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Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo Inc

Guided by Jewish values, the federation convenes, inspires, collaborates, leads and enriches the Jewish community locally and around the world. The Federation also serves as a fundraising body and coordinates a variety of services on the local level to help meet the needs of the general community.

$2.4M
Granted FY2018
10
Itemized grants FY2018
9
Organizations funded FY2018
0%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Itemized, FY2018
$1.4M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2018
$73,400
Largest grant, FY2018
$558,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 9
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
1
Total assets, FY2018
$35M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 0% of the organizations Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20189$1.2M0%
FY20179$813kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Human Services$971kReligion$680kPhilanthropy$581kEducation$233kArts & Culture$52kMembership Benefit$30k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Where it is load-bearing

Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo Inc: $751,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetBureau Of Jewish Education of Greater Buffalo Inc: $500,000 over 2y, 63% of budgetJewish Family Services of Western New York: $220,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetJewish Heritage Day School of Buffalo: $151,880 over 2y, 10% of budgetHillel Foundation For Jewish Life: $140,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetKadimah School of Buffalo Inc: $81,100 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetHolocaust Resource Center of BuffaloInc: $52,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetJewish Federation Of Greater Buffalo Cemetery Corporation: $30,000 over 2y, 20% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies IncNY15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo Inc

How much does Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo Inc give?
Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo Inc reported 10 itemized grants totaling $1,443,019, out of $2,449,597 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Human Services (38%), Religion (27%), Philanthropy (23%).
Who are Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo Inc ($751k), Bureau Of Jewish Education of Greater Buffalo Inc ($500k), Jewish Family Services of Western New York ($220k).
Does Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc, Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo Inc based?
Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo Inc is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2018, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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