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Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc

The mission of the community foundation for greater buffalo, inc.

$38M
Granted FY2024still arriving
562
Grants FY2024still arriving
31
States reached
$1.8M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0177% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$32MEducation$30MHuman Services$19MPhilanthropy$17MHealth$14MCommunity Improvement$11MRecreation & Sports$8.3MEnvironment$5.7MHousing & Shelter$5.7MOther$69M
02FY2024 · 562 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 562 grants below total $33,418,104 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $38,236,066 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,817,962 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k84 grants · $593k
  • $10k–50k325 grants · $7.0M
  • $50k–250k124 grants · $12M
  • $250k+29 grants · $14M
$23,349
Median grant
31
States reached
$944M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAY YES BUFFALO SCHOLARSHIP INC$1,790,661
RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE SUNY ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO$993,396
BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY$946,103
OPEN BUFFALO INC$737,000
SERVICE COLLABORATIVE OF WESTERN NEW YORK$621,177
RALPH WILSON PARK CONSERVANCY$590,500
BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY$589,264
BRYANT & STRATTON COLLEGE$560,850
BUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES$541,625
MARGARET WOODBURY STRONG MUSEUM (DBA THE STRONG)$500,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$472,748
THE SALVATION ARMY OF BUFFALO NY$392,149
CONNECTICUT COLLEGE$349,644
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO$330,680
PUSH BUFFALO INC$323,250
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $14.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NATIONAL COMPASSION FUND: $344k → 9%COMMUNITY MISSIONS OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIER: $102k → 14%COMMUNITY MISSIONS OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIER: $89k → 14%CONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING SERVICE OF ROCHESTER: $92k → 14%URBAN LEAGUE OF ROCHESTER: $350k → 14%HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NIAGARA COUNTY: $100k → 14%CHILD CARE COALITION OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIER: $340k → 13%CHILD CARE RESOURCE NETWORK: $100k → 13%GATEWAY-LONGVIEW FOUNDATION: $367k → 13%GATEWAY-LONGVIEW FOUNDATION: $309k → 13%GATEWAY-LONGVIEW FOUNDATION: $264k → 13%GATEWAY-LONGVIEW FOUNDATION: $235k → 13%GATEWAY-LONGVIEW FOUNDATION: $209k → 13%FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER OF ERIE COUNTY INC: $102k → 13%YMCA BUFFALO NIAGARA: $229k → 13%YMCA BUFFALO NIAGARA: $94k → 13%VIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT: $367k → 13%VIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT: $327k → 13%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY: $224k → 13%VIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT: $221k → 13%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUFFALO INC: $212k → 13%VIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT: $210k → 13%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY: $122k → 13%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUFFALO INC: $103k → 13%PEOPLE AGAINST TRAFFICKING HUMANS INC: $99k → 13%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUFFALO INC: $96k → 13%WNY WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $95k → 13%BROADWAY FILLMORE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES: $111k → 13%BROADWAY FILLMORE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES: $110k → 13%MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE PROJECT: $115k → 13%MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE PROJECT: $90k → 13%MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE PROJECT: $86k → 13%CITY MISSION SOCIETY INC: $158k → 13%CITY MISSION SOCIETY INC: $149k → 13%CITY MISSION SOCIETY INC: $108k → 13%NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES OF ERIE & NIAGARA COUNTIE: $108k → 13%YWCA OF WESTERN NEW YORK: $88k → 13%OPEN BUFFALO INC: $737k → 13%OPEN BUFFALO INC: $148k → 13%OPEN BUFFALO INC: $141k → 13%OPEN BUFFALO INC: $101k → 13%RURAL OUTREACH CENTER INC: $129k → 13%FEEDMORE FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NEW YORK: $507k → 13%RURAL OUTREACH CENTER INC: $92k → 13%FEEDMORE FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NEW YORK: $335k → 13%RURAL OUTREACH CENTER INC: $87k → 13%FEEDMORE FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NEW YORK: $280k → 13%FEEDMORE FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NEW YORK: $199k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 88% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 81% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.5% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$193M · 705 repeat orgs$16M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

705 repeat relationships — 425 still active in FY2024, 280 since wound down; 119 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

705
410

Total granted

$193M
$13M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+21%

Still filing today

82%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • TR
    The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
    8× · 2017–2024 · $5.9M · revenue +62%
  • BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +16%
  • SAY YES BUFFALO SCHOLARSHIP INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $4.4M · revenue +259%

Funded once

  • CC
    CHILD CARE COALITION OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $440k · revenue +43%
  • UL
    URBAN LEAGUE OF ROCHESTER NY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $350k · revenue +19%
  • NC
    NATIONAL CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $344k · revenue +29%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Buffalo Niagara River Land Trust Inc

To acquire, remediate, and steward lands along wny's waterfronts prioritizing public access.

