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East Hill Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $428k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $153k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTERN NY LAND CONSERVANCY INC | $80,000 |
| GRAYCLIFF CONSERVANCY INC | $72,500 |
| WESTERN NY LAND CONSERVANCY INC | $47,500 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY (BUFFALO AREA SERVICE) | $37,000 |
| THE TEACHERS DESK INC | $35,949 |
| THE SUMMIT CENTER | $30,000 |
| GENESIS HOUSE OF OLEAN INC | $29,730 |
| NIAGARA GOSPEL RESCUE MISSION | $28,000 |
| FRIENDS OF LITTLE PORTION FRIARY | $24,000 |
| RAHAMA | $21,587 |
| WESTSIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES | $20,766 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF HAMBURG FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| RIVIERA THEATER & ORGAN PRESERVATION SOC | $20,000 |
| MARTIN HOUSE RESTORATION CORPORATION | $20,000 |
| REVIVE WESLEYAN THE TRADING POST | $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, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of East Hill Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 91% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 6 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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 ANIMALS3× · 2017–2022 · $150k · revenue +43%
- GCGRAYCLIFF CONSERVANCY INC2× · 2022–2024 · $145k · revenue +171%
The Rural Outreach Center Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $129k · revenue +261%
Funded once
- EMEXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUMone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -55%
- TBThe Boys & Girls Club Of The Northtowns Incone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +25%
NIAGARA AQUARIUM FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $65k · revenue +79%
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 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 provide older residents of Buffalo, New York with a network that allows them to get the services they need to age in their home and communities as opposed to moving to institutions, care complexes, or assisted living developments.
We work to eliminate housing discrimination, promote open communities, and ensure equal access to housing opportunity for all people in central and northern new york.
Our mission is to provide for the physical, social, and spiritual needs of individuals we serve, in a Christian environment. The organization is an adult care facility which can accommodate 48 residents.
To provide services to homeless animals
Home headquarters, inc is a private, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization established in 1996. over the past 25 years, home headquarters has been committed to creating housing and related opportunities and services in upstate new york…
Unity house's mission is to empower and enrich the lives of people in recovery, coping with a mental illness, and/or diagnosed with a developmental disability. this is accomplished by offering supports and services in an inclusive,…
To improve the quality of life for all residents of its primary service areas by focusing on meeting the needs of the low-income and disadvantaged population, and to promote the personal and family growth of its constituents as they move…
Weatherization of homes, senior services, provide housing and human services to the residents of the surrounding community.
Central ny quest has been established to serve the needs of persons with intellectual, developmental and mental health disorders in the central new york region.
Jewish home of central new york senior apartment's mission is to assure maximum independence and dignity offering a broad range of the highest quality of health, residential and community services. jewish home of central new york senior…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lockport Cares Inc and the most unlike its peers is Western New York Impact Foundation. 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 33 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
89 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 89 of the 129 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 ERIE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds GRAYCLIFF CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds The Rural Outreach Center Inc ↗
- Who funds HOMESPACE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MISSIONS OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIER INC ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA GOSPEL RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LITTLE PORTION FRIARY AKA LITTLE PORTION FRIARY ↗
- Who funds PINNACLE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds EXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds The Boys & Girls Club Of The Northtowns Inc ↗
- Who funds GERARD PLACE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY HOME - COMFORT CARE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NIGHT PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds Buffalo Suzuki Strings Inc ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA FALLS BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTS FOR THE HOMELESS OF WNY INC ↗
- Who funds THE TEACHERS DESK INC ↗
- Who funds SAVING GRACE OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF HAMBURG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S MARTIN HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GENESIS HOUSE OF OLEAN INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF WESTERN NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE VALLEY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds KEVIN GUEST HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVE CARE SERVICES OF WNY 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 · 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
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 East Hill 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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