· Private foundation
East Hill Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $101k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $395k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FEEDMORE WNY | $150,000 |
| MERCY FLIGHT INC | $42,765 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF WESTERN NEW YORK | $25,100 |
| PROVIDENCE FARM COLLECTIVE | $25,000 |
| ALTERNATIVE CARE SERVICES OF WNY | $24,190 |
| REVIVE WESLEYAN THE TRADING POST | $22,480 |
| THE NEWSTEAD FIRE COMPANY INC | $21,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY BUFFALO | $20,225 |
| MARTIN HOUSE RESTORATION CORPORATION | $20,000 |
| RESPONSE TO LOVE CENTER | $20,000 |
| THE RELIEF ZONE INC | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,760 |
| FRIENDS OF LITTLE PORTION FRIARY | $18,750 |
| HOMESPACE | $16,450 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF HAMBURG FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.1M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of East Hill Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 91%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.
73 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
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 Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $144k · 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%
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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,…
Weatherization of homes, senior services, provide housing and human services to the residents of the surrounding community.
To provide those in need with emergency food by working together with community members, leaders, and local businesses and organizations to gather, store, and distribute goods; to offer compassionate help as we respect the dignity of each…
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…
The Victor-Farmington Food Cupboard focuses on feeding families and individuals who are food insecure. We strive to serve everyone we encounter with dignity and respect and try to create a sense of empowerment so that our clients are able…
How this is measured
96 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. 96 of the 141 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 FRIENDS OF LITTLE PORTION FRIARY AKA LITTLE PORTION FRIARY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MISSIONS OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIER INC ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA GOSPEL RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds PINNACLE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GERARD PLACE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds EXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds The Boys & Girls Club Of The Northtowns Inc ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY HOME - COMFORT CARE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NIGHT PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF HAMBURG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S MARTIN HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Buffalo Suzuki Strings Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF WESTERN NEW YORK ↗
- 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 TWIN CITIES COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds THE TEACHERS DESK INC ↗
- Who funds SAVING GRACE OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVE CARE SERVICES OF WNY INC ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds GENESIS HOUSE OF OLEAN INC ↗
- Who funds THE VALLEY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds KEVIN GUEST HOUSE INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization East Hill Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from East Hill Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to East Hill Foundation?
Find your warmest path to East Hill 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.
Play a game based on East Hill’s filings →