New York · Public charity
Buffalo Rotary Foundation Inc
The foundation is organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes. Grants are awarded for religious, charitable, scientific, literary, educational purposes or for the prevention of cruelty to children or animals.
- $60k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 80%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $32k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $9,850
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 7
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 80% of the organizations Buffalo Rotary Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 83% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $32k | 75% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $35k | 80% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $26k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $62k | 83% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $63k | 71% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $41k | 83% |
| FY2017 | 6 | $37k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rotary International | $38,153 | 6 | 0% |
| Buffalo and Erie County Public Library Co | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Society of St Vincent de Paul of Buffalo & Western New York Inc | $17,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Buffalo Prenatal-Perinatal Network Inc | $13,974 | 2 | 0% |
| Harvest House Buffalo Inc | $13,000 | 3 | 1% |
| City Mission Society Inc | $12,446 | 2 | 0% |
| Rmhc of Western New York Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 13% |
| Frank Lloyd Wright's Martin House Corporation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Foundation for Deaf Education Inc | $9,850 | 1 | 3% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Buffalo Rotary Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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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 · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · First Niagara Foundation · United Way of Buffalo and Erie County · The Western New York Foundation · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · East Hill Foundation · Rich Family Foundation · Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc
How this is measured
About Buffalo Rotary Foundation Inc
- How much does Buffalo Rotary Foundation Inc give?
- Buffalo Rotary Foundation Inc reported 4 itemized grants totaling $31,724, out of $59,624 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Buffalo Rotary Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (37%), Arts & Culture (16%), Education (13%).
- Who are Buffalo Rotary Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Rotary International ($38k), Buffalo and Erie County Public Library Co ($20k), Society of St Vincent de Paul of Buffalo & Western New York Inc ($18k).
- Does Buffalo Rotary Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Buffalo Rotary Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, The John R Oishei Foundation, Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc.
- Where is Buffalo Rotary Foundation Inc based?
- Buffalo Rotary Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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