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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
BEST SELF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH$100,000
NAPLES SENIOR CENTER AT JHCS$100,000
SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS VETERANS HOUSING PROGRAM$100,000
NIAGARA FALLS MEMEORIAL MEDICAL CENTER$85,427
PERSISTENCE PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL$60,000
WNY MARITIME CHARTER SCHOOL$50,000
THE FOUNDRY$50,000
PEACE OF THE CITY$50,000
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.

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Its 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 its 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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%
+10%

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
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

  • TJ
    THE JACOBS INSTITUTE INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +65%
  • DU
    DAEMEN UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $828k · revenue +12%
  • UA
    University at Buffalo Foundation Inc
    3× · 2021–2023 · $300k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • TL
    THE LEGAL AID BUREAU OF BUFFALOgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $146k · revenue +55%
  • HG
    HIGHER GROUND USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +25%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
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
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.

—
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.

—
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Buffalo Urban League Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/62
Grantees still filing
41/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · OtherALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION OF WNY: $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $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 · HealthJERICHO ROAD MINISTRIES INC: $150,000 · ReligionNIAGARA GOSPEL RESCUE MISSION 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 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 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 budgetUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Inc: $300,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBUILD PROMISE INC: $300,000 over 3y, 15% 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 budgetJERICHO ROAD MINISTRIES INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNIAGARA GOSPEL RESCUE MISSION INC: $150,000 over 1y, 11% 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 budgetSOUTH BUFFALO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTRU WAY COMMUNITY CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 47% 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 budgetEAGLE STAR HOUSING INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSENECA STREET COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF BUFFALO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBUFFALO VETERANS MENTOR GROUP INC: $10,000 over 2y, 52% of budgetHEALTH SCIENCES CHARTER SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF NIGHT PEOPLE INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NO CHAUT COU: $8,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGATEWAY-LONGVIEW INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

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 …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

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 Foundation 214 Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foundation 214 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 →
    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
    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.
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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 100 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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