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.

Red Top Foundation

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· 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 FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$15k

Largest

01What it funds

0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$241kArts & Culture$123kReligion$122kHealth$60kPhilanthropy$48kEnvironment$37kRecreation & Sports$33kHuman Services$24kOther$0

02FY2024 · 72 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k68 grants · $134k
$10k–50k4 grants · $50k

$1,500

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
NICHOLS SCHOOL	$15,000
BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA	$14,469
BUFFALO PREP	$11,000
TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL	$10,000
BUFFALO CITY MISSION	$9,000
WESTERN NEW YORK WOMEN'S FUND	$7,200
WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH	$6,600
ALBRIGHT-KNOX ART GALLERY	$6,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WNY	$5,500
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY	$5,000
ORCHARD PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH	$5,000
YALE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI FUND	$5,000
BISON FUND	$4,200
SALVATION ARMY	$4,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY	$4,000

02The need

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 (FY21–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$698k · 72 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

72 repeat relationships: 64 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$698k

$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%

+45%

Still filing today

49%

63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentHealthAnimalsOther

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 PREP INC
4× · 2021–2024 · $44k · revenue +49%
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TAPESTRY CHARTER SCHOOL
4× · 2021–2024 · $31k · revenue +7%
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
4× · 2021–2024 · $13k · revenue +34%

Funded once

NP
Net Positive Incgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +212%
RP
ROSWELL PARK FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $5k
TT
THE TEACHERS DESK INC
one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +8%

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.

Buffalo Niagara River Land Trust Inc

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

Environment

Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Thompson Park Conservancy Inc

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.

Arts & Culture

University At Buffalo Student Association Inc

The organization's exempt purpose is to promote and cultivate the quality of education and activities for students of the state university of new york at buffalo. the organization carries out those charitable and educational purposes by…

Education

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Invest Buffalo Niagara Inc

To attract new employers to the buffalo niagara region through outreach to growing companies around the world. to support business attraction, expansion and entrepreneurship, invest buffalo niagara collaborates with local businesses,…

Community Improvement

University At Buffalo Neurosurgery Inc

University at buffalo neurosurgery, inc. is an academic neurosurgical group committed to excellence in patient care, research, and education. our mission is to develop and implement sound strategies that focus on quality medical services,…

Health

New York Botanical Garden

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…

Environment

Niagara University

Niagara university educates its students and enriches their lives through programs in the liberal arts and through career preparation, informed by the catholic and vincentian traditions.

Education

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Buffalo State College Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc. 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

46 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. 46 of the 89 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

46/46

Grantees still filing

29/46

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$458,652Education$145,500Arts & Culture$64,050Human Services$54,750Environment$19,850Philanthropy$19,500Health$15,500

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

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 for Greater Buffalo IncNY59.5× affinity28 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 · 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

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 Red Top Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Red Top Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

13report 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.

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grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

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By state

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