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Arts Services Initiative of Western New YORK INC

Arts services inc.

$401k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $142,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $400,621 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $258,121 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $104k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$641k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ADE JEMBE FOLA$12,000
GWBN INC DBA GARDENS BUFFALO NIAGARA$12,000
COMMUNITY CANVASES$10,000
Pappy Martin Legacy Jazz Collective$10,000
SOCIAL JUSTICE COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROJECT INC$10,000
WAHI STUDIO INC$10,000
CHAUTAUQUA REGION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$10,000
THE COLLABORATION CENTER FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION$10,000
SOTTO VOCE INC$10,000
MOMENTUM CHOIR INC$10,000
LOCK CITY SOUND$9,500
AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER$7,500
TOWN OF BOSTON$7,500
BUFFALO AND BRANDY INC$7,000
AMERICAN LEGION BAND OF THE TONAWANDAS$7,000
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NET POSITIVE INC: $10k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

13%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$89k · 5 repeat orgs$589k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
36

Total granted

$89k
$493k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

80%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TC
    THE COLLABORATIVE CENTER FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +11%
  • PAPPY MARTIN LEGACY JAZZ COLLECTIVE INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • GI
    GWBN Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • SC
    SPRINGVILLE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • BA
    BALLET ARTISTS OF WESTERN NEW YORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +31%
  • THE NIAGARA ARTS AND CULTURAL CENTER INC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
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.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art

The Buffalo Institiute for Contemporary Art (Bica) is a art and educational project for Buffalo, NY. Through Innovative exhibitions, cross-discipplinary skills-based programming, and arts ecology development, bica mission is to break down…

Arts & Culture
2
Cny Arts Inc

CNY Arts' mission is to promote, support, and celebrate arts and culture in Central New York.

Arts & Culture
3
Cny Arts Center Inc

The organization's mission is to offer training and educational opportunities in artistic skills and technique; and present programming in visual, literary and performing arts.

Arts & Culture
4
Bronx Arts Ensemble Inc

To further art education and appreciation.

Arts & Culture
5
Bradford Creative and Performing Arts Center Inc

Provide quality, diverse arts programming to impact our communities and enrich people's lives in the twin tiers

Arts & Culture
6
The Bronx Council On the Arts Incorporated

A pioneering advocate for cultural equity, the bronx council on the arts nurtures the development of diverse artists and arts organizations and build strong cultural connections in and beyond the bronx.

Arts & Culture
7
Basilica Arts Inc

Basilica arts is a multidisciplinary arts center in hudson, ny that supports the creation, production, and presentation of arts and culture while fostering sustainable community relations. the organization's events include music,…

Arts & Culture
8
Broome County Arts Council

To promote a thriving arts community, essential to the quality of life in broome county ny and advance the awareness and value of the arts through advocacy, fundraising, grant making, services, and programs.

Arts & Culture
9
Lawrence Arts Center Inc

The mission of the lawrence arts center is to create meaningful arts experiences with and for the community through education, exhibitions, and performances.

Arts & Culture
10
Binghamton Philharmonic Inc

The mission of the Binghamton Philharmonic is building community through the power of live music.

Arts & Culture
11
Great Lakes Center for the Arts

The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.

