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Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo Inc at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

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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.

$2.4M
Granted FY2018
10
Grants FY2018
1
States reached
$558k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2018 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $1,443,019, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,449,597 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,006,578 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2018

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $97k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $498k
  • $250k+2 grants · $848k
$73,400
Median grant
1
States reached
$35M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$558,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMERICA$289,619
BUREAU OF JEWISH ED (& YAD B'YAD)$245,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE$110,000
JEWISH HERITAGE SCHOOLOHR TEMIMIM$73,400
HILLELJEWISH STUDENT CAMPUS SVS$70,000
KADIMAH SCHOOL OF BUFFALO INC$36,000
HOLOCAUST RESOURCE CENTER$26,000
CHABAD HOUSE OF BUFFALO$20,000
CEMETERY CORPORATION$15,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–18, $971k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $558k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $193k → 13%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $110k → 13%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $110k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 9 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
0

Total granted

$2.0M
$0

Still filing today

67%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
Human ServicesEducationOther
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

  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BUFFALO INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $751k · revenue +59%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WESTERN NEW YORK
    2× · 2017–2018 · $220k · revenue +378%
  • JH
    JEWISH HERITAGE DAY SCHOOL OF BUFFALO
    2× · 2017–2018 · $152k · revenue +2%

Funded once

    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.

    1
    University of Judaism Foundation
    —
    2
    Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
    Philanthropy
    3
    Hillel at Binghamton Inc

    Hillel at Binghamton seeks to empower Jewish students so that they may enrich the Jewish people and the world through cultural, educational, social, and religious programs and activities on campus. Hillel envisions a world where every…

    —
    4
    Jewish Center for Justice

    Founded in 2017, the Jewish Center for Justice (JCJ) is a distinguished social justice, education, and leadership development platform that meets each individual where they are in their journey to inspire change. JCJ's mission is to…

    Human Services
    5
    Jewish Home Lifecare

    Our mission is to empower older adults to enhance purpose and well-being through a portfolio of innovative health care services.

    —
    6
    Chabad of Bensonhurst Inc

    Chabad of Bensonhurst Inc is an organization dedicated to furthering the religious, educational, and charitable needs of the Jewish Community.

    —
    7
    Jewish Life Foundation
    —
    8
    Fund for Jewish Education Inc
    Philanthropy
    9
    Ccf New York Jewish French Community Center of Ny Inc

    To further French Jewish Culture, help integration of American in France and French in USA concerning Jewish Culture

    Religion
    10
    The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati
    Philanthropy
    11
    Jewish Federation of Greater Clifton-Passaic
    —
    12
    Jewish Community Council of Erie

    The Jewish Community Council of Erie is a community-based organization serving individuals and families in the Erie area with a wide range of social and educational services, as well as capacity-building support to other community-based…

    Philanthropy
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holocaust Resource Center of BuffaloInc; the most unlike its peers is The Jewish Federations of North America Inc. 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

    9 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. 9 of the 10 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.

    1
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    3
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    7/9
    Grantees still filing
    7/9
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BUFFALO INC: $751,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BUFFALO …JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WESTERN NEW YORK: $220,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WESTERN NEW YORKBureau Of Jewish Education of Greater Buffalo Inc: $500,000 · OtherBureau Of Jewish Education of Greater…Hillel Foundation For Jewish Life: $140,000 · OtherHillel Foundation For Jewish LifeKadimah School of Buffalo Inc: $81,100 · OtherKadimah School of Buffalo IncHolocaust Resource Center of BuffaloInc: $52,000 · OtherHolocaust Resource Center of BuffaloI…BAIS LUBAVITCH INC: $40,000 · OtherJewish Federation Of Greater Buffalo Cemetery Corporation: $30,000 · OtherTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $580,500 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF…JEWISH HERITAGE DAY SCHOOL OF BUFFALO: $151,880 · Education
    Human Services$971,000Other$843,100Philanthropy$580,500Education$151,880

    Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

    25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BUFFALO INC: $751,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $580,500 over 2y, 0.1% 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
    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.

    Foundation for Jewish…Community Foundation …Amazonsmile Foundation
    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.

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
      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.

      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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