Skip to content
E&W G Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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 FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$117k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $431k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $202k
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KENAN CENTER INC$117,000
BUFFALO NIAGARA WATERKEEPER$85,000
FEED716 INC$40,000
SAVING GRACE OUTREACH$30,000
HOPEBOUND MINISTRIES INC$30,000
HEART LOVE & SOUL$25,000
OUR NEIGHBORS' TABLE$25,000
WELLSPRING MINISTRIES OF ALLEGANY COUNTY$25,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF WESTERN NEW YORK$25,000
BUFFALO MUSEUM OF SCIENCE$20,000
NORTH TONAWANDA DEPT OF YOUTH PARKS AND RECREATION$20,000
NET POSITIVE INC$20,000
DAVID'S HOUSE$20,000
HARRISON COUNTY BAND ASSOCIATION$20,000
COTTON VALLEY TRAIL COMMITTEE INC$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $957k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GATEWAY HOME - COMFORT CARE INC: $40k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 9%GATEWAY LONGVIEW INC: $20k → 13%SAVING GRACE OUTREACH: $30k → 16%THE WINCHESTER LEARNING CENTER: $10k → 9%SAVING GRACE OUTREACH: $15k → 16%LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION INC: $20k → 15%OUR NEIGHBORS' TABLE: $25k → 10%CLARK COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $8k → 15%SOUTHWESTERN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $10k → 9%YMCA BUFFALO NIAGARA: $20k → 13%COMMUNITY MISSIONS OF NIAGARA FRONTIER: $30k → 14%BEDS FROM BRIAN INC: $2k → 14%WNY WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $15k → 13%THE TEACHERS DESK INC: $15k → 13%THE TEACHERS DESK INC: $10k → 13%THE TEACHERS DESK INC: $10k → 13%FRIENDS OF LITTLE PORTION FRIARY: $9k → 13%VALLEY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC: $30k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $260k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $250k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $40k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $20k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $1k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $100 → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $100 → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $100 → 13%FEED MORE WNY FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%FEED MORE WNY FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%FEED MORE WNY FOUNDATION: $200 → 13%FEED MORE WNY FOUNDATION: $100 → 13%FEED MORE WNY FOUNDATION: $100 → 13%NET POSITIVE INC: $20k → 13%FEED MORE WNY FOUNDATION: $100 → 13%PROJECT MONA'S HOUSE: $15k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
NY
MA
IA
PA
KY
VA
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 32 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

32 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
109

Total granted

$3.1M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+39%

Still filing today

72%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $244k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesAnimalsArts & CultureHealthHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • KC
    KENAN CENTER INC
    2× · 2022–2025 · $234k · revenue +506%
  • HEART LOVE & SOUL INC
    3× · 2018–2025 · $130k · revenue +41%
  • EC
    ERIE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    7× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • NIAGARA AQUARIUM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $115k · revenue +4%
  • CC
    CORNELL COOPERATIVE EXTENSION OF NIAGARA COUNTY
    one grant, 2018 · $70k
  • PU
    PEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $70k · revenue +239%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Lockport Cares Inc

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.

Education
2
North Country Spca Inc

Provide humane care for unwanted or abused animals.

Animals
3
Humane Society of Genesee County

To provide services to homeless animals

Animals
4
Wny Veterans' Housing Coalition Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
5
Buffalo Niagara River Land Trust Inc

To acquire, remediate, and steward lands along wny's waterfronts prioritizing public access.

Environment
6
The Humane Association of Cny Inc

To shelter unwanted and stray animals, prevent cruelty to animals, relieve suffering amoung animals, provide humane education and promote spaying/neutering.

Animals
7
Operation Pets - the Spay-Neuter Clinic of Wny Inc

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.

Animals
8
Buffalo Lighthouse Association Inc

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.

—
9
Carefirst Ny Inc

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.

—
10
Friends for Animal Rescue Ny Inc

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…

Animals
11
Tompkins County Spca

The mission of the SPCA of Tompkins County is to protect companion animals. We are a no-kill shelter dedicated to preventing animal cruelty and overpopulation. We promote responsible pet stewardship by providing education, counseling and…

Animals
12
Food Bank of Central New York

Food bank of central new york is a not-for-profit organization: our mission is to lead the effort to eliminate hunger in our region, through partnerships with others in our community, through education, advocacy, and distribution of…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice & Palliative Care Buffalo Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

101 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 101 of the 153 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
98/101
Grantees still filing
70/101
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AQUARIUM OF NIAGARA: $500,400 · OtherAQUARIUM OF NIAGARAHEART LOVE & SOUL INC: $130,000 · OtherHEART LOVE & SOUL INC+88 more: $1,687,036 · Other+88 moreCITY MISSION SOCIETY INC: $571,500 · Human ServicesCITY MISSION SOCIETY …SAVING GRACE OUTREACH INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesGATEWAY HOME - COMFORT CARE INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesTHE TEACHERS DESK INC: $35,000 · Human Services+16 more: $265,740 · Human Services+16 moreBUFFALO NIAGARA WATERKEEPER INC: $614,480 · EnvironmentBUFFALO NIAGAR…IMAGINE COMMUNITY GARDENS INC: $40,000 · EnvironmentIMAGINE COMMUN…+1 more: $15,000 · EnvironmentERIE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $115,210 · AnimalsNIAGARA AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $115,000 · AnimalsZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO INC: $20,500 · AnimalsNew England Equine Rescue - North Inc: $20,429 · AnimalsNIAGARA COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC: $20,400 · AnimalsPARIS ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC: $20,000 · AnimalsLEWIS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $20,000 · AnimalsBLUEPATH SERVICE DOGS INC: $15,000 · AnimalsHumane Society of Sarasota County Inc: $15,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF THE CITY OF BUFFALO ANIMAL SHELTER: $15,000 · Animals+3 more: $24,200 · AnimalsBuffalo Suzuki Strings Inc: $70,000 · Arts & CultureFRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S MARTIN HOUSE CORPORATION: $65,000 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES: $35,600 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureEXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $26,200 · Arts & CultureWINCHESTER COUNCIL FOR THE ARTSINC DBA LEEDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $60,000 · Arts & CultureKENAN CENTER INC: $234,000 · Recreation & SportsCRADLE BEACH INC: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsCATCHING DREAMS CHARTERS INC: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsPATHWAYS FOR KEENE INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsKEVIN GUEST HOUSE INC: $63,300 · HealthGRACE GUEST HOUSE INC: $35,000 · HealthLANCASTER VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPSINC: $30,000 · HealthROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthDAVID'S HOUSE INC: $20,000 · HealthHORIZON HEALTH SERVICES: $14,657 · HealthHOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE BUFFALO INC: $10,000 · HealthKEENE SERENITY CENTER INC: $10,000 · HealthCASTING FOR RECOVERY: $10,000 · Health+2 more: $4,771 · Health
Other$2,317,436Human Services$957,240Environment$669,480Animals$400,739Arts & Culture$306,800Recreation & Sports$289,000Health$222,728

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

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 …East Hill FoundationThe John R Oishei Fou…The Baird FoundationFirst Niagara Foundat…Buffalo Bills Foundat…The Peter and Elizabe…The Ralph C Wilson Jr…James H Cummings Foun…The Margaret L Wendt …Cullen FoundationThe Western New York …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization E&W G Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from E&W G Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to E&W G Foundation?

    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.

    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.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on E&W G’s filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home