· Private foundation
Joseph R Takats Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k122 grants · $118k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KANSAS CITY UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL AND BIOSCIENCES | $14,000 |
| BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $4,200 |
| RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | $4,000 |
| ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURIKANSAS CITY | $3,200 |
| BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | $3,000 |
| FRANKLIN & MARSHAL COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION OF BUFFALO | $2,500 |
| ST MARK'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $2,500 |
| NICHOLS SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| NCCF (NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES | $2,250 |
| ELMIRA COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION OF WNY | $2,000 |
| BUFFALO & ERIE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ENDOWMENT | $1,800 |
| HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF WNY | $1,700 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–23, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
135 repeat relationships: 118 still active in FY2023, 17 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KCKansas City University5× · 2019–2023 · $66k · revenue +80%
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute5× · 2019–2023 · $20k · revenue +13%- BSBUFFALO STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2019–2023 · $11k · revenue +167%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $2k
- NNCCFone grant, 2019 · $2k
- CHCornerstone Hospice Foundation Incone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue -57%
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.
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
University at buffalo surgeons, inc., is a large team of surgeons dedicated to the improvement of the health of our patients, cutting edge research, and the professional development of our students and residents. we are committed to…
How this is measured
87 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. 87 of the 172 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Kansas City University ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ↗
- Who funds ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds ELMIRA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF WNY INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds WESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP GOOD DAYS AND SPECIAL TIMES INC ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds TUTORS FOR KIDS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ERIE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds PLATTSBURGH COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
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 Baird Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · The Frank G Raichle Foundation · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · First Niagara Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Dreamcatcher Foundation Inc · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · Simple Gifts Fund · East Hill Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Joseph R Takats Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph R Takats Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc: 1% of income from government
- Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida I: 1% of income from government
- Jewish Social Service Agency: 1% of income from government
- Marion Therapeutic Riding Association Inc: 1% of income from government
- Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc: 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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