· Private foundation
Joseph & Kathleen Curatolo Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of JOSEPH & KATHLEEN CURATOLO FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $79k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PER SCHOLAS | $12,000 |
| MYCHAL'S LEARNING PLACE | $12,000 |
| CHRISTOPHER'S PROMISE | $12,000 |
| HEINZERLING COMMUNITY | $11,600 |
| GI GI'S PLAYHOUSE | $10,900 |
| MIAMI CHILDREN MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| MIAMI HOLMS FOR ALL | $10,000 |
| OUR LADY OF HOPE | $8,000 |
| GERALD PLACE | $7,500 |
| SPECIAL SPACES | $7,500 |
| HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES | $5,357 |
| DISABLED SPORTS OF E SIERRA | $5,000 |
| HOMES FOR FAMILIES | $5,000 |
| LOTUS HOUSE | $5,000 |
| SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SISLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC2× · 2022–2025 · $8k · revenue +76%
- DIDANCEABILITY INC2× · 2023–2024 · $8k · revenue +26%
- FOFRIENDS OF NIGHT PEOPLE INC2× · 2022–2024 · $6k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- HBHOSPICE BUFFALO INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- CACATHOLIC ACADEMY OF W BUFFALOone grant, 2024 · $10k
- KHKALEIDA HEALTHgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +30%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Accesscny offers personcentered services that empower individuals of all ages and abilities to reach their full potential as part of our shared community. services are provided with dedication, compassion, innovation, and commitment. the…
Erie homes for children and adults operates as a private, non-profit agency providing programs for individuals with intellectual and physical disabilities.
Central ny quest has been established to serve the needs of persons with intellectual, developmental and mental health disorders in the central new york region.
To serve people with developmental disabilities
To provide rehabilitative housing services and support to help people with psychiatric disabilities reintegrate into the community.the agency provides rehabilitative housing services and staff support as a primary mechanism for achieving…
Buffalo hearing and speech center improves the quality of life for adults, children and infants with communication disorders by delivering cutting edge diagnosis and treatment of hearing and speech impairments and related special education…
The mission of cerebral palsy associations of new york state is to provide for the exchange of ideas, education and communication between groups and people interested in advocacy for people with cerebral palsy and other developmental…
To actively seek employment for individuals with psychological or physical disabilities.
To provide quality, affordable child care for the families of students, faculty and staff of the college, as well as families of other new york state employees and community members.
Includenyc fosters positive futures and enhances the quality of life for new york city children and youth with disabilities, ages birth through 26, and their families. (continued on schedule o)includenyc empowers families of children and…
To provide services to disabled individuals to enable them to live independently.
To provide quality programs for young children with special needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wny Heroes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Charlotte House Inc. 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.
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 24 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 69 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds MYCHALS LEARNING PLACE ↗
- Who funds PER SCHOLAS INC ↗
- Who funds HEINZERLING COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds MIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL SPACES INC ↗
- Who funds DANCEABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds STITCH BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO MARITIME CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KALEIDA HEALTH ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NIGHT PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds WNY HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS MAMMOTH ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds ACEING AUTISM INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The John R Oishei Foundation · Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc · Buffalo Sabres Foundation · Nfada Charitable Foundation · The Frank G Raichle Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Paul & Helen Ellis Charitable Trust Trubee Wealth Advisors · The Saperston 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 organization Joseph & Kathleen Curatolo 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.
- Miami Children's Museum Inc Fka Miami Youth Museum — 0% of income from government
- Help a Diabetic Child Inc — 0% of income from government
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 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.
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