New York · Private foundation
Demakos Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $26k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 52%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,898
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 36
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $129k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 52% of the organizations Demakos Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 34 | $25k | 44% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $20k | 52% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $18k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $27k | 42% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $28k | 53% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $24k | 44% |
| FY2019 | 36 | $26k | 75% |
| FY2018 | 36 | $22k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecmc Foundation Inc | $30,870 | 6 | 0% |
| Explore & More a Children's Museum | $21,668 | 7 | 0% |
| Nichols School of Buffalo | $8,750 | 7 | 0% |
| Amherst Police Foundation Inc | $5,250 | 5 | 3% |
| National Society of the Daughters Katharine Pratt Horton Buffalo Dar | $2,915 | 6 | 3% |
| Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn | $2,612 | 5 | 0% |
| Buffalo Renaissance Foundation Inc | $2,250 | 4 | 0% |
| Skating Association for the Blind & Hand | $1,811 | 3 | 0% |
| The Revelas Family Foundation Inc | $1,500 | 2 | 2% |
| Explore Buffalo Inc | $1,263 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 62 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 96 recipients with no EIN on record ($123k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Demakos Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 · The Baird Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc · The Osc Charitable Foundation · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · Rich Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Demakos Foundation
- How much does Demakos Foundation give?
- Demakos Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $25,538 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Demakos Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (30%), Religion (27%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are Demakos Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ecmc Foundation Inc ($31k), Explore & More a Children's Museum ($22k), Nichols School of Buffalo ($9k).
- Does Demakos Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Demakos Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Demakos Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, The Baird Foundation, First Niagara Foundation.
- Where is Demakos Foundation based?
- Demakos Foundation is based in NY.
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