· Private foundation
The Cameron and Jane Baird 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k68 grants · $297k
- $10k–50k52 grants · $889k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+1 grant · $585k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC | $585,000 |
| VIPASSANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $170,000 |
| OXFAM AMERICA | $150,000 |
| BUFFALO AKG ART MUSEUM | $140,000 |
| LET THERE BE LIGHT INTERNATIONAL | $102,500 |
| PARTNERS IN HEALTH | $100,000 |
| MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA | $85,000 |
| FEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK | $70,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC | $68,000 |
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE FUND | $65,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO FOUNDATION INC | $40,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL NEW YORK | $40,000 |
| FISTULA FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $253k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
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 The Cameron and Jane Baird Foundation’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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
124 repeat relationships — 104 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $212k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC4× · 2021–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +3%- MSMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC4× · 2021–2024 · $340k · revenue +20%
- LTLET THERE BE LIGHT INTERNATIONAL LTBLI at dig4× · 2021–2024 · $331k · revenue +56% · 44% of their budget
Funded once
- BFBIODYNAMIC FARMLAND CONSERVATION TRUST INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -32%
FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +117%- WWWIDECAST Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network Incone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -77%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Food bank of central new york is a not-for-profit organization: our mission is to lead the effort to eliminate hunger in our region, through partnerships with others in our community, through education, advocacy, and distribution of…
The legal aid bureau of buffalo, inc., a not-for-profit organization, provides legal representation to financially needy men, women and children in western new york. through its skilled staff, the legal aid bureau seeks equal justice for…
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
To lead a network of partners to alleviate hunger, prevent food waste, and nourish the communities we serve. our vision is that all people have the nutritious food they need to thrive.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
New york restoration project ("nyrp") believes that nature is a fundamental right of every new yorker. nyrp works collaboratively with residents in communities across the five boroughs to renovate gardens, restore parks, plant trees,…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Baird Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
134 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. 134 of the 182 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Vipassana Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds LET THERE BE LIGHT INTERNATIONAL LTBLI at dig ↗
- Who funds TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds University at Buffalo Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SAINT ANN'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood Global Inc ↗
- Who funds Martinez Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds KING CENTER CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Buffalo Chamber Music Society ↗
- Who funds Free the Oppressed ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARA PARSEGHIAN MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO PREP INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO SEMINARY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The Western New York Foundation · The Baird Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · Cullen Foundation · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · The Marks Family Foundation · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · Rich Family 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 Cameron and Jane Baird 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.
- Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services — 37% of income from government
- Grow Food Northampton Inc — 25% of income from government
- Xerces Society Inc — 22% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Hun School of Princeton — 0% of income from government
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.
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