Environment
2
Invest Buffalo Niagara Inc

To attract new employers to the buffalo niagara region through outreach to growing companies around the world. to support business attraction, expansion and entrepreneurship, invest buffalo niagara collaborates with local businesses,…

Community Improvement
3
Buffalo Erie Niagara Land Improvement Corporation

The buffalo erie niagara land improvement corporation (benlic) seeks to confront and alleviate the problems distressed properties cause to communities by supporting municipal and regional revitalization efforts and strategically acquiring,…

Community Improvement
4
United Way of Central New York Inc

To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our community.

Philanthropy
5
Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc

The mission of the community foundation for greater buffalo, inc. (the foundation) is to connect people, ideas and resources to improve lives in western new york. since its establishment in 1919, the foundation has been committed to…

Philanthropy
6
United Way of New York State

To strengthen the capacity of local united ways through their charitable human service activities to be leaders in achieving results that improve the lives of all new yorkers.

Philanthropy
7
New York Restoration Project

New york restoration project ("nyrp") believes that nature is a fundamental right of every new yorker. nyrp works collaboratively with residents in communities across the five boroughs to renovate gardens, restore parks, plant trees,…

Environment
8
The Central New York Land Trust Inc

The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.

Environment
9
Food Bank of Central New York

Food bank of central new york is a not-for-profit organization: our mission is to lead the effort to eliminate hunger in our region, through partnerships with others in our community, through education, advocacy, and distribution of…

Food & Nutrition
10
New York Council for the Humanities

The mission of humanities new york is to strengthen civil society and the bonds of community, using the humanities to foster engaged inquiry and dialogue around social and cultural concerns.

Arts & Culture
11
Adirondack North Country Association Inc

Support regional economic development in new york's 14 northernmost counties

Food & Nutrition
12
University At Buffalo Neurosurgery Inc

University at buffalo neurosurgery, inc. is an academic neurosurgical group committed to excellence in patient care, research, and education. our mission is to develop and implement sound strategies that focus on quality medical services,…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighborhood Health Center of Wny Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lewiston Porter Alumni Association. 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 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%3%<5yr14%8%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr19%24%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr19%27%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%35%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%19/1,231
the rest of the field
10%
11,842/119,529

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.

05the grantee network

1036 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. 1036 of the 1,265 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.

