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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.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $461k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OLV Charities | $75,000 |
| Feedmore WNY | $50,000 |
| The Summit Center | $42,000 |
| Cornell Cooperative Extension of Erie County | $41,700 |
| Salvation Army | $40,000 |
| Sucede - Home | $28,000 |
| Sucede - School | $26,900 |
| Potter's Hands Foundation | $25,000 |
| Niagara Gospel Mission | $25,000 |
| Hearts and Hands Faith in Action | $22,500 |
| PUNT Pediatric Cancer Collaborative Inc | $20,000 |
| Rural Outreach Center | $20,000 |
| Buffalo Dream center | $20,000 |
| Crooked Creek Food Pantry Inc | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
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, $538k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
24 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 8 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $167k 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
THE SUMMIT CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $254k · revenue +105%- MCMERCY CARE FOR THE ADIRONDACKS INC7× · 2018–2025 · $205k · revenue +261%
- PPPUNT PEDIATRIC CANCER COLLABORATIVE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $120k · revenue +796%
Funded once
- SBSCOTT BIEL RURAL OUTREACH CENTERone grant, 2022 · $50k
- AAALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION OF WNYone grant, 2022 · $40k
- CFCENTER FOR INCLUSIVE DESIGN AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACCESSone grant, 2021 · $35k
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.
L'arche syracuse, inc. is a faith based organization. our mission is to (1) make known the gifts of people with developmental disabilities, revealed through mutually transforming relations, (2) foster an environment in community that…
To strengthen communities by rebuilding the lives of the individuals and families affected by the criminal justice system.
To improve the quality of life for elderly, disabled and low-income persons in the western new york area through the provision of free civil legal services. the primary goal is to use the legal system to assure that clients may live…
We are western new york's community based healthcare organization dedicated to the care and support of individuals with a serious or end of life illness. we represent a passionate and diverse team of professionals dedicated to the holistic…
Alfred University's mission is helping students realize their purpose. People living a life of purpose enjoy longer and happier lives. Alfred University promotes its mission through three core strengths - Intersections, Mentorship, and…
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…
The organization provides charitable relief in the form of emergency shelter, material needs, and compassionate care for the homeless and persons in need in the eastern niagara county, new york area.
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.
Harvest house's mission is to break the barriers of poverty by providing holistic support services to underserved and marginalized community members. facilitating wellness, access to basic human needs, educational opportunity for adults,…
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.
Operate and maintain a day care center for children of students, faculty, and staff of the state university of new york at new paltz, and for children of the greater new paltz community.
At the sheffield care center our mission, through dedicated teamwork, is to provide all who enter our doors with a clean, comfortable, home-like atmosphere where honesty, dignity, respect and genuine compassion for one another prevails.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Care for the Adirondacks Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sucede Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 44 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 HEARTS AND HANDS FAITH IN ACTION ↗
- Who funds THE SUMMIT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY CARE FOR THE ADIRONDACKS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds PUNT PEDIATRIC CANCER COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds The Rural Outreach Center Inc ↗
- Who funds DAEMEN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER OF ERIE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE POTTERS HANDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDAILLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMHERST MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds CROOKED CREEK FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY'S END REFUGEE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds AMHERST SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WNY WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Butler University ↗
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 · 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
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 Chur Family Foundation 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.
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