan Charitable Fund, Inc. Association of America Summit Federal Credit Union couples who have named the Community Kreag Donovan Ray and Erika Hutch John Muenter Arthur Streb PHILANTHROPISTS McNeil Partners LLC/Mr. Gordon H. McNeil Priceless Vessels Inc. Susan B. Anthony Museum & House Foundation in their wills or planned gifts. Michael and Carol Doran Richard J. Huxley and Debra Domres Raymond and Patricia Naber Frank P. Strong Jr. Medtronic – Your Cause, LLC Promonetize, LLC Sutherland Global Services, Inc. We thank them for their foresight. Marlene Duerr Mimi Hwang Emily Neece and Alan Ziegler Kathy Strong Mengel, Metzger, Barr & Co. LLP Public Employees Federation Sydor Optics, Inc. Erik R. Duncan Perry and Linda Jacobstein Philip Neivert John M. Summers Metro Justice Education Fund The Frank G. Raichle Foundation Thomas Marshall Foundation Russell K. Achzet Patricia A. Dwyer Dr. Wallace Johnson and Raymond and Eleanor Newell Martin Suter* The MJS Revocable Living Trust Ravi Engineering & Land Surveying, P.C. Thorley Wealth Management, Inc. Carol T. Aldridge David and Sandra Ebberts Dr. Karen Duguid Thaddeus S. Newell III Alec and Mindy Sutherland Monroe County Federation of Teachers The Rochester Americans Alumni Tompkins Financial Advisors Jane A. Alexander Trevor and Liz Ewell Joseph G. Kelly and Pat Murray Kathy and Ted Nixon Robert F. Sykes Monroe County District Attorney Association Tompkins Trust Company Douglas W. Anderson Preston K. Faulkner Mary Kerr Nannette Nocon and Karl Wessendorf R. Ian and Eve H. Tatlock Monroe Tractor & Implement Co. Inc. Rochester Businessman's Charitable Town of Ontario Historical and Landmark Anonymous (54) Joan Feinbloom Dawn Klein Helen O'Leary and Elizabeth O'Leary* Michael T. Tomaino Sr. Monsanto Co. Organization, Inc. Preservation Society Michael H. Anthony Gerard E. Fisher and Joyce M. DeHaan* Louise H. Klinke Marjorie Olney Albert and Mary Ellen Tortoretti Morgan Stanley Foundation Rochester City School District Town of Perinton Gerald J. Archibald Mary V. Fisher David and Beverly Kluge John P.* and Suzanne A. Olson Nancy L. Turner Helen L. Morris Foundation, Inc. Rochester Civic Garden Center Trillium Health Tom and Carolyn Argust Ruth H. Fitzgerald Leslie and Nelle Knox Robert and Betty Oppenheimer Chuck Tuttle MVP Health Plan, Inc. Rochester Contemporary Art Center TSG Equine Events, LLC Ann N. Baker Charles E. Fitzgibbon* Marlowe B. Hagood Laiacona Paul F. Pagerey Ruth Unzicker and Christopher Husson Naked Optics Corporation Rochester-Genesee Valley Area Labor Tulsa Community Foundation Bruce B. Bates Scott A. Forsyth Dianne LaLonde Amante Parungao Robert and Ann Van Niel NaLa Fund at Minneapolis Foundation Federation University of Rochester Harry and Nancy Beilfuss Donald A. Forsyth Edward R. Lane Katie and Scott Peterson Ted and Joanne VanZandt National Association of Letter Carriers Rochester Institute of Technology United Association Local 13 John and Carol Bennett Jonathan D. Foster Harry H. Lang Jr. Dominic and June Piazza Arthur N. Vitoch Rochester Chapter NECA, Inc. Rochester Lead Works, Inc. United Auto Workers Local 1097 Waldense L. Bennett Sr. Margaret Mary Z. Foxx Joan Lathan* Lois Posner Erik and Judy von Bucher NAMI Rochester Rochester Numismatic Association United Lens Company, Inc. Jane Ellen Bleeg Lauren D. Frank and Annette H. Miller Alan and Deborah Lattime Mary Priest Bonita Wallace National Income Life Insurance Company Rochester Optometric Society United Nations Association of Rochester Edward and Phyllis Bloom Ruth Freeman Kristine Lawrence John C. Pyles Rand L. Warner Niagara Region Porsche Club of America Rochester Oratorio Society United Way of Greater Rochester Angela Bonazinga and Catherine Lewis Roger and Carolyn Friedlander Audie F. Lawson Samuel and June Reeder Robert D. Wayland-Smith The Kathryn J. & Theodore E. Nixon Family Rochester Police Locust Club Inc. Urban League of Rochester Ted and Peggy Boucher Joanne Gianniny Jeffrie and Robert Leahy Ron Richardson Elizabeth and Pierce Webb Foundation, Inc. Rochester Red Wings Valley Cadillac Corporation Beverly T. Bowen Grant and Bette Gillette John and Joyce Lechner Tom Riley and Barbara Kelley Philip and Marilyn* Wehrheim Nixon Peabody LLP Rochester Teachers Association Victor Senior Properties LLC Nancy and Joe Briggs John P. Gleason and Dan Leonard Michael and Linda Riordan Elinor H. Weinberg Nocon & Associates Realtors Charitable Foundation Visions Federal Credit Union Robert W. Bright, MD* Mary Ellen Miller-Gleason Jennifer Leonard and Marguerite Robertson* Sidney and Linda S. Weinstein The Nord Family Foundation Riedman Communications Volunteer Legal Services Project of David L. Brooke Peter G. Gleason David Cay Johnston Nathan and Susan Robfogel Ann D. Weintraub Nothnagle Realtors, Hometown Choice Riedman Foundation Monroe County Jim Brush Constance M. Glover Robert G. Lewis Suzanne H. Rodgers Delores Welkley New York State Department of Taxation