· Community foundation
Buffalo Renaissance Foundation Inc
To foster a better quality of life in buffalo and the western new york region.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $92,200 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $102,200 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $10,000 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 $10k5 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RMHC OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC | $34,000 |
| BUFFALO YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION INC | $10,500 |
| BUFFALO CREEK ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT OF WNY | $9,200 |
| ASSEMBLY HOUSE 150 | $8,000 |
| NATIVITY MIGUEL MIDDLE SCHOOL OF BUFFALO | $7,600 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BUFFALO INC | $6,900 |
| 716 SQUASH INC | $6,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
The Buffalo Institiute for Contemporary Art (Bica) is a art and educational project for Buffalo, NY. Through Innovative exhibitions, cross-discipplinary skills-based programming, and arts ecology development, bica mission is to break down…
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.
Create new public golf and recreation amenities in the city of buffalo; assist in the restoration of frederick law olmsted's south park arboretum; and construct a new education center for underserved, minority youth.
The buffalo maritime center's mission is to provide everyone the opportunity to experience the hoy of being on the water, to learn maritime history, and to achieve higher levels of craftmanship.
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…
The organization operates an incubator facility to identify and aid start-up businesses with a purpose of stimulating development and increasing interaction between the university at buffalo and such businesses.
East Buffalo Development Corporation is a community-based real estate development corporation committed to our mission of leveraging private and public funds to drive equitable and inclusive eastside planning, construction, land use, and…
Open Buffalo's mission is to advance racial, economic, and ecological justice through skill building, network connecting, and activating leadership opportunities with the ultimate goal for all communities in Western New York to thrive free…
The lipsey architecture center buffalo (the center) explores excellence in architecture and city planning as demonstrated by buffalo's outstanding architectural heritage. located in the richardson olmstead complex, the center will provide…
Preservation, protection and restoration of the buffalo new york lighthouses and to maintain and develop the area surrounding them in accordance with their historical significance.
To foster a better quality of life in buffalo and the western new york region.
Support the urban economic development efforts of the region through the acquisition, remediation and management of distressed properties
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 The Tool Library Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
22 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.
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 Resource Council of WNY Inc ↗
- Who funds RMHC OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BUFFALO SPORTS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds University at Buffalo Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO NAVAL PARK COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO CREEK ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY-LONGVIEW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds THE SERVICE COLLABORATIVE OF WNY ↗
- Who funds ASSEMBLY HOUSE 150 INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds 716 Squash Inc ↗
- Who funds ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE 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 · The John R Oishei Foundation · Cullen Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc · Cullen Foundation of Western New York Inc · The Baird Foundation · The Osc Charitable Foundation · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · Simple Gifts Fund
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 Renaissance Foundation 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.
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