· Public charity
43north Bpc Inc
To conduct a global business plan competition promoting the buffalo/niagara region and western new york as an emerging entrepreneurial center of activity for startup companies, to attract new businesses and new business ideas to western new york, and to provide financial and entrepreneurial support to contest winners and other startups…
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k4 grants · $467k
- $250k+6 grants · $5.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ZAM HELMETS INC | $1,000,000 |
| G CARDS INC | $900,000 |
| LEAPING HARTS INC (DBA KREDIT ACADEMY) | $900,000 |
| GUIDESLY INC | $900,000 |
| STEPWISE ELECTRIC INC | $900,000 |
| EMPIRICAN GROUP INC | $500,000 |
| OUIBY INC | $166,666 |
| OTRAFY INC | $100,000 |
| MOD TECH LABS INC | $100,000 |
| TASKUNITE INC | $100,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.6M went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AIAIRZAAR INC2× · 2020–2021 · $1.3M
- CACHANGE AI INC (DBA HIOPERATOR)2× · 2019–2020 · $1.3M
- KIKANGAROOTIME INC2× · 2018–2021 · $1.0M
Funded once
- 4F43NORTH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $3.5M · revenue -94%
- SISPARKCHARGE INCone grant, 2019 · $1.0M
- SISOMADETECT INCone grant, 2018 · $1.0M
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
1 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1 of the 786 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: National Council for Community Development Inc · Local Initiatives Support Corporation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization 43north Bpc Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from 43north Bpc Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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