and RIT – Premedical Student Association Wahl Media Michael F. Buckley Richard Goldstein and Sarah F. Liebschutz Anna B. Rodriguez Norman and Nancy Wetterau Finance Division of the Treasury Robert-James Sales, Inc. Waldron Rise Foundation Duncan H. Bull Lynda Garner Goldstein Alan M. Litman Harris H. Rusitzky Timothy B. and Elizabeth C. Wilder New York State Optometric Association, Inc. Roberts Wesleyan College The Wallace Foundation Carol Jo “C.J.” Bullen Sanford and Stephanie Gradinger Jane and Jim* Littwitz H. Bruce Russell John Williams and Chuck Lundeen New York State Restaurant Association Rodenhouse Foundation Wayne County Humane Society Sally Burdick Karl Greenhagle Cricket and Frank Luellen Harold and Judy Samloff W. Steven Wilterdink Corporate Headquarters Rohrbach, Inc. Wegmans Food Markets Inc. Paul H. Bush Barbara Griffis Nelson MacCallum Robert and Jeanne Sandholzer Eric I. Zeller New York State United Teachers Rotork Controls Inc. Welch & Forbes LLC Jacqueline P. Cady Frank S. Grosso Sherryn K. Malm Robert and Barbara Schaefer Jay and Hanna Zukoski Ohara Corp. Salty Dog Charities Wells Fargo Advisors Robert and Elethea Caldwell James P. Growney Joseph J. Mancini Conrad A. Scheg Oldham Bianchi Partnership Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC Marie C. & Joseph C. Wilson Foundation Catherine B. Carlson Anthony L. Gugino Thomas S. Marsh Natalie Schwartz The Once Again Shop SEI Design Group Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Rosalie J. Cavallaro Donald S. Hall Hank Mastalski Richard and Vicki Schwartz Optimax Systems, Inc. Seneca Park Zoo Society Louis S. and Molly B. Wolk Foundation Barbara and Alexander Christoff Joan M. Halstead Mary Soons McCarty The Hon. and Mrs. Anthony J. Sciolino Optipro Systems Shepherd Home The Women's Alliance of Xerox G. Thomas and Barbara Clark E. Pauline Handy Jetson and Gloria McCleary Mary Seebach Pal-Mac Face-Off Club Sibley-Saltonstall Charitable Foundation Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP June M. Clase Amara Harris Gerald and Diane McCue I. C. and Cheryl Shah Palmyra King's Daughters, Inc. Sisters of Saint Joseph of Rochester Xerox Leadership Association Sarah H. Collins* Dr. Anne Harrison John N. McMath Jr. William R. Sheldon* Park 735 Associates Sonnenberg Gardens & Mansion State Yates County Arts Council, Inc. Carla F. Coombs Garwood and Jim and Shari Harrison Thomas E. C. Mees Robert C. Silver Historic Park Yates County Retired Teachers John A. Garwood Peter Henderson Caroline and Albert Merenda Mrs. St. Julian A. Simpkins Jr.* Association

52 *Recently deceased racf.org 53 Legacy Gifts 21st Century Ms. Judith A. Emmanuel Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Metzger Community Investors Nancy and Joe Briggs ARTISANworks Bill Destler and Rebecca Johnson Mr. George Ewing Jr. Barbara H. Miller Mrs. John D. Brush Jr. Asbury First United Methodist Church Vivette Dockery-Medina This list recognizes the generosity of Beginning with our 25th anniversary Abe Feinbloom Charitable Lead Trust+ Richard P. Miller Jr.* The greater Rochester region will Richard F. Brush Ted Aub Dr. Konstantin Frank Vinifera Wine Cellar individuals who passed away in recent in 1997, those listed here contributed Joan Feinbloom+ Ruth I. Morton need flexible resources in the future June M. Clase Catelyn Augustine Ed Doherty years and included the Community $2,100 or more to build a permanent Elizabeth Fisher Philip Neivert+ to meet needs we cannot anticipate Barbara de Leeuw Barbara Babiarz Donna Marie’s Gluten Free Bakery Mr. and Mrs. George M. C. Fisher+ Paul Marc and Pamela Miller Ness Mr. George Ewing Jr. Bank of America Lynn Duggan Foundation in their estate plans. We are endowment that would allow the today. Since April 1, 2014, these Jonathan D. Foster+ Kathy and Ted Nixon Joan Feinbloom Natalie Banks Empire State Development/Vincent donors have contributed $25,000 or deeply grateful for the gifts we have Community Foundation to respond Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Frame+ Nannette Nocon and Karl Wessendorf+ Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Frame Lisa and Jack Baron Esposito received from estates of the following creatively to changing needs of the 21st Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Gavagan+ Mr. Peter Oddleifson and more to unrestricted or broad field of Dr. and Mrs.* Alfred O. Ginkel Dr. Betty Bayer Max and Marian Farash Charitable PHILANTHROPISTS individuals since April 1, 2014: century (+ indicates founding members). Dr. and Mrs. Warren Glaser+ Ms. Kay A. Wallace interest endowments at the Community Suzanne Gouvernet Dexter Benedict Foundation/Hollis Budd We are thankful for the club members’ John and Roslyn Goldman+ Mrs. Richard C. Palermo+ Foundation. Mr.* and Mrs. Mark C. Hargrave Jr. Jappie King Black Federal Reserve Bank of New York Arlie Anderson Ms. Elizabeth P. Gordon Mr. Leo W. Pfeiffer Mr.