New York · Private foundation
Joy Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $65k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $13,271
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,330
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Joy Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $65k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $91k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $123k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $50k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $183k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $125k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $123k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $108k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burchfield Penney Art Center | $211,331 | 9 | 2% |
| Hospice & Palliative Care Buffalo Inc | $181,620 | 7 | 0% |
| Wny Women's Foundation Inc | $107,710 | 5 | 6% |
| The Children's Hospital of Buffalo Foundation | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| White House Historical Association | $45,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper Inc | $41,975 | 5 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $21,250 | 4 | n/a |
| Society for Photographic Education | $20,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Ocean Reef Medical Center Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Buffalo Maritime Center Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burchfield Penney Art Center | $211,331 | 9 | 2% |
| Hospice & Palliative Care Buffalo Inc | $181,620 | 7 | 0% |
| Wny Women's Foundation Inc | $107,710 | 5 | 6% |
| The Children's Hospital of Buffalo Foundation | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| White House Historical Association | $45,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper Inc | $41,975 | 5 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $21,250 | 4 | n/a |
| Society for Photographic Education | $20,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Ocean Reef Medical Center Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Buffalo Maritime Center Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| St Mary's School for the Deaf | $4,685 | 1 | 0% |
| Just Buffalo Literary Center Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| It Happened to Alexa Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| City Mission Society Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Buffalo Fine Arts Academy | $400 | 1 | 0% |
| St Francis High School | $360 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($291k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Joy Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 Marks Family Foundation · Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc · The Osc Charitable Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Cullen Foundation of Western New York Inc · Cullen Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good
How this is measured
About Joy Family Foundation
- How much does Joy Family Foundation give?
- Joy Family Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $64,601 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Joy Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (31%), Health (24%), Philanthropy (12%).
- Who are Joy Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Burchfield Penney Art Center ($211k), Hospice & Palliative Care Buffalo Inc ($182k), Wny Women's Foundation Inc ($108k).
- Does Joy Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Joy Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Joy Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, The Marks Family Foundation, Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc.
- Where is Joy Family Foundation based?
- Joy Family Foundation is based in NY.
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