· Private foundation
Paul & Helen Ellis Charitable Trust Trubee Wealth Advisors
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $375k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOSPICE BUFFALO | $30,000 |
| PROVIDENCE FARM COLLECTIVE | $25,000 |
| KENMORE MERCY HOSPTAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| WEST SIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES | $25,000 |
| GRASSROOTS GARDENS OF WNY | $25,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE PROJECT | $20,000 |
| KAREN SOCIETY OF BUFFALO INC | $20,000 |
| 5 LOAVES FARM | $20,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUFFALO | $20,000 |
| BUFFALO MARITIME CENTER | $17,500 |
| ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE CORPORATION | $15,000 |
| FEEDMORE WNY | $15,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH PHILANTHROPIE | $14,300 |
| VETERANS ONE-STOP CENTER OF WNY | $12,500 |
| BRRALLIANCE | $11,000 |
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, $203k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
28 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 21 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, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $260k 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
BUFFALO MARITIME CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $91k · revenue +12%
SUICIDE PREVENTION & CRISIS SERVICE INC3× · 2021–2023 · $70k · revenue +42%
MADONNA OF THE STREETS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $57k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- PFPROVIDENCE FARMone grant, 2021 · $35k
- EEPICone grant, 2024 · $30k
- BCBISON CHILDREN FUNDone grant, 2024 · $25k
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 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…
To improve the quality of life of the people and neighborhoods we serve by preparing, equipping and empowering them to meet the challenges of contemporary urban life and realize their full potential.
The buffalo erie niagara land improvement corporation (benlic) seeks to confront and alleviate the problems distressed properties cause to communities by supporting municipal and regional revitalization efforts and strategically acquiring,…
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, remediate, and steward lands along wny's waterfronts prioritizing public access.
Weatherization of homes, senior services, provide housing and human services to the residents of the surrounding community.
Building community; creating connections; saving wildlife through a collaboration for change: the buffalo zoo will be a center of conservation excellence, providing leadership to secure a future where wildlife thrives. we embody our…
Big Big Tables mission is to provide a dignified response to hunger in our community, serving Buffalo with accessible and affordable nutritious meals regardless of ability to pay.
Committed to jobs creation, material reuse and recycling, and community betterment
To provide older residents of Buffalo, New York with a network that allows them to get the services they need to age in their home and communities as opposed to moving to institutions, care complexes, or assisted living developments.
To prevent cruelty to all animals through public education on thier humane treatment and to provide love, care, shelter and advovacy for companion animals in our community.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Veterans One-Stop Center of Wny Inc and the most unlike its peers is Black Rock Historical Society. 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 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 70 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 FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds The Rural Outreach Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO MARITIME CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SUICIDE PREVENTION & CRISIS SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds MADONNA OF THE STREETS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TEACHERS DESK INC ↗
- Who funds ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BRRALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE FARM COLLECTIVE CORP ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds Karen Society of Buffalo Inc ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Avenue Project Inc ↗
- Who funds SKATING ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND & HAND ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds ERIE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds BLACK ROCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds VETERANS ONE-STOP CENTER OF WNY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY REHAB PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO PREP 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 Western New York Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · Cullen Foundation · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · United Way of Buffalo and Erie County · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc · The Baird 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 Paul & Helen Ellis Charitable Trust Trubee Wealth Advisors 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.