· Private foundation
Edward B Righter Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GIRLS EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE | $6,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF HERKIMER & ONEIDA COUNTIES | $5,000 |
| ADIRONDACK EXPERIENCE | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DENVER | $4,000 |
| CARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| CANOPY OF NEIGHBORS | $3,000 |
| NORTHWOOD SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| BUFFALO CITY MISSION | $3,000 |
| SPCA SERVING ERIE COUNTY | $3,000 |
| CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY | $2,000 |
| BUFFALO AKG ART MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| ELMWOOD FRANKLIN SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY | $1,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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 +4% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- GEGIRLS EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue +107%
- CMCARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL3× · 2022–2025 · $10k · revenue +29%
- ECERIE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS3× · 2023–2025 · $9k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- AEADIRONDACK EXPERIENCE INCone grant, 2025 · $5k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DENVERone grant, 2025 · $4k
Canopy of Neighbors Incone grant, 2025 · $3k · revenue 0%
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.
York school is an award-winning, private, coed college-prep school for grades 8-12, that develops confident and authentic leaders. we offer an academically challenging experiential program for bright, kind, and driven students in an…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Buffalo academy of science is a tuition-free, college-preparatory charter school teaching students in a diverse community to be successful in a globally-oriented environment, using innovative and dynamic teaching methods with a small…
Our aim is to train minds, bodies and hearts for the work of life and to carry into all we do the highest ideals of character and service.
At brick buffalo academy charter school ("bracs"), we will graduate a community of learners who will contribute positively to our global society and embrace their role as architects in building a just and better world. we use a holistic…
With unrelenting determination and a commitment to excellence, buffalo collegiate charter school educated students in grades 4 through 12 to graduate from the college of their choice and serve as our next generation of leaders. the…
To provide an academically exceptional education to students grade 9 through 12 in a warm, supportive, and nurturing environment.
Morristown beard school is an educational college preparatory school in grades 6 to 12 located in morristown, new jersey.
The school's mission is grounded in the belief expressed by b. lord buckley that opening the eyes and awakening the mind is the essence of education. guided by that mission for almost a century, buckley has purposely focused on developing…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Deerfield academy is an independent secondary school committed to high standards of scholarship, citizenship, and personal responsibility. through a rigorous liberal arts curriculum, extensive co-curricular program, and supportive…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties Inc and the most unlike its peers is City Mission Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 14 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 GIRLS EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ERIE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds NORTHWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HERKIMER AND ONEIDA COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds ELMWOOD-FRANKLIN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Canopy of Neighbors 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 · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Edward B Righter Charitable Trust 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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