· Private foundation
Clement and Karen Arrison Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $102k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | $31,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $18,000 |
| SUBURBAN ADULT SERVICES INC | $16,150 |
| CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION | $15,000 |
| PRESERVATION LEAGUE | $12,000 |
| BUFFALO SUZUKI STRINGS | $10,000 |
| CLRENCE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| GLEN HIGHLAND FARMS | $5,000 |
| KLEINHANS MUSIC HALL | $5,000 |
| MUSICANS EMERGENCY FUND | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| DRAFT GRATITUDE | $3,000 |
| GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE | $2,000 |
| BUFFALO HISTORY MUSEUM | $1,575 |
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 (FY17–25, $55k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
50 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 16 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, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Cornell University8× · 2017–2025 · $315k · revenue +59%- PLPRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE8× · 2017–2024 · $92k · revenue +9%
- BSBuffalo Suzuki Strings Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $20k
RICHARDSON CENTER CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +45%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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…
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
With our community and partners, we celebrate our natural wonders and inspire people to make a difference for aquatic life.
The american wild horse campaign is the nation's leading conservation organization dedicated to preserving the freedom and habitat of wild horses and burros. through its initiatives in advocacy, conservation, land preservation, and legal…
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
Buffalo audubon society leads and inspires western new yorkers to connect with and protect the natural world through bird-focused activities, advocacy and habitat restoration.
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."
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
Mission: spca of westchester's mission is to lead in providing life changing care for animals through rescue and rehabilitation, justice, community education, and successful and lasting adoptions. vision: the promise of a future where our…
To provide sanctuary to captive-bred unwanted, neglected, abandoned, or non-releasable wildlife, specializing in foxes and wolfdogs. we also practice wildlife rehabilitation which includes rescuing, raising, and releasing orphaned new…
How this is measured
41 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. 41 of the 81 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 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 CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds SASI Inc ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds SUBURBAN ADULT SERVICES 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 American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds RICHARDSON CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WINGS OF RESCUE 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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Clement and Karen Arrison Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Clement and Karen Arrison Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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