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Foundation 214 Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
35
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$775k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Health$3.0MEducation$1.9MReligion$1.7MHuman Services$1.1MHousing & Shelter$565kRecreation & Sports$266kCrime & Legal$243kPhilanthropy$205kOther$0
02FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $186k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.0M
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.5M
$40,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BUFFALO CITY MISSION$775,000
THE JACOBS INSTITUTE INC$725,200
MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATES OF WNY$500,000
DAEMEN COLLEGE$256,408
NATIVITY MIGUEL MIDDLE SCHOOL OF BUFFALO$250,000
BUILD PROMISE INC$200,000
NIAGARA GOSPEL RESCUE MISSION INC$150,000
NAPLES SENIOR CENTER AT JHCS$100,000
SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS VETERANS HOUSING PROGRAM$100,000
BEST SELF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH$100,000
NIAGARA FALLS MEMEORIAL MEDICAL CENTER$85,427
PERSISTENCE PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL$60,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
PEACE OF THE CITY$50,000
JERICHO ROAD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER$50,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $2.6M) 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.

area typical 10%NAPLES SENIOR CENTER AT JHCS: $100k → 10%THE DALE ASSOCIATION: $4k → 14%NAPLES SENIOR CENTER AT JHCS: $100k → 10%COMMUNITY MISSIONS OF NIAGARA FRONTIER INC: $5k → 14%NAPLES SENIOR CENTER AT JHCS: $100k → 10%NAPLES SENIOR CENTER AT JHCS: $100k → 10%GATEWAY LONGVIEW: $5k → 13%GATEWAY LONGVIEW: $3k → 13%THE DALE ASSOCIATION: $25k → 14%BUILD PROMISE INC: $200k → 13%BUILD PROMISE INC: $50k → 13%BUILD PROMISE INC: $50k → 13%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BUFFALO-NIAGARA: $25k → 13%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BUFFALO-NIAGARA: $25k → 13%THE TEACHER'S DESK: $25k → 13%THE TEACHERS DESK: $10k → 13%VALLEY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $5k → 13%VALLEY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $5k → 13%VALLEY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $5k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $775k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $250k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $250k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $121k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $100k → 13%BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE INC: $40k → 13%THE FOUNDRY: $125k → 13%THE FOUNDRY: $50k → 13%THE FOUNDRY: $50k → 13%THE RURAL OUTREACH CENTER LLC: $5k → 13%SUPPORTIVE SERVICES CORPORATION: $5k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.4M · 38 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

38 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
52

Total granted

$8.4M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+3%

Still filing today

66%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $289k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthCrime & LegalArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • TJ
    THE JACOBS INSTITUTE INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +65%
  • DU
    DAEMEN UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $828k · revenue +12%
  • BUILD PROMISE INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $300k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • TL
    THE LEGAL AID BUREAU OF BUFFALOgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $146k · revenue +55%
  • FW
    FEEDMORE WNY
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2020 · $100k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Community Health Center of Buffalo Inc

The community health center of buffalo, inc operates four freestanding federally qualified health centers licensed as a diagnostic and treatment center under article 28 of the ny state health law. the center provides a broad range of…

Health
2
Central New York Quest Inc

Central ny quest has been established to serve the needs of persons with intellectual, developmental and mental health disorders in the central new york region.

Human Services
3
Accesscny Inc

Accesscny offers personcentered services that empower individuals of all ages and abilities to reach their full potential as part of our shared community. services are provided with dedication, compassion, innovation, and commitment. the…

Health
4
Buffalo Federation of Neighborhood Centers Inc

To improve the quality of life of the people and neighborhoods we serve by preparing, equipping and empowering them to meet the challenges of contemporary urban life and realize their full potential.

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5
State University College At Buffalo Child Day Care Development Facility Inc

To provide quality, affordable child care for the families of students, faculty and staff of the college, as well as families of other new york state employees and community members.

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6
Buffalo Commons Charter School

Establish and operate a charter school to prepare our diverse community of students to succeed academically and professionally regardless of background and circumstance.

Education
7
Neighborhood Health Center of Wny Inc

We welcome all western new yorkers for high quality, patient-centered primary healthcare.

—
8
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
9
Enterprise Charter School

Engage young minds through projects and partnerships.

Education
10
Leadingage New York Inc

Leadingage new york represents not-for-profit, mission-driven and public continuing care providers, including nursing homes, senior housing, adult care facilities, continuing care retirement communities, assisted living and community…

Civil Rights
11
South Buffalo Charter School

South buffalo charter school provides elementary education to students in grades kindergarten through eighth grade. we are a professional learning community. our focus on learning is driven by research, data and collaborative reflection to…

Education
12
Erie Homes for Children & Adults Inc

Erie homes for children and adults operates as a private, non-profit agency providing programs for individuals with intellectual and physical disabilities.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Buffalo Urban League Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boys On the Right Track Incorporate D. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Social ServicesCommunity Health & Social S…Mental Health and Disabilit…Secondary and Higher Educat…Regional Arts & Heritage Or…Disability Support ServicesYouth & Recreational Sports…Family Foundations & TrustsHealthcare and Hospice Serv…Youth Development Organizat…Faith-Based Senior CareChristian Youth and Outreac…University Medical Clinical…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 28 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%11%5–10yr17%27%10–20yr19%18%20–35yr12%24%35–55yr21%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%7%5–10yr17%28%10–20yr19%6%20–35yr12%10%35–55yr21%49%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/65
the rest of the field
9%
538/6,164

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.

