New York · Private foundation
Russell J Salvatore Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $654k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Russell J Salvatore Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $537k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $654k | 56% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $1.2M | 50% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $1.3M | 13% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $1.2M | 19% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $1.2M | 40% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $2.2M | 27% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $1.6M | 61% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $1.7M | 69% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecmc Foundation Inc | $1,329,000 | 7 | 9% |
| Kaleida Health Foundation | $1,000,000 | 5 | 12% |
| Brothers of Mercy Holding Inc | $673,001 | 5 | n/a |
| Roswell Park Alliance Foundation | $554,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Depew-Lancaster Boys and Girls Club Inc | $540,000 | 9 | 9% |
| Mercy Hospital Foundation | $500,000 | 5 | 13% |
| City Mission Society Inc | $450,000 | 4 | 1% |
| St Marys High School | $304,600 | 3 | n/a |
| Veterans One-Stop Center of Wny Inc | $300,000 | 1 | 23% |
| Villa Maria College of Buffalo | $300,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Russell J Salvatore Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The John R Oishei Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · The Baird Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · Foundation 214 Inc · The Osc Charitable Foundation · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · Colucci Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Russell J Salvatore Foundation
- How much does Russell J Salvatore Foundation give?
- Russell J Salvatore Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $653,850 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Russell J Salvatore Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (46%), Education (19%), Religion (10%).
- Who are Russell J Salvatore Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ecmc Foundation Inc ($1.3M), Kaleida Health Foundation ($1.0M), Brothers of Mercy Holding Inc ($673k).
- Does Russell J Salvatore Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Russell J Salvatore Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Russell J Salvatore Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc, The John R Oishei Foundation.
- Where is Russell J Salvatore Foundation based?
- Russell J Salvatore Foundation is based in NY.
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