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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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of BERNARD & ESTELLE SIEGEL FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $100,000 |
| FEEDMORE WNY FOUNDATION | $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 |
| SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE | $10,000 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| VETERANS ADMINISTRATION | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Bernard & Estelle Siegel Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +1% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you 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
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- 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%
- PFPets for Vets Incone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — 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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wny Heroes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your 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 THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds WNY HEROES 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 Pets for Vets Inc ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HONORS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KEVIN GUEST HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SISTERS OF CHARITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Bernard & Estelle Siegel Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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