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Just Buffalo Literary Center Inc

Creating and strengthening communities through the literary arts.

$95k
Granted FY2023
6
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$58k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$173kEducation$9kYouth Development$9kOther$0
02FY2023 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k5 grants · $38k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VARIOUS- ALL UNDER 5000$57,500
BOMB MAGAZINE$7,500
NATIONAL BOOK$7,500
KUNDIMAN INC$7,500
ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS INC$7,500
CAVE CANEM FOUNDATION INC$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HERSTORY WRITERS WORKSHOP: $7k → 7%BOA EDITIONS: $1 → 14%COMMUNITY OF LITERARY MAGAZINES AND PRESSES: $10k → 17%TEACHERS AND WRITERS COLLABORATIVE: $8k → 20%HERSTORY WRITERS WORKSHOP: $1 → 7%BOA EDITIONS LTD: $10k → 14%COUNCIL OF LITERARY MAGAZINES & PRESSES: $9k → 17%RESTLESS BOOKS INC: $6k → 20%WRITERS & BOOKS INC: $7k → 14%URBAN WORD NYC: $7k → 17%BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL INC: $7k → 20%WRITERS & BOOKS: $6k → 14%LAMBDA LITERARY: $7k → 17%BOMB MAGAZINE: $8k → 20%WRITERS & BOOKS: $6k → 14%THE FEMINIST PRESS AT CUNY: $7k → 17%N1 FOUNDATION: $8k → 20%GIRLS WRITE NOW: $9k → 17%CAVE CANEM FDT: $9k → 20%ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS INC: $8k → 17%CAVE CANEM FOUNDATION: $9k → 20%THE POETRY PROJECT: $9k → 17%CAVE CANEM FOUNDATION INC: $8k → 20%POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $1 → 17%POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $8k → 17%COMMUNITY OF LITERARY MAGAZINES & PRESSES: $1 → 17%UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE: $1 → 17%GIRLS WRITE NOW: $1 → 17%WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS: $1 → 17%KUNDIMAN: $1 → 17%KUNDIMAN INC: $8k → 17%ONE STORY: $1 → 17%POETS & WRITERS: $9k → 17%NATIONAL BOOK: $8k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$94k · 8 repeat orgs$154k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +78% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
14

Total granted

$94k
$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%
+15%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CO
    COUNCIL OF LITERARY MAGAZINES AND PRESSES
    2× · 2017–2022 · $19k · revenue +218%
  • WB
    WRITERS & BOOKS INC
    3× · 2017–2022 · $19k · revenue +21%
  • CC
    CAVE CANEM FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $16k · revenue +602%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $9k
  • PA
    POETS AND WRITERS INC
    one grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue +18%
  • TP
    THE POETRY PROJECT LTDgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $9k · revenue ×24
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.

04Its field

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.

1
National Poetry Series Inc
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2
Poetry Flash

Poetry flash builds community through literature

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3
Nomadic Press

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.…

Arts & Culture
4
Nightboat Books Inc

A literary arts organization dedicated to support writers of innovative poetry and prose.

Arts & Culture
5
Poetry Society of New York Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Graywolf Press

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Literary Cleveland

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.

Education
8
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc
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9
Catamaran Literary Reader

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.

Arts & Culture
10
The Writers Room

Writers Room provides emerging and established writers, working in any and all literary genres, with affordable and tranquil workspace in NYC.

Arts & Culture
11
World Poetry Inc

To expand the audience interested in poetry and literature, and to provide authors, especially poets, with a far-reaching forum in which to present their work.

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12
Ether Sea Projects Inc Dba Litmus Press

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Poets and Writers Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
16/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VARIOUS- ALL UNDER 5000: $57,500 · OtherVARIOUS- ALL UNDER 5000COUNCIL OF LITERARY MAGAZINES AND PRESSES: $19,000 · OtherCOUNCIL OF LITERARY MAGAZINES AND PRESSESBOA EDITIONS LTD: $10,001 · OtherBOA EDITIONS LTDIndividual grant recipient: $8,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE POETRY PROJECT LTD: $8,500 · OtherTHE POETRY PROJECT LTDNEW ART PUBLICATIONS INC: $7,500 · OtherNEW ART PUBLICATIONS INCNATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · OtherNATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION INCTHE FEMINIST PRESS INC: $6,750 · OtherTHE FEMINIST PRESS INC+1 more: $1 · OtherWRITERS & BOOKS INC: $18,600 · Arts & CultureWRITERS & BOOKS INCPOETS AND WRITERS INC: $8,750 · Arts & CulturePOETS AND WRITERS INCKUNDIMAN INC: $7,501 · Arts & CultureKUNDIMAN INCPOETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $7,501 · Arts & CulturePOETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICAN1 FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Arts & CultureN1 FOUNDATIONTHE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureTHE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS INCTEACHERS & WRITERS COLLABORATIVE INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureTEACHERS & WRITERS COLLABORATIVE INCHERSTORY WRITERS NETWORK INC: $6,751 · Arts & CultureHERSTORY WRITERS NETWORK INCLAMBDA LITERARY FOUNDATION: $6,750 · Arts & CultureLAMBDA LITERARY FOUNDATIONRESTLESS BOOKS INC: $5,850 · Arts & CultureRESTLESS BOOKS INC+1 more: $1 · Arts & CultureCAVE CANEM FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 · EducationCAVE CANEM FOUNDA…GIRLS WRITE NOW INC: $9,001 · EducationGIRLS WRITE NOW I…URBAN WORD NYC INC: $6,750 · EducationURBAN WORD NYC IN…Brooklyn Book Festival Inc: $6,750 · EducationBrooklyn Book Fes…+1 more: $1 · EducationWords Without Borders Inc: $1 · International
Other$125,502Arts & Culture$84,204Education$38,502International$1

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOUNCIL OF LITERARY MAGAZINES AND PRESSES: $19,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetWRITERS & BOOKS INC: $18,600 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCAVE CANEM FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBOA EDITIONS LTD: $10,001 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetGIRLS WRITE NOW INC: $9,001 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPOETS AND WRITERS INC: $8,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE POETRY PROJECT LTD: $8,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetKUNDIMAN INC: $7,501 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPOETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $7,501 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetN1 FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEW ART PUBLICATIONS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTEACHERS & WRITERS COLLABORATIVE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHERSTORY WRITERS NETWORK INC: $6,751 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE FEMINIST PRESS INC: $6,750 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLAMBDA LITERARY FOUNDATION: $6,750 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetURBAN WORD NYC INC: $6,750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBrooklyn Book Festival Inc: $6,750 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetRESTLESS BOOKS INC: $5,850 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUGLY DUCKLING PRESSE LTD: $1 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE STORY INC: $1 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWords Without Borders Inc: $1 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Poetry FoundationThe Academy of Americ…Hawthornden FoundationNational Book Foundat…The Ford FoundationThe Andrew W Mellon F…The Hyde and Watson F…New York Council for …Liana Foundation IncBydale FoundationCouncil of Literary M…Lannan Foundation
The Poetry FoundationIL34.3× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Just Buffalo Literary Center Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Just Buffalo Literary Center Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Restless Books Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Just Buffalo Literary Center Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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