New York · Private foundation
Despirt Foundation Inc
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.
- $7k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $135
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,250
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $29k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Despirt Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 19 | $7k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $6k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $6k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $6k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $5k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $5k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $5k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $5k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canisius University | $24,150 | 9 | 0% |
| Canisius High School | $4,375 | 9 | n/a |
| D'Youville University | $4,375 | 9 | 0% |
| Gerard Place Housing Development Fund Company Inc | $1,955 | 9 | 0% |
| Cantalician Center for Learning | $1,495 | 9 | n/a |
| The Bison Children's Scholarship Fund Inc | $1,265 | 9 | 0% |
| Sisters of Charity Hospital Foundation | $1,265 | 9 | 0% |
| Roswell Park Alliance Foundation | $1,110 | 9 | 0% |
| Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Society Inc | $975 | 9 | 0% |
| Hospice Buffalo Inc | $975 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 15 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canisius University | $24,150 | 9 | 0% |
| Canisius High School | $4,375 | 9 | n/a |
| D'Youville University | $4,375 | 9 | 0% |
| Gerard Place Housing Development Fund Company Inc | $1,955 | 9 | 0% |
| Cantalician Center for Learning | $1,495 | 9 | n/a |
| The Bison Children's Scholarship Fund Inc | $1,265 | 9 | 0% |
| Sisters of Charity Hospital Foundation | $1,265 | 9 | 0% |
| Roswell Park Alliance Foundation | $1,110 | 9 | 0% |
| Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Society Inc | $975 | 9 | 0% |
| Hospice Buffalo Inc | $975 | 9 | 0% |
| Artpark & Company Inc | $975 | 9 | 0% |
| Brothers of Mercy Holding Inc | $975 | 9 | 0% |
| N a R D I N Academy | $975 | 9 | n/a |
| St Mary's School for the Deaf | $635 | 9 | 0% |
| Kenmore Mercy Hospital | $615 | 8 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($5k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Despirt Foundation Inc 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.
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How this is measured
About Despirt Foundation Inc
- How much does Despirt Foundation Inc give?
- Despirt Foundation Inc reported 19 grants totaling $7,270 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Despirt Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (72%), Health (12%), Housing & Shelter (4%).
- Who are Despirt Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Canisius University ($24k), Canisius High School ($4k), D'Youville University ($4k).
- Does Despirt Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Despirt Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Despirt Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc, Kenneth & Katherine Koessler Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is Despirt Foundation Inc based?
- Despirt Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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