· Private foundation
E&W G Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $346k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUFFALO NIAGARA WATERKEEPER | $85,000 |
| HEART LOVE & SOUL | $50,000 |
| BUFFALO CITY MISSION | $40,000 |
| ROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CRADLE BEACH CAMP INC | $25,000 |
| GRACE GUEST HOUSE INC | $25,000 |
| HEART LOVE & SOUL | $25,000 |
| RIVIERA THEATRE & ORGAN INC | $25,000 |
| LEEDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $20,000 |
| NOR-TON RED JACKET CLUB INC | $20,000 |
| PROSPECT VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE | $20,000 |
| SPCA SERVING ERIE COUNTY | $20,000 |
| LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION INC | $20,000 |
| NEW HAMPSHIRE DANCE INSTITUTE | $18,542 |
| WINCHESTER POLICE DEPARTMENT | $17,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $882k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% 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.
25 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $213k 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
- ECERIE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS6× · 2017–2024 · $110k · revenue +43%
HEART LOVE & SOUL INC2× · 2018–2024 · $105k · revenue +41%- FLFRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S MARTIN HOUSE CORPORATION2× · 2017–2020 · $65k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- KCKENAN CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $117k · revenue +506%
NIAGARA AQUARIUM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $115k · revenue +4%- PUPEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $70k · revenue +239%
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.
The organization provides charitable relief in the form of emergency shelter, material needs, and compassionate care for the homeless and persons in need in the eastern niagara county, new york area.
Provide humane care for unwanted or abused animals.
To provide services to homeless animals
To acquire and renovate real property in western new york to establish and maintain facilities for the temporary and permanent housing of needy veterans and other special needs individuals.
To acquire, remediate, and steward lands along wny's waterfronts prioritizing public access.
To shelter unwanted and stray animals, prevent cruelty to animals, relieve suffering amoung animals, provide humane education and promote spaying/neutering.
Operation pets provides high quality, high volume, affordable spay and neuter services to the underserved population of western new york including outreach to local animal welfare groups.
It is the mission of carefirst ny, inc. to affirm life through extraordinary, compassionate support and care to patients and families in chemung, steuben and schuyler counties.
Friends for animal rescue ny, inc. is a nonprofit organization that furthers the interest of animals in the new york state area and improves their quality of life by supporting medical care, enrichment activities, training and…
Homeless shelter
The humane society of yates county exists to promote the welfare of companion and domestic animals through educational programs and initiatives that reduce pet overpopulation, enrich adoptions, and encourage responsible pet ownership.
Preservation, protection and restoration of the buffalo new york lighthouses and to maintain and develop the area surrounding them in accordance with their historical significance.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice & Palliative Care Buffalo Inc and the most unlike its peers is Catching Dreams Charters Inc. 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 34 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
93 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. 93 of the 141 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 CITY MISSION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO NIAGARA WATERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds KENAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ERIE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds HEART LOVE & SOUL INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S MARTIN HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds KEVIN GUEST HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds OTTER LAKE FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds Buffalo Suzuki Strings Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SUMMIT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds IMAGINE COMMUNITY GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY HOME - COMFORT CARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE TEACHERS DESK INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE GUEST HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF WESTERN NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE VALLEY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPSINC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MISSIONS OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIER INC ↗
- Who funds GERARD PLACE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds EXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CRADLE BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE ROWING CLUB INCORPORATED OF THE CITY OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND ELECTRIC RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROTHERS OF MERCY HOLDING INC ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds New England Equine Rescue - North 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: 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
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 E&W G Foundation 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.
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