How much does Grigg-Lewis Foundation Inc give?

Grigg-Lewis Foundation Inc reported 91 grants totaling $1,587,347 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 63 and 73 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does Grigg-Lewis Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Health (24%), Arts & Culture (15%).

Who are Grigg-Lewis Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Mount St Mary's Hospital Foundation Inc ($1.7M), The Dale Association Inc ($1.3M), Young Men's Christian Association Buffalo Niagara ($1.0M).

Does Grigg-Lewis Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Grigg-Lewis Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Grigg-Lewis Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, The John R Oishei Foundation, First Niagara Foundation.

Where is Grigg-Lewis Foundation Inc based?

Grigg-Lewis Foundation Inc is based in NY.

Grigg-Lewis Foundation Inc

Grigg-Lewis Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Grigg-Lewis Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.6M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$160k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$3.3MHealth$2.8MArts & Culture$1.8MRecreation & Sports$662kEducation$611kYouth Development$605kCommunity Improvement$543kPhilanthropy$299kOther$0

02FY2024 · 91 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k36 grants · $88k
$10k–50k46 grants · $863k
$50k–250k9 grants · $636k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$48M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
GREATER LOCKPORT DEVELOPMENT CORP	$50,000
SOMERSET UNION MUSEUM	$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

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$9.4M · 89 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$9.4M

$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%

+11%

Still filing today

61%

57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $369k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther

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

THE DALE ASSOCIATION INC
6× · 2019–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +27%
KC
KENAN CENTER INC
6× · 2019–2024 · $332k · revenue +869%
YM
YOUTH MENTORING SERVICES OF NIAGARA COUNTY INC
6× · 2019–2024 · $220k · revenue +38%

Funded once

YM
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION BUFFALO NIAGARA
one grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue +13%
LC
LOCKPORT CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER INC
one grant, 2020 · $100k
LL
LOCKPORT LOCKS HERITAGE DISTRICT CORPORATION
one grant, 2019 · $70k · revenue -19%

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.

Northern York County Historical & Preservation Society

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Buffalo Niagara Convention Center Management Corporation

To provide supporting services to the tourism and hospitality industries in buffalo and erie county.

Community Improvement

Buffalo Niagara River Land Trust Inc

To acquire, remediate, and steward lands along wny's waterfronts prioritizing public access.

Environment

Western New York Land Conservancy Inc

To permanently protect land with significant conservation value in western new york, for the benefit of future generations.

Environment

Ontario County Historical Society

Provide various educational, cultural, and museum programs and services to area residents and tourists in order to promote an appreciation of ontario county, ny.

—

Buffalo Lighthouse Association Inc

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.

—

Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center Foundation

Asset maintenance and fundraising.

Health

Niagara County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc

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.

Animals

Schoellkopf Health Center Inc

Skilled nursing facility providing long-term healthcare services to residents

Health

Adirondack North Country Association Inc

Support regional economic development in new york's 14 northernmost counties

Food & Nutrition

Niagara County Chapter Nysarc Inc Opportunities Unlimited of Niagara

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.

—

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

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wny Heroes Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

103 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. 103 of the 172 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

96/103

Grantees still filing

60/103

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$4,310,739Human Services$2,873,614Health$2,148,700Arts & Culture$883,244Recreation & Sports$573,642Community Improvement$409,850Philanthropy$385,359

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.

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 for Greater Buffalo IncNY112.7× affinity64 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 · 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

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 Grigg-Lewis Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Grigg-Lewis Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

42report 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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