* and Mrs. Robert D. Hursh Blessed Sacrament Church Bill Feinstein collective belief in providing lasting Anonymous (2) Suzanne Gouvernet William and Barbara Pulsifer+ Bruce B. Bates Ray and Erika Hutch “Next to New” Sale Kara Finnigan Marilyn Aten community capital. George Greer*+ Tom Riley and Barbara Kelley Bullis Fund of Rochester Area Louis P. and Betty A.* Iacona Tom and Heather Bonadio First Student Dorothy J. “Dot” Beavers Herbert and Monika Hallman Bud and Joan Rusitzky+ Community Foundation Marlowe B. Hagood Laiacona Dr. Leonard Brock Bruce Forsyth Joseph E. Brown As we continue to pave the way for our VanBuren and Jane Hansford Fund Margaret A. Sánchez Christine Dear Leo R. and Charlotte K. Landhuis Belinda Bryce Fox’s Gourmet Delicatessen Nicholas E. Brown region’s future, the 21st Century Club Mark* and Barbara Hargrave Jr. Mrs. Ann H. Sayre+ Judith A. Emmanuel Georgianna M. Lovejoy Charitable Kristine Bouyoucos Adrián Franco Joyce M. DeHaan will play an integral role as it evolves into Mr. Kevin Hart+ Richard and Vicki Schwartz Louis P. and Betty A.* Iacona Foundation Buckingham Properties Barbara L. Frank Madlyn Horacek Evans James R. Low a new club that recognizes all donors Warren and Joyce Heilbronner+ Terry K. Schwartz Arthur E. Lowenthal* Todd and Andrea Butler Friends of Women’s Rights National George M. and Marie-Merrill Ewing Dr. Marvin and Nancy* Yanes Hoffman+ Ruth H. and William Scott Philip Neivert Pete and Sally Merrill Jacque Cady Historic Park, Inc. Lorraine B. Finley of $10,000 or more whose gifts are Jay and Teresa Holmes Mr. I. C. Shah Dolores S. Stover Kathy and Ted Nixon Kathy Calderwood Fulkerson Winery Allan W. and Lorma Gardner earmarked for unrestricted endowment Mr. and Mrs. Samuel T. Hubbard Jr.+ John D. Griffith and Robert and Ann Van Niel Nannette Nocon and Karl Wessendorf Robin Cass Gandhi Institute Robert V. Gianniny to address the pressing needs today, Dorothea Hunter Charlene C. Sherwood Elizabeth and Pierce Webb William and Barbara Pulsifer Causewave Community Services Genesee Brewing Company Samuel Greenberg tomorrow, and always. Mr.* and Mrs. Robert Hursh+ Mrs. Shirley Shumway Dr. Ellen G. Rusling Bleu Cease Jacquie Germanow George H. Greer Mr. Richard J. Huxley and Robert C. and Janice E. Silver Mr. Thomas G. Rusling Center for Governmental Research Ami Ghazala Jean E. Groff Ms. Elizabeth Anderson Mrs. Debra Domres+ Mrs. St. Julian A. Simpkins Jr.*+ Lifetime Community Jon L. and Katherine T. Schumacher The Center for Youth Jeanne Giovaninni John C. Groth-Juncker Anonymous (2) Mimi Hwang Mr. and Mrs. Paul L. Smith Sponsors Richard and Vicki Schwartz CF Leads The Golden Fox/Corinna Kasandrinos Dorothy Truesdale Humes Tom and Carolyn Argust+ Louis P. and Betty A.* Iacona+ Ann H. Stevens and I.C. Shah Cheesy Eddie’s Greater Rochester Chamber of This cumulative listing recognizes Donald B. Kimball Jr. Robert D. Baden Richard and Mary Insel+ William J. Shattuck+ Robert C. and Janice E. Silver The Children’s Agenda Commerce Richard S. Lee Bruce B. Bates+ Arthur and Susan Kaufman Mr. Douglas J. Summers individuals and couples who have made Carol and Harvey Simmons Children’s Institute Greater Rochester Health Foundation Donald D. and Jane A. Lennox Dr. Dorothy J. Beavers*+ Robert and Susan Kessler+ Robert F. Sykes a one-time gift of $5,000 or more to Spindler Family Foundation John Christensen Marilyn Groch Arthur Lowenthal Harry and Nancy Beilfuss Mr. and Mrs. Michael F. Kirwan Carolyn Thomson our Community Sponsors endowment, Robert Sykes City Blue Imaging Dr. Melinda Grube William B. McCoy Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Allen C. Boucher+ Mrs. Frederick A. Klipstein Robert Thomson which supports our annual campaign Ms. Elizabeth Van Horn Kathy Cleary Tony Gugino Elizabeth A. Merz James Boucher Mr. Craig Koester Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Tobin+ Erik and Judy von Bucher Mark Cleary Jeff Gutenberg for operations. For a complete list of Helen O'Leary Karen Boucher Gerald P. and Karen S. Kral+ Robert and Susan Touhsaent Dr. Sidney and Linda S. Weinstein The Cleveland Foundation Kausar Hamdani George W. Peters Ted and Peggy Boucher+ Leo R. and Charlotte K. Landhuis+ Trident Fund/Nicholas and donors to our Community Sponsors Dr. and Mrs. Ethan L. Welch Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School Sharon Hancock Elmer Schwittek Mrs. Herbert J. Brauer+ Jeffrie and Robert Leahy Barbara Juskiw campaigns in 2014-15 and 2015-16, Constellation Brands, Inc. Beth Hartman Gretchen Shafer Nancy and Joe Briggs+ LeCesse Construction Company+ Mr. and Mrs. Pin-Seng Tschang visit racf.org/Sponsors. Ann Marie Cook Hedonist Artisan Chocolates Elizabeth Sheldon Richard F. Brush+ Mr. and Mrs. TC Lewis Robert and Ann Van Niel+ Gifts in Kind Jeremy Cooney Bryan Hetherington Michelle M. Shubert Josephine Buckley LGBT Giving Circle Mr. and Mrs. Justin L. Vigdor+ The Hon. and Mrs. Gerard J. Alonzo Jr. AARP Carey Corea Mary and Jim