New York · Private foundation
James H Cummings Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 62
- Grants FY2025
- 54
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 46%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,390
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $115,600
- Organizations funded a year
- 39 to 54
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $46M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 46% of the organizations James H Cummings Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 58 | $2.4M | 60% |
| FY2024 | 54 | $2.6M | 46% |
| FY2023 | 47 | $2.2M | 64% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $1.5M | 63% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $2.0M | 65% |
| FY2020 | 39 | $1.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Jacobs Institute Inc | $665,971 | 5 | 2% |
| Roswell Park Alliance Foundation | $400,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Henderson County United Way Inc | $400,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute Inc | $335,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Cradle Beach Inc | $314,810 | 3 | 6% |
| United Way of Buffalo and Erie County | $273,163 | 5 | 1% |
| D'Youville University | $200,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Research Foundation for The State University of New York | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Brothers of Mercy Holding Inc | $191,463 | 3 | n/a |
| Hendersonville Rescue Mission | $191,075 | 5 | 5% |
Show all 106 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 74 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget James H Cummings Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The John R Oishei Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · Cullen Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · United Way of Buffalo and Erie County · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc · Rich Family Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The Baird Foundation
How this is measured
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About James H Cummings Foundation Inc
- How much does James H Cummings Foundation Inc give?
- James H Cummings Foundation Inc reported 62 grants totaling $2,412,785 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 54 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does James H Cummings Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (33%), Education (13%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are James H Cummings Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Jacobs Institute Inc ($666k), Roswell Park Alliance Foundation ($400k), Henderson County United Way Inc ($400k).
- Does James H Cummings Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does James H Cummings Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as James H Cummings Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, The John R Oishei Foundation, The Western New York Foundation.
- Where is James H Cummings Foundation Inc based?
- James H Cummings Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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