· Private foundation
Msgr Richard S Amico Memorial Charitable Trust
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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 72% of MSGR RICHARD S AMICO MEMORIAL CHARITABLE TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $245k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIVITY MIGUEL MIDDLE SCHOOL OF BUFFALO | $15,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO | $10,000 |
| PEACEPRINTS PRISON MINISTRY | $10,000 |
| ST LUKE'S MISSION OF MERCY | $10,000 |
| WEST SIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $10,000 |
| OUR LADY OF VICTORY NATIONAL SHRINE & BASILICA | $10,000 |
| GRACE GUEST HOUSE INC | $10,000 |
| SISTER MARY JOSETTE FOOD PANTRY AT FELICIAN COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| JOURNEY'S END REFUGEE SERVICES INC | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CENTERAL HELPING HANDS FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| COMPASS HOUSE | $10,000 |
| ERIE REGIONAL HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $10,000 |
| TEACHERS DESK INC | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE NIGHT PEOPLE | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
42 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k 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
HEART LOVE & SOUL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +36%
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +5%- PNPER NIENTE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- HMHOPEBOUND MINISTRIESone grant, 2023 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $5k
- SAST ANTHONY OF PADUA RC CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $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.
To provide safe housing, meals, and necessary services for asylum seekers in the western new york area
Family promise of wayne county ny, supports homeless families in wayne co by providing overnight shelter and meals as well as case management services to assist in securing permanent housing, employment and skills training to enable…
To provide a comfort care home for the residents of genesee county and wyoming county.
Ywca is dedicated to empowering women and promoting peace, health, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
This healthcare hospitality house provides a "home away from home" accomodations to patients and families of patients who are receiving medical care in central new york.
Founded in 1991, community housing innovations, inc. (chi) is a not-for-profit organization serving several new york counties. chi's mission is to provide housing and human services that support social and economic independence. chi's…
Provide temporary shelter and food for homeless families and individuals. also to provide living accomodations through a single resident occupancy program
Since 1972, under 21, d.b.a. covenant house new york (chny) has been working with one of new york city's most vulnerable populations - youth experiencing homelessness, age 16-24, and their dependent children. chny provides young people…
At caring for the hungry and homeless of peekskill (chhop), we believe that every person is entitled to safe and affordable housing and healthy nutritious food.
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.
To acquire and renovate real property in western new york to establish and maintain facilities for the temporary and permanent housing of needy veterans and other special needs individuals.
To provide short term, transitional and permanent housing, homelessness prevention, personalized case management, mental health care, on-site nursing, vocational training, substance abuse counseling, recreational activities and other vital…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Compass House and the most unlike its peers is Rachael Warrior Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
19 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. 19 of the 62 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 HEART LOVE & SOUL INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds PER NIENTE INC ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE GUEST HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE TEACHERS DESK INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NIGHT PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY'S END REFUGEE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds VILLA MARIA COLLEGE OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds KEVIN GUEST HOUSE 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 John R Oishei Foundation · East Hill Foundation · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · Feedmore Western New York Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · E&W G Foundation · Rich Family Foundation · Cullen Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · Evans Devereux Memorial Fund Ua 11 Uw Virginia Devereux · Foundation 214 Inc
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 Msgr Richard S Amico Memorial Charitable Trust 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.
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