· Private foundation
Daniel & Flavia Gernatt Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k33 grants · $155k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHERN CHAUTAUQUA CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| LOVE INC | $20,000 |
| LOVE INC OF SPRINGVILLE NY | $20,000 |
| MOTHER TERESA HOME | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO NY | $10,000 |
| SISTER OF ST FRANCIS SCHOOL | $9,000 |
| MOUNT MERCY ACADEMY | $9,000 |
| ETERNAL CHOICE OF LOVE INC | $9,000 |
| DIOCESAN PRIEST MEDICAL TRUST FUND | $7,500 |
| OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY SCHOOL | $7,000 |
| OUR LADY OF VICTORY CHARITIES | $7,000 |
| RURAL OUTREACH CENTER | $6,000 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY | $6,000 |
| TRI-COUNTY CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER | $6,000 |
| ST GIANNA MOLLA PREGNANCY OUTREACH CENTER | $6,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
51 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 5 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- LILOVE INC OF SPRINGVILLE NY9× · 2017–2025 · $195k · revenue +28% · 27% of their budget
- TCTRI-COUNTY CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $64k · revenue +3% · 27% of their budget
GRACE GUEST HOUSE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- DPDIOCESAN PRIEST RETIREMENT FUNDone grant, 2021 · $8k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $8k
- TFThe Franciscan Center Incone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
The organization provides charitable relief in the form of emergency shelter, material needs, and compassionate care for the homeless and persons in need in the eastern niagara county, new york area.
Tlc health network's mission is to provide a diverse range of quality healthcare services throughout western new york while adhering to the values upon which we were founded:integrity - compassion - accountability - respect - excellence
To provide a comprehensive array of services including case management, physician, hospital and nursing home care to adults age 55 and older who are medically eligible for nursing home care
Our mission is to provide for the physical, social, and spiritual needs of individuals we serve, in a Christian environment. The organization is an adult care facility which can accommodate 48 residents.
To provide, operate and supplement programs for the benefit of needy families and individuals, including the homeless and unemployed throughout rockland county, new york
HomeCare & Hospice helps maintain independence at home with compassion in communities throughout Allegany, Cattaraugus, Genesee and Wyoming counties
Catholic charities of the roman catholic diocese of syracuse, ny operates throughout the diocese from area offices located in the following counties: onondaga, oneida/madison, oswego, cortland, broome and chenango. catholic charities of…
Skilled nursing facility providing long-term healthcare services to residents
The Mission of Mercy Home Care, as part of the Catholic Health System (CHS) in Western New York, is to provide quality healthcare services in a home care setting. Committed to a common mission, the providers of Mercy Home Care continue the…
To provide end of life care and bereavement counseling to the terminally ill and their families in chenango county, new york.
To provide the highest level of professional and paraprofessional home health care services with care, compassion, and allowing patients to remain in their own home. We meet our mission by operating a licensed home care agency providing…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cradle Beach Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fillmore Powerhouse Youth Center Inc. 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 37 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% 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 8% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 67 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 LOVE INC OF SPRINGVILLE NY ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds GRACE GUEST HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CANISIUS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds The Rural Outreach Center Inc ↗
- Who funds HARMONIA COLLABORATIVE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds ETERNAL CHOICE OF LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds FILLMORE POWERHOUSE YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SAVING GRACE OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds GOWANDA AMBULANCE SERVICE CORP ↗
- Who funds BERTRAND CHAFFEE HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds HILBERT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SARDINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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 John R Oishei Foundation · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The Osc Charitable Foundation · Odd Fellow & Rebekah Benefit Fund Inc · East Hill Foundation · Cullen Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr 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 Daniel & Flavia Gernatt Family 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.
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.