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Gannon Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Youth Development$50kEducation$40kArts & Culture$12kHealth$5kHuman Services$5kHousing & Shelter$2kFood & Nutrition$2kPhilanthropy$500
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$284k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WESTERN NEW YORK SCOUT COUNCIL BSA$10,200
NICHOLS SCHOOL$2,500
ST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL$2,500
THE COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG FOUNDATION$2,000
ST ANTHONY CATHOLIC SCHOOL$2,000
KEVIN GUEST HOUSE$1,000
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 (FY20–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COMPASS HOUSE: $300 → 13%FEEDMORE FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NEW YORK: $2k → 13%THE HEALING HUB OF NEW YORK: $550 → 13%THE HEALING HUB OF NEW YORK: $500 → 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$114k · 10 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
2

Total granted

$114k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+45%

Still filing today

60%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthOther

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

  • GF
    GREAT FALLS COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
    6× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +530%
  • NS
    NICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO
    6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +34%
  • KG
    KEVIN GUEST HOUSE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • FW
    FEEDMORE WNY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -2%
  • CH
    COMPASS HOUSEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $300 · revenue +45%

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
Wny Veterans' Housing Coalition Inc

To acquire and renovate real property in western new york to establish and maintain facilities for the temporary and permanent housing of needy veterans and other special needs individuals.

Housing & Shelter
2
United Way of Central New York Inc

To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our community.

Philanthropy
3
Jewish Home of Central New York Senior Apartments Inc

Jewish home of central new york senior apartment's mission is to assure maximum independence and dignity offering a broad range of the highest quality of health, residential and community services. jewish home of central new york senior…

Housing & Shelter
4
Central New York Community Foundation Inc

Our mission is to foster a thriving and equitable central new york region by leading and inspiring a community culture of giving, celebrating legacy and stewarding charitable resources for today and tomorrow.

Philanthropy
5
Family Promise of Western New York

Alongside our parnters, we keep families experiencing homelessness together by offering housing and compassionate support as they find work to find their way back home.

Housing & Shelter
6
Sarah's Guest House Inc

This healthcare hospitality house provides a "home away from home" accomodations to patients and families of patients who are receiving medical care in central new york.

Human Services
7
The Way Back Inc

To provide rehabilitative housing services and support to help people with psychiatric disabilities reintegrate into the community.the agency provides rehabilitative housing services and staff support as a primary mechanism for achieving…

Human Services
8
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.

9
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
10
Presbyterian Home for Central New York

The organization operates a 236-bed nursing home that excels in providing healthcare and services for the elderly, while promoting wellness in a dignified manner.

Health
11
Jewish Home of Central New York Residential Living Inc

Jewish home of central new york residential living's mission is to assure maximum independence and dignity offering a broad range of the highest quality of health, residential and community services. jewish home is committed to maintaining…

Human Services
12
Buffalo Peace House Inc

To provide safe housing, meals, and necessary services for asylum seekers in the western new york area

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc and the most unlike its peers is Healing Hub of New York Inc. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GREAT FALLS COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $50,400 · OtherGREAT FALLS COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL — $15,000 · OtherST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOLST ANTHONY CATHOLIC SCHOOL — $10,000 · OtherST ANTHONY CATHOLIC SCHOOL+3 more — $5,250 · Other+3 moreNICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO — $15,000 · EducationNICHOLS SCHOOL…Colonial Williamsburg Foundation — $12,000 · Arts & CultureColonial Wi…KEVIN GUEST HOUSE INC — $5,100 · HealthFEEDMORE WNY FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 · Human ServicesHEALING HUB OF NEW YORK INC — $1,050 · Human ServicesCOMPASS HOUSE — $300 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC — $500 · Philanthropy
Other$80,650Education$15,000Arts & Culture$12,000Health$5,100Human Services$2,850Philanthropy$500

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 budgetGREAT FALLS COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $50,400 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetNICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO — $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation — $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKEVIN GUEST HOUSE INC — $5,100 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BUFFALO & WESTERN NEW YORK INC — $2,050 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDMORE WNY FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALING HUB OF NEW YORK INC — $1,050 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASS HOUSE — $300 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds GREAT FALLS COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
  • Who funds NICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO
  • Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
  • Who funds KEVIN GUEST HOUSE INC
  • Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BUFFALO & WESTERN NEW YORK INC
  • Who funds FEEDMORE WNY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds HEALING HUB OF NEW YORK INC
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC
  • Who funds COMPASS HOUSE

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 for Greater Buffalo IncNY19.5× affinity7 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 Pfizer Foundation Inc · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · The Baird Foundation · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · The Richard W Rupp Foundation · Dreamcatcher Foundation Inc · First Niagara Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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 Gannon Family Foundation 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    4report 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, FY2025

    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.

    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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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