Arts & Culture
12
Western Ny Book Arts Collaborative Inc

To promote, encourage and develop printing and book related arts through education and access for individual artists and underserved communities.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Buffalo String Works Inc; the most unlike its peers is Community Canvases Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 51 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
16/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SPRINGVILLE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureSPRINGVILLE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INCBALLET ARTISTS OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET ARTISTS OF WESTERN NEW YORK INCTHE NIAGARA ARTS AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NIAGARA ARTS AND CULTURAL CENTER INCBUFFALO STRING WORKS INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO STRING WORKS INCASSEMBLY HOUSE 150 INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureASSEMBLY HOUSE 150 INCGRAYCLIFF CONSERVANCY INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureGRAYCLIFF CONSERVANCY INCYOUNG AUDIENCES OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC D/B/A ARTS FOR LEARNING WNY: $20,000 · Arts & CultureYOUNG AUDIENCES OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC D/B/A ARTS FOR LEARNIN…Community Music School: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCommunity Music SchoolPAPPY MARTIN LEGACY JAZZ COLLECTIVE INC: $20,000 · Arts & CulturePAPPY MARTIN LEGACY JAZZ COLLECTIVE INCBUFFALO ARTS STUDIO: $20,000 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO ARTS STUDIOAmerican Legion Band of the Tonawandas Inc: $14,500 · Arts & Culture+16 more: $157,500 · Arts & Culture+16 moreALLEYWAY THEATRE INC: $20,000 · OtherALLEYWAY THEATRE INCROYCROFT CAMPUS CORPORATION: $20,000 · OtherROYCROFT CAMPUS CORPORATIONINFINITY VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS INC: $20,000 · OtherINFINITY VISUAL & PERFORMING…TOWN OF BOSTON: $15,000 · OtherTOWN OF BOSTONADE JEMBE FOLA: $12,000 · OtherADE JEMBE FOLABUFFALO FREEDOM GARDENS INC: $10,000 · OtherBUFFALO FREEDOM GARDENS INCSOCIAL JUSTICE COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROJECT INC: $10,000 · OtherSOCIAL JUSTICE COMMUNITY EDU…MOMENTUM CHOIR INC: $10,000 · OtherMOMENTUM CHOIR INCSOTTO VOCE INC: $10,000 · OtherSOTTO VOCE INCFENTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF JAMESTOWN NEW YORK: $10,000 · OtherFENTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF…LOCK CITY GLEE CLUB INC: $9,500 · OtherLOCK CITY GLEE CLUB INCCHAUTAUQUA REGIONAL YOUTH SYMPHONY: $7,500 · OtherPRESBYTERY OF WESTERN NEW YORK: $7,500 · OtherBUFFALO & BRANDY INC: $7,000 · OtherDAVID A HOWE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $20,000 · EducationENLIGHTENMENT BOOKSTORE AND LITERARY ARTS CENTER INC: $10,000 · EducationCUBA CIRCULATING LIBRARY: $10,000 · EducationGWBN Inc: $19,500 · Community ImprovementCHAUTAUQUA REGION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 · Community ImprovementBUFFALO MARITIME CENTER INC: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsKENAN CENTER INC: $7,500 · Recreation & SportsTHE COLLABORATIVE CENTER FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ERIE COUNTY INC: $10,000 · HealthNet Positive Inc: $10,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$372,000Other$168,500Education$40,000Community Improvement$29,500Recreation & Sports$27,500Youth Development$20,000Health$10,000Human Services$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSPRINGVILLE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBALLET ARTISTS OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE NIAGARA ARTS AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBUFFALO STRING WORKS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE COLLABORATIVE CENTER FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetBUFFALO MARITIME CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetASSEMBLY HOUSE 150 INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetGRAYCLIFF CONSERVANCY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetALLEYWAY THEATRE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetYOUNG AUDIENCES OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC D/B/A ARTS FOR LEARNING WNY: $20,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetDAVID A HOWE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCommunity Music School: $20,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetROYCROFT CAMPUS CORPORATION: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPAPPY MARTIN LEGACY JAZZ COLLECTIVE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetINFINITY VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBUFFALO ARTS STUDIO: $20,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetGWBN Inc: $19,500 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetAmerican Legion Band of the Tonawandas Inc: $14,500 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetCenter for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHEATRE OF YOUTH COMPANY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSECOND GENERATION THEATRE COMPANY: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBUFFALO MEDIA RESOURCES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNUSANTARA ARTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetENLIGHTENMENT BOOKSTORE AND LITERARY ARTS CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budget1891 FREDONIA OPERA HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ERIE COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBFM Arts Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetNet Positive Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHAMBURG NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetUJIMA COMPANY INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSTITCH BUFFALO INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMUSIC IS ART: $10,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetWAHI STUDIO INC: $10,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCOMMUNITY CANVASES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetFENTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF JAMESTOWN NEW YORK: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetBUFFALO OPERA UNLIMITED INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCUBA CIRCULATING LIBRARY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetKENAN CENTER INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

Community Foundation …The Western New York …Cullen FoundationThe John R Oishei Fou…Cullen Foundation of …Children's Foundation…The Richard W Rupp Fo…The Margaret L Wendt …First Niagara Foundat…New York Council for …New York Council of N…Simple Gifts Fund
Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY65.1× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The Western New York Foundation · Cullen Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · Cullen Foundation of Western New York Inc · Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc · The Richard W Rupp Foundation · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · New York Council for the Humanities · New York Council of Nonprofits Inc · Simple Gifts Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Arts Services Initiative of Western New YORK INC funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arts Services Initiative of Western New YORK INC. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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