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The Center for Regional Strategies Inc
The center for regional strategies, inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 20 grants below total $833,041 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $863,119 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $30,078 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $474k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $354k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NIAGARA ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER | $190,000 |
| UPSTATE VENTURE CONNECT CORPORATION | $100,000 |
| ENDEAVOR WESTERN NEW YORK INC | $63,750 |
| OLEAN BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $47,600 |
| 19 IDEAS INC | $42,500 |
| DEVUPS CO (START UP GRIND) | $42,500 |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF ROCHESTER NY INC | $42,500 |
| NET POSITIVE INC | $42,500 |
| MICHIGAN STREET AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE CORRIDOR COMMISSION | $40,000 |
| BROADWAY MARKET MANAGEMENT INC | $35,000 |
| BOOTSECTOR INC | $34,000 |
| GREY ZIFF LLC | $25,500 |
| NEXT CORPS INC | $21,781 |
| NORTHLAND WORKFORCE TRAINING CENTER | $20,000 |
| SOUTHERN TIER WEST DEVELOPMENT | $18,750 |
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 (FY25–25, $134k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 16% of The Center for Regional Strategies 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 80% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
Gre promotes regional assets and expertise to attract new business investments and foster business growth and retention in the region. as a trusted advisor, gre connects business executives with the right people and the right resources to…
To foster and support the growth of sustainable North Country communities through providing assistance to aspiring entrepreneurs and existing small business owners.
The corporation was formed to lessen the burdens of government and act in the public interest; to facilitate economic activities throughout wayne county, ny including the location and expansion of civic, industrial and commercial…
To bring businesses, job seekers and training providers together to provide skilled workers for every business and employment for every job seeker.
To stimulate economic development in the southern tier region of ny, through support of the creation of innovative business start-ups and the jobs they create. this support is provided through its business incubator facilities and the…
East Buffalo Development Corporation is a community-based real estate development corporation committed to our mission of leveraging private and public funds to drive equitable and inclusive eastside planning, construction, land use, and…
To facilitate both the creation and retention of jobs within erie county and increase economic opportunities for individuals and businesses through comprehensive economic development programs.
To transform our region by stimulating the growth and creation of dynamic companies in order to provide a superior standard of living for residents.
The corporation's mission is to foster the creation, retention, and expansion of economic opportunities for the benefit of the state, county and local economies.
Our mission is to establish a small, cooperative community in upstate & central new york where the most driven individuals can network, acquire and share priceless talents, and develop both personally and professionally. as a result, we…
Fuzehub works to better connect new york's small and mid-sized manufacturing companies to the resources, programs and expertise they need for technology commercialization, innovative solutions and business growth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Launch New York Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alive Well Ny Inc. 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 13 years old; the field is 23. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
30 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.
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.
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- Who funds OLEAN BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF ROCHESTER NY INC ↗
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- Who funds BOOTSECTOR ↗
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- Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
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 Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · Rich Family Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · Independent Health Association Inc · United Way of Buffalo and Erie County · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Northwest Charitable Foundation · Zemsky Family Foundation · James H Cummings Foundation 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 The Center for Regional Strategies 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.
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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