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Rich Family 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k67 grants · $122k
- $10k–50k41 grants · $756k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FeedMore WNY | $200,150 |
| Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo | $200,000 |
| Buffalo AKG Art Museum | $180,000 |
| Cleveland Clinic Foundation | $173,200 |
| Bonefish & Tarpon Trust | $122,036 |
| Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art | $100,000 |
| Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church | $100,000 |
| Buffalo Prep | $75,000 |
| National Restaurant Association Educational Founda | $70,000 |
| United Way of Buffalo & Erie County | $60,500 |
| West Side Community Services | $51,713 |
| Frank Lloyd Wright's Martin House | $50,000 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Buffalo | $40,150 |
| Massachusetts Avenue Project | $40,000 |
| EPIC | $36,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $511k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +33% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
122 repeat relationships — 81 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 37 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $349k 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
CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA4× · 2020–2023 · $673k · revenue +43%- BFBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY5× · 2020–2024 · $630k · revenue +59%
JERICHO ROAD MINISTRIES INC4× · 2020–2023 · $340k · revenue +114%
Funded once
- COCITY OF BUFFALOone grant, 2020 · $200k
- WLWEDI LLCone grant, 2023 · $110k
- WEWESTMINSTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE INCone grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue -33%
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.
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,…
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…
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.
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.
To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
The organization operates an incubator facility to identify and aid start-up businesses with a purpose of stimulating development and increasing interaction between the university at buffalo and such businesses.
Food bank of central new york is a not-for-profit organization: our mission is to lead the effort to eliminate hunger in our region, through partnerships with others in our community, through education, advocacy, and distribution of…
Spark lasting social justice change, mobilizing people, capital, & expertise for a fair brooklyn.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Brooklyn bridge park corporation's mission, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp") mission is to provide an exceptional public space that connects people, nature, and the waterfront, through inclusive, innovative, and sustainable management…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Buffalo and Erie County and the most unlike its peers is Sophia the Fierce Inc. 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 31 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
149 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 149 of the 263 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc ↗
- Who funds JERICHO ROAD MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ENACTUS ↗
- Who funds Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO PREP INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Avenue Project Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S MARTIN HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NIGHT PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE FARM COLLECTIVE CORP ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO NIAGARA WATERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds RESTORATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds READ TO SUCCEED BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAMORADA COMMUNITY ENTERTAINMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CANISIUS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO NIAGARA PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
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 John R Oishei Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · Cullen Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · United Way of Buffalo and Erie County · The Baird Foundation · Children's Foundation of Erie County 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 Rich Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 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.
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