New York · Private foundation
Scott Bieler Foundation Inc
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.
- $3.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 39
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $668,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 34
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Scott Bieler Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M 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 | 39 | $3.9M | 38% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $4.1M | 50% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $1.9M | 75% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $2.6M | 58% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $468k | 56% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $457k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $170k | 70% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $395k | 89% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roswell Park Alliance Foundation | $2,453,474 | 7 | 2% |
| The Rural Outreach Center Inc | $1,028,318 | 5 | 30% |
| Jericho Road Ministries Inc | $814,532 | 5 | 1% |
| Bestself Behavioral Health Inc | $800,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Daemen University | $552,639 | 3 | 0% |
| Mercy Hospital Foundation | $549,571 | 5 | 22% |
| Aurora Waldorf School | $418,822 | 3 | 17% |
| Villa Maria College of Buffalo | $401,219 | 2 | 2% |
| Madonna of the Streets Inc | $358,237 | 5 | 8% |
| Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center | $300,000 | 1 | n/a |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Scott Bieler Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 49 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.
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How this is measured
About Scott Bieler Foundation Inc
- How much does Scott Bieler Foundation Inc give?
- Scott Bieler Foundation Inc reported 39 grants totaling $3,899,216 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Scott Bieler Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (50%), Education (12%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are Scott Bieler Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Roswell Park Alliance Foundation ($2.5M), The Rural Outreach Center Inc ($1.0M), Jericho Road Ministries Inc ($815k).
- Does Scott Bieler Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Scott Bieler Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Scott Bieler Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, The John R Oishei Foundation, Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc.
- Where is Scott Bieler Foundation Inc based?
- Scott Bieler Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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