114
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
245
Early backer (in before they grew)
996/1036
Grantees still filing
681/1036
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY — $3,603,677 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYBUFFALO PREP INC — $2,125,130 · OtherKABOOM INC — $3,812,338 · OtherKABOOM INC+80 more — $50,643,275 · Other+80 moreBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY — $4,647,025 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO FINE ARTS …BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC — $4,545,997 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO PHILHARMON…BUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES — $2,493,056 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO SOCIETY OF…EXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $1,999,905 · Arts & CultureEXPLORE & MORE A C…THE BUFFALO TRANSPORTATION PIERCE-ARROW MUSEUM — $1,345,610 · Arts & CultureCENTRAL TERMINAL RESTORATION CORP — $1,130,000 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY INC — $1,083,635 · Arts & CultureYOUNG AUDIENCES OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC D/B/A ARTS FOR LEARNING WNY — $933,654 · Arts & CultureARTS SERVICES INITIATIVE OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC — $899,130 · Arts & Culture+14 more — $6,577,772 · Arts & Culture+14 moreThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $5,861,871 · EducationThe Research Found…SAY YES BUFFALO SCHOLARSHIP INC — $4,429,591 · EducationSAY YES BUFFALO SC…University at Buffalo Foundation Inc — $2,135,632 · EducationUniversity at Buff…BRYANT & STRATTON COLLEGE INC — $1,761,375 · EducationBRYANT & STRATTON …CANISIUS UNIVERSITY — $1,389,348 · EducationCANISIUS UNIVERSIT…CONNECTICUT COLLEGE — $1,153,149 · EducationREAD TO SUCCEED BUFFALO INC — $942,347 · Education+17 more — $7,705,093 · Education+17 moreTHE SKATEPARK PROJECT — $3,586,688 · PhilanthropyTHE SKATEP…ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION — $1,533,051 · PhilanthropyROSWELL PA…CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO — $1,427,456 · PhilanthropyCATHOLIC C…UNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY — $1,219,898 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY…THE SERVICE COLLABORATIVE OF WNY — $1,201,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SERVIC…HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF WNY INC — $1,052,134 · PhilanthropyHOSPICE FO…THE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $919,900 · PhilanthropyTHE BISON …EPISCOPAL CHURCH HOME FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC — $798,975 · PhilanthropyEPISCOPAL …GATEWAY-LONGVIEW FOUNDATION — $746,805 · PhilanthropyUnited Fund for Western Orleans County United Way of W Orleans County — $511,630 · PhilanthropyJewish Federation Of Greater Buffalo Inc — $475,228 · Philanthropy+2 more — $707,721 · PhilanthropyGATEWAY-LONGVIEW INC — $1,478,958 · Human ServicesGATEWAY-L…VIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT — $1,386,928 · Human ServicesVIA VISUA…FEEDMORE WNY FOUNDATION INC — $1,359,905 · Human ServicesFEEDMORE …Open Buffalo Inc — $1,177,500 · Human ServicesOpen Buff…CITY MISSION SOCIETY INC — $680,169 · Human ServicesTHE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUFFALO — $658,500 · Human ServicesThe Rural Outreach Center Inc — $614,700 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION BUFFALO NIAGARA — $471,466 · Human ServicesMassachusetts Avenue Project Inc — $457,962 · Human Services+16 more — $5,276,985 · Human Services+16 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $908,111 · HealthWESTERN NEW YORK RURAL AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER — $889,525 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NEW YORK INC — $841,098 · HealthKALEIDA HEALTH FOUNDATION — $695,693 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $658,139 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ERIE COUNTY INC — $606,464 · HealthHAUPTMAN-WOODWARD MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $603,434 · HealthBUFFALO PRENATAL-PERINATAL NETWORK INC — $455,554 · HealthKEVIN GUEST HOUSE INC — $442,500 · HealthTHE JACOBS INSTITUTE INC — $355,000 · HealthECMC FOUNDATION INC — $340,200 · HealthHEALTHY COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC — $329,500 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION — $325,695 · HealthCOMPEER WEST INC — $323,950 · Health+6 more — $1,656,012 · HealthWESTMINSTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE INC — $1,951,811 · Community ImprovementNYBDC LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $1,200,000 · Community ImprovementMichigan Street African American Heritage Corridor Commission Inc — $1,105,500 · Community ImprovementPartnership For the Public Good Inc — $917,342 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY REINVESTMENT FUND INC — $575,000 · Community ImprovementErie County Restorative Justice Coalition Inc — $514,342 · Community ImprovementFSG INC — $445,000 · Community ImprovementUniversity District Community Developmen — $415,948 · Community ImprovementWYOMING COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $385,444 · Community ImprovementPATHSTONE CORPORATION — $370,000 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $343,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $244,857 · Community Improvement
Other$60,184,420Arts & Culture$25,655,784Education$25,378,406Philanthropy$14,180,486Human Services$13,563,073Health$9,430,875Community Improvement$8,468,244

