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E&W G Foundation

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.

$647k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
27
Grants FY2025
22
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$117,000
Organizations funded a year
19 to 27
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$13M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations E&W G Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $213k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesAnimalsArts & CultureHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving27$647k44%
FY202422$495k50%
FY202327$609k70%
FY202219$476k53%
FY202127$716k59%
FY202027$618k59%
FY201922$557k82%
FY201820$503k95%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$910kReligion$656kEnvironment$554kAnimals$386kHuman Services$377kRecreation & Sports$375kFood & Nutrition$334kHealth$251kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
NY
MA
IA
PA
KY
VA
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper Inc$614,48093%
City Mission Society Inc$571,50063%
Kenan Center Inc$234,00029%
Heart Love & Soul Inc$130,00033%
Erie County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$115,21070%
Niagara Aquarium Foundation$115,00012%
Buffalo Suzuki Strings Inc$70,00028%
People United for Sustainable Housing Inc$70,00014%
Wellspring Ministries of Alleghany County Inc$65,0003n/a
Frank Lloyd Wright's Martin House Corporation$65,00021%
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All grantees of E&W G Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper Inc$614,48093%
City Mission Society Inc$571,50063%
Kenan Center Inc$234,00029%
Heart Love & Soul Inc$130,00033%
Erie County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$115,21070%
Niagara Aquarium Foundation$115,00012%
Buffalo Suzuki Strings Inc$70,00028%
People United for Sustainable Housing Inc$70,00014%
Wellspring Ministries of Alleghany County Inc$65,0003n/a
Frank Lloyd Wright's Martin House Corporation$65,00021%
Kevin Guest House Inc$63,30033%
Family Promise of Western New York$57,07042%
Otter Lake Fire Company Inc$53,466311%
Our Lady of Victory Homes of Charity Inc$50,0001n/a
Saving Grace Outreach Inc$45,000211%
Gateway Home - Comfort Care Inc$40,000120%
Feed716$40,00019%
The Summit Center Inc$40,00020%
Imagine Community Gardens Inc$40,000429%
Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences$35,60050%
The Teachers Desk Inc$35,00034%
Grace Guest House Inc$35,000211%
Cotton Valley Trail Committee Inc$31,0002n/a
Lancaster Volunteer Ambulance Corpsinc$30,00011%
Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy Inc$30,00011%
The Valley Community Association Inc$30,00011%
Community Missions of the Niagara Frontier Inc$29,64210%
Gerard Place Housing Development Fund Company Inc$27,10011%
Explore & More a Children's Museum$26,20030%
Brothers of Mercy Holding Inc$25,00012%
Our Neighbors' Table Inc$25,00011%
Rochester Regional Health Foundation$25,00010%
Cradle Beach Inc$25,00011%
New England Electric Railway Historical Society$25,00011%
West Side Rowing Club Incorporated of the City of Buffalo$25,00013%
Zoological Society of Buffalo Inc$20,50030%
New England Equine Rescue - North Inc$20,42913%
Niagara County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc$20,40050%
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site Foundation$20,30022%
Gateway-Longview Inc$20,00010%
Twin Cities Community Outreach Inc$20,000122%
Lexington Rescue Mission$20,00011%
Net Positive Inc$20,0001n/a
Read to Succeed Buffalo Inc$20,00012%
Paris Animal Welfare Society Inc$20,00015%
Prospect Volunteer Ambulance Inc$20,00013%
Lewis County Humane Society Inc$20,0001n/a
Young Men's Christian Association Buffalo Niagara$20,00010%
David's House Inc$20,00011%
Winchester Council for the Artsinc Dba Leeds Center for the Arts$20,0001n/a
St Mary School$20,0001n/a
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$20,00010%
Bourbon County Schools$20,0001n/a
Refuge for Women Inc$20,00020%
Friends of Night People Inc$20,00011%
Harrison County Band Association$20,0001n/a
Nor-Ton Red Jacket Clubinc$20,000120%
Catching Dreams Charters Inc$20,0001n/a
Old Fort Niagara Association Inc$18,77511%
Monadnock Arts-In-Education$18,54214%
City of North Tonawanda$16,3881n/a
Olean Food Pantry Inc$15,00018%
Bluepath Service Dogs Inc$15,00011%
Western New York Land Conservancy Inc$15,00010%
Humane Society of Sarasota County Inc$15,00010%
Friends of the City of Buffalo Animal Shelter$15,000112%
Adirondack Public Observatory Inc$15,0001n/a
Wny Women's Foundation Inc$15,00012%
Project Monas House Inc$15,0001n/a
Harvest House Buffalo Inc$15,00011%
Girl Scouts of Western New York Inc$15,00010%
Niagara Frontier Chapter Nrhs Inc$15,0001n/a
Horizon Health Services$14,65710%
Feedmore Wny Foundation Inc$11,50050%
Holy Family Learning Center Inc$10,00016%
Lady Veterans Connect$10,00013%
New York Pops Inc$10,00010%
Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inc$10,00010%
Hospice & Palliative Care Buffalo Inc$10,00010%
Calvary Christian Church$10,0001n/a
Monadnock Center for Violence Prevention$10,00011%
Sterling Community Food Coalition Inc$10,000110%
Maine State Music Theatre$10,00010%
Pathways for Keene Inc$10,0001n/a
Leek Hunting and Mountain Preserve Inc$10,00015%
Fulton Theatre Company$10,00010%
Broadway Dreams Foundation Corporation$10,00011%
Artsalive Inc$10,0001n/a
Caring About Treasured Strays Inc$10,0001n/a
The Winchester Learning Center$10,00012%
Southwestern Community Services Inc$10,00010%
Keene Serenity Center Inc$10,00016%
Casting for Recovery$10,00010%
Art for Rural America$10,0001n/a
Ten Lives Club Inc$10,00011%
Camden Area Food Pantry Inc$10,000114%
Cheshire Children's Museum Inc$10,0001n/a
Kentucky River Foothills Development Council Inc$10,00010%
Merrimack River Feline Rescue Society Inc$10,0001n/a
Clark County Homeless Coalition Inc$9,93914%
The Boys & Girls Club Of The Northtowns Inc$9,60610%
Natural Heritage Trust$9,29810%
Friends of Little Portion Friary Aka Little Portion Friary$9,00012%
Clark County Community Services In$8,19810%
Rahama$7,50012%
Another Chance Animal Rescue$4,20013%
United Cerebral Palsy Association of Niagara County Inc$3,77110%
Beds from Brian$2,400124%
Breast Cancer Network of Western New Yorkinc$1,0001n/a
Niagara Falls Boys & Girls Club Inc$20020%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

