New York · Private foundation
Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $425k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 73
- Grants FY2025
- 73
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $19,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 56 to 73
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k 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 | 73 | $425k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 73 | $391k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 72 | $362k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 63 | $343k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 67 | $330k | 39% |
| FY2020 | 63 | $314k | 21% |
| FY2019 | 61 | $297k | 15% |
| FY2018 | 56 | $271k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buffalo Arts and Technology Center Inc | $95,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Buffalo Prep Inc | $81,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Jericho Road Ministries Inc | $77,500 | 8 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $73,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Tre & Associates Inc | $60,000 | 8 | 3% |
| The Rural Outreach Center Inc | $59,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Buffalo String Works Inc | $56,000 | 8 | 3% |
| The International Institute of Buffalo | $47,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Gerard Place Housing Development Fund Company Inc | $45,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Buffalo Inner City Ballet Inc | $43,500 | 8 | 8% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 62 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Children's Foundation of Erie County 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 · The Western New York Foundation · Cullen Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · The Frank G Raichle Foundation · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · United Way of Buffalo and Erie County · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · The Baird Foundation · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc
- How much does Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc give?
- Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc reported 73 grants totaling $424,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 56 and 73 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (25%), Youth Development (17%), Health (12%).
- Who are Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Buffalo Arts and Technology Center Inc ($96k), Buffalo Prep Inc ($82k), Jericho Road Ministries Inc ($78k).
- Does Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, The John R Oishei Foundation, The Western New York Foundation.
- Where is Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc based?
- Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc is based in NY.
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