How much does Cullen Foundation of Western New York Inc give?

Cullen Foundation of Western New York Inc reported 121 grants totaling $5,188,072 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

What does Cullen Foundation of Western New York Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (60%), Arts & Culture (21%), Human Services (6%).

Who are Cullen Foundation of Western New York Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: Tntp Inc ($1.1M), Say Yes Buffalo Scholarship Inc ($625k), Persistence Preparatory Academy Charter School ($579k).

Does Cullen Foundation of Western New York Inc accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Cullen Foundation of Western New York Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cullen Foundation, Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, The John R Oishei Foundation.

Where is Cullen Foundation of Western New York Inc based?

Cullen Foundation of Western New York Inc is based in NY.

Foundation Dossiers

New York · Private foundation

Cullen Foundation of Western New York Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 121
Grants FY2024: 84
Organizations funded FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $28,700
Largest grant, FY2024: $400,000
States reached, FY2024: 8
Total assets, FY2024: $137M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Education$6.1MArts & Culture$2.2MHuman Services$599kHealth$327kYouth Development$297kPhilanthropy$187kRecreation & Sports$139kEnvironment$110kOther$0

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, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Tntp Inc	$1,131,500	2	0%
Say Yes Buffalo Scholarship Inc	$625,000	2	2%
Persistence Preparatory Academy Charter School	$579,040	2	5%
City Year Inc	$445,432	2	0%
Education Collaborative of Wny Inc	$443,475	2	13%
Kleinhans Music Hall Management Inc	$400,000	1	6%
Canisius University	$216,619	2	0%
Buffalo Prep Inc	$191,000	2	5%
Read to Succeed Buffalo Inc	$189,956	2	11%
Achieving the Dream Inc	$167,700	2	1%

