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Louis P Ciminelli Foundation at a glance

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Louis P Ciminelli 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.

$698k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$2.9MCommunity Improvement$625kPhilanthropy$610kHealth$525kEducation$409kCivil Rights$200kRecreation & Sports$167kYouth Development$125kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAYO CLINIC$500,000
BPO$125,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$20,000
MARIN PRIMARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL$20,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$10,000
THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF BUFFALO RETIREMENT FUND FOR THE RELIGIOUS$10,000
JOHN R OISHEI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$5,000
BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER$5,000
GLOBAL CORAL REEF ALLIANCE$2,500
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:

Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BRANNAN CENTER: $900k → 9%CAL FIRE BENEVOLENT FOUNDATION: $25k → 12%BRANNAN CENTER: $100k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
CA
CO
VA
DC
FL
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 18 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
24

Total granted

$4.2M
$784k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+17%

Still filing today

50%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $535k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthAnimalsOther
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

  • BF
    BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $600k · revenue +59%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $60k · revenue +83%
  • BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER
    5× · 2019–2025 · $25k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • BP
    BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
    one grant, 2017 · $225k
  • A
    AKAG
    one grant, 2017 · $200k
  • BS
    BUFFALO STATE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $150k
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
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
2
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
3
Berkeley Lab Foundation

To support the scientific and educational purposes of the regents of the university of california (the "university"), in its specific capacity as manager and operator of the lawrence berkeley national laboratory and to carry on other…

Education
4
California Farm Bureau Federation

To implement policies and develop work programs that will improve the financial well-being and quality of life of california farmers and ranchers.

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5
The Minnesota Camp Fire Foundation

Ensure camp fire minnesota's strong future. with nature as the catalyst, camp fire minnesota energizes youth to discover their spark so their futures glow brighter.

Youth Development
6
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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7
Santa Barbara Zoological Foundation

The santa barbara zoo is dedicated to the preservation, conservation, and enhancement of the natural world and its living treasures through education, research, recreation and conservation.

Animals
8
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
9
California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom

To increase awareness and understanding of agriculture among california educators and students.

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10
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
11
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
12
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Hospital of Buffalo Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Global Coral Reef Alliance 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

22 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. 22 of the 48 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
12/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BPO: $875,000 · OtherBPOUB FOUNDATION: $600,000 · OtherUB FOUNDATIONMAYO CLINIC: $500,000 · OtherMAYO CLINICBUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $225,000 · OtherBUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAAKAG: $200,000 · OtherAKAGBUFFALO STATE FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Other+27 more: $374,835 · Other+27 moreWESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION: $800,000 · Arts & CultureWESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BRO…BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY: $600,000 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY+1 more: $25,000 · Arts & CultureBRANNAN CENTER: $1,000,000 · Human ServicesBRANNAN CENTER+1 more: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $250,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $60,000 · EducationFORESTRY CRAB FEED: $25,000 · EducationMARIN PRIMARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL: $20,000 · Education+2 more: $13,000 · EducationNRA FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · Crime & LegalZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO INC: $25,000 · AnimalsALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $9,850 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Health
Other$2,924,835Arts & Culture$1,425,000Human Services$1,025,000Education$368,000Crime & Legal$35,000Animals$25,000Health$14,850

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBRANNAN CENTER: $1,000,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetWESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION: $800,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY: $600,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBUFFALO PREP INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNRA FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFORESTRY CRAB FEED: $25,000 over 1y, 55% of budgetCAL FIRE BENEVOLENT FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetBURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER: $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMARIN PRIMARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE READING LEAGUE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $9,850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPARK: $7,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFARM AID INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBAL CORAL REEF ALLIANCE INC: $4,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetFIRST BOOK: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORTE MADERA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 4.3% 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.

  • Who funds BRANNAN CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BUFFALO PREP INC ↗
  • Who funds NRA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO INC ↗
  • Who funds FORESTRY CRAB FEED ↗
  • Who funds CAL FIRE BENEVOLENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MARIN PRIMARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds THE READING LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SPARK ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FARM AID INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL CORAL REEF ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds FIRST BOOK ↗

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 Hunt Charitable F…The Osc Charitable Fo…Foundation for Jewish…The Rme Foundation IncRed Top FoundationThe Marks Family Foun…Tower Family Fund IncThe Baird FoundationCullen FoundationFirst Niagara Foundat…Community Foundation …Verizon Foundation
The Hunt Charitable Foundation IncNY15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hunt Charitable Foundation Inc · The Osc Charitable Foundation · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · The Rme Foundation Inc · Red Top Foundation · The Marks Family Foundation · Tower Family Fund Inc · The Baird Foundation · Cullen Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Verizon 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 Louis P Ciminelli Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Louis P Ciminelli Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • Farm Aid Inc: 100% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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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How do I get to Louis P Ciminelli Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Louis P Ciminelli Foundation 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 48 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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