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Paul & Helen Ellis Charitable Trust Trubee Wealth Advisors

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$415k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
37
Grants FY2025
31
Organizations funded FY2024
52%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
15 to 31
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$3.9M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 52% of the organizations Paul & Helen Ellis Charitable Trust Trubee Wealth Advisors funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $169k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementRecreation & SportsAnimalsArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving36$401k58%
FY202431$316k52%
FY202320$240k30%
FY202221$260k14%
FY202119$212k37%
FY202015$233kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$595kHealth$539kHuman Services$269kYouth Development$130kFood & Nutrition$129kArts & Culture$119kEducation$119kCommunity Improvement$81kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 43 grantees
All grantees of Paul & Helen Ellis Charitable Trust Trubee Wealth Advisors by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hospice Buffalo Inc$135,00060%
The Rural Outreach Center Inc$104,00053%
Buffalo Maritime Center Inc$91,00063%
Suicide Prevention & Crisis Service Inc$70,10031%
Madonna of the Streets Inc$57,00052%
The Teachers Desk Inc$54,00054%
Roswell Park Alliance Foundation$50,87530%
Autism Services Inc$30,00020%
Brralliance Inc$26,000211%
Providence Farm Collective Corp$25,0001n/a
West Side Community Services Inc$25,0001n/a
The International Institute of Buffalo$20,0001n/a
Skating Association for the Blind & Hand$20,00013%
Massachusetts Avenue Project Inc$20,00011%
Karen Society of Buffalo Inc$20,0001n/a
Erie County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$15,00030%
Black Rock Historical Society$13,522320%
Veterans One-Stop Center of Wny Inc$12,5001n/a
Community Rehab Project Inc$10,50057%
Niagara Area Habitat for Humanity Inc$10,0001n/a
Be-A-Friend Program Inc$10,0001n/a
Buffalo Prep Inc$10,00010%
City Swim Project Inc$10,00012%
Citizens Science Community Resources Inc$10,0001n/a
Canisius High School$8,0003n/a
Roycrofters-At-Large Association Inc$7,50047%
Family Help Center Inc$5,0001n/a
Bristol Village Inc$5,00010%
East Aurora Chamber Music Festival Inc$5,0001n/a
Mercy Flight Inc$5,00010%
St Stephens Education Foundation Inc$5,0002n/a
St Josephs Collegiate Institute$5,0002n/a
United Church Home$5,0001n/a
Buffalo - Niagara Honor Flight Inc$5,00021%
Via Visually Impaired Advancement$5,00010%
Grand Island Catholic Club Inc$5,0002n/a
Camp Good Days and Special Times Inc$2,50010%
Neighbors Foundation of Grand Island Inc$2,50012%
Stitch Buffalo Inc$2,00020%
The Tool Library Inc$2,00020%
Canisius University$1,50010%
Cat by Cat Inc$1,00011%
A Purrfect Fit Animal Rescue Inc$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($734k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Paul & Helen Ellis Charitable Trust Trubee Wealth Advisors supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHospice Buffalo Inc: $135,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Rural Outreach Center Inc: $104,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetBuffalo Maritime Center Inc: $91,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetSuicide Prevention & Crisis Service Inc: $70,100 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMadonna of the Streets Inc: $57,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetThe Teachers Desk Inc: $54,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetRoswell Park Alliance Foundation: $50,875 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAutism Services Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBrralliance Inc: $26,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetSkating Association for the Blind & Hand: $20,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetMassachusetts Avenue Project Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetErie County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBlack Rock Historical Society: $13,522 over 3y, 20% of budgetCommunity Rehab Project Inc: $10,500 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetBuffalo Prep Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCity Swim Project Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetRoycrofters-At-Large Association Inc: $7,500 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetBristol Village Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Flight Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBuffalo - Niagara Honor Flight Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetVia Visually Impaired Advancement: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Good Days and Special Times Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNeighbors Foundation of Grand Island Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetStitch Buffalo Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Tool Library Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCanisius University: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCat by Cat Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY61× affinity29 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 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Paul & Helen Ellis Charitable Trust Trubee Wealth Advisors

How much does Paul & Helen Ellis Charitable Trust Trubee Wealth Advisors give?
Paul & Helen Ellis Charitable Trust Trubee Wealth Advisors reported 37 grants totaling $415,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 31 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Paul & Helen Ellis Charitable Trust Trubee Wealth Advisors fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (26%), Health (24%), Human Services (12%).
Who are Paul & Helen Ellis Charitable Trust Trubee Wealth Advisors's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Hospice Buffalo Inc ($135k), The Rural Outreach Center Inc ($104k), Buffalo Maritime Center Inc ($91k).
Does Paul & Helen Ellis Charitable Trust Trubee Wealth Advisors fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Paul & Helen Ellis Charitable Trust Trubee Wealth Advisors accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Paul & Helen Ellis Charitable Trust Trubee Wealth Advisors?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, The Western New York Foundation, The John R Oishei Foundation.
Where is Paul & Helen Ellis Charitable Trust Trubee Wealth Advisors based?
Paul & Helen Ellis Charitable Trust Trubee Wealth Advisors is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 70 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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