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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.

$18M
Granted FY2025still arriving
129
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$365k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$29MHuman Services$12MReligion$6.4MHousing & Shelter$835kHealth$549kCommunity Improvement$411kCrime & Legal$387kInternational$150kOther$0
02FY2025 · 129 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 129 grants below total $6,065,640, the rows itemized in this filing. The $18,165,021 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $12,099,381 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k50 grants · $283k
  • $10k–50k50 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k21 grants · $2.3M
  • $250k+8 grants · $2.4M
$12,105
Median grant
1
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Catholic Charities Buffalo$364,996
HEARTS FOR THE HOMELESS$344,458
REFUGE TEMPLE CHURCH$319,054
COMMUNITY ACCESS SERVICES OF WNY FOOD PANTRY$282,700
THE SALVATION ARMY$282,645
ST JOSEPH OUTREACH$267,953
HEART LOVE & SOUL DINING ROOM$267,933
SOUTH DAYTON FOOD PANTRY$253,609
CONNECTING COMMUNITIES IN ACTION$249,361
EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CURCH FP$231,813
Diocese of Buffalo$210,032
SPRINGVILLE-CONCORD FOOD PANTRY$128,682
Society of St Vincent De Paul$121,838
FOODLINK INC$105,462
CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY RURAL MINISTRIES FRIENDLY KITCHEN$101,033
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $4.7M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LONG ISLAND CARES INC: $42k → 7%BREAD OF LIFE OUTREACH OF COLDEN NY INC: $129k → 13%ISLAND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $36k → 7%WNY Heroes: $201k → 13%CARE N SHARE FOOD PANTRY: $78k → 14%CARE-N-SHARE FOOD PANTRY: $66k → 14%Care-N-Share Food Pantry: $47k → 14%GOWANDA LOVE INC: $51k → 16%Gowanda Love Inc: $33k → 16%GOWANDA LOVE INC: $32k → 16%SAVING GRACE OUTREACH INC: $285k → 16%Saving Grace Outreach Inc: $155k → 16%SAVING GRACE OUTREACH INC: $146k → 16%SAVING GRACE OUTREACH INC: $90k → 16%HISPANICS UNITED OF BUFFALO: $72k → 13%COMMUNITY MISSIONS OF NIAGARA FRONTEIR: $150k → 14%HISPANICS UNITED OF BUFFALO: $61k → 13%Community Missions of Niagara Frontier: $129k → 14%HISPANICS UNITED OF BUFFALO: $60k → 13%COMMUNITY MISSIONS OF NIAGARA FRONTIER: $98k → 14%COMMUNITY MISSIONS INC-PANTRY: $45k → 14%HISPANICS UNIDOS DE BUFFALO INC: $42k → 13%COMMUNITY MISSIONS INC: $38k → 14%COMMUNITY MISSIONS OF NIAGARA FRONTIER COMMUNITY KITCHEN: $29k → 14%COMMUNITY MISSIONS INC-PANTRY: $27k → 14%Bread of Life Outreach of Colden Ny Inc: $86k → 13%BREAD OF LIFE OUTREACH: $91k → 13%BREAD OF LIFE OUTREACH: $37k → 13%BREAD OF LIFE OUTREACH: $37k → 13%BREAD OF LIFE OUTREACH: $31k → 13%BREAD OF LIFE OUTREACH: $27k → 13%BREAD OF LIFE OUTREACH: $26k → 13%BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE PANTRY: $23k → 13%MATT URBAN CENTER FOOD PANTRY: $26k → 13%VALLEY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC: $144k → 13%Valley Community Association Inc: $47k → 13%VALLEY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC: $41k → 13%VALLEY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION PANTRY: $32k → 13%Veteran's Stand Down: $60k → 13%Living Opportunities of Depaul Inc: $29k → 13%Buffalo City Mission: $47k → 13%City Mission Society Inc: $32k → 13%CITY MISSION SOCIETY INC: $26k → 13%TJDULSKI COMMUNITY CENTER: $52k → 13%TJDULSKI COMMUNITY CENTER: $49k → 13%TJDULSKI COMMUNITY CENTER: $44k → 13%POLISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF BUFFALO INC: $40k → 13%WNY HEROES INC: $743k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$55M · 170 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

170 repeat relationships: 118 still active in FY2025, 52 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

170
25

Total granted

$55M
$881k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+33%

Still filing today

41%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $414k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesReligionFood & NutritionHealthCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +44%
  • NIAGARA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +29%
  • HEART LOVE & SOUL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • HF
    HARVEST FIELD OUTREACH CENTER
    2× · 2021–2022 · $208k
  • AW
    ASHVILLE WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCH INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $156k
  • FB
    FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $83k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Lockport Cares Inc

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.

