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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 FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$669k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$7.0MEducation$1.7MHuman Services$1.3MArts & Culture$991kPublic Safety & Disaster$878kFood & Nutrition$566kYouth Development$451kPhilanthropy$258kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $292k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+6 grants · $2.4M
$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE$668,500
AURORA WALDORF SCHOOL$407,822
BEST SELF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH$400,000
AURORA COLDEN FIRE DIST #6 WEST FALL FIRE COMPANY$320,694
DAEMEN UNIVERSITY$302,639
NIAGARA FALLS MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER$300,000
Individual grant recipient$202,695
BUFFALO HEARING & SPEECH CENTER$200,000
JERICHO ROAD MINISTRIES$174,532
VILLA MARIA COLLEGE$101,219
KENMORE MERCY FOUNDATION$100,000
HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES$83,333
AURORA PLAYERS$64,019
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DEPEWLANCASTER$55,000
SAVE THE MICHAELS OF THE WORLD INC$51,207
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $1.2M) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RURAL OUTREACH CENTER: $505k → 13%RURAL OUTREACH CENTER: $500k → 13%RURAL OUTREACH CENTER: $10k → 13%THE RURAL OUTREACH CENTER: $8k → 13%RURAL OUTREACH CENTER: $5k → 13%GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF WESTERN NEW YORK: $50k → 13%YMCA BUFFALONIAGARA: $20k → 13%HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $83k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of Scott Bieler Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 92% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Scott Bieler Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.8% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11M · 36 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

36 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
41

Total granted

$11M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+11%

Still filing today

67%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $624k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • The Rural Outreach Center Inc
    5× · 2019–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +179% · 30% of their budget
  • JERICHO ROAD MINISTRIES INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $815k · revenue +157%
  • DU
    DAEMEN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2022–2025 · $553k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • TJ
    THE JACOBS INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -3%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $250k
  • WR
    WNY RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · $206k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
University At Buffalo Pediatric Associates Inc

To assist the faculty of the department of pediatrics at the university at buffalo in the delivery of health care, improve the ability of the faculty to perform clinical research, maximize resources to foster academic, research and…

Health
2
University At Buffalo Neurosurgery Inc

University at buffalo neurosurgery, inc. is an academic neurosurgical group committed to excellence in patient care, research, and education. our mission is to develop and implement sound strategies that focus on quality medical services,…

Health
3
The Western New York Foundation
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4
State University College At Buffalo Child Day Care Development Facility Inc

To provide quality, affordable child care for the families of students, faculty and staff of the college, as well as families of other new york state employees and community members.

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5
Niagara University

Niagara university educates its students and enriches their lives through programs in the liberal arts and through career preparation, informed by the catholic and vincentian traditions.

Education
6
Hospice Foundation of Wny Inc

The mission of the hospice foundation of western new york is tosolicit, accept, administer and invest charitable funds on behalf ofhospice & palliative care buffalo, inc. and its affiliates. theseinclude: hospice buffalo, inc., the…

Philanthropy
7
University At Buffalo Surgeons Inc

University at buffalo surgeons, inc., is a large team of surgeons dedicated to the improvement of the health of our patients, cutting edge research, and the professional development of our students and residents. we are committed to…

Education
8
St Joseph's Medical Pc

We, st. joseph's medical and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. joseph's medical is a member of st. joseph's health and trinity health.

Health
9
Hospice & Palliative Care Buffalo Inc

We are western new york's community based healthcare organization dedicated to the care and support of individuals with a serious or end of life illness. we represent a passionate and diverse team of professionals dedicated to the holistic…

Health
10
Buffalo Academy of Science Charter School

Buffalo academy of science is a tuition-free, college-preparatory charter school teaching students in a diverse community to be successful in a globally-oriented environment, using innovative and dynamic teaching methods with a small…

Education
11
The Joseph E Peter Foundation
Philanthropy
12
University Neurology Inc

To advance the health and wellness across the life span for the people of western new york and the world through the education of tomorrow's leaders in health care and biomedical sciences, innovative research, and outstanding clinical…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Hospital of Buffalo Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Kitten Around Cat Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%4%<5yr13%2%5–10yr17%33%10–20yr20%21%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr19%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr17%27%10–20yr20%22%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr19%26%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/56
the rest of the field
9%
455/5,186

