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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 FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$37kHealth$6kHousing & Shelter$2kArts & Culture$2kReligion$2kPhilanthropy$635Other$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$135
Median grant
2
States reached
$29k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CANISIUS UNIVERSITY$3,250
CANISIUS HIGH SCHOOL$600
D' YOUVILLE UNIVERSITY$600
Individual grant recipient$395
GERARD PLACE$270
ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION$270
CANTALICIAN CENTER FOR LEARNING$210
THE BISON SCHOLARSHIP FUND$185
SISTERS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$185
HOSPICE OF BUFFALO INC$135
NARDIN ACADEMY$135
ARTPARK & COMPANY INC$135
BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC$135
HOLY CROSS MISSIONS$135
BROTHERS OF MERCY$135
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $975) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOSPICE OF BUFFALO INC: $135 → 13%HOSPICE OF BUFFALO INC: $120 → 13%HOSPICE OF BUFFALO INC: $110 → 13%HOSPICE OF BUFFALO INC: $110 → 13%HOSPICE OF BUFFALO INC: $100 → 13%HOSPICE OF BUFFALO INC: $100 → 13%HOSPICE OF BUFFALO INC: $100 → 13%HOSPICE OF BUFFALO INC: $100 → 13%HOSPICE OF BUFFALO INC: $100 → 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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$52k · 20 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
0

Total granted

$52k
$0

Still filing today

55%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterArts & CultureHuman ServicesReligionOther
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

  • DU
    D'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4k · revenue +23%
  • GERARD PLACE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND COMPANY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2k · revenue +32%
  • TB
    THE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1k · revenue +118%

Funded once

    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
    Mercy Health

    Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

    —
    2
    Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

    Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

    Health
    3
    Bon Secours New York Health System Inc

    Bon secours new york health system, inc. (bsnyhs) is the parent and central organization of an established integrated healthcare delivery system.

    —
    4
    Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

    Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

    Health
    5
    Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

    Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

    Health
    6
    Catholic Health System

    The Mission of the Catholic Health System, as part of the Catholic Health System (CHS) in Western New York, is to provide quality healthcare services in an acute care, long term care, home care setting. Committed to a common mission, the…

    —
    7
    Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

    Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

    Health
    8
    Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center

    We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christs healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

    Health
    9
    St Charles Hospital Corp

    We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

    Health
    10
    Sisters of Charity Hospital

    The Mission of Sisters of Charity Hospital, as part of the Catholic Health System (CHS) in Western New York, is to provide quality healthcare services in an acute care setting. Committed to a common mission, the providers of Sisters of…

    Health
    11
    St Catherine of Siena Medical Center

    We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

    Health
    12
    Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

    Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

    Health
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sisters of Charity Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Gerard Place Housing Development Fund Company 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

    12 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. 12 of the 20 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.

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    1
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    11/12
    Grantees still filing
    8/12
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    CANISIUS UNIVERSITY: $24,150 · EducationCANISIUS UNIVERSITYD'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITY: $4,375 · EducationD'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITYCANISIUS HIGH SCHOOL: $4,375 · OtherCANISIUS HIGH SCHOOLHAUPTMAN WOODWARD MEDICAL RESEARCH: $1,675 · OtherHAUPTMAN WOODWARD MEDICAL RESEARC…CANTALICIAN CENTER FOR LEARNING: $1,495 · OtherCANTALICIAN CENTER FOR LEARNINGIndividual grant recipient: $1,495 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSISTERS OF CHARITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,265 · OtherSISTERS OF CHARITY HOSPITAL FOUND…ARTPARK & COMPANY INC: $975 · OtherARTPARK & COMPANY INCHOLY CROSS MISSIONS: $975 · OtherHOLY CROSS MISSIONSN A R D I N ACADEMY: $975 · OtherN A R D I N ACADEMYUNITED JEWISH FUND: $635 · OtherST MARY'S SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: $635 · OtherST VINCENT DEPAUL OF BUFFALO INC: $635 · OtherTHE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $1,265 · PhilanthropyROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $1,110 · PhilanthropyGERARD PLACE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND COMPANY INC: $1,955 · Housing & ShelterBUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC: $975 · Arts & CultureHOSPICE BUFFALO INC: $975 · Human ServicesBROTHERS OF MERCY HOLDING INC: $975 · ReligionKenmore Mercy Hospital: $615 · Health
    Education$28,525Other$15,135Philanthropy$2,375Housing & Shelter$1,955Arts & Culture$975Human Services$975Religion$975Health$615

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

    25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCANISIUS UNIVERSITY: $24,150 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetD'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITY: $4,375 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGERARD PLACE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND COMPANY INC: $1,955 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $1,265 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSISTERS OF CHARITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,265 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $1,110 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC: $975 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE BUFFALO INC: $975 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetARTPARK & COMPANY INC: $975 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBROTHERS OF MERCY HOLDING INC: $975 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: $635 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetKenmore Mercy Hospital: $615 over 8y, 0.0% 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 CANISIUS UNIVERSITY ↗
    • Who funds D'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITY ↗
    • Who funds GERARD PLACE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND COMPANY INC ↗
    • Who funds THE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
    • Who funds SISTERS OF CHARITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
    • Who funds ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
    • Who funds BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC ↗
    • Who funds HOSPICE BUFFALO INC ↗
    • Who funds ARTPARK & COMPANY INC ↗
    • Who funds BROTHERS OF MERCY HOLDING INC ↗
    • Who funds ST MARY'S SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF ↗
    • Who funds Kenmore Mercy Hospital ↗

    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 …Mother Cabrini Health…Kenneth & Katherine K…The Osc Charitable Fo…The Baird FoundationFirst Niagara Foundat…The John R Oishei Fou…Colucci Family Founda…Charles D & Mary a Ba…James H Cummings Foun…The Margaret L Wendt …Foundation for Jewish…
    Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY25.7× affinity10 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 · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Kenneth & Katherine Koessler Family Foundation Inc · The Osc Charitable Foundation · The Baird Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · Colucci Family Foundation Inc · Charles D & Mary a Bauer Foundation · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

    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 Despirt Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Despirt Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
      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 20 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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