· Private foundation
Donald Macdavid Charitable Tr Pf
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $121k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $185k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF BUFFALO & ERIE COUNTY | $28,991 |
| HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF WNY | $28,991 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS-NATL | $14,495 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $14,495 |
| BOWMANSVILLE UNITED METHODIST CHURC | $14,495 |
| BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOC | $14,495 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $14,495 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $14,495 |
| PBS LOCAL AFFILLIATES WNED | $14,495 |
| SACRED HEART CHURCH OF BOWMANSVILLE | $14,495 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $10,968 |
| LANCASTER NY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $8,697 |
| BUFFALO & ERIE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRAR | $8,697 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,697 |
| CATHOLIC DIOCESAN SCHOOLS | $8,697 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- HFHOSPICE FOUNDATION OF WNY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $171k · revenue +65%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches6× · 2020–2025 · $94k · revenue +38%
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC6× · 2020–2025 · $85k · revenue +28%
Funded once
UNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTYone grant, 2025 · $29k · revenue 0%- UFUB FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2025 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
Niagara university educates its students and enriches their lives through programs in the liberal arts and through career preparation, informed by the catholic and vincentian traditions.
Molloy university, an independent catholic university, rooted in the dominican tradition of study, spirituality, service, and community, is committed to academic excellence with respect for each person. through transformative education,…
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
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.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University at Buffalo Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is World Wildlife Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 34 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF WNY INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF WESTERN NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DAEMEN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds D'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CANISIUS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University at Buffalo Foundation Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: James H Cummings Foundation Inc · Tower Family Fund Inc · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Cullen Foundation of Western New York Inc · Buffalo Sabres Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Donald Macdavid Charitable Tr Pf funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.