· Community foundation
Buffalo-Erie Marathon Association Inc
To promote interest in marathoning including the organization and conducting of marathon events which would be of a competitive nature, to give and promote entertainment, lectures, social affairs, award ceremonies, exhibitions, races and fun runs; to promote participation in civic events and issue general information bulletins relating…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $34,896 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $96,546 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $61,650 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $28k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KALEIDA HEALTH FOUNDATION | $28,146 |
| NICKLE CITY SPLASHUB FOUNDATION | $6,750 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your 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.
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 +84% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
KALEIDA HEALTH FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $151k · revenue +35%- PAPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF BUFFALO3× · 2017–2019 · $48k · revenue +84%
- GOGIRLS ON THE RUN OF BUFFALO INC3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- ACAMHERST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -92%
- ECERIE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue +41%
- HFHOSPICE FOUNDATION OF WNY INCone grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +24%
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 promote public awareness of the financial needs of zoological society of buffalo, inc. (the buffalo zoo) as well as the full time devotion to seeking, receiving, holding, maintaining, and reinvesting funds on behalf of buffalo zoo.
To advance the health of our community by providing care management and support to families experiencing physical, mental, or behavioral issues with their child. this is done by advancing innovative practices, by collaborating with…
To assist the faculty of the department of pediatrics at the university at buffalo in the delivery of health care, improve the ability of the faculty to perform clinical research, maximize resources to foster academic, research and…
The legal aid bureau of buffalo, inc., a not-for-profit organization, provides legal representation to financially needy men, women and children in western new york. through its skilled staff, the legal aid bureau seeks equal justice for…
To provide a safe, adequate supply of voluntarily donated blood for patients seeking medical services in northwestern pennsylvania and western new york hospitals.
The organization's exempt purpose is to promote and cultivate the quality of education and activities for students of the state university of new york at buffalo. the organization carries out those charitable and educational purposes by…
Invest buffalo niagara foundation, inc. is a vehicle to solicit charitable contributions to develop programs, collaborate with, and provide funding to organizations that advance and encourage economic development in western new york.
The organization was formed for the specific purpose of operating, maintaining and protecting parks and public spaces in the city of buffalo, new york, including but not limited to parks and public spaces owned or operated by the city of…
To enhance the quality of life in the Western New York region and its surrounding communities by providing financial, leadership and other resources to improve the community and by coordinating, supporting, participating in and…
The mission of the community foundation for greater buffalo, inc. (the foundation) is to connect people, ideas and resources to improve lives in western new york. since its establishment in 1919, the foundation has been committed to…
Operation pets provides high quality, high volume, affordable spay and neuter services to the underserved population of western new york including outreach to local animal welfare groups.
Inspire joyful exploration of science and nature through engaging experiences, unique resources, and exceptional staff.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Hospital of Buffalo Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Boys On the Right Track Incorporate D. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 17 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 KALEIDA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN OF BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF METRO NEW YORK AND WESTERN NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ERIE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF WNY INC ↗
- Who funds University at Buffalo Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS ON THE RIGHT TRACK INCORPORATE D ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CITY OF BUFFALO ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS ESCAPING DRUGS INC ↗
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 · Joanne and Frank Collins Charitable Foundation · Ferguson Electric Foundation · The Osc Charitable Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · The Rme Foundation Inc · Aquino Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Independent Health Association Inc · Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc · E&W G Foundation · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · Nfl Foundation Inc
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 Buffalo-Erie Marathon Association Inc 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.
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.