· Private foundation
Dreamcatcher Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k67 grants · $120k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Lawrence University | $20,000 |
| Bonefish & Tarpon Trust | $14,734 |
| Culinary Institute of America | $10,000 |
| The Traveling School | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,750 |
| Upper Keys Foundation Inc | $6,000 |
| Baptist Health Foundation Coral Gables FL | $6,000 |
| Upper Keys Foundation | $5,500 |
| Ronald McDonald House of Tampa | $5,200 |
| District School Board of Niagara | $5,000 |
| St Francis High School Hamburg NY | $5,000 |
| Upward Design for Life | $5,000 |
| Niagara University | $5,000 |
| Scott Family Amazeum | $5,000 |
| Plantation Key School Tavernier FL | $4,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $13k) 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 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +30% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 31 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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
ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY5× · 2021–2025 · $91k · revenue +3%
CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA4× · 2021–2025 · $59k · revenue +55%- IFISLAMORADA FOUNDATION INC3× · 2021–2024 · $38k · revenue +146%
Funded once
- VVELASANOone grant, 2023 · $15k
- BCBuffalo Center For Health EquityIncone grant, 2023 · $11k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BUFFALO INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -21%
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.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
University at buffalo surgeons, inc., is a large team of surgeons dedicated to the improvement of the health of our patients, cutting edge research, and the professional development of our students and residents. we are committed to…
To assist the faculty of the department of pediatrics at the university at buffalo in the delivery of health care, improve the ability of the faculty to perform clinical research, maximize resources to foster academic, research and…
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.
University at buffalo neurosurgery, inc. is an academic neurosurgical group committed to excellence in patient care, research, and education. our mission is to develop and implement sound strategies that focus on quality medical services,…
To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.
The foundation supports the law school in its mission to increase access to legal education to those from groups underrepresented in the profession and to prepare its graduates for public interest and public service practice.
St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.
The organization operates an incubator facility to identify and aid start-up businesses with a purpose of stimulating development and increasing interaction between the university at buffalo and such businesses.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wny Heroes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Islamorada Firefighters Benevolent Asso. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
92 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. 92 of the 197 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 ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ISLAMORADA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Upper Keys Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR FLORIDA KEYS CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds D'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE TRAVELING SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Buffalo Center For Health EquityInc ↗
- Who funds NICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CASEY POWELL WORLD LACROSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAUPTMAN-WOODWARD MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Avenue Project Inc ↗
- Who funds RMHC OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN NEW YORK UNITED AGAINST DRUG & ALCOHOL ABUSE INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS ESCAPING DRUGS INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds UPward Design for Life Corporation ↗
- Who funds THE PARK SCHOOL OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
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: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The Baird Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · The Frank G Raichle Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · Cullen Foundation · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · The Osc Charitable Foundation · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · Rich Family Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies 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 Dreamcatcher Foundation Inc 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.
- The Sundari Foundation Inc — 5% of income from government
- Florida Sheriffs Association Inc — 4% of income from government
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% of income from government
- Gulliver Preparatory School Inc — 0% of income from government
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.