· Private foundation
Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k67 grants · $333k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $92k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTMINSTER ECONOMIC DEVP INIT | $19,000 |
| HISPANIC HERITAGE COUNCIL OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC | $17,500 |
| BUFFALO CENTER FOR ART & TECHNOLOGY | $15,500 |
| BUFFALO PREP | $15,500 |
| JERICHO ROAD MINISTRIES | $12,500 |
| HASEK'S HEROES | $12,000 |
| WILLIE HUTCH JONES SPORTS CLINIC | $9,500 |
| EPIC | $9,000 |
| BUFFALO STRING WORKS | $7,500 |
| RURAL OUTREACH CENTER | $7,500 |
| MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATES OF WNY | $7,500 |
| INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUFFALO | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $7,500 |
| FIRST SHILOH YOUTH FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $211k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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 +28% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
107 repeat relationships — 68 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 5 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- BABUFFALO ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER INC8× · 2018–2025 · $96k · revenue +43%
BUFFALO PREP INC8× · 2018–2025 · $82k · revenue +49%
JERICHO ROAD MINISTRIES INC8× · 2018–2025 · $78k · revenue +206%
Funded once
- CSCOMMUNITY SERV FOR EVERY1one grant, 2018 · $9k
- UDUPward Design for Life Corporationone grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue +6%
BUFFALO PRENATAL-PERINATAL NETWORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +33%
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 Buffalo Institiute for Contemporary Art (Bica) is a art and educational project for Buffalo, NY. Through Innovative exhibitions, cross-discipplinary skills-based programming, and arts ecology development, bica mission is to break down…
Respond to economic, social, educational, and cultural needs of hispanic/latinos in western new york through bilingual, bicultural services that promote self-sufficiency and improve quality of life.
Open Buffalo's mission is to advance racial, economic, and ecological justice through skill building, network connecting, and activating leadership opportunities with the ultimate goal for all communities in Western New York to thrive free…
To provide quality, affordable child care for the families of students, faculty and staff of the college, as well as families of other new york state employees and community members.
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…
East Buffalo Development Corporation is a community-based real estate development corporation committed to our mission of leveraging private and public funds to drive equitable and inclusive eastside planning, construction, land use, and…
Create new public golf and recreation amenities in the city of buffalo; assist in the restoration of frederick law olmsted's south park arboretum; and construct a new education center for underserved, minority youth.
We envision a community that uses film & digital media to celebrate freedom of expression and to continue a legacy of innovation in media arts through education, exhibitions, and equipment access programs.
University at Buffalo Child Care Center offers care for infants, toddlers, and preschool children throughout the year.
Invest buffalo niagara foundation, inc. is a vehicle to solicit charitable contributions to develop programs, collaborate with, and provide funding to organizations that advance and encourage economic development in western new york.
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
To acquire, remediate, and steward lands along wny's waterfronts prioritizing public access.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Buffalo String Works Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boys On the Right Track Incorporate D. 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 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) — 1% 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.
78 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. 78 of the 145 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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 BUFFALO ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO PREP INC ↗
- Who funds JERICHO ROAD MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Tre & Associates Inc ↗
- Who funds The Rural Outreach Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO STRING WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds GERARD PLACE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO INNER CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds HOMESPACE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds The Boys & Girls Club Of The Northtowns Inc ↗
- Who funds SKATING ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND & HAND ↗
- Who funds URBAN CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST SHILOH YOUTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds 716 Squash Inc ↗
- Who funds CRADLE BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds Community Music School ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds LOTHLORIEN THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds PAPPY MARTIN LEGACY JAZZ COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO NIAGARA WATERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds RAHAMA ↗
- Who funds JUST BUFFALO LITERARY CENTER 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 · 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
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 Children's Foundation of Erie County 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
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.
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