· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Mercy Care of the Adirondacks | $20,000 |
| Crooked Creek Food Pantry Inc | $20,000 |
| Buffalo Dream center | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| Rural Outreach Center | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
HEARTS AND HANDS FAITH IN ACTION7× · 2018–2025 · $298k · revenue +4%
THE SUMMIT CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $254k · revenue +105%- MCMERCY CARE FOR THE ADIRONDACKS INC7× · 2018–2025 · $205k · revenue +261%
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 EIGHT DAYS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SUCEDE INC ↗
- Who funds WNY WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Chur Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chur Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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