· 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| ST MARK'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $2,500 |
| NICHOLS SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION OF BUFFALO | $2,500 |
| NCCF (NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES | $2,250 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION OF WNY | $2,000 |
| ELMIRA COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| BUFFALO & ERIE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ENDOWMENT | $1,800 |
| HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF WNY | $1,700 |
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 (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. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +32% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you 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
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
- 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%
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Erie County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the most unlike its peers is Chautauqua Rails to Trails 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 43 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
87 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. 87 of the 172 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 Kansas City University ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ↗
- 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 JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY ↗
- Who funds HEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds Disabled American Veterans ↗
- Who funds PLATTSBURGH COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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 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
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 R Takats Foundation 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.
- 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
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.