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New Era Cap 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.

$952k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Education$1.4MHealth$697kArts & Culture$318kEnvironment$160kHuman Services$143kPhilanthropy$98kRecreation & Sports$86kYouth Development$62kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $228k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$12,450
Median grant
4
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO$500,000
YELLOWSTONE FOREVER$150,000
P U N T PEDIATRIC CANCER COLLABORATIVE INC$50,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC$25,000
LIDS FOUNDATION$25,000
HOPE TOTES INC$25,000
HOPE RISES INC$20,000
MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ERIE COUNTY$16,260
FRESH AIR FUND$15,300
FANATICS ALL IN FOUNDATION$15,000
DREAMFLIGHT USA INC$12,500
ADOPT A DOG INC$12,450
GIRLS ON THE RUN OF BUFFFALO INC$11,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BUFFALO INC$10,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF METRO NEW YORK AND WESTERN NEW YORK$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $111k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LIDS FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%RESPECTABILITY: $5k → 8%LIDS FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%LIDS FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%LIDS FOUNDATION: $15k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS BUFFALO INC: $3k → 13%WNY WOMENS FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%COMPASS HOUSE: $500 → 13%MARIA M LOVE CONVALESCENT FUND: $1k → 13%CITY MISSION SOCIETY INC: $5k → 13%CITY MISSION SOCIETY INC: $5k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 19 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
23

Total granted

$1.7M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+33%

Still filing today

79%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $290k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • EM
    EXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
    2× · 2021–2022 · $300k · revenue +11%
  • UA
    University at Buffalo Foundation Inc
    4× · 2019–2023 · $250k · revenue +138%
  • LF
    LIDS FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $90k · revenue +164%

Funded once

  • ES
    ELMWOOD-FRANKLIN SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue -20%
  • NY
    NEW YORK YANKEES FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +117%
  • MR
    MARIANO RIVERA PUBLIC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $15k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Invest Buffalo Niagara Foundation Inc

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.

Community Improvement
2
Make-a-Wish Foundation of Suffolk County Ny Inc

The make-a-wish foundation of suffolk county, ny creates life changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

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3
The Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo

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…

Crime & Legal
4
University at Buffalo Foundation Incubator Inc

The organization operates an incubator facility to identify and aid start-up businesses with a purpose of stimulating development and increasing interaction between the university at buffalo and such businesses.

Education
5
Carefirst Ny Inc

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.

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6
Breast Cancer Network of Western New Yorkinc

Our mission is to support the well being of all western new yorkers impacted by breast cancer.

Health
7
Abny Foundation Inc

The abny foundation, inc. (the "foundation") was created to provide funds for social, educational, and civic initiatives that enhance the quality of life in the five boroughs of new york city.

Philanthropy
8
Families Together in New York State Inc

Establish a unified voice for children and youth with emotional, behavioral, and social challenges. the organizational mission is to ensure that every family has access to needed information, support, and services.

Human Services
9
Buffalo Niagara Partnership Foundation

The buffalo niagara partnership foundation is a vehicle for the initiations and promotion of key economic development projects in the buffalo area.

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10
Legal Assistance of Western New York Inc

Lawny increases access to justice through excellent legal representation, advocacy and service.

Crime & Legal
11
Central New York Quest Inc

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.

Human Services
12
Big Brothers - Big Sisters of York County Inc

To provide children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported 1-to-1 relationships that change their lives for the better, forever. provides mentoring opportunities to more than 110 youth each year.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Metro New York and Western New York and the most unlike its peers is Catching Dreams Charters Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr14%17%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr21%22%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr13%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr14%6%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr21%15%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr13%61%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/49
the rest of the field
11%
3,221/29,533

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.

04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 55 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/44
Grantees still filing
24/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ELMWOOD-FRANKLIN SCHOOL INC — $1,000,000 · EducationELMWOOD-FRANKLIN SCHOOL INCUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Inc — $250,000 · EducationUniversity at Buffalo Foundation IncTHE SUMMIT CENTER INC — $47,500 · EducationTHE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO — $535,000 · OtherTHE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF BUFFALOJACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 · OtherJACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INCSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC — $44,500 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BUFFALO INC — $37,500 · Other+22 more — $177,950 · Other+22 moreEXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $300,000 · Arts & CultureEXPLORE & M…STITCH BUFFALO INC — $12,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $3,000 · Arts & CultureYELLOWSTONE FOREVER — $150,000 · EnvironmentHOPE TOTES INC — $50,000 · HealthPUNT PEDIATRIC CANCER COLLABORATIVE INC — $50,000 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ERIE COUNTY INC — $21,260 · HealthDREAMFLIGHT USA INC — $12,500 · HealthMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 · HealthGRACE GUEST HOUSE INC — $5,000 · Health+3 more — $5,760 · HealthLIDS FOUNDATION INC — $90,000 · Human ServicesCITY MISSION SOCIETY INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesDISABILITY BELONGS — $4,500 · Human Services+4 more — $6,000 · Human ServicesFANATICS ALL IN FOUNDATION — $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $26,750 · PhilanthropyLICENSING INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyBUFFALO RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION INC — $8,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY — $5,000 · Philanthropy
Education$1,297,500Other$944,950Arts & Culture$315,500Environment$150,000Health$149,520Human Services$110,500Philanthropy$109,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetELMWOOD-FRANKLIN SCHOOL INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetEXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $300,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Inc — $250,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetYELLOWSTONE FOREVER — $150,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetLIDS FOUNDATION INC — $90,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetHOPE TOTES INC — $50,000 over 2y, 50% of budgetPUNT PEDIATRIC CANCER COLLABORATIVE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFANATICS ALL IN FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTHE SUMMIT CENTER INC — $47,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC — $44,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BUFFALO INC — $37,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $26,750 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHope Rises INC — $25,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ERIE COUNTY INC — $21,260 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND — $15,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK YANKEES FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDREAMFLIGHT USA INC — $12,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSTITCH BUFFALO INC — $12,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetADOPT-A-DOG INC — $12,450 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF METRO NEW YORK AND WESTERN NEW YORK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCITY MISSION SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAPEX FOR YOUTH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLICENSING INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUFFALO RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION INC — $8,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCATCHING DREAMS CHARTERS INC — $8,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINGS FLIGHTS OF HOPE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGRACE GUEST HOUSE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetDISABILITY BELONGS — $4,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPregnant with Cancer Support Group — $2,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetUPward Design for Life Corporation — $2,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS BUFFALO — $2,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBUFFALO & ERIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetECMC FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWNY WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMPEER WEST INC — $1,260 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARIA M LOVE CONVALESCENT FUND — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMPASS HOUSE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …The John R Oishei Fou…Children's Foundation…Buffalo Sabres Founda…The Baird FoundationBuffalo Bills Foundat…The Western New York …Mother Cabrini Health…Rich Family FoundationFirst Niagara Foundat…The Ralph C Wilson Jr…Nfada Charitable Foun…
Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY45.8× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The John R Oishei Foundation · Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc · Buffalo Sabres Foundation · The Baird Foundation · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · The Western New York Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Rich Family Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Nfada Charitable 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization New Era Cap 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 55 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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