Holleran Vincent J. Stanley Sr. G. Thomas and Barbara Clark Sarah F. Liebschutz, PhD+ Erik and Judy von Bucher Tom and Carolyn Argust Carol Adams José and Karen Coronas Mary Louise Huff Bernice L. Stauber Ms. Christine M. Colucci Jane and Jim* Littwitz Bonita and George Wallace John and Sarah Banks American Association of University Country Club of Rochester Hunt Country Vineyards Frances Stewart Dr. and Mrs. Gary H. Conners Arthur E. Lowenthal*+ Mr. and Mrs. Peter Z. Webster+ Mr. Bruce B. Bates Women — Greater Rochester Mary Goldman Crowe Mimi Hwang Gertrude Wynar Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Cooney+ John and Judy Lynd Dr. Sidney and Linda S. Weinstein Mr. and Mrs. Allen C. Boucher Area Branch Crown Jewelers Canandaigua Marc Iacona Louis M. D'Amato Esq. Ms. Rosemary Mancini+ Dr. and Mrs. Ethan L. Welch+ James Boucher Tim Albert Data Dome Inc. Mary Jacobi Mrs. Linda W. Davey+ Dr. Elizabeth R. McAnarney Constance B. Wilder Karen Boucher David and Sue Andersen Tony Davis JR Special Events Catering/Jim Reynolds Mrs. Christine Dear John N. McMath Jr.+ Dr. Joseph and Elise Wojciechowski Ted and Peggy Boucher Anthony Road Wine Company Democrat and Chronicle Media Group/ Keuka College Mr. Edward J. Doherty and Pete and Sally Merrill Paula Briggs Tom Argust Karen Magnuson Keuka College Conference Services Ms. Patrice Mitchell Bill Armbruster Alex Denooyer

54 *Recently deceased racf.org 55 Keuka Springs Vineyards Johanna Reynolds Kay Wallace and Peter Oddleifson Scott MacRae and Elaine Mizzoni Keukaview Photography/Steve Knapp Rich and Laurie Riedman Mayor Lovely Warren Bernard and Essie (Calhoun) McDavid Bill Keyser Ron Rizzo Wayne Post Clayton and Kim Millard Emerson Klees City of Rochester Wegmans Food Markets/Joe Wesley Tom and Pat Mitchell Bill Klingensmith Rochester Business Journal Linda and Sid Weinstein Mary and Ned Nicosia Knapp & Schlappi Lumber Co., Inc. Rochester City School District Fran Weisberg Kathy and Ted Nixon Lakeside Country Club Rochester Community Baseball Pat Wilder Jim and Marguerite Quinn Lanovera Specialty Foods, Inc. Rochester Contemporary Art Center Wilmington Trust Jamal and Pam Rossi

Diana Lauria Rochester Downtown Development WinnDevelopment/Joe Eddy Julio and Lynette Saenz PHILANTHROPISTS Lifespan of Greater Rochester Corp./Heidi Zimmer-Meyer Women’s Rights National Historical Park Richard Sarkis and Diane Chevron Marcia Lowry Rochester Educational Opportunity WROC-TV, Channel 8 Gayle and Bob Stiles and family Lyons National Bank Center Wright Beverage Distributing Mimi and Sam Tilton Madeline’s Catering Rochester Institute of Technology Yates County History Center Lori Van Dusen and Ron Boillat Martha Malloy Rochester Museum & Science Center Phillia Yi Chris and Kathy Wright Robert Marx Rochester Public Library Faheem Masood Dan Roller 2016 Hosts Sandy and Suzanne Mayer Rooster Hill Vineyards An Evening Out At Rich McAlpine Hank Rubin Home Hosts John and Sarah Banks Mary Lou McCloud Harris “Bud” Rusitzky Bradford Berk, MD and Linda McElheny Tom and Elling Rusling Our annual fundraiser and friend-raiser Coral Surgeon, MD Amy McLaren Margaret Sánchez would not be possible without the José and Karen Coronas JoAnne McNamara John Schlia generosity of the following individuals, Tony and Sue Cotroneo Memorial Art Gallery Carrie Schreiner couples, and families who host dinners Mo Duggan and Jim McIntosh Dan and Lisa Dwyer Mental Health Association Edythe Shedden-Cowgill in their homes or at other locations for Jane Mickles Luvon Sheppard Linda and Bob Fox Midvale Country Club The Sherwin-Williams Company all of our An Evening Out At Home guests John and Sarah Gibson Kit Miller Alan Singer each spring. Dan and Victoria Goldstein Claire Kramer Mills Javier Silva Michael Hardy and Todd Gray Milly’s Pantry Sonnenberg Gardens & Mansion State 2015 Hosts Nancy and Henry Hamlin Nils Miner Historic Park Terry and Eileen Hartmann Lorraine and Daan Braveman Monroe Community College/Anne Kress Elaine Spaull Ginger and Holly Howell Susan and Bob Calcagno Monroe Community Hospital Nancy Stafford Glenn and Jenny Kellogg Chip and Shirley Dawson Monroe County State University College at Brockport Nirupama and Rahul Laroia Pam and Bob DiPaola Mary Ann Monley Strathallan Charis Lee and Robert Burke Brent and Roberta DuBeshter M&T Bank Doris Atwood Sullivan Laurie and Vince Leo Dan and Lisa Dwyer National Women’s Hall of Fame Swift Metal Works/Jeff Swift Bernard and Essie (Calhoun) McDavid Doug and Hilda Escher with Nazareth College/Daan Braveman Tasteful Connections Tom and Pat Mitchell Melisza Campos and Herb Escher Philip Neivert Marilyn Tedeschi Dorelis and Clay Osborne Charlie and Anne Francis Lynda Newman Teen Empowerment Ken and Anna Pink Carolyn and Roger Friedlander Valerie O’Hara Third Presbyterian Church Fran Pullano and Chris Blank Linda and David Friedman Palmyra Community Center Erin Thompson Jim and Marguerite Quinn Essie Germanow Panache