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Paul & Helen Ellis Charitable Trust Trubee Wealth Advisors at a glance

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Paul & Helen Ellis Charitable Trust Trubee Wealth Advisors

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$415k
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% 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
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $375k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOSPICE BUFFALO$30,000
PROVIDENCE FARM COLLECTIVE$25,000
WEST SIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES$25,000
GRASSROOTS GARDENS OF WNY$25,000
KENMORE MERCY HOSPTAL FOUNDATION$25,000
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUFFALO$20,000
5 LOAVES FARM$20,000
MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE PROJECT$20,000
KAREN SOCIETY OF BUFFALO INC$20,000
BUFFALO MARITIME CENTER$17,500
FEEDMORE WNY$15,000
ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE CORPORATION$15,000
FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH PHILANTHROPIE$14,300
VETERANS ONE-STOP CENTER OF WNY$12,500
BRRALLIANCE$11,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUFFALO: $20k → 13%THE TEACHERS DESK: $18k → 13%TEACHER'S DESK: $12k → 13%TEACHER'S DESK: $12k → 13%TEACHER'S DESK: $10k → 13%VIA - VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT: $5k → 13%TEACHER'S DESK: $2k → 13%MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE PROJECT: $20k → 13%RURAL OUTREACH CENTER: $80k → 13%RURAL OUTREACH CENTER: $15k → 13%RURAL OUTREACH CENTER: $6k → 13%RURAL OUTREACH CENTER: $3k → 13%RURAL OUTREACH CENTER: $1k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 28 repeat orgs$478k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
19

Total granted

$1.2M
$218k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+4%

Still filing today

61%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $260k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHealthAnimalsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BUFFALO MARITIME CENTER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $91k · revenue +84%
  • SUICIDE PREVENTION & CRISIS SERVICE INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $70k · revenue +42%
  • MADONNA OF THE STREETS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $57k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • PF
    PROVIDENCE FARM
    one grant, 2021 · $35k
  • E
    EPIC
    one grant, 2024 · $30k
  • W
    WEDI
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
Buffalo Federation of Neighborhood Centers Inc

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.

—
3
Buffalo Erie Niagara Land Improvement Corporation

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,…

Community Improvement
4
Lockport Cares Inc

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.

Education
5
Buffalo Niagara River Land Trust Inc

To acquire, remediate, and steward lands along wny's waterfronts prioritizing public access.

Environment
6
Polish Community Center of Buffalo Inc

Weatherization of homes, senior services, provide housing and human services to the residents of the surrounding community.

Human Services
7
Zoological Society of Buffalo Inc

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…

Animals
8
Big Big Table Community Cafe Incorporated

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.

Human Services
9
Buffalo ReUse Inc

Committed to jobs creation, material reuse and recycling, and community betterment

Community Improvement
10
Canopy of Neighbors Inc

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.

Human Services
11
Niagara County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc

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.

Animals
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Veterans One-Stop Center of Wny Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
22/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KENMORE MERCY HOSPTAL FOUNDATION: $150,000 · OtherKENMORE MERCY HOSPTAL FOUNDATIONROSWELL PARK COMPREHENSIVE CARE: $78,750 · OtherROSWELL PARK COMPREHENSIVE CAREIndividual grant recipient: $61,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $60,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBOUR LADY OF VICTORY: $49,750 · OtherOUR LADY OF VICTORYBLACK ROCK RIVERSIDE ALLIANCE: $47,540 · OtherBLACK ROCK RIVERSIDE ALLIANCESTPAULS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH: $35,000 · OtherPROVIDENCE FARM: $35,000 · OtherEPIC: $30,000 · Other+37 more: $344,000 · Other+37 moreFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES INC: $570,275 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH PHILANTHRO…ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $50,875 · PhilanthropyROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATIONCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyHOSPICE BUFFALO INC: $135,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE BUFFALO …The Rural Outreach Center Inc: $104,000 · Human ServicesThe Rural Outrea…THE TEACHERS DESK INC: $54,000 · Human ServicesTHE TEACHERS DES…THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUFFALO: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE INTERNATIONA…Massachusetts Avenue Project Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesMassachusetts Av…+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesSUICIDE PREVENTION & CRISIS SERVICE INC: $70,100 · HealthMADONNA OF THE STREETS INC: $57,000 · HealthAUTISM SERVICES INC: $30,000 · HealthBUFFALO MARITIME CENTER INC: $91,000 · Recreation & SportsSKATING ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND & HAND: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsCITY SWIM PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsBRRALLIANCE INC: $26,000 · Community ImprovementWEST SIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $25,000 · Community ImprovementGrand Island Catholic Club Inc: $5,000 · Community ImprovementThe Tool Library Inc: $2,000 · Community ImprovementKaren Society of Buffalo Inc: $20,000 · Arts & CultureBLACK ROCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $13,522 · Arts & CultureROYCROFTERS-AT-LARGE ASSOCIATION INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureSTITCH BUFFALO INC: $2,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$891,040Philanthropy$646,150Human Services$338,000Health$157,100Recreation & Sports$123,500Community Improvement$58,000Arts & Culture$43,022

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES INC: $570,275 over 6y, 1.2% of 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 budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUFFALO ↗
  • Who funds SKATING ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND & HAND ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Avenue Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds Karen Society of Buffalo Inc ↗
  • 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 NIAGARA AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds BE-A-FRIEND PROGRAM INC ↗

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 …The Western New York …The John R Oishei Fou…First Niagara Foundat…Cullen FoundationJames H Cummings Foun…The Margaret L Wendt …United Way of Buffalo…Buffalo Bills Foundat…The Peter and Elizabe…Children's Foundation…The Baird Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Paul & Helen Ellis Charitable Trust Trubee Wealth Advisors funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paul & Helen Ellis Charitable Trust Trubee Wealth Advisors. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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