· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $14,495 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $14,495 |
| SACRED HEART CHURCH OF BOWMANSVILLE | $14,495 |
| PBS LOCAL AFFILLIATES WNED | $14,495 |
| BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOC | $14,495 |
| BOWMANSVILLE UNITED METHODIST CHURC | $14,495 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS-NATL | $14,495 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $14,495 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $10,968 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $8,697 |
| BUFFALO & ERIE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRAR | $8,697 |
| STS PETER & PAUL SCHOOL | $8,697 |
| LANCASTER NY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $8,697 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 34 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 HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF WNY INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF WESTERN NEW YORK ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Donald Macdavid Charitable Tr Pf funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Donald Macdavid Charitable Tr Pf. Bigger dots raise more.
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