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 92 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/54
Grantees still filing
30/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AURORA COLDEN FIRE DIST #6 WEST FALL FIRE COMPANY — $820,694 · OtherAURORA COLDEN FIRE DIST #6 WEST FALL FIRE C…BESTSELF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC — $800,000 · OtherBESTSELF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INCIndividual grant recipient — $535,479 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $414,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVILLA MARIA COLLEGE OF BUFFALO — $401,219 · OtherVILLA MARIA COLLEGE OF BUFFALOIndividual grant recipient — $250,000 · OtherWNY RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $205,725 · Other+51 more — $2,031,084 · Other+51 moreROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION — $2,453,474 · PhilanthropyROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOU…MERCY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $549,571 · PhilanthropyMERCY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION+4 more — $139,654 · PhilanthropyMADONNA OF THE STREETS INC — $358,237 · HealthMADONNA OF THE…KENMORE MERCY FOUNDATION — $300,000 · HealthKENMORE MERCY …NIAGARA FALLS MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER — $300,000 · HealthNIAGARA FALLS …THE JACOBS INSTITUTE INC — $250,000 · HealthTHE JACOBS INS…BUFFALO HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC — $212,500 · HealthBUFFALO HEARIN…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION — $110,017 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S…MOTION PROJECT FOUNDATION INC — $101,000 · HealthMOTION PROJECT…+6 more — $161,407 · Health+6 moreDAEMEN UNIVERSITY — $552,639 · EducationDAEMEN UNI…AURORA WALDORF SCHOOL — $418,822 · EducationAURORA WAL…LYME WNY — $100,000 · EducationLYME WNYD'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · EducationD'YOUVILLE…ERIE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $95,065 · EducationERIE COMMU…+1 more — $10,000 · EducationThe Rural Outreach Center Inc — $1,028,318 · Human ServicesThe Rural…HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC — $83,333 · Human ServicesHERITAGE …GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF WESTERN NEW YORK — $50,000 · Human Services+1 more — $20,000 · Human ServicesJERICHO ROAD MINISTRIES INC — $814,532 · ReligionBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY — $250,000 · Arts & CultureHISPANIC HERITAGE COUNCIL OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC — $113,529 · Arts & CultureEXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $20,000 · Arts & CultureWEST FALLS CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $17,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$5,458,201Philanthropy$3,142,699Health$1,793,161Education$1,276,526Human Services$1,181,651Religion$814,532Arts & Culture$401,029

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION — $2,453,474 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetThe Rural Outreach Center Inc — $1,028,318 over 5y, 30% of budgetJERICHO ROAD MINISTRIES INC — $814,532 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetBESTSELF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC — $800,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDAEMEN UNIVERSITY — $552,639 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMERCY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $549,571 over 5y, 22% of budgetAURORA WALDORF SCHOOL — $418,822 over 3y, 17% of budgetVILLA MARIA COLLEGE OF BUFFALO — $401,219 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMADONNA OF THE STREETS INC — $358,237 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetKENMORE MERCY FOUNDATION — $300,000 over 2y, 38% of budgetTHE JACOBS INSTITUTE INC — $250,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY — $250,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBUFFALO HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC — $212,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EAST AURORA INC — $120,368 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetHISPANIC HERITAGE COUNCIL OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC — $113,529 over 1y, 41% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION — $110,017 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMOTION PROJECT FOUNDATION INC — $101,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetRICHARDSON CENTER CORPORATION — $100,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetLYME WNY — $100,000 over 2y, 84% of budgetD'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetERIE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $95,065 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetGreater Buffalo Adaptive Sports Inc — $91,451 over 2y, 19% of budgetNEW ERA CAP FOUNDATION — $80,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWINGS FLIGHTS OF HOPE — $80,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ORCHARD PARK INC — $75,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetSAVE THE MICHAELS OF THE WORLD INC — $56,207 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF WESTERN NEW YORK — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF HAMBURG FOUNDATION INC — $30,325 over 1y, 24% of budgetPUNT PEDIATRIC CANCER COLLABORATIVE INC — $30,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBUFFALO SCHOLASTIC ROWING ASSOCIATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetHUNTER'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION BUFFALO NIAGARA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGRACE GUEST HOUSE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetBUFFALO RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION INC — $19,329 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC — $18,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWEST FALLS CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $17,500 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetAMHERST POLICE FOUNDATION INC — $12,500 over 1y, 17% of budgetASPIRE OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROFESSIONAL NURSES ASSN OF WNY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetROYCROFT CAMPUS CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEden Community Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetTHE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWK CREEK WILDLIFE CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSENSATIONAL FUN INC — $3,200 over 1y, 2.2% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …The John R Oishei Fou…Mother Cabrini Health…The Peter and Elizabe…Buffalo Bills Foundat…The Ralph C Wilson Jr…First Niagara Foundat…Nfada Charitable Foun…Cullen FoundationJames H Cummings Foun…Tower Family Fund IncFoundation 214 Inc
Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY58.2× affinity28 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 · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · Nfada Charitable Foundation · Cullen Foundation · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · Tower Family Fund Inc · Foundation 214 Inc

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 Scott Bieler Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 92 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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