· Private foundation
Pierce Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $42k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REGIONAL OFFICE OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM | $12,000 |
| WARRIOR HOMES OF COLLIER | $10,000 |
| ADIRONDACK HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| YOUTH HAVEN | $10,000 |
| NCH CENTER FOR PHILANTHROPY | $7,500 |
| ARTIS-NAPLES - ANNUAL FUND | $5,000 |
| NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN | $5,000 |
| ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION - GRATWICK SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| TUPPER LAKE VOLUNTEER A&E SQUAD | $3,000 |
| KALEIDA HEALTH FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| TUPPER ARTS | $2,000 |
| TUPPER LAKE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $2,000 |
| NICHOLS SCHOOL - ANNUAL FUND DEVELOPMENT OFFICE | $1,250 |
| CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA | $1,000 |
| THE WILD CENTER | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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 +40% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 2 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- BFBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY5× · 2019–2023 · $150k · revenue +33%
- NBNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC6× · 2018–2024 · $27k · revenue +79%
- NZNAPLES ZOO INC5× · 2018–2022 · $15k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- LQLP-EC QUALITY DESTINATION INCone grant, 2021 · $11k · revenue -45% · 63% of their budget
- AAALBRIGHT-KNOX ART GALLERY - SUMMER OF AK BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMYone grant, 2018 · $5k
- WWWNY WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +90%
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.
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…
Inspire joyful exploration of science and nature through engaging experiences, unique resources, and exceptional staff.
The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…
To promote public awareness of the financial needs of zoological society of buffalo, inc. (the buffalo zoo) as well as the full time devotion to seeking, receiving, holding, maintaining, and reinvesting funds on behalf of buffalo zoo.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
Zoo new york, by example and action, provides knowledge and motivation for conserving nature in new york state through science-based natural and cultural experiences.
The buffalo niagara partnership foundation is a vehicle for the initiations and promotion of key economic development projects in the buffalo area.
By mobilizing members and strategic partners around common goals, the partnership grows private investment and jobs in buffalo niagara through advocacy, business development, and convening.
The organization was formed for the specific purpose of operating, maintaining and protecting parks and public spaces in the city of buffalo, new york, including but not limited to parks and public spaces owned or operated by the city of…
See schedule onylcv is a non-partisan policy making and political action organization that works to make environmental protection a top priority with elected officials, decision-makers and the voters by evaluating incumbent performance and…
To promote a culture of environmental stewardship through volunteer and educational opportunities.
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naples Botanical Garden Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tupper Lake Public Library. 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 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 47 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 BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds KALEIDA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAPLES ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds LP-EC QUALITY DESTINATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds WARRIORS HOMES OF COLLIER INC ↗
- Who funds TUPPER ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds NICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds ELMWOOD-FRANKLIN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TUPPER LAKE VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE & EMERGENCY SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds WNY WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION OF WNY ↗
- Who funds TUPPER LAKE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Golden PAWS Assistance Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds GFWC NAPLES WOMAN'S CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE HILARY GRACE FOUNDATION 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 Baird Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Lippes Family Charitable Foundation · Zemsky Family Foundation · The Osc Charitable Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Robert C & Jane E Holder Foundation · The Donald F & Barbara L Newman Family Foundation · Edwin M Johnston Jr Family Foundation · Simple Gifts Fund · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc
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 Pierce Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% of income from government
- Youth Haven Inc — 0% of income from government
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.