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Buffalo Place Foundation

Downtown revitalization.

$263k
Granted FY2022
7
Grants FY2022
7
Organizations funded FY2022
71%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$41,834
Largest grant, FY2022
$42,357
Organizations funded a year
2 to 7
FY2020 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Total assets, FY2022
$202k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 71% of the organizations Buffalo Place Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 72% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $187k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

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Arts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20227$260k71%
FY20216$102k100%
FY20202$89kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Community Improvement$119kHousing & Shelter$115kArts & Culture$95kEmployment$80kMembership Benefit$42k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
483 Main Street LLC$80,2202n/a
Merchants Mutual$48,5191n/a
Main Theater Place LP Legacy Development$42,3571n/a
Praim110 Pearl LLC$42,2341n/a
New Niagara LLC$41,8341n/a
Ny300 Main Investors LLC$40,4002n/a
Jesse Zuefleblackhouse Properties$40,0001n/a
Alleyway Theatre Inc$23,06219%
Buffalo Urban League Inc$18,77010%
710 Main Street Inc$14,842119%
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All grantees of Buffalo Place Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
483 Main Street LLC$80,2202n/a
Merchants Mutual$48,5191n/a
Main Theater Place LP Legacy Development$42,3571n/a
Praim110 Pearl LLC$42,2341n/a
New Niagara LLC$41,8341n/a
Ny300 Main Investors LLC$40,4002n/a
Jesse Zuefleblackhouse Properties$40,0001n/a
Alleyway Theatre Inc$23,06219%
Buffalo Urban League Inc$18,77010%
710 Main Street Inc$14,842119%
487 Main Street LLC$9,7871n/a
Western Ny Book Arts Collaborative Inc$6,79112%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($42k), not named here.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Buffalo Place Foundation

How much does Buffalo Place Foundation give?
Buffalo Place Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $262,502 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
What does Buffalo Place Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2022, its largest causes are Community Improvement (26%), Housing & Shelter (25%), Arts & Culture (21%).
Who are Buffalo Place Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2022: 483 Main Street LLC ($80k), Merchants Mutual ($49k), Main Theater Place LP Legacy Development ($42k).
Does Buffalo Place Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Buffalo Place Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc.
Where is Buffalo Place Foundation based?
Buffalo Place Foundation is based in NY.

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 13 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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