How much did JAMES H CUMMINGS FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of JAMES H CUMMINGS FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

emergency covidcommercialfacecardiaccovid responsehendersonfloor

2021

wny covidstemcellsimagingcovid responseenhancedcollaborative

2022

fullzootechnology upgradesruralsuccessmobilemeals wheels

2023

sciencedigitalcenturyhonorresiliencemobilesecurity

2024

corpstechnology upgradestreatmentplaygroundofficechildupgrade

2025

itemsyouthhelenedataspaceinnovationkulc

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k6 grants · $36k
$10k–50k33 grants · $811k
$50k–250k22 grants · $1.5M

$30,000

Median grant

States reached

$46M

Total assets

Largest grants

CRADLE BEACH$115,600
RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR SUNY AT UB$104,189
UNITED WAY OF HENDERSON COUNTY$100,000
FEEDMORE WNY OF BUFFALO$100,000
MINISTRY SEVEN$87,297
BROTHERS OF MERCY$84,463
JACOBS INSTITUTE$80,196
ADVENTHEALTH HENDERSONVILLE$74,667
SINAI HEALTH FOUNDATION$72,337
RAHAMA INC$67,871
DAEMEN UNIVERSITY$60,000
FOREST LAWN HERITAGE FOUNDATION$57,407
UNITED WAY OF BUFFALO & ERIE COUNTY$55,000
GATEWAY LONGVIEW$54,805
BUFFALO CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY$51,520

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $662k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 8% of JAMES H CUMMINGS FOUNDATION INC’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 78% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 73% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

JAMES H CUMMINGS FOUNDATION INClessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 10% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$7.4M · 58 repeat orgs$4.9M to everyone else

58 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$7.4M

$3.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%

+47%

Still filing today

48%

39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther

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

TJ
THE JACOBS INSTITUTE
5× · 2020–2025 · $666k · revenue +113%
HM
HAUPTMAN-WOODWARD MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE
2× · 2020–2021 · $335k · revenue +37%
DC
D'YOUVILLE COLLEGE
3× · 2021–2023 · $200k · revenue +15%

Funded once

WE
WESTMINSTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +98%
RF
RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR SUNY
one grant, 2023 · $200k
NF
NIAGARA FALLS MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER
one grant, 2024 · $125k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

The Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo

The legal aid bureau of buffalo, inc., a not-for-profit organization, provides legal representation to financially needy men, women and children in western new york. through its skilled staff, the legal aid bureau seeks equal justice for…

Crime & Legal

Hispanos Unidos De Buffalo

Respond to economic, social, educational, and cultural needs of hispanic/latinos in western new york with bilingual, bicultural services that promote self sufficiency and improve quality of life.

Human Services

Buffalo Commons Charter School

Establish and operate a charter school to prepare our diverse community of students to succeed academically and professionally regardless of background and circumstance.

Education

Buffalo Niagara River Land Trust Inc

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

Environment

Buffalo Federation of Neighborhood

To provide housing and services for the seriously and persistently mentally ill.

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Buffalo Erie Niagara Land Improvement

To acquire, improve, assemble and sell distressed, vacant, abandoned and/or tax deliquent properties.

Community Improvement

Community Health Center of Buffalo Inc

To provide quality,culturally sensitive, preventive and primary health care to the underserved of our community through state of the art clinical and business practices in a teaching environment in order to reduce health care disparities.

Health

Buffalo Center for Health Equity Inc

The buffalo center for health equity (bche) is committed to eliminating health inequities in our region by addressing the racial, economic, and other social conditions that persist in our communities.

Health

Child Care Coalition of the Niagara

Developing high quality child care to support families, providers, employers & the community.

Human Services

Cny Fair Housing Inc

We work to eliminate housing discrimination, promote open communities, and ensure equal access to housing opportunity for all people in central and northern new york.

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University At Buffalo Neurosurgery Inc

University at buffalo neurosurgery, inc. is an academic neurosurgical group committed to excellence in patient care, research, and education. our mission is to develop and implement sound strategies that focus on quality medical services,…

Health

Lockport Cares Inc

The organization provides charitable relief in the form of emergency shelter, material needs, and compassionate care for the homeless and persons in need in the eastern niagara county, new york area.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighborhood Health Center of Wny Inc and the most unlike its peers is D'youville University. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 39 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%1/85

the rest of the field

390/5,157

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.

06the grantee network

83 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

81/83

Grantees still filing

68/83

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$7,983,434Health$1,175,568Philanthropy$923,163Education$803,782Human Services$661,634Community Improvement$514,414Recreation & Sports$314,810

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.

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.

Community Foundation for Greater BuffaloNY126.6× affinity68 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo · The John R Oishei Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · United Way of Buffalo and Erie County · First Niagara Foundation · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Cullen Foundation · The Baird Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower · Rich Family 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 organisation JAMES H CUMMINGS 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NIAGARA FRONTIER RADIO READING SERVICE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~6 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 161272790 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on NIAGARA FRONTIER RADIO READING SERVICE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 6 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 15% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to James H Cummings Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to James H Cummings Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

JAMES H CUMMINGS FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

83 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to James H Cummings Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

JAMES H CUMMINGS FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

83 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to James H Cummings Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph