How much does Lakeridge Foundation give?

Lakeridge Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $1,766,188 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 42 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

What does Lakeridge Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (60%), Religion (11%), International (11%).

Who are Lakeridge Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Jericho Road Ministries Inc ($1.0M), Wesleyan Church Corporation ($950k), World Hope International Inc ($900k).

Does Lakeridge Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Lakeridge 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 Lakeridge Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, The Osc Charitable Foundation, The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation.

Where is Lakeridge Foundation based?

Lakeridge Foundation is based in NY.

Lakeridge Foundation

Lakeridge Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Lakeridge Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.8M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$276k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$11MReligion$2.1MInternational$2.1MHealth$1.8MYouth Development$267kPhilanthropy$210kHousing & Shelter$155kArts & Culture$104kOther$0

02FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k15 grants · $67k
$10k–50k20 grants · $370k
$50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
$250k+1 grant · $276k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$942k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Individual grant recipient	$276,100
EQUIP HEALTH	$227,000
WORLD HOPE INTERNATIONAL	$200,000
OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL	$150,000
JERICHO ROAD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER	$100,000
GENEROUS GIVINGS	$85,000
SOWER MINISTRY	$82,500
YOUNG LIFE	$58,407
BUILD PROMISE (ST LUKES BLDG)	$50,000
BUFFALO AKG ART MUSEUM	$50,000
NEW HORIZONS FOUNDATION	$50,000
WORLD RELIEF	$45,000
THE VERITAS FORUM	$40,000
THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION	$40,000
NICHOLS SCHOOL	$25,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $572k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 66% of Lakeridge Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 20% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 16%.

Lakeridge Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$7.3M · 38 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +6% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$7.3M

$758k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%

+4%

Still filing today

61%

62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $382k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalReligionEducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

JERICHO ROAD MINISTRIES INC
5× · 2019–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +157%
NS
NICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO
6× · 2019–2025 · $865k · revenue +32%
GG
GENEROUS GIVING INC
3× · 2022–2025 · $290k · revenue +36%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2023 · $200k
BUILD PROMISE INC
one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
CU
CANISIUS UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +6%

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.

Christel House International Inc

Chi prepares graduates of the christel house schools operated by its affiliated entities, which chi funds and oversees, to achieve upward economic mobility, demonstrate good citizenship, and become empowered to identify and realize their…

International

Good Shepherd Hospice Foundation Inc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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Chs Physician Partners Pc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health

Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christs healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health

Bibleproject

Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…

Religion

Chs Services Inc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Corus International Inc

TO MANAGE AN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH, AND RELIEF FOCUSED FAMILY OF ORGANIZATIONS HELPING PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES LIFT THEMSELVES OUT OF POVERTY, SUPPORT WELL-BEING OF INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES, AND PROVIDE…

Human Services

Catholic Health System of Long Island

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities

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Good Shepherd Hospice

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Opportunity International Inc D/B/a Opportunity International-Us; the most unlike its peers is Youth Mentoring Action Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 80 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

48/48

Grantees still filing

28/48

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$11,311,730Other$3,469,438International$1,705,000Religion$1,510,000Human Services$572,000Philanthropy$255,000Health$225,500

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

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.

Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY34.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The Osc Charitable Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · William & Diane Hein Foundation · Rich Family Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · J&S Laidig Family Foundation Inc 3717 · Demakos Foundation · The Baird Foundation · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc

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 Lakeridge Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lakeridge Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home