· Public charity
Buffalo Rotary Foundation Inc
The foundation is organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $31,724 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $59,624 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $27,900 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $10,000 |
| ST MARY'S SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF | $9,850 |
| BUFFAL PRENATAL - PERINATAL NETWORK | $6,474 |
| BIG BIG TABLE COMMUNITY CAFE | $5,400 |
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 (FY17–25, $60k) 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.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- RIROTARY INTERNATIONAL6× · 2017–2022 · $38k · revenue +32%
BUFFALO PRENATAL-PERINATAL NETWORK INC2× · 2022–2025 · $14k · revenue +39%- HHHARVEST HOUSE BUFFALO INC3× · 2018–2024 · $13k · revenue +109%
Funded once
- BABUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY COone grant, 2019 · $20k
SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BUFFALO & WESTERN NEW YORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $18k · revenue +42%- NFNIAGARA FRONTIER RADIO READING SERVICE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +97%
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.
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 improve the quality of life of the people and neighborhoods we serve by preparing, equipping and empowering them to meet the challenges of contemporary urban life and realize their full potential.
To acquire and renovate real property in western new york to establish and maintain facilities for the temporary and permanent housing of needy veterans and other special needs individuals.
To provide rehabilitative housing services and support to help people with psychiatric disabilities reintegrate into the community.the agency provides rehabilitative housing services and staff support as a primary mechanism for achieving…
Lawny increases access to justice through excellent legal representation, advocacy and service.
Food bank of central new york is a not-for-profit organization: our mission is to lead the effort to eliminate hunger in our region, through partnerships with others in our community, through education, advocacy, and distribution of…
The organization provides charitable relief in the form of emergency shelter, material needs, and compassionate care for the homeless and persons in need in the eastern niagara county, new york area.
To acquire, remediate, and steward lands along wny's waterfronts prioritizing public access.
We work to eliminate housing discrimination, promote open communities, and ensure equal access to housing opportunity for all people in central and northern new york.
We welcome all western new yorkers for high quality, patient-centered primary healthcare.
To attract new employers to the buffalo niagara region through outreach to growing companies around the world. to support business attraction, expansion and entrepreneurship, invest buffalo niagara collaborates with local businesses,…
RAWNY is dedicated to serving our community by supporting the men and women who have experienced incarceration, and the agencies that serve them, to ensure anyone reentering has access to needed resources and support.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Buffalo Renaissance Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Buffalo Scholastic Rowing Association 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 35 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.
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, 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 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BUFFALO & WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO PRENATAL-PERINATAL NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOUSE BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds RMHC OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA FRONTIER RADIO READING SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S MARTIN HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR DEAF EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Avenue Project Inc ↗
- Who funds HOMESPACE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO NAVAL PARK COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds ASSEMBLY HOUSE 150 INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NIGHT PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION OF MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY-LONGVIEW INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO SCHOLASTIC ROWING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO MARITIME CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF WESTERN NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE AGAINST TRAFFICKING HUMANS INC (AKA PATH) ↗
- Who funds CHILD CARE COALITION OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIER INC ↗
- Who funds LOCUST STREET NEIGHBORHOOD ART CLASSES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF ERIE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds VIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds BIG BIG TABLE COMMUNITY CAFE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SENECA BABCOCK COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GERARD PLACE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND COMPANY 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 · 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
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 Rotary 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.