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 2024 Gifts

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
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 Gifts

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 Program
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 Sponsor-a-Room Program
School of the Holy Childhood (Special Touch Bakery)
Trillium Health: Protect with PrEP Program

For over 25 years, the RCIPA Foundation has provided stuffed animals to local children's charities for the holidays—2023 recipients:

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 4 Youth
Cure Childhood Cancer
Daystar for Medically Fragile Children
Fostering Hopes Backpack Program
Happiness House
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
Ronald McDonald House
Salvation Army
The Bethany House
Villa of Hope
Wilson Commencement Center

Building a strong
foundation…

…for a healthy
Rochester