New York · Private foundation
East Hill Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $646k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 42
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $25M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations East Hill Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 42 | $646k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $646k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $618k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $631k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $547k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $623k | 46% |
| FY2019 | 40 | $708k | 57% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $465k | 75% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Salvation Army | $187,492 | 5 | n/a |
| Erie County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $149,974 | 3 | 1% |
| Graycliff Conservancy Inc | $145,000 | 2 | 5% |
| The Rural Outreach Center Inc | $144,258 | 8 | 3% |
| Homespace Corporation | $141,476 | 7 | 1% |
| Friends of Little Portion Friary Aka Little Portion Friary | $126,373 | 7 | 9% |
| Community Missions of the Niagara Frontier Inc | $115,975 | 4 | 0% |
| Niagara Gospel Rescue Mission Inc | $114,620 | 3 | 14% |
| Pinnacle Community Services Inc | $101,992 | 3 | 1% |
| Gerard Place Housing Development Fund Company Inc | $101,623 | 5 | 2% |
Show all 105 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
East Hill Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 88 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The John R Oishei Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · E&W G Foundation · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · Feedmore Western New York Inc · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Cullen Foundation · United Way of Buffalo and Erie County · Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc
How this is measured
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About East Hill Foundation
- How much does East Hill Foundation give?
- East Hill Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $646,010 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 42 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does East Hill Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (27%), Food & Nutrition (19%), Housing & Shelter (12%).
- Who are East Hill Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Salvation Army ($187k), Erie County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ($150k), Graycliff Conservancy Inc ($145k).
- Does East Hill Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does East Hill Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as East Hill Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, The John R Oishei Foundation, The Western New York Foundation.
- Where is East Hill Foundation based?
- East Hill Foundation is based in NY.
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