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Nfada Charitable 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.
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 $10k29 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $142k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOTION PROJECT FOUNDATION | $50,300 |
| EXPLORE & MORE CHILDRENS MUSEUM | $25,900 |
| MASON MISSION | $25,075 |
| ROYALTON HARTLAND AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION | $18,150 |
| CAMP HAPPINESS | $15,225 |
| LIGHTHOUSE INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| ONE 8 FIFTY INC | $12,000 |
| VARIETY-THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF BUFFALO AND WNY | $10,500 |
| BUFFALO PREP | $10,000 |
| DANCEABILITY INC | $10,000 |
| SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY RESEARCH | $7,500 |
| FOSTER LOVE CLOSET INC | $7,050 |
| BUFFALO AREA ENGINEERING AWARENESS FOR MINORITIES | $5,150 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NATIVITY OF MARY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +7% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 20 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k 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
WINGS FLIGHTS OF HOPE7× · 2018–2024 · $152k · revenue +42%- MPMOTION PROJECT FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $152k · revenue +21%
- FLFRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S MARTIN HOUSE CORPORATION3× · 2017–2019 · $26k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- SKSUSAN KOMEN UPSTATE NYone grant, 2020 · $51k
BESTSELF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue 0%- JAJunior Achievement of Western New Yorkone grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue +17%
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 ensure that individuals from niagara county who are developmentally disabled or intellectually, physically or functionally limited, have the opportunity to reach their maximum potential, independence and integration into the community.
University at buffalo neurosurgery, inc. is an academic neurosurgical group committed to excellence in patient care, research, and education. our mission is to develop and implement sound strategies that focus on quality medical services,…
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.
To advance the health and wellness across the life span for the people of western new york and the world through the education of tomorrow's leaders in health care and biomedical sciences, innovative research, and outstanding clinical…
To assist the faculty of the department of pediatrics at the university at buffalo in the delivery of health care, improve the ability of the faculty to perform clinical research, maximize resources to foster academic, research and…
For over 60 years the arc of new york and its many chapters, including the arc of monroe, have been leaders in assisting individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities build a life that includes actively living in their…
The corporation assists the state university of new york at buffalo department of psychiatry in the delivery of health care, recruitment and retention of teaching physicians, and support of research in the field of psychiatry.
To provide quality, affordable child care for the families of students, faculty and staff of the college, as well as families of other new york state employees and community members.
University at buffalo surgeons, inc., is a large team of surgeons dedicated to the improvement of the health of our patients, cutting edge research, and the professional development of our students and residents. we are committed to…
Accesscny offers personcentered services that empower individuals of all ages and abilities to reach their full potential as part of our shared community. services are provided with dedication, compassion, innovation, and commitment. the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wny Heroes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jericho Road 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 32 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
65 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. 65 of the 138 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 EXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WINGS FLIGHTS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds MOTION PROJECT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER OLEAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA CATTARAUGUS REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BESTSELF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE TEACHERS DESK INC ↗
- Who funds Royalton-Hartland Agriculture Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CRADLE BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S MARTIN HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PUNT PEDIATRIC CANCER COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP HAPPINESS INC ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Western New York ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE MICHAELS OF THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO PREP INC ↗
- Who funds DANCEABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY RESEARCH TEAM ↗
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 · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · The Western New York Foundation · Buffalo Sabres Foundation · United Way of Buffalo and Erie County · Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc · Rich Family Foundation · Cullen 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 Nfada Charitable 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.
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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