· Public charity
Children's Institute Inc
Joining together to raise every child's complete wellbeing.
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 13 grants below total $307,189 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $313,589 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $6,400 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 · $21k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $124k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $162k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $105,010 |
| GREECE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $57,225 |
| WATERTOWN CITY SCHOOLS | $37,480 |
| WINDSOR CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $14,805 |
| WEEDSPORT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $14,375 |
| FLORIDA UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $12,832 |
| MORIAH CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $11,250 |
| BALLSTON SPA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $11,248 |
| HONEOYE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $11,184 |
| CLYDE SAVANNAH CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $10,339 |
| DOBBS FERRY UNION FREE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $9,234 |
| FRANKLINVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOLS | $6,582 |
| RED CREEK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $5,625 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of your 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 +20% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 4 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
- CCCONTACT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC4× · 2017–2020 · $115k · revenue +107%
- DCDISCOVERY CHARTER SCHOOL3× · 2017–2024 · $28k · revenue +16%
- SBSOUTH BUFFALO CHARTER SCHOOL2× · 2017–2018 · $19k · revenue +12%
Funded once
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALOone grant, 2020 · $27k · revenue +5%- WHWEST HEMPSTEAD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2021 · $19k
- SVSHENANGO VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTERone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -28%
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.
Charter school of inquiry (csi) will achieve breakthrough outcomes for city of buffalo children in kindergarten through grade 6 by creating an inquiry-based learning environment with an intense focus on learning to read and write well in…
Establish and operate a charter school to prepare our diverse community of students to succeed academically and professionally regardless of background and circumstance.
To provide high-school age youth with an academically challenging learning environment that prepares them to communicate effectively, think and reason critically, value diversity, engage in service learning, pursue academic excellence,…
Students are prepared to meet the needs of an ever changing technological and global society. we use the latest technology in our classrooms as an integral part of its curriculum approach. this approach is based on the latest research in…
Bronx charter school for better learning provides its students with a solid foundation for academic success, through achievements that exceeds citywide averages and meets or exceeds new york state standards and national norms in all…
New roots charter school prepares our diverse student body to meet the challenges of citizenship, work, and life-long learning in the 21st century. our interdisciplinary academic program features hands-on, community-based learning that…
Buffalo academy of science is a tuition-free, college-preparatory charter school teaching students in a diverse community to be successful in a globally-oriented environment, using innovative and dynamic teaching methods with a small…
Compass charter school is a safe and nurturing educational environment that honors the individuality of each learner. by engaging in a process of inquiry, our graduates will be equipped with the necessary skills to lead fulfilling personal…
The school designs and implements academically challenging programs tailored to students'individual learning needs. engaging families and community organizations as partners in learning, the school promotes creativity, understanding, and…
The Vincent Smith School is a co-ed, independent, special education school for grades ones through twelve, serving Nassau, Suffolk, and New York City students. The School specializes in students with various learning issues.
To provide a top-quality educational program where students achieve high academic results; are geared towards higher education and career opportunities; become responsible, caring family and community members; are highly knowledgeable of…
With an unrelenting focus on academic excellence, the york academy regional charter school's mission is to challenge students in a diverse learning environment that opens doors for growth, opportunity and global citizenship.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Niagara Charter School and the most unlike its peers is Shenango Valley Animal Shelter. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 54 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.
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: Rochester Area Community Foundation · Share Our Strength · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Amazonsmile 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 organization Children's Institute 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.