New York · 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(still arriving)
- 34
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 49%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $1.0M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $333,333
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 49
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $537k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 49% of the organizations Buffalo Sabres Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $314k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 33 | $1.0M | 39% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $1.2M | 49% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $749k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $387k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $1.1M | 57% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $809k | 46% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $871k | 36% |
| FY2017 | 24 | $773k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niagara Frontier Junior Hockey Club Inc | $2,306,553 | 8 | 29% |
| Resource Council of WNY Inc | $568,250 | 8 | 37% |
| Roswell Park Alliance Foundation | $547,234 | 8 | 0% |
| Fanthem Foundation Inc | $254,288 | 4 | 18% |
| Explore & More a Children's Museum | $252,100 | 5 | 3% |
| Saving Grace Ministries Inc | $191,275 | 3 | 10% |
| Dominik Hasek Youth Hockey League Inc | $176,530 | 6 | 8% |
| Kevin Guest House Inc | $128,500 | 3 | 6% |
| Skating Association for the Blind & Hand | $121,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Western New York Special Hockey Association Inc | $120,000 | 6 | n/a |
Show all 106 grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($274k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Buffalo Sabres Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 90 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · First Niagara Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · United Way of Buffalo and Erie County · Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · Cullen Foundation
How this is measured
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About Buffalo Sabres Foundation
- How much does Buffalo Sabres Foundation give?
- Buffalo Sabres Foundation reported 34 itemized grants totaling $1,042,099, out of $1,252,405 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 49 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Buffalo Sabres Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (41%), Health (18%), Human Services (8%).
- Who are Buffalo Sabres Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Niagara Frontier Junior Hockey Club Inc ($2.3M), Resource Council of WNY Inc ($568k), Roswell Park Alliance Foundation ($547k).
- Does Buffalo Sabres Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 49% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Buffalo Sabres Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc, First Niagara Foundation.
- Where is Buffalo Sabres Foundation based?
- Buffalo Sabres Foundation is based in NY.
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