· Private foundation
Marjorie and John Buyers 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $105k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $137k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $20,000 |
| BUFFALO PEACE HOUSE | $20,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD EC | $15,000 |
| CITY MISSION | $15,000 |
| ERIE COUNTY SPCA | $15,000 |
| FEEDMORE WNY | $11,500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $10,000 |
| DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TR | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS BUFFALO CHP | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| BUFFALO PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| CRADLE BEACH CAMP | $6,000 |
| LOTHLORIEN THERAPEUTIC RIDING CTR | $6,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
44 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- ECERIE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +43%
- CMCITY MISSION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +166% · 100% of their budget
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
The mission of feeding new york state is to lead a unified effort for a hunger-free state of new york. the mission of food banking is to obtain food and deliver it to emergency food programs. feeding new york state works to end hunger by…
The board adopted mission statement is: nyu langone hospitals (the "hospital") will operate with new york university's medical schools a health system ("nyu langone health") devoted to excellence in patient care, education and research. in…
The mission of the buffalo and erie county botanical gardens society, inc. is to deepen the connection between people and plants through beautiful gardens and extraordinary experiences.
Leadingage new york represents not-for-profit, mission-driven and public continuing care providers, including nursing homes, senior housing, adult care facilities, continuing care retirement communities, assisted living and community…
Puppies behind bars trains incarcerated individuals to raise service dogs for wounded war veterans and first responders, facility dogs for police departments, and explosive-detecton canines for law enforcement.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The legal aid bureau of buffalo, inc., a not-for-profit organization, provides legal representation to financially needy men, women and children in western new york. through its skilled staff, the legal aid bureau seeks equal justice for…
Mission: to heal, to teach, to discover and to advance the health of the communities we serve. values: humanity, innovation, teamwork, diversity and equity - our values define our philosophy of care. they shape our actions and motivate and…
To acquire, remediate, and steward lands along wny's waterfronts prioritizing public access.
Buffalo hearing and speech center improves the quality of life for adults, children and infants with communication disorders by delivering cutting edge diagnosis and treatment of hearing and speech impairments and related special education…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Erie County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the most unlike its peers is City Mission Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 47 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 ERIE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Pen Bay Waldo Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds CRADLE BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds LOTHLORIEN THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds KIDS ESCAPING DRUGS INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO PEACE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY-LONGVIEW INC ↗
- Who funds THEODORE ROOSEVELT INAUGURAL SITE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The Frank G Raichle Foundation · E&W G Foundation · Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc · The Baird Foundation · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Marjorie and John Buyers Foundation 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.
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.