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Kenmore Rotary 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.

$39k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
43%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$9,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 11
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$530k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 43% of the organizations Kenmore Rotary Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
ReligionRecreation & SportsEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesScience & TechOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving5$39k40%
FY20237$39k43%
FY20228$39k88%
FY202111$33k73%
FY20208$31k75%
FY20197$30k71%
FY20189$29k89%
FY20177$30kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$43kYouth Development$37kRecreation & Sports$31kArts & Culture$23kHousing & Shelter$23kPublic Benefit$22kFood & Nutrition$18kInternational$17kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kenmore Mercy Foundation$31,50042%
Elmlawn Memorial Park Foundation Inc$16,5005n/a
Kenmore Rotary Charities Inc$14,200314%
Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences$13,50020%
Hearts for the Homeless of Wny Inc$10,67412%
Cradle Beach Inc$10,00020%
The Summit Center Inc$8,00010%
Kenmore Volunteer Fire Department Inc$6,00013%
Home Beneath Our Feet Inc$5,4001n/a
Hope Project of Wny Inc$5,0001n/a
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All grantees of Kenmore Rotary Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kenmore Mercy Foundation$31,50042%
Elmlawn Memorial Park Foundation Inc$16,5005n/a
Kenmore Rotary Charities Inc$14,200314%
Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences$13,50020%
Hearts for the Homeless of Wny Inc$10,67412%
Cradle Beach Inc$10,00020%
The Summit Center Inc$8,00010%
Kenmore Volunteer Fire Department Inc$6,00013%
Home Beneath Our Feet Inc$5,4001n/a
Hope Project of Wny Inc$5,0001n/a
Amazon Conservation Team$4,00010%
James V and Fay P Ryan Paramedic Foundation Inc$3,00013%
African Malika$3,0002n/a
Girls Education Collaborative Inc$3,00011%
Food Recovery Network Inc$2,00010%
Buffalo Sunrise Rotary Foundation Inc$1,5001n/a

Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($131k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kenmore Rotary Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKenmore Mercy Foundation: $31,500 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetKenmore Rotary Charities Inc: $14,200 over 3y, 14% of budgetBuffalo Society of Natural Sciences: $13,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHearts for the Homeless of Wny Inc: $10,674 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCradle Beach Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Summit Center Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKenmore Volunteer Fire Department Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetAmazon Conservation Team: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJames V and Fay P Ryan Paramedic Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetGirls Education Collaborative Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFood Recovery Network Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The John R Oishei Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Kenmore Rotary Foundation

How much does Kenmore Rotary Foundation give?
Kenmore Rotary Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $38,650 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Kenmore Rotary Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (16%), Youth Development (14%), Recreation & Sports (11%).
Who are Kenmore Rotary Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Kenmore Mercy Foundation ($32k), Elmlawn Memorial Park Foundation Inc ($17k), Kenmore Rotary Charities Inc ($14k).
Does Kenmore Rotary Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Kenmore Rotary Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Kenmore Rotary Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, The John R Oishei Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is Kenmore Rotary Foundation based?
Kenmore Rotary Foundation is based in NY.

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 46 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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