How much did BUFFALO SABRES FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

BUFFALO SABRES FOUNDATION reported 34 grants totaling $1,252,405 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is BUFFALO SABRES FOUNDATION based?

BUFFALO SABRES FOUNDATION is based in NY.

BUFFALO SABRES FOUNDATION

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· Public charity

BUFFALO SABRES FOUNDATION

Stimulate, support and encourage organizations that serve western new york which are committed to youth hockey initiatives; the health, wellness and education of underprivileged / disadvantaged youth and military personnel; and physically and mentally challenged athletes, by providing financial generosity and other platforms for their…

$1.3M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$333k

Largest

01What you fund

0187% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Recreation & Sports$2.8MPhilanthropy$1.2MYouth Development$690kHealth$396kArts & Culture$312kEducation$204kHuman Services$198kCrime & Legal$191kHousing & Shelter$90kOther$1.1M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

participateveteranshasek's heroesrecreationenablecaringice rinks

2019

core values-ourparticipatehomelesswomen childrenbelievegodjesus christ

2020

covidnys officeprimaryconnect ideasideas livesvohedoh

2021

glysgaylesbianbisexualawareness

2022

prideniagaracore values-ourhealthyhomelessenhancesgreen

2023

ice skatingprideresourcerefugeesbornhava'snurtureempowering

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k9 grants · $74k
$10k–50k20 grants · $294k
$50k–250k4 grants · $341k
$250k+1 grant · $333k

$10,500

Median grant

States reached

$537k

Total assets

Largest grants

BUFFALO JUNIOR SABRES$333,333
RESOURCE COUNCIL OF WNY INC$129,500
ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION$101,751
FANTHEM FOUNDATION INC$60,035
MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATES OF WNY$50,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$28,729
WESTERN NEW YORK SPECIAL HOCKEY ASSOCIATION$20,000
BUFFALO SABRES SLED HOCKEY TEAM$20,000
SABAH$20,000
BUFFALO CITY MISSION$20,000
BUFFALO WARRIORS HOCKEY$20,000
HASEK'S HEROES$20,000
BUFFALO PREP$16,000
MIRACLE LEAGUE OF GRAND ISLAND AND WNY INC$14,550
EVERGREEN HEALTH SERVICES$13,500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $198k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$5.7M · 39 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

39 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.7M

$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%

+23%

Still filing today

85%

73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $192k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Recreation & SportsHealthEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

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

BJ
BUFFALO JUNIOR SABRES
8× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +6% · 29% of their budget
RC
RESOURCE COUNCIL OF WNY INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $568k · revenue +198% · 37% of their budget
SAVING GRACE MINISTRIES
3× · 2017–2023 · $191k · revenue +6%

Funded once

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALOgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $353k · revenue +37%
AS
ADPRO SPORTS
one grant, 2020 · $145k
KH
KALEIDA HEALTHgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $70k · revenue +46%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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

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…

Crime & Legal

Children's Health Home of Wny Inc

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…

Health

Buffalo Commons Charter School

Establish and operate a charter school to prepare our diverse community of students to succeed academically and professionally regardless of background and circumstance.

Education

Child Care Coalition of the Niagara

Developing high quality child care to support families, providers, employers & the community.

Human Services

State University College At Buffalo

At buffalo state child care center, we believe each child is a unique individual. we are sensitive to their social, emotional, intellectual, and physical needs. we provide developmentally appropriate programs that focus on the process of…

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University At Buffalo Pediatric

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…

Health

Families Together in New York

Establish a unified voice for children and youth with emotional, behavioral, and social challenges. the organizational mission is to ensure that every family has access to needed information, support and services.

Human Services

Hispanos Unidos De Buffalo

Respond to economic, social, educational, and cultural needs of hispanic/latinos in western new york with bilingual, bicultural services that promote self sufficiency and improve quality of life.

Human Services

Central New York Ronald McDonald House

Housing and programs for sick children and their families

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Leadership Buffalo Inc

Leadership buffalo, inc is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1987 with one mission: to unite existing and emerging leaders from diverse backgrounds and perspectives in order to increase their knowledge of community issues,…

Civil Rights

Community Blood Bank of Erie County

To provide blood and its components to erie county and western new york hospitals.

Health

Cny Works Inc

To bring businesses, job seekers and training providers together to provide skilled workers for every business and employement for every job seeker.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Resource Council of Wny Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kaleida Health. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.9%1/107

the rest of the field

391/5,135

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.

05the grantee network

94 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

90/94

Grantees still filing

65/94

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Recreation & Sports$2,829,431Philanthropy$1,247,614Other$1,591,101Youth Development$690,182Health$396,000Arts & Culture$312,100Education$203,828

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.

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.

Community Foundation for Greater BuffaloNY95.3× affinity51 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo · First Niagara Foundation · United Way of Buffalo and Erie County · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · The John R Oishei Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · Foundation for Jewish · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Independent Health Association Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The Frank G Raichle Foundation

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 organisation BUFFALO SABRES FOUNDATION 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: WNY FURTASTIC ADOPT-A-THON INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~20 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +82% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 320551929 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on WNY FURTASTIC ADOPT-A-THON INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 20 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 61% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Buffalo Sabres Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Buffalo Sabres Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BUFFALO SABRES FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

94 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Buffalo Sabres Foundation?

More from the funding graph

BUFFALO SABRES FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

94 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Buffalo Sabres Foundation?

More from the funding graph