· Private foundation
Marjorie and John Buyers 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $115k
- $250k+1 grant · $702k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE JACOBS INSTITUTE | $701,677 |
| WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| ERIE COUNTY SPCA | $15,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD EC | $15,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $10,000 |
| DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TR | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS BUFFALO CHP | $10,000 |
| BUFFALO PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| CRADLE BEACH CAMP | $6,000 |
| LOTHLORIEN THERAPEUTIC RIDING CTR | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $702k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ECERIE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS9× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +43%
- CMCITY MISSION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +166% · 100% of their budget
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- BPBUFFALO PEACE HOUSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +173%
- GSGirl Scouts of Greater NY Incone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +0%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
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.
Building community; creating connections; saving wildlife through a collaboration for change: the buffalo zoo will be a center of conservation excellence, providing leadership to secure a future where wildlife thrives. we embody our…
Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…
To acquire, remediate, and steward lands along wny's waterfronts prioritizing public access.
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…
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 mission of the international institute of buffalo is to make western new york a better place for, and because of, immigrants and refugees. we welcome, connect, and empower the foreign born, and encourage the region's support for…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
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…
Engage young minds through projects and partnerships.
To provide high quality, effective legal representation and assistance to indigent prisoners, to help them to secure their civil and human rights, and to advocate for more humane prisons and for a more humane criminal justice system.
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.
To advance the health of our community by providing care management and support to families experiencing physical, mental, or behavioral issues with their child. this is done by advancing innovative practices, by collaborating with…
How this is measured
17 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. 17 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds THE JACOBS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- 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 LOTHLORIEN THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds KIDS ESCAPING DRUGS INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY-LONGVIEW INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO PEACE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THEODORE ROOSEVELT INAUGURAL SITE FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Marjorie and John Buyers Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marjorie and John Buyers Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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