Vintage & Finer Consignment Shirley Thompson Susan and Gerry Rooney Jacquie and Andy Germanow PathStone Corp./Stuart Mitchell Mimi Tilton Richard Sarkis and Diane Chevron Tony and Ernie Gugino John Paul Perez Town of Irondequoit Jim and Dawn Schnell Nancy and Henry Hamlin Mark Peterson U.S. Trust Scott Turner and Mary Worboys-Turner Ginger and Holly Howell Premier Pastry Christopher Uhl Lori Van Dusen and Ron Boillat Glenn and Jenny Kellogg Kevin Ranger United Way of Greater Rochester Kay Wallace and Peter Oddleifson Nirupama and Rahul Laroia Reliant Community Credit Union – University of Rochester/Joel Seligman Chris and Bettie Lindley with Sodus Branch Village Bakery Theresa and Kevin Fitzpatrick Vittorio Menswear Elaine Jackson and Bob Lowenthal

56 *Recently deceased Matthew Hoh —Photo by Erich Camping Financial Report Community Foundation Revenue 2014 to 2016

Summary Financial Information Our Financial Picture Net Gain on Investment Consolidated Balance Sheet for Years Ending March 31, 2015 and 2016 4% As of March 31, 2016, Rochester Area Community Foundation held total assets of $388 million — the highest balance in our 44-year history. This Interest and Dividends 2015 2016 includes $246 million in permanently endowed assets for the future of the 3% ASSETS greater Rochester-Finger Lakes region. Other Cash and short-term investments $ 14,533,701 $ 12,846,152 1% Accrued interest receivable 82,501 59,270 The Community Foundation maintained its long-term, disciplined investment Charitable Checking AccountSM 7,236,358 8,498,321 policies. As a result, investment earnings at March 31, 2016 exceeded Gifts and Donations Investments 293,976,283 353,457,671 market benchmarks over 1-, 3-, 5- and 10-year periods. Average annual 92% Land, building, and equipment, net 739,131 696,110 total return since portfolio inception in 1990 was 9.1 percent net of fees, Split-interest agreements 11,831,896 12,444,729 against a blended index return of 8.3 percent. Other assets _____267,919 ______378,413 Gifts and donations amounted to $38 million in the 2015 fiscal year and Total Assets $ 328,667,789 $ 388,380,666 $99 million between April 1, 2015 and March 31, 2016. Much of the growth in fiscal year 2016 reflects the $61 million gift from Richard, Robert, and LIABILITIES Mickey Sands to establish the Sands Family Supporting Foundation. Gifts Grants payable $ 517,526 $ 394,083 in this two-year period represented 92 percent of Community Foundation Charitable Checking AccountSM 7,236,358 8,498,321 Community Foundation Expenses 2014 to 2016 revenue. Agency funds 21,707,048 22,893,879 Fundraising Split-interest agreements 1,897,778 1,854,061 Also during this two-year period, the Community Foundation awarded 5% Other liabilities _____471,230 195,115 $51 million for grants, scholarships, and programs. Our long-term spending Total Liabilities $ 31,829,940 $ 33,835,459 policy awards grants based on five years of investment performance, which helps level out the volatility of the stock market. Administration NET ASSETS 7% Unrestricted - Lean operations held operating costs to about one dollar in 10, keeping Charitable endowment funds $ 234,383,668 $ 229,376,778 88 percent of the budget for grants and programs. In another measure of Grants and Programs Charitable Investor FundsSM 36,557,442 99,057,965 efficiency, expenses averaged less than 1 percent of total assets. 88% Grantmaking 13,955,223 13,896,066 Independent auditors Bonadio & Co. again issued clean audit opinions Operations/administration ____2,007,398 1,623,730 for both years. These are available with our complete audited financial Total Unrestricted $ 286,903,731 $ 343,954,539 statements and 990s at racf.org/Financials. Temporarily Restricted 9,934,118 10,590,668 Total Net Assets 296,837,849 354,545,207 Total Liabilities and Net Assets $ 328,667,789 $ 388,380,666

58 racf.org 59 Standing Finance Committee Malik Evans Carol H. Adams Emerson Fullwood Suzanne Gouvernet Edward F. Adams, CPA Suzanne Gouvernet Volunteer Leadership David P. Veniskey, CPA, Committees Chair Mimi Hwang+ Thomas R. Argust + Marc Iacona++ Nancy E. Catarisano, CPA 2014-2016 Barbara J. Jones John S. Banks++ Kathy Nixon Jim Foster+ Hoffman Moka Lantum, MD, PhD Bruce B. Bates Nannette Nocon++ Our board chair serves ex officio on Ray H. Hutch Rev. Marvin A McMickle, PhD Edward D. Bloom, Esq.++ Richard J. Riedman Richard J. Mengel, CPA all standing committees (Kathy Nixon Carolyn G. Nussbaum, Esq. Ted Boucher Linda Riordan+ Kevin J. Parker, PhD 2014-15; José J. Coronas 2015-16) Kevin J. Parker, PhD Richard J. Bucenec Harris H. Rusitzky Thomas S. Richards, Esq. Richard A. Schwartz Michael F. Buckley, Esq. Harold Samloff++ Richard A. Schwartz Advancement Committee Mary A. Worboys-Turner+ R. Scott Burdett Richard Schwartz++ Elizabeth A. Thorley Heidi N. Zimmer-Meyer Philip L. Burke, Esq. Janet S. Welch++ Philip L. Burke, Esq., Chair Kim VanGelder Virginia Brandreth Thomas F. Warfield Nancy E. Catarisano, CPA Eric I. Zeller++ José J. Coronas Michael F. Buckley, Esq. Governance Committee R. Scott Burdett Other Committees Linda W. Davey An Evening Out at Home Laureen Burke, MD Mary A. Worboys-Turner, Chair Malik Evans Committee 2015 Carol H. Adams 2014-2016 Robert B. Frame José J. Coronas Suzanne Mayer, Co-Chair Robert D. Baden R. Thompson Gilman, Esq. Dawn K. Klein+ Sandy Mayer, Co-Chair Jeremy A. Cooney, Esq.