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $5,861,871 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY — $4,647,025 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetBUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC — $4,545,997 over 8y, 7.7% of budgetSAY YES BUFFALO SCHOLARSHIP INC — $4,429,591 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetKABOOM INC — $3,812,338 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetTHE SKATEPARK PROJECT — $3,586,688 over 7y, 26% of budgetBUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES — $2,493,056 over 8y, 11% of budgetUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Inc — $2,135,632 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetBUFFALO PREP INC — $2,125,130 over 8y, 32% of budgetEXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $1,999,905 over 8y, 27% of budgetWESTMINSTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE INC — $1,951,811 over 8y, 21% of budgetBRYANT & STRATTON COLLEGE INC — $1,761,375 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBUFFALO ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER INC — $1,737,199 over 8y, 22% of budgetBUFFALO NIAGARA WATERKEEPER INC — $1,644,861 over 8y, 9.2% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO INC — $1,633,037 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $1,601,212 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION — $1,533,051 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetMARGARET WOODBURY STRONG MUSEUM — $1,500,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetGATEWAY-LONGVIEW INC — $1,478,958 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO — $1,427,456 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetCANISIUS UNIVERSITY — $1,389,348 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetVIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT — $1,386,928 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetFEEDMORE WNY FOUNDATION INC — $1,359,905 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetTHE BUFFALO TRANSPORTATION PIERCE-ARROW MUSEUM — $1,345,610 over 4y, 34% of budgetERIE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $1,320,038 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetNIAGARA LUTHERAN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $1,221,324 over 8y, 17% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY — $1,219,898 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetPEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC — $1,202,017 over 8y, 7.6% of budgetTHE SERVICE COLLABORATIVE OF WNY — $1,201,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetNYBDC LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $1,200,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetOpen Buffalo Inc — $1,177,500 over 5y, 22% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE — $1,153,149 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRAL TERMINAL RESTORATION CORP — $1,130,000 over 5y, 28% of budgetGERARD PLACE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND COMPANY INC — $1,116,850 over 8y, 23% of budgetFOREST LAWN HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC — $1,114,600 over 5y, 34% of budgetMichigan Street African American Heritage Corridor Commission Inc — $1,105,500 over 6y, 72% of budgetMOUNT SAINT MARY ACADEMY INC — $1,104,991 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetJOURNEY'S END REFUGEE SERVICES INC — $1,093,374 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetBUFFALO OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY INC — $1,083,635 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetHOSPICE FOUNDATION OF WNY INC — $1,052,134 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetWESTERN NEW YORK LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $975,506 over 8y, 9.8% of budgetREAD TO SUCCEED BUFFALO INC — $942,347 over 8y, 19% of budgetYOUNG AUDIENCES OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC D/B/A ARTS FOR LEARNING WNY — $933,654 over 8y, 35% of budgetNEW YORK SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE WORKING GROUP — $933,100 over 3y, 64% of budgetTHE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $919,900 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetPartnership For the Public Good Inc — $917,342 over 5y, 49% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $908,111 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetARTS SERVICES INITIATIVE OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC — $899,130 over 8y, 54% of budget
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 The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
  • Who funds BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds SAY YES BUFFALO SCHOLARSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds KABOOM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SKATEPARK PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds BUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds University at Buffalo Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds BUFFALO PREP INC ↗
  • Who funds EXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds WESTMINSTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds BRYANT & STRATTON COLLEGE INC ↗
  • Who funds BUFFALO ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BUFFALO NIAGARA WATERKEEPER INC ↗
  • Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MARGARET WOODBURY STRONG MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds GATEWAY-LONGVIEW INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO ↗
  • Who funds CANISIUS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds VIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT ↗
  • Who funds FEEDMORE WNY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BUFFALO TRANSPORTATION PIERCE-ARROW MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds ERIE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds NIAGARA LUTHERAN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SERVICE COLLABORATIVE OF WNY ↗
  • Who funds NYBDC LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Open Buffalo Inc ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL TERMINAL RESTORATION CORP ↗
  • Who funds GERARD PLACE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds FOREST LAWN HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor Commission Inc ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT SAINT MARY ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds JOURNEY'S END REFUGEE SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds BUFFALO OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY INC ↗

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.

The John R Oishei Fou…The Western New York …First Niagara Foundat…Cullen FoundationUnited Way of Buffalo…The Margaret L Wendt …Buffalo Bills Foundat…The Peter and Elizabe…The Baird FoundationThe Frank G Raichle F…James H Cummings Foun…Children's Foundation…
The John R Oishei FoundationNY268.8× affinity190 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The John R Oishei Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · Cullen Foundation · United Way of Buffalo and Erie County · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · The Baird Foundation · The Frank G Raichle Foundation · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc

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 Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Joslin Diabetes Center Inc — 35% of income from government
  • National Center for Victims of Crime Inc — 10% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
81report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 1265 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
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By state
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