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The Buffalove Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$8k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
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States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Food & Nutrition$26kHealth$18kReligion$7kPhilanthropy$6kHuman Services$6kEducation$5kCommunity Improvement$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$7,800
Median grant
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States reached
$14k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FEEDWYOMING LLC$7,800
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–19, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%PROJECT HOPE INC: $3k → 12%CHILDREN IN CRISIS: $3k → 8%MATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH INC: $500 → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your 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.

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Food Bank of Southern Iowa

Obtain, warehouse, and distribute food products to client agencies to help alleviate hunger in southern iowa communities.

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Food Bank for the Heartland

To eliminate hunger in the heartland by ensuring consistent access to healthy foods through community partnerships.

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Foothills Food Bank

The Foothills Food Bank works to ensure access to quality, nutritious food to community members in need, and deliver services with respect and dignity.

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West Alabama Food Bank Inc

Our mission is to help alleviate hunger and food insecurity in west alabama.

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Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma Inc

The mission of the regional food bank of oklahoma is to lead a network that provides nutritious food and pathways to self-sufficiency for people facing hunger. our vision is an oklahoma where no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
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The Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas

The food bank of northeast arkansas provides hunger relief to people in need in twelve counties in northeast arkansas by raising awareness, securing resources, and distributing food through a network of non-profit agencies and programs.

Human Services
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Food Bank of Eastern Michigan

The Food Bank of Eastern Michigan's mission is to be the Food Source for people in need. Partnering with organizations to feed the hungry, we advocate and build a community solution to a community problem. By leveraging an abundance of…

Food & Nutrition
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Greater Urbana Area Food Bank Inc

To feed the hungry

Food & Nutrition
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Ozarks Food Harvest Inc

Ozarks food harvest's mission is to transform hunger into hope.

Food & Nutrition
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South Plains Food Bank Inc

The South Plains Food Bank, Inc. is a humanitarian resource responsible for securing, growing, processing, and distributing food to charitable organizations and persons in need. South Plains Food Bank, Inc. also strives to provide…

Food & Nutrition
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West Ohio Food Bank

Everyone should have access to healthy, nutritious food. Together with our partners, we provide nutritious food to those in need. We do this through collaborating with more than 100 partner agencies, which include emergency pantries, soup…

Food & Nutrition
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Lincoln County Food Bank

The lincoln county foood bank is organized to provide food assistance to those individuals who are economically disadvantaged and without adequate food sources.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas Foodbank Warehouse Inc and the most unlike its peers is Omaha Against Hunger. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 33 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.

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Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $17,540 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCFEEDWYOMING LLC — $7,800 · OtherFEEDWYOMING LLCSEVEN HILLS CHURCH — $5,000 · OtherSEVEN HILLS CHURCHCINCINNATI CENTER CITY DEVELOPMENT (3CDC) — $2,500 · OtherCINCINNATI CENTER CITY DEVELOPMENT (3CDC)NEW HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL — $2,500 · OtherNEW HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLLAWRENCEBURG COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORPORATION — $2,000 · Other+12 more — $8,000 · Other+12 moreFREESTORE FOODBANK INC — $7,000 · Food & NutritionFREESTORE FOODBANK…Project 5810 Inc — $2,500 · Food & NutritionProject 5810 IncGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $500 · Food & NutritionKANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC — $500 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC — $500 · Food & NutritionHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $500 · Food & NutritionCommunity Food Bank — $500 · Food & NutritionSOURIS VALLEY UNITED WAY — $3,000 · PhilanthropySOURIS VA…UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA — $3,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…PROJECT HOPE INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesCHILDREN IN CRISIS INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesMATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH — $500 · Human ServicesACTION MINISTRIES INC — $2,500 · ReligionFEEDING HUNGRY CHILDREN — $1,208 · InternationalSOUTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $500 · Community Improvement
Other$45,340Food & Nutrition$12,000Philanthropy$6,000Human Services$5,500Religion$2,500International$1,208Community Improvement$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOURIS VALLEY UNITED WAY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject 5810 Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetACTION MINISTRIES INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFEEDING HUNGRY CHILDREN — $1,208 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOMAHA AGAINST HUNGER — $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMASTER PROVISIONS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARED HARVEST FOODBANK INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank — $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Enterprise Holdings F…Edward Jones Foundati…Charities Aid Foundat…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Enterprise Holdings FoundationMO13.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Buffalove 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.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Buffalove Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Buffalove Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 33 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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