· Private foundation
Clement and Karen Arrison Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of CLEMENT AND KAREN ARRISON FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $77k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $67k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $67,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $31,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $15,924 |
| BUFFALO SUZUKI STRINGS | $10,000 |
| SASI | $6,000 |
| DRAFT GRADITUDE | $5,000 |
| GLEN HIGHLAND FARMS | $5,000 |
| MOTE MARINE LABORATORY | $5,000 |
| LAST CHANCE CORRAL | $3,000 |
| AHVMA | $2,000 |
| PRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NYS | $2,000 |
| ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
| GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE | $1,000 |
| BUFFALO TORONTO PUBLIC MEDIA | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
46 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
Cornell University7× · 2017–2024 · $297k · revenue +59%- PLPRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE8× · 2017–2024 · $92k · revenue +9%
- BSBuffalo Suzuki Strings Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- CICHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +33%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
RICHARDSON CENTER CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +45%
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.
With our community and partners, we celebrate our natural wonders and inspire people to make a difference for aquatic life.
Inspire joyful exploration of science and nature through engaging experiences, unique resources, and exceptional staff.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The organization was formed for the specific purpose of operating, maintaining and protecting parks and public spaces in the city of buffalo, new york, including but not limited to parks and public spaces owned or operated by the city of…
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
Zoo new york, by example and action, provides knowledge and motivation for conserving nature in new york state through science-based natural and cultural experiences.
The theodore roosevelt inaugural national historic site to preserve, promote, and educate the public on where theodore roosevelt became the 26th president of the united states in 1901; promotes opportunities for the public to understand…
To acquire, remediate, and steward lands along wny's waterfronts prioritizing public access.
To instill, educate, and cultivate in a public audience an informed appreciation of the american past and its impact on current lifestyles, culture, and historical development of the town of amherst, including the village of williamsville.…
To permanently protect land with significant conservation value in western new york, for the benefit of future generations.
To provide wildlife research dedicated to conserving native species and ecosystems through population control.
Preservation, protection and restoration of the buffalo new york lighthouses and to maintain and develop the area surrounding them in accordance with their historical significance.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice Foundation of Wny Inc and the most unlike its peers is Last Chance Corral. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 18. 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 65 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 Cornell University ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE ↗
- Who funds Buffalo Suzuki Strings Inc ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds GLEN HIGHLAND FARM INC ↗
- Who funds LOTHLORIEN THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds LAST CHANCE CORRAL ↗
- Who funds DRAFT GRATITUDE ↗
- Who funds KLEINHANS MUSIC HALL MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds SASI Inc ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds HORSE RESCUE UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds CHIMP HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD ↗
- Who funds WINGS FLIGHTS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR DEAF EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds RICHARDSON CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION BUFFALO NIAGARA ↗
- Who funds HAWK CREEK WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds WINGS OF RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO NIAGARA WATERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
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 · The Baird Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · The Frank G Raichle Foundation · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · Ferguson Electric Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · McLain Foundation · Simple Gifts Fund · Children's Foundation of Erie County 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 Clement and Karen Arrison Family Charitable 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.
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
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.