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Praxiis Foundation at a glance

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Praxiis Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$5k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
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States reached
$5k
Largest
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02The needRead
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$19kHealth$12kEnvironment$9kRecreation & Sports$7kEducation$3kArts & Culture$2kCrime & Legal$1kAnimals$550
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
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States reached
$142k
Total assets
Largest grants
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HOME SPACE$5,000
02The need
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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 (FY19–21, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MASON'S MISSION FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%LOTHLORIEN THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTE: $2k → 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 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.

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Open Arms Rescue of Wny
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Niagara County Chapter Nysarc Inc Opportunities Unlimited of Niagara

To ensure that individuals from niagara county who are developmentally disabled or intellectually, physically or functionally limited, have the opportunity to reach their maximum potential, independence and integration into the community.

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3
Rural Revitalization Corporation

To provide housing related educational, technical, and financial programs to provide safe, decent, and affordable housing through reinvestment in the residential, commercial, and industrial areas situated in Cattaraugus County, the Western…

Community Improvement
4
Fostering Hope Ny Inc
Human Services
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Northern York County Historical & Preservation Society
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Erie Cattaraugus Rail Trail Inc

Erie Cattaraugus Rail Trail, Inc. (ECRT) is the trail manager for the railbanked portion of the Buffalo-Pittsburgh Railway in Western NY. Over twenty-seven miles long, this railroad right-of-way connects the nine communities along the…

Environment
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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
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Wny Furtastic Adopt a Thon Inc
Animals
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Fresh Start Outreach Ministry Inc

It is the mission of Fresh Start Ministry to be the hands and feet of God by serving others in need in Monroe County. we have a mens and womans shelter and a program to help people get back on there feet

Human Services
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Ontario County Historical Society

Provide various educational, cultural, and museum programs and services to area residents and tourists in order to promote an appreciation of ontario county, ny.

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Buffalo ReUse Inc

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

Community Improvement
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Mother of God Horse Rescue Corp
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Erie County Law Enforcement Foundation. 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

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BUFFALO ERIE CO BOTANICAL GARDENS: $7,900 · OtherBUFFALO ERIE CO BOTANICAL GARDENSIndividual grant recipient: $6,653 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBOTANICAL GARDENS: $1,500 · OtherBOTANICAL GARDENSMISSION IGNITE: $1,500 · OtherMISSION IGNITEAURORA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,500 · OtherAURORA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherERIE COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION: $1,000 · OtherHOMESPACE CORPORATION: $12,800 · Housing & ShelterHOMESPACE CORPORATIONMERCY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $9,250 · PhilanthropyMERCY HOSPITAL FOUN…MASONS MISSION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesMASONS MISSION …LOTHLORIEN THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $1,500 · Human ServicesLOTHLORIEN THER…The Rural Outreach Center Inc: $1,000 · Human ServicesThe Rural Outre…MADONNA OF THE STREETS INC: $1,500 · HealthCRADLE BEACH INC: $700 · Recreation & SportsBEGIN AGAIN HORSE RESCUE INC: $550 · Animals
Other$21,053Housing & Shelter$12,800Philanthropy$9,250Human Services$7,500Health$1,500Recreation & Sports$700Animals$550

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOMESPACE CORPORATION: $12,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $9,250 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLOTHLORIEN THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $1,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMADONNA OF THE STREETS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAURORA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetThe Rural Outreach Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRADLE BEACH INC: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEGIN AGAIN HORSE RESCUE INC: $550 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

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 Children's Guild …The Peter and Elizabe…Children's Foundation…The Margaret L Wendt …The Western New York …The John R Oishei Fou…Mother Cabrini Health…Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The Children's Guild Foundation Inc · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Praxiis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Praxiis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Praxiis Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Praxiis Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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