· Private foundation
Roy and Ruth Seibel Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | $25,000 |
| DAMARISCOTTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| BUFFALO TORONTO PUBLIC MEDIA | $5,000 |
| MYRIAD USA | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE NIGHT PEOPLE | $5,000 |
| BUFFALO OLMSTEAD PARKS CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of your 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.
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 +72% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- UAUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Inc4× · 2017–2020 · $75k · revenue +27%
- BOBUFFALO OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +72%
- FOFRIENDS OF NIGHT PEOPLE INC8× · 2018–2025 · $34k · revenue +108%
Funded once
- BHBUFFALO HERITAGE CAROUSEL INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- KMKLEINHANS MUSIC HALL MANAGEMENT INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +16%
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.
The organization was formed for the specific purpose of operating, maintaining and protecting parks and public spaces in the city of buffalo, new york, including but not limited to parks and public spaces owned or operated by the city of…
To instill, educate, and cultivate in a public audience an informed appreciation of the american past and its impact on current lifestyles, culture, and historical development of the town of amherst, including the village of williamsville.…
We serve all stakeholders through the preservation and promotion of forest lawn's cemeteries and crematory, offering burial and interment options for past, present and future generations of western new yorkers.
Development of downtown
Inspire joyful exploration of science and nature through engaging experiences, unique resources, and exceptional staff.
Preservation, protection and restoration of the buffalo new york lighthouses and to maintain and develop the area surrounding them in accordance with their historical significance.
Support the urban economic development efforts of the region through the acquisition, remediation and management of distressed properties
Building community; creating connections; saving wildlife through a collaboration for change: the buffalo zoo will be a center of conservation excellence, providing leadership to secure a future where wildlife thrives. we embody our…
To acquire, remediate, and steward lands along wny's waterfronts prioritizing public access.
Create new public golf and recreation amenities in the city of buffalo; assist in the restoration of frederick law olmsted's south park arboretum; and construct a new education center for underserved, minority youth.
The theodore roosevelt inaugural national historic site to preserve, promote, and educate the public on where theodore roosevelt became the 26th president of the united states in 1901; promotes opportunities for the public to understand…
Erie canalway heritage fund, inc. works to preserve the extraordinary canal corridor heritage, to promote the corridor as a world class tourism destination, and to foster vibrant communities connected by the waterway.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Damariscotta Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 12 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
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 University at Buffalo Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DAMARISCOTTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NIGHT PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds FOREST LAWN HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO HERITAGE CAROUSEL INC ↗
- Who funds KLEINHANS MUSIC HALL MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
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: The Baird Foundation · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Roy and Ruth Seibel 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.
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.