· Private foundation
Grigg-Lewis Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k36 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k46 grants · $863k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $636k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DALE ASSOCIATION INC | $159,762 |
| NEW DIRECTIONS YOUTH & FAMILY | $89,250 |
| CAZENOVIA RECOVERY SYSTEMS INC | $75,000 |
| NIAGARA FALLS BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $60,000 |
| NIAGARA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC | $52,300 |
| SOMERSET UNION MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| GREATER LOCKPORT DEVELOPMENT CORP | $50,000 |
| FEED MORE WNY | $50,000 |
| ORLEANS COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| NIAGARA FALLS MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER | $48,000 |
| COMMUNITY MISSIONS OF NIAGARA FRONTIER | $45,000 |
| YOUTH MENTORING SERVICES NIAGARA COUNTY INC | $44,542 |
| KENAN CENTER INC | $41,428 |
| JT SPORTS & RECREATION INC | $31,465 |
| DALE ASSOCIATION INC | $29,080 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $2.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
89 repeat relationships — 58 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $369k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
THE DALE ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +27%- KCKENAN CENTER INC6× · 2019–2024 · $332k · revenue +869%
- YMYOUTH MENTORING SERVICES OF NIAGARA COUNTY INC6× · 2019–2024 · $220k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION BUFFALO NIAGARAone grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue +13%
- LCLOCKPORT CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER INCone grant, 2020 · $100k
- LLLOCKPORT LOCKS HERITAGE DISTRICT CORPORATIONone grant, 2019 · $70k · revenue -19%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To provide supporting services to the tourism and hospitality industries in buffalo and erie county.
To acquire, remediate, and steward lands along wny's waterfronts prioritizing public access.
To permanently protect land with significant conservation value in western new york, for the benefit of future generations.
Provide various educational, cultural, and museum programs and services to area residents and tourists in order to promote an appreciation of ontario county, ny.
Preservation, protection and restoration of the buffalo new york lighthouses and to maintain and develop the area surrounding them in accordance with their historical significance.
Asset maintenance and fundraising.
To prevent cruelty to all animals through public education on thier humane treatment and to provide love, care, shelter and advovacy for companion animals in our community.
Skilled nursing facility providing long-term healthcare services to residents
Support regional economic development in new york's 14 northernmost counties
To ensure that individuals from niagara county who are developmentally disabled or intellectually, physically or functionally limited, have the opportunity to reach their maximum potential, independence and integration into the community.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wny Heroes Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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.
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 32 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
103 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 103 of the 172 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 MOUNT ST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE DALE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION BUFFALO NIAGARA ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC PALACE INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERN NIAGARA HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds KENAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH MENTORING SERVICES OF NIAGARA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF NIAGARA FRONTIER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GREATER LOCKPORT DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LOCKPORT MAIN STREET INC ↗
- Who funds LOCKPORT ICE ARENA & SPORTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOCKPORT CARES INC ↗
- Who funds GLENWOOD CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PINNACLE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER NIAGARA INC ↗
- Who funds NIOGA LIBRARY SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds HORIZON VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN NIAGARA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MISSIONS OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIER INC ↗
- Who funds CAZENOVIA RECOVERY SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds LOCKPORT LOCKS HERITAGE DISTRICT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OLCOTT BEACH CAROUSEL PARK INC ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA FALLS MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The John R Oishei Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Tower Family Fund Inc · East Hill Foundation · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · The Western New York Foundation · E&W G Foundation · Cullen Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation
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 Grigg-Lewis Foundation 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.
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.
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