04the grantee network

62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 62 of the 100 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/62
Grantees still filing
39/62
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATES OF WNY — $1,012,500 · OtherMENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATES OF WNYNATIVITYMIGUEL MIDDLE SCHOOL OF BUFFALO — $361,097 · OtherNATIVITYMIGUEL MIDDLE SCHOOL OF BUFFALOIndividual grant recipient — $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBESTSELF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC — $175,000 · OtherOLV CHARITIES — $170,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $150,000 · OtherALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION OF WNY — $150,000 · Other+54 more — $1,411,316 · Other+54 moreCITY MISSION SOCIETY INC — $1,496,337 · Human ServicesCITY MISSION SOCIETY INCBAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES INC — $400,000 · Human ServicesBAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES IN…BUILD PROMISE INC — $300,000 · Human ServicesBUILD PROMISE INCNet Positive Inc — $225,000 · Human ServicesNet Positive Inc+9 more — $191,700 · Human Services+9 moreDAEMEN UNIVERSITY — $827,816 · EducationDAEMEN UNIVERSIT…University at Buffalo Foundation Inc — $300,000 · EducationUniversity at Bu…TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL — $93,600 · EducationTAPESTRY CHARTER…BUFFALO CREEK ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL — $60,000 · Education+8 more — $116,000 · Education+8 moreTHE JACOBS INSTITUTE INC — $1,013,200 · HealthTHE JACOBS INST…NIAGARA FALLS MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER — $275,427 · HealthNIAGARA FALLS M…+3 more — $33,800 · HealthNIAGARA GOSPEL RESCUE MISSION INC — $150,000 · ReligionJERICHO ROAD MINISTRIES INC — $150,000 · ReligionBROTHERS OF MERCY HOLDING INC — $15,000 · ReligionSOUTHEASTERN MASS VETERANS HOUSING PROGRAM INC — $225,000 · Public BenefitVETERANS ONE-STOP CENTER OF WNY INC — $85,000 · Public BenefitTHE LEGAL AID BUREAU OF BUFFALO — $145,900 · Crime & LegalCENTER FOR ELDER LAW & JUSTICE INC — $92,500 · Crime & Legal+2 more — $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$3,680,113Human Services$2,613,037Education$1,397,416Health$1,322,427Religion$315,000Public Benefit$310,000Crime & Legal$248,400

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCITY MISSION SOCIETY INC — $1,496,337 over 5y, 8.2% of budgetTHE JACOBS INSTITUTE INC — $1,013,200 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetDAEMEN UNIVERSITY — $827,816 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES INC — $400,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetBUILD PROMISE INC — $300,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Inc — $300,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNIAGARA FALLS MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER — $275,427 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNet Positive Inc — $225,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN MASS VETERANS HOUSING PROGRAM INC — $225,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetBESTSELF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC — $175,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNIAGARA GOSPEL RESCUE MISSION INC — $150,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetJERICHO ROAD MINISTRIES INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LEGAL AID BUREAU OF BUFFALO — $145,900 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPERSISTENCE PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL — $120,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHIGHER GROUND USA INC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL — $93,600 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR ELDER LAW & JUSTICE INC — $92,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetVETERANS ONE-STOP CENTER OF WNY INC — $85,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetBUFFALO CREEK ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL — $60,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCenter for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts Inc — $53,166 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION BUFFALO NIAGARA — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRU WAY COMMUNITY CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetSOUTH BUFFALO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetBUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SUMMIT CENTER INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TEACHERS DESK INC — $35,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetMERCY FLIGHT INC — $33,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGERARD PLACE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND COMPANY INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE DALE ASSOCIATION INC — $29,200 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHARVEST HOUSE BUFFALO INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTROCAIRE COLLEGE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTWIN CITIES MEALS ON WHEELS — $15,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetBOYS ON THE RIGHT TRACK INCORPORATE D — $15,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetTHE VALLEY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC — $14,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEXPLORE BUFFALO INC — $12,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetELMWOOD VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOLS — $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUFFALO STRING WORKS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTNTP INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUFFALO & ERIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF BUFFALO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHEALTH SCIENCES CHARTER SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUFFALO VETERANS MENTOR GROUP INC — $10,000 over 2y, 52% of budgetSENECA STREET COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetEAGLE STAR HOUSING INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGATEWAY-LONGVIEW INC — $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NO CHAUT COU — $8,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF NIGHT PEOPLE INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …The John R Oishei Fou…James H Cummings Foun…Cullen FoundationThe Peter and Elizabe…The Margaret L Wendt …First Niagara Foundat…The Western New York …Mother Cabrini Health…East Hill FoundationUnited Way of Buffalo…Buffalo Bills Foundat…
Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY91× affinity46 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 · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · Cullen Foundation · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · East Hill Foundation · United Way of Buffalo and Erie County · Buffalo Bills 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 Foundation 214 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    31report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Foundation 214 Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Foundation 214 Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 100 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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