Education
2
Big Big Table Community Cafe Incorporated

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.

Human Services
3
Wilton Food Pantry

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 & Nutrition
4
Ny Community Fridge Corp

Using the power of volunteers and community partnerships to expand dignified access to food in the heart of disadvantaged communities.

Food & Nutrition
5
Unity House of Cayuga County Inc

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,…

Health
6
St Andrews Food Cupboard Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
7
Center4Hope Inc

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…

Human Services
8
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.

Food & Nutrition
9
Genesee Orleans Ministry of Concern Inc

The Genesee-Orleans Ministry of Concern is the "Agency of Last Resort" working with people who have nowhere else to go. The agency has two objectives: to provide emergency services for the economically poor, and to assist and encourage…

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10
University Community Social Services Inc

Providing meals (on average 650 each saturday) and support to the indigent of new york city.

Food & Nutrition
11
Trinity's Services and Food for the Homelessinc

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.

Human Services
12
Harvest Food Pantry Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City Mission Society Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

95 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. 95 of the 205 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.

15
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
87/95
Grantees still filing
64/95
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY: $2,329,068 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYDIOCESE OF BUFFALO: $2,257,256 · OtherDIOCESE OF BUFFALOTHE SALVATION ARMY BUFFALO: $1,969,866 · OtherUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE: $1,802,570 · OtherCATTARAUGUS COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $1,792,097 · OtherNIAGARA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $1,357,229 · OtherRESURRECTION LIFE FELLOWSHIP AKA JOHN TONELLI MINSTRIES INC: $1,341,527 · Other+142 more: $26,410,378 · Other+142 moreWNY HEROES INC: $1,004,682 · Human ServicesWNY HEROE…SAVING GRACE OUTREACH INC: $679,758 · Human ServicesSAVING GR…COMMUNITY MISSIONS OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIER INC: $590,280 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY…BREAD OF LIFE OUT OF COLDEN NY INC: $471,725 · Human ServicesBREAD OF …THE VALLEY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC: $316,835 · Human ServicesTHE VALLE…POLISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF BUFFALO INC: $284,200 · Human ServicesPOLISH CO…Hispanos Unidos De Buffalo: $272,503 · Human ServicesHispanos …CITY MISSION SOCIETY INC: $228,081 · Human ServicesINTER-COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $206,168 · Human Services+10 more: $615,564 · Human Services+10 moreHEART LOVE & SOUL INC: $1,356,228 · Food & NutritionFEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $1,102,531 · Food & NutritionOLEAN FOOD PANTRY INC: $734,842 · Food & NutritionTRI-COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $566,117 · Food & NutritionTHE EDEN-NORTH COLLINS FOOD PANTRY INC: $304,873 · Food & NutritionGENESIS CENTER OF WNY INC: $177,023 · Food & Nutrition+3 more: $143,052 · Food & NutritionCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO: $2,922,296 · PhilanthropyHEARTS FOR THE HOMELESS OF WNY INC: $919,463 · ReligionDAUGHTERS UNITED INC: $328,391 · ReligionJERICHO ROAD MINISTRIES INC: $206,498 · ReligionURBAN CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC: $179,592 · ReligionFAITH BASED FELLOWSHIP: $168,202 · ReligionGroup Ministries Inc: $138,147 · ReligionFIRST SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH IN: $124,681 · ReligionUNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST: $89,056 · Religion+3 more: $93,969 · ReligionCHAUTAUQUA COUNTY RURAL MINISTRIES: $749,645 · Community ImprovementCITIZENS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $293,416 · Community ImprovementWEST SIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $232,600 · Community ImprovementFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $70,000 · Community ImprovementEHS INC: $599,980 · HealthCOMMUNITY ACCESS SERVICES OF WNY INC: $320,831 · HealthNORTHPOINTE COUNCIL INC: $186,967 · HealthTRANSITIONAL SERVICES INC: $68,397 · Health+3 more: $102,092 · Health
Other$39,259,991Human Services$4,669,796Food & Nutrition$4,384,666Philanthropy$2,922,296Religion$2,247,999Community Improvement$1,345,661Health$1,278,267

