· Public charity
Education Collaborative of Wny Inc
To facilitate collaboration among educators, students, and community partners to learn, share, and connect to build a just and thriving future.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $62k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JOSEPH'S COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE | $149,650 |
| BUFFALO SEMINARY | $142,509 |
| NICHOLS SCHOOL | $136,544 |
| CANISIUS HIGH SCHOOL | $131,078 |
| BUFFALO ACADEMY OF THE SACRED HEART | $121,350 |
| MT ST MARY ACADEMY | $106,500 |
| PARK SCHOOL | $103,265 |
| NARDIN ACADEMY | $77,400 |
| CARDINAL OHARA HIGH SCHOOL | $73,600 |
| MT MERCY ACADEMY | $70,744 |
| ST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL | $65,629 |
| BISHOP TIMON - ST JUDE HIGH SCHOOL | $43,216 |
| BUFFALO PREP | $18,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BSBUFFALO SEMINARY8× · 2018–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +11%
- NSNICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO8× · 2018–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +30%
BUFFALO PREP INC7× · 2019–2025 · $117k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- NCNIAGARA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $41k
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.
6 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 16 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.
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 Vincent & Harriet Palisano Foundation · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · The Osc Charitable Foundation · Dreamcatcher Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Zeron Foundation · Dan and Roseann Gernatt Charitable Foundation Inc · Colucci Family Foundation Inc · Lawrence P Castellani Family Foundation · Joseph R Takats Foundation · ELSIE P AND LUCIUS B McCOWAN PRIVATE FOUNDATION
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Education Collaborative of Wny Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Education Collaborative of Wny Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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