New York · Private foundation
Red Top Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $184k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 72
- Grants FY2024
- 68
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 61 to 68
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 12% of the organizations Red Top Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 70 | $177k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 68 | $199k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 68 | $196k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 61 | $152k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nichols School of Buffalo | $60,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Buffalo Prep Inc | $44,300 | 4 | 1% |
| City Mission Society Inc | $40,750 | 4 | 0% |
| Westminster Presbyterian Church | $38,100 | 4 | n/a |
| Tapestry Charter School | $31,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Orchard Park Presbyterian Church | $22,700 | 4 | n/a |
| Buffalo Fine Arts Academy | $21,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Alumni Fund Association of Yale University | $18,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Georgetown University | $13,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $13,000 | 4 | n/a |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($263k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Red Top Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Cullen Foundation · The Baird Foundation · Cullen Foundation of Western New York Inc · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · The Western New York Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · The Frank G Raichle Foundation · James H Cummings Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Red Top Foundation
- How much does Red Top Foundation give?
- Red Top Foundation reported 72 grants totaling $184,269 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 61 and 68 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Red Top Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (31%), Arts & Culture (16%), Religion (16%).
- Who are Red Top Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Nichols School of Buffalo ($60k), Buffalo Prep Inc ($44k), City Mission Society Inc ($41k).
- Does Red Top Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Red Top Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Red Top Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, Cullen Foundation, The Baird Foundation.
- Where is Red Top Foundation based?
- Red Top Foundation is based in NY.
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