· Private foundation
National Fuel Gas Co Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 70 grants below total $16,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,279,889 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,263,389 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION WNY | $2,407 |
| A.N.N.A. SHELTER | $1,745 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY - ERIE, PA | $606 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS GREATER HOUSTON AREA | $562 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $510 |
| ALLEGANY COUNTY UNITED WAY INC | $500 |
| ARCHDIOCESE SERVICES FUND OF GALVESTON/H | $500 |
| ADAMS TOWNSHIP TRAINING & AQUATICS COMMU | $500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $475 |
| AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION INC | $473 |
| AIDEN'S ARMY | $423 |
| 11 DAY POWER PLAY | $417 |
| ALLEGANY COUNTY PHEASANT PROGRAM | $400 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS OF WESTERN NEW YORK | $377 |
| ADVENTURES IN TRAINING WITH A PURPOSE | $375 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 27 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- AFANNA FOUNDATION INC ASSOC FOR NEEDY AND NEGLECTED ANIMALS4× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +24%
- ADAF DOBLER HOSE AND LADDER COMPANY4× · 2020–2025 · $3k · revenue +13%
- AAAIDEN'S ARMY3× · 2020–2025 · $2k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- SSSEE STATMENT 6one grant, 2021 · $1.2M
- SSSEE STATMENT 5one grant, 2022 · $1.1M
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY ERIE UNITone grant, 2020 · $2k
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 the ardf is to fund and promote the development, validation and adoption of non-animal methods in biomedical research, product testing, and education.
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
The mission of the american college of veterinary internal medicine (acvim) is to enhance animal and human health by advancing veterinary internal medicine through training, education, an discovery. the acvim is the american certifying…
Collaborate with advocates, agencies, shelters, rescues, and government entities in our community to strenghten the safety net for animals and agencies working toward a day when there are no more homeless pets.
The animal agriculture alliance is a nonprofit organization that helps bridge the communication gap between farm and fork. we connect food industry stakeholders, engage food chain influencers and promote consumer choice by helping key…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Animal care centers of nyc's (acc) mission is to end animal homelessness in nyc.
All about animals rescue's mission is no more homeless pets.
Advancing science and stewardship of adirondack waters.
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
To discover diseminate and apply knowledge for sustainable use of animals for food and other animals.
To find solutions for people living with als now and for the future by utilizing knowledge of patients, leading researchers and technology to seek immediate solutions to improve the lives of those living with als until a treatment or cure…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aspire of Western New York Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 31 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 80 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 ANNA FOUNDATION INC ASSOC FOR NEEDY AND NEGLECTED ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds AF DOBLER HOSE AND LADDER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds AIDEN'S ARMY ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds THE 11 DAY POWER PLAY INC ↗
- Who funds ALL BABIES CHERISHED INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEGANY COUNTY UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURES IN TRAINING WITH A PURPOSE ↗
- Who funds ALDEN SOCCER CLUB ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Algonquin Sports for Kids ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds 716 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL FOOD BANK OF WNY INC ↗
- Who funds Akron Sports Inc ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds American Heart 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 · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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.