· Public charity
The Children's Guild Foundation Inc
To support and advocate for health care, research, education and therapeutic recreation for children with special needs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $208k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $470k
- $250k+2 grants · $630k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Roswell Park Alliance Foundation | $375,000 |
| Rural Outreach Center | $255,000 |
| SASI | $125,000 |
| Child and Family Services of Erie County | $100,000 |
| Chautauqua Institution | $100,000 |
| SABAH | $95,210 |
| Say Yes Buffalo Scholarship Inc | $50,000 |
| Cradle Beach | $31,000 |
| The Summit Center | $25,000 |
| VIA | $25,000 |
| Rock Autism Inc | $20,000 |
| Southern Tier Health | $20,000 |
| Heritage Christian Service | $18,735 |
| Camp Get-A-Way of Western Region NYS Inc | $15,000 |
| Insightful Strides Inc | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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 +22% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $257k 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
- KHKALEIDA HEALTH2× · 2017–2018 · $667k · revenue +46%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $631k · revenue +98%
SKATING ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND & HAND7× · 2017–2025 · $445k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- CUCANISIUS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue +6%
- PIPEOPLE INCone grant, 2023 · $52k · revenue +16%
- HFHILLSIDE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -38%
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.
Accesscny offers personcentered services that empower individuals of all ages and abilities to reach their full potential as part of our shared community. services are provided with dedication, compassion, innovation, and commitment. the…
To ensure that individuals from niagara county who are developmentally disabled or intellectually, physically or functionally limited, have the opportunity to reach their maximum potential, independence and integration into the community.
Central ny quest has been established to serve the needs of persons with intellectual, developmental and mental health disorders in the central new york region.
To provide a comprehensive range of services to developmentally or neurologically impaired persons of all ages.
Buffalo hearing and speech center improves the quality of life for adults, children and infants with communication disorders by delivering cutting edge diagnosis and treatment of hearing and speech impairments and related special education…
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.
Our mission is to evaluate individual needs, develop nurturing, therapeutic learning environments and foster professional growth. we believe that family, staff and community collaboration is the cornerstone of our success.
We are committed to helping people with intellectual (cont. on schedule o) and developmental disabilities to live full lives.
To assist people with disabilities obtain their optimum occupational goals.
Provides home-based Applied Behavior Analysis ABA services to children with autism and other developmental disabilities. Focusing on individualized treatment, caregiver training, and clinical supervision by licensed professionals. Services…
The center's mission is to help children and adults with differing abilities achieve their dreams by overcoming barriers to living, working, learning & enjoying recreational opportunities in the community of their choice.
To provide quality programs for young children with special needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Suburban Adult Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rock Out Autism Inc. 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 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% 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.
63 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. 63 of the 68 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 ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KALEIDA HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SKATING ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND & HAND ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Rural Outreach Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SISTERS OF CHARITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CRADLE BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds VILLA MARIA COLLEGE OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF ERIE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Opportunities Collaborative for Students with Special Needs Inc ↗
- Who funds VIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds SUBURBAN ADULT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE SUMMIT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DAEMEN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF NIAGARA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICES FOR EVERY1 INC ↗
- Who funds THE TEACHERS DESK INC ↗
- Who funds NYSARC INC ERIE COUNTY CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds ROCK AUTISM INC ↗
- Who funds RMHC OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds CANISIUS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MASONS MISSION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Insightful Strides Inc ↗
- Who funds OUR ABILITY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAY YES BUFFALO SCHOLARSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds GENESEE-LIVINGSTON-ORLEANS-WYOMING COUNTIES NYSARC INC D/B/A ARC GLOW ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY-LONGVIEW INC ↗
- Who funds LOTHLORIEN THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMPEER WEST INC ↗
- Who funds HOMESPACE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO MEDIA RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds FANTASTIC FRIENDS OF WNY INC ↗
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: The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The John R Oishei Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · Cullen Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · Buffalo Sabres Foundation · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · Health Foundation for Western & Central New York · The Ralph C Wilson Jr 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 Children's Guild 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.
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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