New York · Private foundation
Cullen Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $6.1M
- Granted FY2022
- 189
- Grants FY2022
- 156
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Median grant, FY2022
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2022
- $600,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 78 to 156
- FY2019 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2022
- 6
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 44% of the organizations Cullen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $479k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | 156 | $6.1M | 44% |
| FY2021 | 89 | $4.8M | 19% |
| FY2020 | 108 | $5.8M | 62% |
| FY2019 | 78 | $5.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2022.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tntp Inc | $1,702,367 | 4 | 1% |
| City Year Inc | $1,102,500 | 4 | 0% |
| The Research Foundation for The State University of New York | $993,109 | 3 | 0% |
| Say Yes Buffalo Scholarship Inc | $920,750 | 3 | 4% |
| Education Collaborative of Wny Inc | $908,690 | 4 | 17% |
| Buffalo Academy of Science Charter School | $868,143 | 3 | 4% |
| Elmwood Village Charter School | $685,501 | 4 | n/a |
| Buffalo Prep Inc | $484,000 | 4 | 8% |
| West Buffalo Charter School | $454,015 | 4 | 2% |
| Persistence Preparatory Academy Charter School | $407,000 | 3 | 5% |
Show all 168 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 62 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Cullen Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 147 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 · Cullen Foundation of Western New York Inc · The John R Oishei Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc · United Way of Buffalo and Erie County · The Baird Foundation · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Cullen Foundation
- How much does Cullen Foundation give?
- Cullen Foundation reported 189 grants totaling $6,145,509 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 78 and 156 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2022.
- What does Cullen Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2022, its largest causes are Education (61%), Arts & Culture (21%), Science & Tech (3%).
- Who are Cullen Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2022: Tntp Inc ($1.7M), City Year Inc ($1.1M), The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ($993k).
- Does Cullen Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cullen Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cullen Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, Cullen Foundation of Western New York Inc, The John R Oishei Foundation.
- Where is Cullen Foundation based?
- Cullen Foundation is based in NY.
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