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Bernard & Estelle Siegel Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $693k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $150,000 |
| DAEMEN UNIVERSITY | $108,000 |
| FEEDMORE WNY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $100,000 |
| JERICHO ROAD COMMUNITY HEALTH CTR | $75,000 |
| FRIENDS OF NIGHT PEOPLE INC | $60,000 |
| GOODWILL OF WESTERN NEW YORK | $50,000 |
| WNY HEROES INC | $50,000 |
| NORTHLAND WORKFORCE TRAINING CENTER | $25,000 |
| NORTHLAND WORKFORCE TRAINING CENTER | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| VETERANS ADMINISTRATION | $10,000 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS | $10,000 |
| SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $275k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of Bernard & Estelle Siegel Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DUDAEMEN UNIVERSITY4× · 2022–2025 · $367k · revenue +4%
SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BUFFALO & WESTERN NEW YORK INC4× · 2022–2025 · $276k · revenue +42%
JERICHO ROAD MINISTRIES INC3× · 2023–2025 · $135k · revenue +56%
Funded once
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue 0%- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEone grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue 0%
K9S FOR WARRIORS INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · 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.
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.
To acquire and renovate real property in western new york to establish and maintain facilities for the temporary and permanent housing of needy veterans and other special needs individuals.
This healthcare hospitality house provides a "home away from home" accomodations to patients and families of patients who are receiving medical care in central new york.
To provide the highest level of professional and paraprofessional home health care services with care, compassion, and allowing patients to remain in their own home. We meet our mission by operating a licensed home care agency providing…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
The organizations purpose is to provide physical, emotional, and spiritual relief to the homeless,poor and distressed, and to share the gospel of jesus christ - supported by hearts foundation, inc.
We. empower. veterans. the veterans one-stop center of wny, inc. is the region's premiere veterans service and advocacy not-for-profit collaborative agency empowering veterans, veteran families and service members in achieving economic…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
To provide a home and an extended family to persons with terminal illnesses so they can die with dignity surrounded by the unconditional love of god. we will use our lived experience as a resource for others.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christs healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 26 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
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.
- Who funds DAEMEN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BUFFALO & WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDMORE WNY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JERICHO ROAD MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WNY HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NIGHT PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds Pets for Vets Inc ↗
- Who funds CITY HONORS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SISTERS OF CHARITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KEVIN GUEST HOUSE INC ↗
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: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · The Richard W Rupp Foundation · Buffalo Sabres Foundation · The Baird Foundation · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · The Western New York Foundation · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Evans Devereux Memorial Fund Ua 11 Uw Virginia Devereux · Patrick P Lee Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bernard & Estelle Siegel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bernard & Estelle Siegel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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