++ George H. Greer*+ Kathy Nixon ACT Rochester Advisory Carol Adams José J. Coronas Marvin J. Hoffman, MD Richard J. Riedman Committee Jacquie Germanow Malik Evans+ Michelle A. Hutchinson, Esq.++ Krishan D. Thanik, MD Tony Gugino David R. Ferris, Esq. Thomas R. Argust, Chair Robert W. Kessler, Esq. Judy von Bucher Sharon Hancock Michelle A. Hutchinson, Esq.++ Hanif Abdul-Wahid TC Lewis Diana Lauria Kathy Nixon Carol H. Adams James K. Littwitz* Audit Committee Mary Ann Monley Carolyn G. Nussbaum, Esq.++ James B. Brush Laura J. “Jinny” Loomis Lynda Newman David A. Still, Chair Heidi N. Zimmer-Meyer Devendra Garg James H. McBride Laurie Riedman Nancy E. Catarisano, CPA+ Josh Gewolb, Esq. Richard J. Mengel, CPA Mimi Tilton Michael G. Kane Investment Committee Thomas D. Gillett Carolyn G. Nussbaum, Esq.++ Elizabeth A. Thorley William McCullough+ Richard J. Riedman++ John S. Banks, Chair++ Margaret A. Sánchez Thomas P. Riley An Evening Out at Home Executive Committee Susan E. Acker, Chair+ Joseph Stefko, PhD Jon L. Schumacher, Esq.+ Committee 2016 Bruce B. Bates++ Sharon P. Stiller, Esq. Richard A. Schwartz Tom and Heather Bonadio, José J. Coronas, Chair++ Edward D. Bloom, Esq.+ David A. Still++ Honorary Co-Chairs Kathy Nixon, Chair+ Richard N. Gray, CPA Bullis Fund Advisory Krishan D. Thanik, MD++ Carol Adams, Co-Chair Susan E. Acker+ Marvin J. Hoffman, MD Committee Elizabeth A. Thorley++ Mary Ann Monley, Co-Chair Carol H. Adams++ TC Lewis Bruce A. Van Hise++ Tony Gugino Board of Directors John S. Banks++ Michael B. Millard Paul T. Rubery, Esq., Chair David P. Veniskey, CPA++ Sharon Hancock Edward D. Bloom, Esq.+ Alan H. Resnick Don Dantz First Row Second Row Third Row Our heartfelt thanks to members Thomas F. Warfield++ Diana Lauria Philip L. Burke, Esq. David A. Still Tom Hall who retired from the board during Robert D. Wayland-Smith Suzanne Mayer José J. Coronas, Chair Michelle A. Hutchinson, Esq., Secretary Krishan D. Thanik, MD Malik Evans+ Lori Van Dusen Carol Holtz-Martin the past two years: Janet S. Welch Lynda Newman Carol H. Adams, Vice Chair Michael G. Kane (until October 1, 2016) Elizabeth A. Thorley Hoffman Moka Lantum, MD, PhD Eric I. Zeller Richard Kirchhoff Robert D. Baden Ann M. McCormick Hector Ureña Jr. Susan E. Acker Laura J. “Jinny” Loomis Jackie Krocke G. Russell West+ Laurie Riedman John S. Banks Rev. Marvin A. McMickle, PhD Kim VanGelder, Vice Chair Edward D. Bloom, Esq. Edward C. Radin, Esq. Josh McCrossen Mimi Tilton Program/Distributions Endowment Initiative Mollene B. Benison, CPA Carolyn G. Nussbaum, Esq. David P. Veniskey, CPA, Treasurer Malik Evans David A. Still Committee Abigail J. Bennett Edward C. Radin, Esq., Counsel Judy von Bucher, Vice Chair Hoffman Moka Lantum, MD, PhD Elizabeth A. Thorley Community Sponsors Committees Laura J. “Jinny” Loomis, Philip L. Burke, Esq. Thomas S. Richards, Esq. Thomas F. Warfield Laura J. “Jinny” Loomis Kim VanGelder++ Chair Committee Judy von Bucher, Chair Jeremy A. Cooney, Esq. Richard J. Riedman Mary A. Worboys-Turner Kathy Nixon David P. Veniskey, CPA Carol H. Adams David R. Ferris, Esq., Co-Chair++ Michael F. Buckley, Esq. David R. Ferris, Esq. David A. Still, Chair-Elect Heidi N. Zimmer-Meyer, Vice Chair Kevin J. Parker, PhD Judy von Bucher Thomas R. Argust Kathy Nixon, Co-Chair++ Philip L. Burke, Esq. Mary A. Worboys-Turner Robert D. Baden G. Thomas Clark Heidi N. Zimmer-Meyer Ted Boucher Robert C. Silver, Chair+ Hanif Abdul-Wahid José J. Coronas

60 + 2014-15 only; ++ 2015-16 only; *Deceased racf.org 61 Feinbloom Supporting Catherine Stone+ Marsha Dumka Technology Task Force Yates Community Endowment John Wolf Karen Elam Foundation, Inc. Board of Kim VanGelder, Advisory Board Foundation Staff Pamela Whitmore Robert D. Hursh* Chair Directors William Abrams Lee Beaulac, ++ Richard Kaplan Co-Chair Joan L. Feinbloom, Robert D. Baden Katie Nord Peterson, The lists below identify staff members in photos from left to right. A staff directory with contact information is available at racf.org/Staff. President Beth H. Keigher Co-Chair Frederick C. Jefferson Jr., PhD Helen L. Morris Foundation Brett Coburn Thomas R. Argust, + Richard McGrath Co-Chair David P. Feinbloom Board Beth LaRocca Susan K. Andersen Caroline Merenda Stephen Feinbloom Jo Ann Deblinger, Chair Karen Robbins Robert L. Corcoran Linda W. Davey Sandra Tripp David P. Veniskey, CPA H. Taylor Fitch Robert D. Hursh, Esq.