· Public charity
Just Buffalo Literary Center Inc
Creating and strengthening communities through the literary arts.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k5 grants · $38k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VARIOUS- ALL UNDER 5000 | $57,500 |
| KUNDIMAN INC | $7,500 |
| NATIONAL BOOK | $7,500 |
| ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS INC | $7,500 |
| CAVE CANEM FOUNDATION INC | $7,500 |
| BOMB MAGAZINE | $7,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of your 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 +78% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down; 4 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, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
- COCOUNCIL OF LITERARY MAGAZINES AND PRESSES2× · 2017–2022 · $19k · revenue +218%
- WBWRITERS & BOOKS INC3× · 2017–2022 · $19k · revenue +21%
- CCCAVE CANEM FOUNDATION INC2× · 2021–2023 · $16k · revenue +602%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $9k
- PAPOETS AND WRITERS INCone grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue +18%
- TPTHE POETRY PROJECT LTDgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $9k · revenue ×24
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.
Through publications, events, and active community participation, Nomadic Press collectively weaves together platforms for intentionally marginalized voices to take their rightful place within the world of the written and spoken word.…
Poetry flash builds community through literature
A literary arts organization dedicated to support writers of innovative poetry and prose.
Graywolf press publishes risk-taking, visionary writers who transform culture through literature. when writers are free to do their most ambitious work, their books serve as portals to new possibilities and enable deeper understanding…
Literary Cleveland assists writers and readers at all stages of development, promotes new and existing literature of the highest quality, and advances Northeast Ohio as a vital center of diverse voices and visions.
The poetry society advances the arts and educates the public about poetry by (i) conducting poetry readings, festivals, installations, performances and other similar events, (ii) publishing poems, poetry journals and books, (iii) mentoring…
Publish a quarterly literary journal, offer educational programs to the public related to the journal, and run a poetry competition, resulting in the publishing of a book of poetry by a West Coast poet.
Writers Room provides emerging and established writers, working in any and all literary genres, with affordable and tranquil workspace in NYC.
The authors guild foundation educates authors, advocates for their rights, and promotes the importance of writing, publishing, free speech, and copyright.
Ether Sea Projects D/B/A Litmus Press publishes innovative poetry, prose, and formally experimental writing from around the world. We champion avant-garde legacies through our stewardship of foundational feminist predecessors of small…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Poets and Writers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Herstory Writers Network Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 26 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 COUNCIL OF LITERARY MAGAZINES AND PRESSES ↗
- Who funds WRITERS & BOOKS INC ↗
- Who funds CAVE CANEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOA EDITIONS LTD ↗
- Who funds GIRLS WRITE NOW INC ↗
- Who funds POETS AND WRITERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE POETRY PROJECT LTD ↗
- Who funds KUNDIMAN INC ↗
- Who funds POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ART PUBLICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds TEACHERS & WRITERS COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds N1 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HERSTORY WRITERS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE FEMINIST PRESS INC ↗
- Who funds LAMBDA LITERARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Brooklyn Book Festival Inc ↗
- Who funds URBAN WORD NYC INC ↗
- Who funds RESTLESS BOOKS INC ↗
- Who funds UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE LTD ↗
- Who funds ONE STORY INC ↗
- Who funds Words Without Borders 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: The Poetry Foundation · The Academy of American Poets Inc · Hawthornden Foundation · National Book Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · New York Council for the Humanities · Liana Foundation Inc · Bydale Foundation · Council of Literary Magazines and Presses · Lannan 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 Just Buffalo Literary Center 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.
- Restless Books Inc — 5% 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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