New York · Private foundation
Chur Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $597k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $20M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 39% of the organizations Chur Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $202k 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 | 25 | $597k | 32% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $552k | 39% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $525k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $496k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $420k | 54% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $371k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $312k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $246k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Salvation Army | $746,900 | 9 | n/a |
| Hearts and Hands Faith in Action | $297,500 | 7 | 12% |
| The Summit Center Inc | $253,700 | 9 | 0% |
| Mercy Care for the Adirondacks Inc | $205,000 | 7 | 11% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Buffalo Inc | $145,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Punt Pediatric Cancer Collaborative Inc | $120,000 | 4 | 2% |
| The Rural Outreach Center Inc | $110,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Daemen University | $100,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Gigis Playhouse Inc | $100,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Word of Life Church Buffalo | $52,000 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Chur Family Foundation 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 · Buffalo Sabres Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · The Western New York Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · The Frank G Raichle Foundation · United Way of Buffalo and Erie County · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Odd Fellow & Rebekah Benefit Fund Inc · Tower Family Fund Inc · Cullen Foundation
How this is measured
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About Chur Family Foundation
- How much does Chur Family Foundation give?
- Chur Family Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $597,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Chur Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (41%), Health (13%), Arts & Culture (10%).
- Who are Chur Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Salvation Army ($747k), Hearts and Hands Faith in Action ($298k), The Summit Center Inc ($254k).
- Does Chur Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Chur Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Chur Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, Buffalo Sabres Foundation, Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc.
- Where is Chur Family Foundation based?
- Chur Family Foundation is based in NY.
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