· Private foundation
Moore for Kids
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k3 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $86k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WNYHEROES INC | $150,000 |
| BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $50,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO | $31,158 |
| NIAGARA FALLS BOYS AND GIRLS | $25,000 |
| COMPASSCARE | $20,000 |
| PUNT FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CAMP GOOD DAYS & SPECIAL TIMES INC | $5,500 |
| HOPE RISES | $5,000 |
| WILSON YOUTH SOCCER ASSCOCIATION | $912 |
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, $535k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $912 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
- WHWNY HEROES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $520k · revenue +219%
NIAGARA FALLS BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC5× · 2018–2024 · $250k · revenue +40%- TBTHE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC5× · 2018–2024 · $195k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- RCRESTORATION CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $200k
- WBWESTGATE BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $100k
- OLOUR LADY OF VICTORYone grant, 2022 · $94k
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.
It is the mission of carefirst ny, inc. to affirm life through extraordinary, compassionate support and care to patients and families in chemung, steuben and schuyler counties.
Endeavor western new york identifies and selects high-impact entrepreneurs in and around buffalo and rochester, ny and provides them access to a global network of markets, industry leaders, investors, and talent, helping to expand their…
We. empower. veterans. the veterans one-stop center of wny, inc. is the region's premiere veterans service and advocacy not-for-profit collaborative agency empowering veterans, veteran families and service members in achieving economic…
The organization provides charitable relief in the form of emergency shelter, material needs, and compassionate care for the homeless and persons in need in the eastern niagara county, new york area.
Operation pets provides high quality, high volume, affordable spay and neuter services to the underserved population of western new york including outreach to local animal welfare groups.
Mercy hospital foundation,inc. is a charitable, not-for-profit 501(c) 3 corporation with the purpose of raising new funds and stewarding resources which support, improve and promote the care and services provided by mercy hospital of…
Our mission is to support the well being of all western new yorkers impacted by breast cancer.
Invest buffalo niagara foundation, inc. is a vehicle to solicit charitable contributions to develop programs, collaborate with, and provide funding to organizations that advance and encourage economic development in western new york.
Pursue the highest standard in youth development by providing the best possible environment for player growth, enjoyment and character development within a unified and cohesive club structure.
Founded in 2002, following 9/11, nydis is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit faith-based federation of over 60 diverse judicatories, disaster human services providers, and charitable organizations who work in partnership to provide disaster readiness,…
Central ny quest has been established to serve the needs of persons with intellectual, developmental and mental health disorders in the central new york region.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wny Heroes Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Osc Charitable Foundation. 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 31 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 WNY HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA FALLS BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP GOOD DAYS AND SPECIAL TIMES INC ↗
- Who funds LAUNCH GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds PUNT PEDIATRIC CANCER COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hope Rises INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GERARD PLACE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds THE OSC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SONRAYS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds KAELY'S KINDNESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILSON YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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 Osc Charitable Foundation · Buffalo Sabres Foundation · Grigg-Lewis Foundation Inc · First Niagara Foundation · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · Equitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Moore for Kids 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.