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Gh Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$6k
Granted FY2020
29
Grants FY2020
29
Organizations funded FY2020
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53% of Gh Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Greater Buffalo Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 19 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Gh Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 16 organizations, $6k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

16
’20
15
’21
15
’22
19
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2020
$60
Largest grant, FY2020
$2,000
States reached, FY2020
6
Total assets, FY2020
$5k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Philanthropy$12kReligion$8kArts & Culture$2kEducation$2kHealth$2kCrime & Legal$775Civil Rights$400Housing & Shelter$225Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
SD
IN
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 26 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($14k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gh Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Way of Buffalo and Erie County: $650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Supreme Court Historical Society: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetErie County Bar Foundation Inc: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Sigma Alpha Mu Foundation: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Jewish Committee: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOswego University Foundation Inc: $300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCity Mission Society Inc: $300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Law Institute: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRoswell Park Alliance Foundation: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBuffalo Society of Natural Sciences: $240 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBuffalo Fine Arts Academy: $240 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBurchfield Penney Art Center: $180 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBuffalo & Erie County Historical Society: $180 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHolocaust Resource Center of BuffaloInc: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanopy of Neighbors Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Army Historical Foundation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Longboat Key Education Center Inc: $85 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBuffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNative American Rights Fund Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTheodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site Foundation: $45 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedic Alert Foundation United States: $40 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

The Baird FoundationNY22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Baird Foundation · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · Simple Gifts Fund · The Joseph and Anna Gartner Foundation · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The Frank G Raichle Foundation · Tower Family Fund Inc · First Niagara Foundation · Equitable Foundation Inc · Pcg Family Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Robert & Patricia Colby Foundation 115319998 · The Saperston Family Foundation

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.

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How do I get to Gh Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gh Foundation 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.

About Gh Foundation

How much does Gh Foundation give?
Gh Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $5,864 in its FY2020 IRS filing.
What does Gh Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Philanthropy (43%), Religion (27%), Arts & Culture (8%).
Who are Gh Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: United Way of Buffalo and Erie County ($650), The Supreme Court Historical Society ($450), Erie County Bar Foundation Inc ($400).
Does Gh Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Gh Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Baird Foundation, Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc, Simple Gifts Fund.
Where is Gh Foundation based?
Gh Foundation is based in NY.

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 58 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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