The RCIPA Community Health & Education Foundation, Inc. (RCIPA Foundation) was created in 1996 as a 501(c)(3) charitable foundation with the mission of supporting non-profit organizations whose activites are related to community health and welfare, medical education and the health sciences and are located in Rochester, New York and the surrounding counties of Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Orleans, Seneca, Wayne, Wyoming, and Yates. The RCIPA Foundation was created by the Rochester Community Individual Practice Association, Inc. (RCIPA) to serve as the charitable arm of RCIPA's physician-led healthcare and business activities.

The RCIPA Foundation is now a Private Foundation fully-supported by RCIPA with the same historical mission of supplying funding assistance to non-profit Rochester-area organizations serving the healthcare needs of the Rochester-community notably underserved populations—the RCIPA Foundation also funds academic (both doctors & nursing) and continuing medical education via endowments, scholarships & fellowships through Rochester-area universites & colleges and local hospital systems.


Spring 2025 Donations

Ability Partners 2025 Gala (gold sponsor)
Camp Good Days and Special Times (Teddi's Team Camp Program)
Canandaigua Lake Watershed Association
Cure Childhood Cancer Association (Agnes K. Mackey Memorial Fund)
Family Promise of Ontario (Canadaigua Family Shelter)
George Eastman Circle Scholarship Fund
Imagination Library (Rochester Education Foundation)
Jewish Family Services of Rochester (Brighton Food Cupboard)
Refugees Helping Refugees
Rochester Regional Health Foundation
St. Ann's Foundation (Music Therapy Program)
St. Joseph's Neighborhood Center (Mobile Outreach Van)
St. Joseph's Neighborhood 2025 31st Annual Fund Raiser
St. Peter's Kitchen
University of Rochester (Medical Student Emergency Fund)
YMCA Rochester Splash Week 2025

Fall 2025 Donations

East House (Healthcare Closet)
Family Promise of Ontario (Canadaigua Family Shelter)
Finger Lakes Migrant Health (SBHC Dental Program)
Finger Lakes Regional Burn Association
Foodlink (Healthy Meals Community Kitchen)
Happiness House (Endowment Fund)
Healthcare Business Academy: 2026 Fellowship Program
Ibero American Action League (program TBD)
Jewish Home Foundation (Physician Home Visit Program)
Pittsford Youth Services (Mental Health Counseling)
Project Hope (Food Pantry)
Rochester Regional Health Foundation (Health Reach Fund)
Ronald McDonald House (House within the Hospital 2026)
School of the Holy Childhood (Endowment Fund)
Wegmans School of Nursing (St. John Fisher) (Endowment Fund)
Willow Domestic Violence Center (Deaf IGNITE Program)


Spring 2024 Donations

Ability Partners Foundation
Bivona Child Advocacy Center
Cameron Community Ministries
Daystar for Medically Fragile Children Inc.
East House
Father Tracy Advocacy Center
Finger Lakes Regional Burn Association
Fostering Hopes NY, Inc.
George Eastman Circle Scholarship Fund
Mary Cariola Childrens Center
University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry (Endowed Scholarship Fund)
St. Joseph's Neighborhood Center, Inc.
Trillium Health: Food Pantry (Adopt-a-Shelf)

Fall 2024 Donations

CP Rochester (Special-Needs Dental Clinic)
Eastman Institute for Oral Health (SmileMobile Program)
Family Promise of Greater Rochester, Inc.
Finger Lakes Health System Agency (Common Ground Health)
FoodLink (Healthy Meals Community Kitchen)
Grace of God Recovery House
Healthcare Business Academy: 2025 Fellowship Program
Huther Doyle Substance Abuse Services of Rochester
Nazareth University (Nursing Endowment)
Rochester Regional Health (Healthy Moms Program)
Ronald McDonald House (House within the Hospital 2025)
School of the Holy Childhood (Special Touch Bakery)
Trillium Health (Protect with PrEP Program)


For over 25 years, the RCIPA Foundation has donated brand-new stuffed animals to local children's charities for the holidays.

Holiday 2024—Elephant

Asbury First Storehouse
Child Advocacy Center of Rochester
Catholic Charities of Rochester
Child Life Program Rochester Regional Health
CP (cerebral palsy) Rochester
Crisis Nursery Center for Youth
Cure Childhood Cancer Rochester
Daystar for Medically Fragile Children
Family Promise of Rochester
Familiy Promise of Ontario County
Fostering Hopes Backpack Program
Golisano Children's Hospital
Happiness House Austism Center
Hillside Children's Center Santa Program

Ibero-American Action League
Making Spirits Bright
Marine Corps Toys for Tots
Mary Cariola Children's Center
Owens House Crisis Nursery
Pirate Toy Fund Rochester
Rochester School District (school 24)
Ronald McDonald House
Salvation Army
The Bethany House
The School of the Holy Childhood
Villa of Hope
Volunteers of America Rochester
Willow Domestic Violence Center

Holiday 2023—Wooly Mammoth

Asbury First Storehouse
Bivona Child Advocacy Center
Catholic Charities of Rochester
Child Life Program Rochester Regional Health
Compeer of Rochester
CP (cerebral palsy) Rochester
Crisis Nursery Center for Youth
Cure Childhood Cancer Rochester
Daystar for Medically Fragile Children
Fostering Hopes Backpack Program
Happiness House austism Center
Hillside Children's Center Santa Program

Making Spirits Bright
Marine Corps Toys for Tots
Mary Cariola Children's Center
Owens House Crisis Nursery
Pirate Toy Fund Rochester
Ronald McDonald House
Salvation Army
The Bethany House
Villa of Hope
Wilson Commencement Center


Building a strong
foundation…

…for a healthy
Rochester