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All grantees of Cullen Foundation of Western New York Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Tntp Inc	$1,131,500	2	0%
Say Yes Buffalo Scholarship Inc	$625,000	2	2%
Persistence Preparatory Academy Charter School	$579,040	2	5%
City Year Inc	$445,432	2	0%
Education Collaborative of Wny Inc	$443,475	2	13%
Kleinhans Music Hall Management Inc	$400,000	1	6%
Canisius University	$216,619	2	0%
Buffalo Prep Inc	$191,000	2	5%
Read to Succeed Buffalo Inc	$189,956	2	11%
Achieving the Dream Inc	$167,700	2	1%
The Bison Children's Scholarship Fund Inc	$152,810	2	2%
Chapin Hall Center for Children	$149,533	1	1%
The Service Collaborative of Wny	$143,000	2	2%
Buffalo State College Foundation Inc	$133,727	2	1%
Buffalo Commons Charter School	$115,884	1	8%
Burchfield Penney Art Center	$110,000	2	3%
Shakespeare in Delaware Park Inc	$110,000	2	7%
Springville Center for the Arts Inc	$100,000	2	4%
King Urban Life Center Inc	$100,000	2	7%
Artpark & Company Inc	$90,000	2	1%
Buffalo Arts and Technology Center Inc	$85,382	2	7%
Irish Classical Theater Co	$80,000	2	6%
Learning Disabilities Association of Western New York Inc	$80,000	2	0%
Peace of the City Ministries Inc	$80,000	2	7%
Buffalo Hearing & Speech Center Inc	$80,000	2	0%
Enterprise Charter School	$76,002	1	1%
Charter School for Applied Technologies	$75,000	1	0%
D'Youville University	$75,000	2	0%
Shaw Festival Foundation	$75,000	1	2%
Alleyway Theatre Inc	$70,000	2	8%
City Swim Project Inc	$68,800	2	21%
University District Community Developmen	$66,000	2	4%
Reach Academy Charter School	$64,249	1	1%
Bestself Behavioral Health Inc	$63,000	2	0%
The Valley Community Association Inc	$60,000	2	1%
The Rural Outreach Center Inc	$60,000	2	2%
Roswell Park Alliance Foundation	$54,200	2	0%
Relay Graduate School of Education	$51,976	2	0%
Torn Space Theater Inc	$50,000	1	5%
Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences	$50,000	2	0%
Road Less Traveled Productions Ltd	$50,000	1	8%
West Side Community Services Inc	$50,000	2	3%
Karen Society of Buffalo Inc	$50,000	2	5%
716 Squash Inc	$50,000	2	6%
Niagara University	$48,609	2	0%
Ujima Company Incorporated	$48,139	2	4%
South Buffalo Charter School	$45,504	1	0%
Be-A-Friend Program Inc	$45,000	2	3%
Erie Regional Housing Development Corpor	$43,000	2	1%
New York Council of Nonprofits Inc	$42,083	2	1%
Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus Inc	$40,000	2	8%
The Boys & Girls Club Of The Northtowns Inc	$40,000	1	1%
Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper Inc	$40,000	2	0%
United Way of Buffalo and Erie County	$39,500	1	0%
Zoological Society of Buffalo Inc	$37,000	2	0%
Theatre of Youth Company Inc	$35,000	2	9%
Police Athletic League of Buffalo	$35,000	2	1%
Seneca Street Community Development Corporation	$35,000	1	6%
Buffalo String Works Inc	$35,000	1	4%
Kenan Center Inc	$35,000	2	2%
Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute Inc	$31,360	2	0%
Buffalo Opera Unlimited Incorporated	$30,000	2	8%
The Teachers Desk Inc	$30,000	2	3%
King Center Charter School	$27,552	1	0%
The Cleveland Play House	$25,000	1	0%
Epic - Every Person Influences Children Inc	$25,000	1	1%
The Collaborative Center for Social Innovation Inc	$25,000	1	21%
Buffalo Maritime Center Inc	$24,000	1	3%
Childcare Network of the Niagara Frontie	$24,000	1	0%
Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Starring Buffalo Inc	$20,000	2	9%
Assembly House 150 Inc	$20,000	1	2%
Buffalo Chamber Players Inc	$20,000	1	20%
Nusantara Arts Inc	$20,000	1	11%
Young Men's Christian Association Buffalo Niagara	$18,550	2	0%
Tapestry Charter School	$16,024	2	0%
Second Generation Theatre Company	$15,000	1	4%
The Research Foundation for The State University of New York	$15,000	1	0%
Elmwood Village Charter School	$15,000	1	n/a
Compeer West Inc	$15,000	1	1%
The YWCA of Western New York Inc	$15,000	1	1%
New York State Network for Youth Success	$12,772	1	1%
Roycrofters-At-Large Association Inc	$12,500	2	10%
Project Monas House Inc	$10,000	1	2%
Vocalis Chamber Choir	$10,000	2	9%
Artsy Languages Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Hallwalls Inc	$10,000	1	3%
Just Buffalo Literary Center Inc	$5,000	1	n/a
Theatre Alliance of Buffalo Inc	$5,000	1	47%
Junior Achievement of Western New York	$2,550	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.

Cullen Foundation of Western New York Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 87 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 87.

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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.

Cullen FoundationNY149.4× affinity70 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Cullen Foundation of Western New York Inc

How much does Cullen Foundation of Western New York Inc give?: Cullen Foundation of Western New York Inc reported 121 grants totaling $5,188,072 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Cullen Foundation of Western New York Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (60%), Arts & Culture (21%), Human Services (6%).
Who are Cullen Foundation of Western New York Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: Tntp Inc ($1.1M), Say Yes Buffalo Scholarship Inc ($625k), Persistence Preparatory Academy Charter School ($579k).
Does Cullen Foundation of Western New York Inc accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Cullen Foundation of Western New York Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cullen Foundation, Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, The John R Oishei Foundation.
Where is Cullen Foundation of Western New York Inc based?: Cullen Foundation of Western New York Inc is based in NY.