· Private foundation
Demakos Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EXPLORE AND MORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $3,898 |
| ERIE COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $3,800 |
| ANNUNCIATION GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH | $2,500 |
| CALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $2,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,889 |
| PETE FRATES ALS FOUNDATION | $1,420 |
| NICHOLS SCHOOL | $1,250 |
| MARIA LOVE CONVALESCENT FUND | $1,000 |
| 11 DAY POWER PLAY | $1,000 |
| REVELAS FAMILY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $600 |
| THE BUFFALO CLUB FOUNDATION | $500 |
| BEST BUDDIES INTERNATIONAL | $500 |
| KATHARINE PRATT HORTON NSDAR | $400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $256 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $985) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
53 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 15 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NSNICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO7× · 2019–2025 · $9k · revenue +32%
- NSNATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE DAUGHTERS KATHARINE PRATT HORTON BUFFALO DAR6× · 2019–2025 · $3k · revenue +40%
- ALAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN5× · 2019–2024 · $3k · revenue +153%
Funded once
- HCHERITAGE CENTERS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $4k
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR A GREATER BUFFALO (SAY YES)one grant, 2017 · $3k
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO (SAY YES)one grant, 2018 · $3k
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.
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.
The mission of the university at albany foundation is to encourage, receive, accept, hold, invest, and manage money and property of every description, and the disbursement thereof for the promotion, development and advancement of the…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The foundation, a subsidiary of new york university, fosters legal education and research at new york university's school of law by awarding scholarships, making grants for educational purposes related to law, and supporting programs of…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 160 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 ECMC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds AMHERST POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE DAUGHTERS KATHARINE PRATT HORTON BUFFALO DAR ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SKATING ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND & HAND ↗
- Who funds THE REVELAS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EXPLORE BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds THE 11 DAY POWER PLAY INC ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds EASTMAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOSPICE AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Demakos Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Demakos Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
- The United Way of Lee County Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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