*+ Richard Gilbert Sands Family Supporting Caryl A. Flickinger Foundation Mimi Hwang++ Jennifer Leonard Wayne County Community Rita L. Gow Barbara J. Jones Patricia Campbell Richard Sands, President Endowment Advisory Ann McMullen Sarah F. Liebschutz, PhD Robert Sands, Vice President Committee Ellen O’Neill Lisa Rusitzky-Luxemberg Abigail Bennett Steven D. Stork++ NeighborGood Committee Clair J. Britt, Richard A. Schwartz James B. Brush Chair Frank P. Strong Jr.+ Hanif Abdul-Wahid, Gail Bedell Chair José J. Coronas Mary L. Worth Melisza Campos Peg Churchill Office of the President Advancement Finance and Communications Jennifer Leonard Bebette Yunis Marketing/Communications Mary V. Fisher, Esq. Sharon T. Lilla Thomas S. Richards, Esq. Administration Committee Barbara J. Jones Laura A. “Jinny” Loomis Jennifer Leonard Lauren Frank Isha Torres Ex officio: Virginia Brandreth, Chair Matthew McCarthy William A. McKee President & CEO Senior Director, Philanthropic Services Marlene A. Cole Event Administrator Lauren Frank, Secretary Dee Alexander Josanne Reaves Hugh Miner Receptionist and Senior Amy Vars, Treasurer Norma C. Galloway Dana K. Miller, CFRE Mary F. Holleran Rachel Baker August Joan Roby-Davison+ Robert Oaks Executive Assistant to the President Vice President, Advancement Administrative Assistant Vice President, Communications Todd Butler Richard A. Schwartz Pete Reid Louis Gattozzi Robert C. Silver+ Scholarship Advisory Marya Vande-Doyle Karen Koons Committee Kayleigh Rae Stampfler, CFRE Julie Johnson Jeff Gutenberg Mary B. Williams Major Gifts Officer Senior Director, Finance Multimedia Marketing Associate Daniel Hoh Professional Advisors Liaison Marvin J. Hoffman, MD, Chair Lynny Manus Patty Peters Denishea Ortiz Committee Jill M. Cicero, Esq. John F. Wegman Fund Gift Administrator John Rodriguez Michael J. Cooney, Esq. Advisory Committee Senior Program Services Administrator Elizabeth A. Thorley, Chair RACF Initiatives, Inc. Greg Smith Mary V. Fisher, Esq. Jeffrey J. Hand Susan E. Acker+ Kathy Cannon, Chair++ Danica Jones Brad VanAuken Annette Rouse Systems Administration Officer Rochester’s Child Richard J. Bucenec Tish Robinson, + Development Administrator ACT Rochester Margaret A. Sánchez Chair David R. Ferris, Esq. Peter Z. Adelstein Ann M. Johnson Nancy Kaplan Mary Seebach Nicole Scarborough Muriel H. Marshall Fund for Marcus W. Kroll, Esq. Daisy Rivera Algarin++ Kate Baker Senior Director Coordinator Stephanie Samuel Senior Accountant the Aging Planning Team Audrey Peartree, Esq. Ken Anderson Philanthropic Services Officer Richard A. Schwartz Community Programs Deborah Lattime, Timothy Shanahan Zola Brown Gail E. Dorr Greater Rochester Rochester Safe Chair Robert C. Silver Maura Monley Baron Wilfred Brooks Michael A. Tullio, CPA Tim Calkins Development Associate and After-School and Efficient Homes Alec Sutherland Lori Banning Research Administrator Ray Chaya Bruce Van Hise David M. Dworkin Scholarship and Grants Associate Property Manager Alliance Initiative John Demske Thomas P. Walpole, CPA Jonathan Garlock Lauri Van Hise Christina Dandino Elizabeth McDade Jacquelyn Dwyer+ Rick Warner Albert C. Snell Memorial Fund Richard Goldstein Hank Rubin, PhD Teresa Sheffield Director, Endowment Initiative Director Program Coordinator Lynn Eick+ Advisory Committee Michael T. Harren, Esq. Vice President, Community Programs Financial Services Administrator Mary Pat Hancock Stephen Snell, Chair Helen Hecker Joy Benson (not pictured) Rochester’s Child Working Mairéad Hartmann Amy S. Vars, CPA Carla Stough Huffman Lucine Kauffman Steven Ching, MD Sheila Dwyer Knipper+ Regional Coordinator (through August 2016) Committee Program Officer Senior Vice President & Program Assistant Linda Lewis Donald Grover, MD Lynette Saenz++ Richard A. Markus, Chief Financial Officer Peggy Lamb Chair Holly Hindman, MD Susan Touhsaent George M. Angle Patricia Campbell Quad A for Kids Mildred “Millie” Mruczek Sandra Kennedy Betty Wells Ted Boucher Senior Director, Community Programs Beverly Mancuso Robert Olsen, MD Philip H. Yawman III++ Adam McFadden James B. Brush Ruth Spink Christine Platt, MD Mary Hartstein Executive Director Jacqueline P. Cady Sarah Snell Singal, MD Program Associate Vincent Alexander III Saúl Maneiro Supervising Director Program Officer Jennifer Boutte LaKeya Hall (not pictured) Sustainability Manager Program Assistant 62 + 2014-15 only; ++ 2015-16 only; *Deceased racf.org 63 Acknowledgments How Endowment

