Katie Harper Youth Hope Grants
Funding Amount
Not stated
Deadline
Deadline not published
Grant Type
Foundation
Can we apply?
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Eligible organizations
- Applicants must be 501(c)(3) organizations within the eight-county region around Rochester, NY (Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Orleans, Seneca, Wayne, and Yates counties).
Required status
- 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status
Other requirements
- _You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's [website](https://www.racf.org/grant/katie-harper-youth-hope-grants/)._
Not eligible / not funded
- Not eligible: Special events
- Not eligible: Fundraising campaigns
- Not eligible: Religious activities
- Not eligible: Endowments
- Not eligible: Buildings (except for historical assets)
- Not eligible: Debt retirement
Overview
Rochester Area Community Foundation
At the Foundation, donors are partners and every gift is an investment in a better future.
Katie Harper Youth Hope Grants
To meet the emergency needs of individual children who have been injured or experienced catastrophic illness and whose families cannot afford to pay all of the related expenses. Grants may be used for medical expenses, specialized equipment, therapy/rehab costs, transportation to treatment, or adaptive capital improvements, or other similar expenses. Grants will be paid through a nonprofit organization working with the family. Grants are limited to one per family.
Eligibility
_You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website._
- Applicants must be 501(c)(3) organizations within the eight-county region around Rochester, NY (Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Orleans, Seneca, Wayne, and Yates counties).
Ineligibility
- The Community Foundation’s competitive grants program generally does not fund special events, fundraising campaigns, religious activities, endowments, buildings (except for historical assets), or debt retirement.
What Rochester Area Community Foundation actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2025
- Grants in 2025
- 554
- Total given
- $22.89M
- Median grant
- $15K
- Range
- $5,098–$558K
- By dollars: New York 85%, North Carolina 3%, Maine 2%. Top recipient cities: Rochester, NY; Geneva, NY; Palmyra, NY.
- 0% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
- 32% of recipients were new grantees, not repeat recipients.
Example grants
St Lawrence University · Canton, NY
Higher education
$558K
Friends of Acadia · Bar Harbor, ME
Environment
$500K
St Johns Health Foundation · Jackson, WY
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$500K
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra · Rochester, NY
Music
$470K
University of Rochester Gifts & Donor Records · Rochester, NY
Higher education
$456K
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Nonprofits
- Hardship
- Healthcare
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