· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| BUFFALO OLMSTEAD PARKS CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE NIGHT PEOPLE | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UAUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Inc4× · 2017–2020 · $75k · revenue +27%
- BOBUFFALO OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +47%
- FOFRIENDS OF NIGHT PEOPLE INC8× · 2018–2025 · $34k · revenue +208%
Funded once
- BHBUFFALO HERITAGE CAROUSEL INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- KMKLEINHANS MUSIC HALL MANAGEMENT INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +16%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 12 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 ↗
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: The Baird Foundation · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Roy and Ruth Seibel Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Roy and Ruth Seibel Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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