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· Public charity
Open Buffalo Inc
See Schedule O for the Organization's mission.Open Buffalo's mission is to advance racial, economic, and ecological justice through skill building, network connecting, and activating leadership opportunities with the ultimate goal for all communities in Western New York to thrive free from discrimination and poverty.
$333k
Granted FY2024
6
Grants
1
Communities
$94k
Largest
01What you fund
0186% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Human Services$224kYouth Development$203kCommunity Improvement$111kEnvironment$60kFood & Nutrition$60kEducation$60kOther$117k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
pass-throughhistoric
2022
organizefoodhealthy
2023
rise addressaddress rootroot causescauses aftermathaftermath gungun violence
2024
rise addressaddress rootroot causescauses aftermathaftermath gungun violence
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 6 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $121k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $212k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
- Project Mona's House$93,862
- Confident Girl Mentoring Program Inc$68,075
- Net Positive Inc (dba The Foundry)$50,000
- Omega Mentoring Program$47,856
- Voice Buffalo Inc$42,740
- Massachusetts Avenue Project inc$30,003
02The need
04
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.
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Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $224k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
49%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$406k · 3 repeat orgs$429k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +96% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
3
6
Total granted
$406k
$258k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+96%
+26%
Still filing today
100%
67%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $172k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentFood & NutritionEducationOther
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
- CGConfident Girl Mentoring Program Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $203k · revenue +96% · 44% of their budget
Voice Buffalo Inc2× · 2022–2024 · $103k · revenue -32%- NPNet Positive Inc (dba The Foundry)2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +514%
Funded once
- CAClean Air Coalition of WNYone grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue -10%
- FBFeed Buffalograduatedone grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue +430%
- GTGalactic Tribe Incone grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue +12% · 40% of their budget
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
Open Buffalo Inc
See Schedule O for the Organization's mission.Open Buffalo's mission is to advance racial, economic, and ecological justice through skill building, network connecting, and activating leadership opportunities with the ultimate goal for all…
Human Services
2
Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art
The Buffalo Institiute for Contemporary Art (Bica) is a art and educational project for Buffalo, NY. Through Innovative exhibitions, cross-discipplinary skills-based programming, and arts ecology development, bica mission is to break down…
Arts & Culture
3
Maia
Unlocking and maximizing the potential of young women to lead transformational change.
International
4
Syracuse Grows Inc
A grassroots network that cultivates food justice through advocacy, education, and resources in support of urban food production.
Food & Nutrition
5
Equity Advocates Inc
Equity advocates builds the capacity of nonprofit organizations to address the underlying causes of food inequity through policy and systems change. we partner with new york-based organizations working to alleviate hunger and poverty,…
Food & Nutrition
6
Equity for All Inc
We empower young people to participate meaningfully in the democratic process through education and advocacy for responsible resource management and economic opportunity.
Civil Rights
7
Powerful Voices
Powerful Voices mission is to create brave spaces with BIPOC girls & gender expansive youth to take charge of their own power as leaders, igniting their abilities to confidently express themselves, build community, and act against…
Human Services
8
Corporate Accountability Lab
The Organization unleashes the creative potential of the law to protect people and the planet from corporate abuse.
International
9
Digital Girl Incorporated
Digital Girl, Inc. is a non-profit organization founded in Brooklyn, NY. DGI is dedicated to empowering the underserved youth of our communities, especially young girls, to pursue studies and careers in STEM (Science, Technology,…
Education
10
Green Options Buffalo Inc
Promote healthy, environmentally sustainable and community-friendly transportation through advocacy, education, and initiatives to promote healthy lifestyles, civic engagement, economic vitality and improved environments within Greater…
Education
11
Chicago Fair Trade
Chicago Fair Trade cultivates a community dedicated to an economy that values the labor & dignity of all people. CFT is the largest grassroots fair trade coalition in the United States. We increase support for economic and environmental…
Education
12
Community Food Advocates Inc
Community Food Advocates, Inc. (CFA) mission is to ensure all New Yorkers have access to healthy, affordable and culturally-appropriate foods through equity-centered, high-impact public policy change.
Food & Nutrition
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed Buffalo Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Galactic Tribe Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Human Services$223,865Youth Development$203,075Other$116,856Community Improvement$111,490Environment$60,000Food & Nutrition$60,000Education$60,000
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 Confident Girl Mentoring Program Inc ↗
- Who funds Voice Buffalo Inc ↗
- Who funds Net Positive Inc (dba The Foundry) ↗
- Who funds Project Mona's House ↗
- Who funds Clean Air Coalition of WNY ↗
- Who funds Feed Buffalo ↗
- Who funds Galactic Tribe Inc ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Avenue Project inc ↗
- Who funds FB Community Land Trust ↗
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 for Greater BuffaloNY28.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo · The Western New York Foundation · United Way of Buffalo and Erie County · The John R Oishei Foundation · 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation Open Buffalo Inc 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Confident Girl Mentoring Program Inc.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~8 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +96% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 821869137 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Confident Girl Mentoring Program Inc, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 8 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 44% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Open Buffalo Inc?
Find your warmest path to Open Buffalo Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines