· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GIRLS EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE | $6,000 |
| ADIRONDACK EXPERIENCE | $5,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF HERKIMER & ONEIDA COUNTIES | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DENVER | $4,000 |
| CARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| BUFFALO CITY MISSION | $3,000 |
| NORTHWOOD SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| SPCA SERVING ERIE COUNTY | $3,000 |
| CANOPY OF NEIGHBORS | $3,000 |
| CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY | $2,000 |
| ELMWOOD FRANKLIN SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| BUFFALO AKG ART MUSEUM | $1,000 |
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 (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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +4% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 14 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 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 ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Edward B Righter Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward B Righter Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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