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Daniel & Flavia Gernatt Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$235k
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$578kEducation$470kHealth$332kReligion$289kPublic Safety & Disaster$36kHousing & Shelter$25kYouth Development$17kArts & Culture$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k33 grants · $155k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOVE INC$20,000
NORTHERN CHAUTAUQUA CATHOLIC SCHOOL$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
ETERNAL CHOICE OF LOVE INC$9,000
MOUNT MERCY ACADEMY$9,000
DIOCESAN PRIEST MEDICAL TRUST FUND$7,500
OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY SCHOOL$7,000
OUR LADY OF VICTORY CHARITIES$7,000
TRI-COUNTY CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER$6,000
RURAL OUTREACH CENTER$6,000
ST GIANNA MOLLA PREGNANCY OUTREACH CENTER$6,000
ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY$6,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FILLMORE POWERHOUSE YOUTH CENTER: $5k → 19%FILLMORE POWERHOUSE YOUTH CENTER: $5k → 19%FILLMORE POWERHOUSE YOUTH CENTER: $4k → 19%FILLMORE POWERHOUSE YOUTH CENTER: $3k → 19%SAVING GRACE OUTREACH: $5k → 16%SAVING GRACE OUTREACH: $5k → 16%SAVING GRACE OUTREACH: $5k → 16%LEAGUR FOR THE HANDICAPPED INC: $3k → 13%RURAL OUTREACH CENTER: $10k → 13%ETERNAL CHOICE OF LOVE INC: $9k → 13%ETERNAL CHOICE OF LOVE INC: $8k → 13%RURAL OUTREACH CENTER: $6k → 13%RURAL OUTREACH CENTER: $5k → 13%RURAL OUTREACH CENTER: $5k → 13%RURAL OUTREACH CENTER: $5k → 13%RURAL OUTREACH CENTER: $5k → 13%ETERNAL CHOICE OF LOVE INC: $3k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 51 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
11

Total granted

$1.7M
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+69%

Still filing today

35%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthEducationReligionRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • LI
    LOVE INC OF SPRINGVILLE NY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $195k · revenue +28% · 27% of their budget
  • GRACE GUEST HOUSE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +35%
  • TB
    THE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +118%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
  • DP
    DIOCESAN PRIEST RETIREMENT FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
  • VO
    VILLAGE OF SOUTH DAYTON
    one 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.

04Its field

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.

1
Lockport Cares Inc

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.

Education
2
Tlc Health Network

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

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3
Total Senior Care Inc

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

Health
4
New York Congregational Community Services
Health
5
Lutheran Church Home of Buffalo Inc

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.

Human Services
6
Catholic Charities Community Service of Rockland Inc

To provide, operate and supplement programs for the benefit of needy families and individuals, including the homeless and unemployed throughout rockland county, new york

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7
Community Care of Western New York Inc

HomeCare & Hospice helps maintain independence at home with compassion in communities throughout Allegany, Cattaraugus, Genesee and Wyoming counties

Health
8
Catholic Charities of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse Ny

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…

Human Services
9
Schoellkopf Health Center Inc

Skilled nursing facility providing long-term healthcare services to residents

Health
10
Mercy Home Care

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…

Human Services
11
Hospice of Chenango County Inc

To provide end of life care and bereavement counseling to the terminally ill and their families in chenango county, new york.

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12
Schofield Home Health Care Services Inc

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cradle Beach Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 67 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
12/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOVE INC: $195,000 · OtherLOVE INCNORTHERN CHAUTAUQUA CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $103,500 · OtherNORTHERN CHAUTAUQUA CATHOLIC SCHOOLST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY: $64,500 · OtherST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETYTRI-COUNTY CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER: $64,000 · OtherTRI-COUNTY CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTERMOTHER TERESA HOME: $61,000 · OtherST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL: $54,000 · OtherHOSPICE FOUNDATION OF BUFFALO: $47,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY CONCERN OF WNY: $45,000 · Other+42 more: $560,650 · Other+42 moreLOVE INC OF SPRINGVILLE NY: $195,000 · ReligionLOVE INC OF …CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO: $105,000 · PhilanthropyCATHOLIC …THE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $45,000 · PhilanthropyTHE BISON…+2 more: $3,500 · PhilanthropyThe Rural Outreach Center Inc: $35,500 · Human ServicesETERNAL CHOICE OF LOVE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesFILLMORE POWERHOUSE YOUTH CENTER INC: $17,000 · Human ServicesSAVING GRACE OUTREACH INC: $15,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesGRACE GUEST HOUSE INC: $57,500 · HealthBERTRAND CHAFFEE HOSPITAL: $13,000 · Health+1 more: $2,000 · HealthCANISIUS UNIVERSITY: $47,000 · EducationHILBERT COLLEGE: $12,500 · EducationSETON HOME STUDY SCHOOL: $8,000 · EducationSARDINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $8,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,194,650Religion$195,000Philanthropy$153,500Human Services$90,000Health$72,500Education$67,500Arts & Culture$8,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLOVE INC OF SPRINGVILLE NY: $195,000 over 9y, 27% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO: $105,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTRI-COUNTY CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER: $64,000 over 9y, 38% of budgetGRACE GUEST HOUSE INC: $57,500 over 9y, 4.8% of budgetCANISIUS UNIVERSITY: $47,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $45,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetThe Rural Outreach Center Inc: $35,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHARMONIA COLLABORATIVE CARE INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetETERNAL CHOICE OF LOVE INC: $20,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetFILLMORE POWERHOUSE YOUTH CENTER INC: $17,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetGOWANDA AMBULANCE SERVICE CORP: $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSAVING GRACE OUTREACH INC: $15,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetBERTRAND CHAFFEE HOSPITAL: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHILBERT COLLEGE: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSETON HOME STUDY SCHOOL: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCRADLE BEACH INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Franciscan Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetKING URBAN LIFE CENTER INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLEAGUE FOR THE HANDICAPPED INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE LABOURE SOCIETY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOMECARE & HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSoaring Spirits International: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 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 GOWANDA AMBULANCE SERVICE CORP ↗
  • Who funds SAVING GRACE OUTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds BERTRAND CHAFFEE HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds HILBERT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds SARDINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗

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.

Community Foundation …The John R Oishei Fou…The Margaret L Wendt …Buffalo Bills Foundat…Mother Cabrini Health…The Osc Charitable Fo…Odd Fellow & Rebekah …East Hill FoundationCullen FoundationThe Western New York …The Peter and Elizabe…The Ralph C Wilson Jr…
Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY32.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Daniel & Flavia Gernatt Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Daniel & Flavia Gernatt Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 67 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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