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO: $2,922,296 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetCATTARAUGUS COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $1,792,097 over 9y, 5.6% of budgetNIAGARA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $1,357,229 over 9y, 17% of budgetHEART LOVE & SOUL INC: $1,356,228 over 9y, 11% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BUFFALO & WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $1,226,605 over 9y, 22% of budgetFEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $1,102,531 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetWNY HEROES INC: $1,004,682 over 5y, 35% of budgetHEARTS FOR THE HOMELESS OF WNY INC: $919,463 over 6y, 38% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA COUNTY RURAL MINISTRIES: $749,645 over 8y, 23% of budgetOLEAN FOOD PANTRY INC: $734,842 over 9y, 49% of budgetSAVING GRACE OUTREACH INC: $679,758 over 6y, 100% of budgetEHS INC: $599,980 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY MISSIONS OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIER INC: $590,280 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetTRI-COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $566,117 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetBREAD OF LIFE OUT OF COLDEN NY INC: $471,725 over 9y, 73% of budgetFISH OF EAST AURORA INC: $444,699 over 6y, 32% of budgetSENECA BABCOCK COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC: $361,155 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetFAMILY HELP CENTER INC: $347,696 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetVILLA MARIA COLLEGE OF BUFFALO: $324,319 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACCESS SERVICES OF WNY INC: $320,831 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTHE VALLEY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC: $316,835 over 9y, 5.3% of budgetTHE EDEN-NORTH COLLINS FOOD PANTRY INC: $304,873 over 6y, 42% of budgetFRIENDS OF NIGHT PEOPLE INC: $288,072 over 9y, 8.1% of budgetPOLISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF BUFFALO INC: $284,200 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetOLD FIRST WARD COMMUNITY ASSOC INC: $277,230 over 9y, 21% of budgetHispanos Unidos De Buffalo: $272,503 over 9y, 3.5% of budgetWEST SIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $232,600 over 3y, 10% of budgetCITY MISSION SOCIETY INC: $228,081 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $217,346 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetJERICHO ROAD MINISTRIES INC: $206,498 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetINTER-COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $206,168 over 5y, 61% of budgetNORTHPOINTE COUNCIL INC: $186,967 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetSAND LAKE BAPTIST CHURCH: $185,297 over 4y, 94% of budgetURBAN CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC: $179,592 over 7y, 43% of budgetHOPE OF BUFFALO INC: $176,357 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetFAITH BASED FELLOWSHIP: $168,202 over 3y, 74% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $160,719 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE INC OF THE GTR GOWANDA AREA: $154,091 over 9y, 41% of budgetGroup Ministries Inc: $138,147 over 8y, 38% of budgetNORTH TONAWANDA INTERCHURCH FOOD PANTRY: $135,917 over 9y, 43% of budgetST SUSAN CENTER INC: $134,515 over 9y, 8.6% of budgetFIRST SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH IN: $124,681 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetBUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE INC: $119,279 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF ERIE COUNTY: $118,133 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetFOODLINK INC: $105,462 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAZENOVIA RECOVERY SYSTEMS INC: $99,758 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBAKER HALL: $99,129 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNative American Community Services of Erie and Niagara County Inc: $86,775 over 9y, 0.8% of budget
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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO ↗
  • Who funds CATTARAUGUS COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds NIAGARA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds HEART LOVE & SOUL INC ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BUFFALO & WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds FEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds WNY HEROES INC ↗
  • Who funds HEARTS FOR THE HOMELESS OF WNY INC ↗
  • Who funds CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY RURAL MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds OLEAN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds SAVING GRACE OUTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds EHS 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 REFUGE TEMPLE OF CHRIST INC ↗
  • Who funds SENECA BABCOCK COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION 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.

Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY92.1× affinity59 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Feedmore Western New York Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Feedmore Western New York Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 205 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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