New York · Private foundation
Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 156
- Grants FY2024
- 203
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 76%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $295,634
- Organizations funded a year
- 39 to 203
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 76% of the organizations Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $406k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 97 | $1.9M | 52% |
| FY2023 | 203 | $1.5M | 76% |
| FY2022 | 74 | $1.5M | 72% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $698k | 72% |
| FY2020 | 58 | $658k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buffalo Go Green Inc | $655,874 | 4 | 25% |
| United Way of Buffalo and Erie County | $514,896 | 3 | 3% |
| Ecmc Foundation Inc | $303,325 | 4 | 4% |
| Providence Farm Collective Corp | $263,407 | 4 | 6% |
| Buffalo Prep Inc | $200,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Fanthem Foundation Inc | $200,000 | 4 | 13% |
| Cattaraugus Community Action Inc | $170,728 | 1 | 1% |
| Police Athletic League of Buffalo | $129,231 | 4 | 4% |
| Cooperative Extension Association in the State of N Y | $103,564 | 2 | n/a |
| Share Our Strength | $100,800 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 203 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 140 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 162 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 · The John R Oishei Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · United Way of Buffalo and Erie County · First Niagara Foundation · Rich Family Foundation · Buffalo Sabres Foundation · Cullen Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · The Frank G Raichle Foundation · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc
How this is measured
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About Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc
- How much does Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc give?
- Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc reported 156 grants totaling $1,928,427 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 203 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (20%), Food & Nutrition (17%), Health (11%).
- Who are Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Buffalo Go Green Inc ($656k), United Way of Buffalo and Erie County ($515k), Ecmc Foundation Inc ($303k).
- Does Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 76% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, The John R Oishei Foundation, The Western New York Foundation.
- Where is Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc based?
- Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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