· Private foundation
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| United Jewish Fund Campaign | $2,000 |
| Temple Beth Zion | $1,300 |
| Buffalo State College | $625 |
| Jewish Federation of Greater | $200 |
| United Way of Buffalo | $150 |
| University at Buffalo Foundation | $100 |
| Sigma Alpha Mu Foundation | $100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
| American Jewish Committee | $100 |
| Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra | $100 |
| Erie County Bar Foundation Inc | $100 |
| Longboat Key Education Center | $85 |
| Martin House Restoration Foundation | $75 |
| Buffalo History Museum | $60 |
| Burchfield Penny Art Center | $60 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–23, $350) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2020, 11 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $785 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TSTHE SUPREME COURT HISTORICAL SOCIETY3× · 2021–2023 · $450 · revenue +57%
- ECERIE COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2023 · $400 · revenue +8%
- TSTHE SIGMA ALPHA MU FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $400 · revenue +180%
Funded once
- UJUnited Jewish Fund Campaignone grant, 2020 · $2k
- BSBuffalo State Collegeone grant, 2020 · $625
- JFJewish Federation of Greaterone grant, 2020 · $200
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.
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.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of the university at albany foundation is to encourage, receive, accept, hold, invest, and manage money and property of every description, and the disbursement thereof for the promotion, development and advancement of the…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 58 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Jewish Federation Of Greater Buffalo Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE SUPREME COURT HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ERIE COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SIGMA ALPHA MU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds OSWEGO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO & ERIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Holocaust Resource Center of BuffaloInc ↗
- Who funds University at Buffalo Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Canopy of Neighbors 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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gh Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gh Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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