How much does Rich Family Foundation give?

Rich Family Foundation reported 120 grants totaling $2,261,199 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 66 and 118 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Rich Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (17%), Food & Nutrition (15%), Education (13%).

Who are Rich Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Culinary Institute of America ($673k), Buffalo Fine Arts Academy ($630k), Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church ($510k).

Does Rich Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Rich Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Rich Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, The John R Oishei Foundation, The Western New York Foundation.

Where is Rich Family Foundation based?

Rich Family Foundation is based in NY.

Rich Family Foundation

Rich Family Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

Rich Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.3M

Granted FY2024still arriving

120

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$200k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$2.0MFood & Nutrition$1.7MEducation$1.5MPhilanthropy$1.3MHealth$1.3MReligion$832kCommunity Improvement$793kHuman Services$573kOther$0

02FY2024 · 120 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k67 grants · $122k
$10k–50k41 grants · $756k
$50k–250k12 grants · $1.4M

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$13M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church	$100,000
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art	$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
WNY United Against Drug & Alcohol Abuse Inc	$36,000

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 (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 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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$9.3M · 122 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

122

101

Total granted

$9.3M

$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+8%

Still filing today

66%

40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $349k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther

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

CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA
4× · 2020–2023 · $673k · revenue +43%
BF
BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY
5× · 2020–2024 · $630k · revenue +59%
JERICHO ROAD MINISTRIES INC
4× · 2020–2023 · $340k · revenue +114%

Funded once

CO
CITY OF BUFFALO
one grant, 2020 · $200k
WL
WEDI LLC
one grant, 2023 · $110k
WE
WESTMINSTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE INC
one grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue -33%

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.

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

The Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo

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…

Crime & Legal

Buffalo Niagara Partnership Inc

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.

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Invest Buffalo Niagara Foundation Inc

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.

Community Improvement

Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp

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.

Community Improvement

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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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

University at Buffalo Foundation Incubator Inc

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.

Education

Food Bank of Central New York

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…

Food & Nutrition

Brooklyn Community Foundation

Spark lasting social justice change, mobilizing people, capital, & expertise for a fair brooklyn.

Philanthropy

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation

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…

Recreation & Sports

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Buffalo and Erie County; 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.

04the grantee network

149 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

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)

145/149

Grantees still filing

96/149

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$6,132,117Arts & Culture$1,892,687Philanthropy$1,305,800Education$1,082,485Human Services$519,863Religion$393,100Youth Development$265,950

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 IncNY114.2× affinity65 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 · 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

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

48report 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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