Editor Mural Production Contributes to Change — Mary F. Holleran Painting of the mural (shown on this report’s back cover) was directed by Now and Forever Design Shawn Dunwoody, with assistance Antithesis Advertising from Karina Sáez-Bula and volunteers. Our region has an extraordinarily rich been stimulated and channeled. Julie Johnson The mural is located at 68 Scio Street tradition of philanthropy. Think of What’s more, grants from funds at in Rochester. The wall space was what has been achieved through the the Foundation often leverage other Writing graciously donated by Mark Cleary and generosity of individuals such as George contributions to grantee organizations, Eastman, Tom Golisano, Nettie Bullis or other financial aid in the case Mary F. Holleran City Blue Imaging, and the paint was Volunteers at work (see finished mural on back cover)—Photo by Erich Camping Tom Argust —Photo by Erich Camping of Macedon, and the Wilson, Gleason, of scholarships. So many times, Diana Louise Carter (Giving Circles donated by Sherwin-Williams. Sands, Strong, and Wadsworth families. contributions to the Foundation have story on page 4) awarding about $36,000 in grants. With help you achieve this. Create your own On the front cover: Mural painters Rochester Area Community Foundation For More Information gone further than the donor might ever at work (clockwise, starting at top) and Affiliates Form 990 financial reports Through the years, many other each passing year, the amount in the fund fund, or make a gift to our general Production This biennial report, detailed financial have imagined. continues to grow beyond the original gift endowment or any existing endowed Denishea Ortiz, Vicki and Dick Schwartz, are available at: information, and more about the work individuals and families have worked Julie Johnson quietly and behind the scenes to have The key to continued and lasting as does the impact its grants have on fund that mirrors your charitable Shawn Dunwoody, and Daniel and • racf.org/Financials; we do to help improve our eight-county Cohber Press, Inc. the community or a cause chosen by the interests. Investing in endowment Matthew Hoh. region may also be found on our website an impact on the communities we call impact for the region is endowment. • Guidestar.org; and fund’s donor. ensures that communities can always at and on our Facebook page. home. Some had significant wealth; Based at the Community Foundation, Photography On the back cover: The completed racf.org turn to the Community Foundation for • NYS Department of Law Charities Videos that further explain what we do others made it a priority to make a endowed funds — those that are If you are looking to create this kind of Erich Camping (erichcamping.com) mural with (left to right) Saúl Maneiro, Bureau, 120 Broadway, New York, NY difference with the resources they had. established to provide income forever leadership and resources — forever. Dick Schwartz, Virginia Brandreth, can be found on YouTube.com (search lasting impact and set an example for 10271 for RACF). — have been built by gifts from future generations, an endowment can Kate Melton (katemelton.com) Carolyn Argust, Karina Sáez-Bula, Mark For more than four decades, donors to individuals, families, businesses, Cleary, Daisy Rivera Algarin, Shawn Rochester Area Community Foundation Service Marks Email Address Request and other organizations. They are an Special thanks to the City of Rochester, Dunwoody, Josanne Reaves, and Tom have seen that through their gifts, Charitable Checking AccountSM, ongoing source of funding to address A Gift, its Growth, and Subsequent Grants the Strathallan, The Golden Fox, and Argust. (Volunteer Maria Cranker is not Technology helps us work more through every fund established here, Charitable Investor FundSM, and Give critical community needs today and the Town of Irondequoit for location pictured.) efficiently, respond faster, and use less the greater Rochester area has been 10 Years 25 Years 50 Years where you Live.SM are service prepare us to meet the unknown photos. paper. Please help us in our continuing changed for the better. Services Endowed Gift Grants Fund Grants Fund Grants Fund marks of Rochester Area Community needs of tomorrow. Financial Reports efforts to “be green” by sending your for youth, the elderly, and those Amount Issued* Value** Issued* Value** Issued* Value** Other photos were provided or taken Foundation. email address to us at [email protected]. $25,000† $12,720 $33,598 $36,459 $50,820 $112,797 $106,405 by staff members. Rochester Area Community Foundation challenged by health issues have been For example, one gift of $25,000 is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization DonorCentral is a service mark of strengthened; arts organizations have that establishes an endowment fund $100,000 $50,943 $134,292 $145,837 $203,279 $451,187 $425,622 Data Compilation recognized under section 501(c)(3) of MicroEdge, Inc. been sustained and fortified; leadership today will be worth an estimated $500,000 $254,715 $671,958 $729,185 $1,016,397 $2,255,937 $2,128,110 on poverty and education issues has $33,000 in 10 years and will have Thanks to Community Foundation staff. the Internal Revenue Code. $1,000,000 $509,431 $1,343,916 $1,458,371 $2,032,794 $4,511,875 $4,256,219 distributed nearly $13,000 in grants *Estimate of cumulative grants based on 5% annual payout; **Estimated market value based on 3% ROI net of fees and grants. during that decade. 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