E&W G Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 88 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBuffalo Niagara Waterkeeper Inc: $614,480 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetCity Mission Society Inc: $571,500 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetKenan Center Inc: $234,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetHeart Love & Soul Inc: $130,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetErie County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $115,210 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetNiagara Aquarium Foundation: $115,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBuffalo Suzuki Strings Inc: $70,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetPeople United for Sustainable Housing Inc: $70,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetFrank Lloyd Wright's Martin House Corporation: $65,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetKevin Guest House Inc: $63,300 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetFamily Promise of Western New York: $57,070 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetOtter Lake Fire Company Inc: $53,466 over 3y, 11% of budgetSaving Grace Outreach Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetGateway Home - Comfort Care Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetFeed716: $40,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetThe Summit Center Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetImagine Community Gardens Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetBuffalo Society of Natural Sciences: $35,600 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Teachers Desk Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetGrace Guest House Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetLancaster Volunteer Ambulance Corpsinc: $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBuffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Valley Community Association Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCommunity Missions of the Niagara Frontier Inc: $29,642 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGerard Place Housing Development Fund Company Inc: $27,100 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetExplore & More a Children's Museum: $26,200 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBrothers of Mercy Holding Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetOur Neighbors' Table Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRochester Regional Health Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCradle Beach Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNew England Electric Railway Historical Society: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWest Side Rowing Club Incorporated of the City of Buffalo: $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetZoological Society of Buffalo Inc: $20,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNew England Equine Rescue - North Inc: $20,429 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetNiagara County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc: $20,400 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTheodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site Foundation: $20,300 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetGateway-Longview Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTwin Cities Community Outreach Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetLexington Rescue Mission: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRead to Succeed Buffalo Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetParis Animal Welfare Society Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetProspect Volunteer Ambulance Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association Buffalo Niagara: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDavid's House Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRefuge for Women Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Night People Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNor-Ton Red Jacket Clubinc: $20,000 over 1y, 20% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 88.

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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 for Greater Buffalo IncNY88.3× affinity48 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 · East Hill Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · The Baird Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · Cullen Foundation · The Western New York Foundation

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.

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Find your warmest path to E&W G Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About E&W G Foundation

How much does E&W G Foundation give?
E&W G Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $647,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does E&W G Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (20%), Religion (15%), Environment (12%).
Who are E&W G Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper Inc ($614k), City Mission Society Inc ($572k), Kenan Center Inc ($234k).
Does E&W G Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does E&W G Foundation 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 E&W G Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, East Hill Foundation, The John R Oishei Foundation.
Where is E&W G Foundation based?
E&W G Foundation is based in NY.

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 153 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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