· Public charity
Feedmore Western New York Inc
To offer dignity, hope and a brighter future by providing nutritious food, friendship, and skills training to our Western New York neighbors in need.
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.
The 116 grants below total $7,844,037 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $19,836,894 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $11,992,857 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $127k
- $10k–50k43 grants · $889k
- $50k–250k46 grants · $5.1M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Salvation Army | $656,099 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO | $529,434 |
| St Lukes Mission of Mercy | $274,534 |
| OPERATION GOOD NEIGHBOR | $262,929 |
| ST LAWRENCE OUTREACH PATNRY | $238,214 |
| ST JOSEPH OUTREACH | $233,000 |
| HEARTS FOR THE HOMELESS | $221,260 |
| HEART LOVE & SOUL INC | $212,373 |
| HARVEST FIELD OUTREACH CENTER | $194,972 |
| TASTE OF FAITH FOOD PANTRY | $176,919 |
| OLEAN FOOD PANTRY | $172,711 |
| UMC FOOD PANTRY | $172,210 |
| RESURRECTION LIFE FOOD PANTRY | $169,168 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL | $168,890 |
| DIOCESE OF BUFFALO | $147,698 |
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, $4.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% 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.
164 repeat relationships — 112 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 4 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $448k 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
CATTARAUGUS COMMUNITY ACTION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +44%
NIAGARA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +29%
SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BUFFALO & WESTERN NEW YORK INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +75%
Funded once
- HFHARVEST FIELD OUTREACH CENTER2× · 2021–2022 · $208k
- AWASHVILLE WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCH INC2× · 2021–2022 · $156k
- FBFIRST BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $83k
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 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…
The organization provides charitable relief in the form of emergency shelter, material needs, and compassionate care for the homeless and persons in need in the eastern niagara county, new york area.
We are a volunteer ministry that strives to alleviate food insecurity by providing nutritious food to our neighbors in need, clothing to the community, and safe affordable housing. We advocate for our clients with referrals to agencies…
We exist to ensure every person in our community can obtain the basic needs of life with dignity and respect.(Continued on Schedule O)By providing healthy food and connections to available community resources, Center4Hope moves people from…
Big Big Tables mission is to provide a dignified response to hunger in our community, serving Buffalo with accessible and affordable nutritious meals regardless of ability to pay.
Using the power of volunteers and community partnerships to expand dignified access to food in the heart of disadvantaged communities.
Our mission is fourfold: to provide a reliable source of food , to support good nutrition, to offer connections to other services and to strenghten community through shared services.
Provide and deliver food and necessary goods to needy families and individuals in northeast rochester and irondequoit, new york.
Local food pantry
Loaves and Fishes of Tompkins County is a Christian Ministry that provides free meals and advocacy for those in need, regardless of their faith, beliefs or circumstances.
To provide a variety of ministries vital to local congregations and the community that would be difficult for individual churches to offer alone.
Catholic harvest food pantry welcomes all individuals and families who are in need of nourishing and healthy food and other essential items. we serve york county residents, with an emphasis on york city, central york and york suburban…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Niagara Gospel Rescue Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sand Lake Baptist Church. 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 43 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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, 2017–2025.
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. 89 of the 195 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds CATTARAUGUS COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BUFFALO & WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds HEART LOVE & SOUL INC ↗
- Who funds WNY HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds OLEAN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY RURAL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SAVING GRACE OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds EHS INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTS FOR THE HOMELESS OF WNY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MISSIONS OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIER INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds BREAD OF LIFE OUT OF COLDEN NY INC ↗
- Who funds FISH OF EAST AURORA INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HELP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DAUGHTERS UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds VILLA MARIA COLLEGE OF BUFFALO ↗
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 · East Hill Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · Evans Devereux Memorial Fund Ua 11 Uw Virginia Devereux · Rich Family Foundation · United Way of Buffalo and Erie County · Odd Fellow & Rebekah Benefit Fund Inc · Foundation 214 Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation 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 Feedmore Western New York Inc 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.
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
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.