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Children's Rehabilitation Foundation of the Variety Club of Buffalo Inc

Donations to children's hospital

$484k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fund
0180% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172025.

Health$2.9MHuman Services$161kRecreation & Sports$122kYouth Development$30kArts & Culture$5kOther$814k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 6 grants below total $426,503 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $483,790 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $57,287 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 $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $119k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$35,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$884k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KALEIDA HEALTH ROBERT WARNER REHABILITATION CENTER$300,000
GOLISANO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO$43,503
CHILDREN'S GROWTH FOUNDATION$35,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BUFFALO$30,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION$10,000
SABAH INC$8,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $161k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BUFFALO: $30k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BUFFALO: $30k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BUFFALO: $19k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BUFFALO: $18k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BUFFALO: $15k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BUFFALO: $15k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BUFFALO: $12k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BUFFALO: $12k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BUFFALO: $11k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.0M · 9 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
4

Total granted

$4.0M
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+69%

Still filing today

89%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther

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

  • KH
    KALEIDA HEALTH
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +46%
  • CR
    CHILDREN'S REHABILITATION FOUNDATION OF THE VARIETY CLUB OF BUFFALO INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $399k · revenue +11%
  • CG
    CHILDRENS GROWTH FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $240k · revenue +7% · 74% of their budget

Funded once

  • PA
    POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF BUFFALO
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +24%
  • PP
    PUNT PEDIATRIC CANCER COLLABORATIVE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +796%
  • PARENT NETWORK OF NEW YORK I INC
    one grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue 0%

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.

1
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
2
University At Buffalo Pediatric Associates Inc

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
3
Parent to Parent of New York State

Parent to parent of nys builds a supportive network of families to reduce isolation and empower those who care for people with developmental disabilities or special healthcare needs to navigate and influence service systems and make…

Human Services
4
Charity for Children Inc

Charity for children, inc. provides support to children in central new york suffering from childhood disorders, diseases and disabilities. such support is offered in the form of medical insurance reimbursement assistance, transportation…

Human Services
5
The Children's Guild Foundation Inc

To support and advocate for health care, research, education and therapeutic recreation for children with special needs.

Health
6
Children's Medical Fund Child Life Endowment Corp

To fund and support the child life program at cohen's children's medical center of new york, part of the northwell health system.

Health
7
Kaleida Health Foundation

To solicit, maintain, & enhance the value of public contributions to provide financial support to kaleida health in their mission to advance the health of our community.

Health
8
University Psychiatric Practice Inc

The corporation assists the state university of new york at buffalo department of psychiatry in the delivery of health care, recruitment and retention of teaching physicians, and support of research in the field of psychiatry.

Health
9
Cerebral Palsy Associations of New York

The mission of cerebral palsy associations of new york state is to provide for the exchange of ideas, education and communication between groups and people interested in advocacy for people with cerebral palsy and other developmental…

Health
10
Beth Israel Hospital & Children's Hospital Medical Care Corporation

Pediatric healthcare, education & research

11
State University College At Buffalo Child Day Care Development Facility Inc

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.

12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Hospital of Buffalo Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Music Is Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KALEIDA HEALTH — $2,909,920 · HealthKALEIDA HEALTH+2 more — $27,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S REHABILITATION FOUNDATION OF THE VARIETY CLUB OF BUFFALO INC — $398,863 · OtherCHILDREN'S REHABILITAT…CHILDRENS GROWTH FOUNDATION INC — $240,000 · OtherCHILDRENS GROWTH FOUND…KALEIDA HEALTH WOMEN & CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO — $99,151 · OtherKALEIDA HEALTH WOMEN &…VARIETY CLUB OF BUFFALO NEW YORK INC — $70,341 · OtherVARIETY CLUB OF BUFFAL…+1 more — $6,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BUFFALO INC — $161,000 · Human ServicesCRADLE BEACH INC — $78,500 · Recreation & SportsSKATING ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND & HAND — $43,000 · Recreation & SportsPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF BUFFALO — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentMUSIC IS ART — $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Health$2,936,920Other$814,355Human Services$161,000Recreation & Sports$121,500Youth Development$30,000Arts & Culture$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKALEIDA HEALTH — $2,909,920 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S REHABILITATION FOUNDATION OF THE VARIETY CLUB OF BUFFALO INC — $398,863 over 7y, 15% of budgetCHILDRENS GROWTH FOUNDATION INC — $240,000 over 9y, 74% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BUFFALO INC — $161,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCRADLE BEACH INC — $78,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetVARIETY CLUB OF BUFFALO NEW YORK INC — $70,341 over 2y, 73% of budgetSKATING ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND & HAND — $43,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF BUFFALO — $30,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARENT NETWORK OF NEW YORK I INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMUSIC IS ART — $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budget
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.

The Osc Charitable FoundationNY17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Osc Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Buffalo Sabres Foundation · The Children's Guild Foundation Inc · Nfada Charitable Foundation · Cullen Foundation · United Way of Buffalo and Erie County · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Rehabilitation Foundation of the Variety Club of Buffalo 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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