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The Children's Guild Foundation Inc

To support and advocate for health care, research, education and therapeutic recreation for children with special needs.

$937k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$375k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$3.5MEducation$1.1MHuman Services$802kRecreation & Sports$762kArts & Culture$220kEmployment$75kScience & Tech$50kPhilanthropy$36kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $208k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $470k
  • $250k+2 grants · $630k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Ellicottville Playground$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ARC Glow: $27k → 11%Camp Puzzle Piece Inc: $14k → 11%Heritage Christian Service: $19k → 14%Our Ability Alliance: $20k → 14%Centaur Stride Inc: $12k → 18%ARC Glow: $15k → 11%Heritage Christian Service: $4k → 14%Disability Education Forum of NY: $20k → 14%Our Ability Alliance Inc: $15k → 14%People Inc: $52k → 13%NYSARC Inc dba The Arc Erie County: $50k → 13%Gateway-Longview: $20k → 13%Mason's Mission Foundation: $28k → 14%The Arc Erie County New York: $15k → 13%Mason's Mission Foundation: $15k → 14%Mason's Mission Foundation: $15k → 14%Gateway-Longview: $22k → 13%Excalibur Leisure Skills Center Inc: $16k → 13%Excalibur Leisure Skills Center Inc: $8k → 13%Fantastic Friends of WNY Inc: $15k → 13%Fantastic Friends of WNY Inc: $10k → 13%VIA: $75k → 13%VIA: $25k → 13%VIA: $25k → 13%The Teacher's Desk: $20k → 13%The Teacher's Desk: $20k → 13%The Teacher's Desk: $15k → 13%The Teachers Desk: $14k → 13%Visually Impaired Advancement of WNY: $12k → 13%Community Services for Dev Disabled: $55k → 13%Hillside Children's Foundation: $50k → 13%Community Services for Every1: $30k → 13%Fantastic Friends of WNY: $5k → 13%Rural Outreach Center: $255k → 13%Rural Outreach Center Inc: $55k → 13%Rural Outreach Center: $37k → 13%Lothlorien Therapeutic Riding Center Inc: $25k → 13%Lothlorien Therapeutic Riding Center Inc: $11k → 13%Lothlorien Therapeutic Riding Center Inc: $5k → 13%SASI: $125k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.0M · 39 repeat orgs$662k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
21

Total granted

$6.0M
$405k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+20%

Still filing today

95%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $257k 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
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • KH
    KALEIDA HEALTH
    2× · 2017–2018 · $667k · revenue +46%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $631k · revenue +98%
  • SKATING ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND & HAND
    7× · 2017–2025 · $445k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • CU
    CANISIUS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue +6%
  • PI
    PEOPLE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $52k · revenue +16%
  • HF
    HILLSIDE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -38%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Accesscny Inc

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…

Health
2
Niagara County Chapter Nysarc Inc Opportunities Unlimited of Niagara

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.

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3
Central New York Quest Inc

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.

Human Services
4
Center for Disability Servicesinc

To provide a comprehensive range of services to developmentally or neurologically impaired persons of all ages.

Health
5
Buffalo Hearing & Speech Center Inc

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…

Health
6
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.

—
7
Center for Spectrum Services

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.

—
8
Nysarc Inc New York City Chapter

We are committed to helping people with intellectual (cont. on schedule o) and developmental disabilities to live full lives.

Human Services
9
Capabilities Inc

To assist people with disabilities obtain their optimum occupational goals.

Employment
10
Ny Special Care Inc

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…

Human Services
11
Center for Developmental Disabilities

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.

Human Services
12
Alternatives for Children

To provide quality programs for young children with special needs.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Suburban Adult Services Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/63
Grantees still filing
40/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KALEIDA HEALTH: $666,666 · HealthKALEIDA HEALTHTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION: $630,634 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF B…HEALTHY COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC: $100,000 · HealthHEALTHY COMMUNITY ALLIANCE I…UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF NIAGARA COUNTY INC: $86,075 · HealthRMHC OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $60,000 · Health+6 more: $111,900 · Health+6 moreThe Rural Outreach Center Inc: $346,845 · Human ServicesThe Rural Outreach Ce…VIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT: $137,279 · Human ServicesVIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED…SUBURBAN ADULT SERVICES INC: $125,000 · Human ServicesSUBURBAN ADULT SERVIC…COMMUNITY SERVICES FOR EVERY1 INC: $85,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SERVICES FO…THE TEACHERS DESK INC: $69,000 · Human ServicesTHE TEACHERS DESK INCNYSARC INC ERIE COUNTY CHAPTER: $65,383 · Human ServicesMASONS MISSION FOUNDATION INC: $58,000 · Human ServicesOUR ABILITY ALLIANCE INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesPEOPLE INC: $52,413 · Human ServicesHILLSIDE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesGENESEE-LIVINGSTON-ORLEANS-WYOMING COUNTIES NYSARC INC D/B/A ARC GLOW: $42,525 · Human ServicesGATEWAY-LONGVIEW INC: $42,410 · Human Services+6 more: $142,090 · Human Services+6 moreBUFFALO STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $421,385 · EducationBUFFALO STATE COL…Opportunities Collaborative for Students with Special Needs Inc: $142,160 · EducationOpportunities Col…THE SUMMIT CENTER INC: $125,000 · EducationTHE SUMMIT CENTER…DAEMEN UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationDAEMEN UNIVERSITYCANISIUS UNIVERSITY: $60,000 · EducationCANISIUS UNIVERSI…NIAGARA UNIVERSITY: $58,914 · EducationNIAGARA UNIVERSIT…SAY YES BUFFALO SCHOLARSHIP INC: $50,000 · Education+3 more: $48,650 · EducationSISTERS OF CHARITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $270,000 · OtherSISTERS OF CHARIT…OUR LADY OF VICTORY HOMES OF CHARITY INC: $178,770 · OtherOUR LADY OF VICTO…VILLA MARIA COLLEGE OF BUFFALO: $174,404 · OtherVILLA MARIA COLLE…CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF ERIE COUNTY: $146,750 · OtherCHILD AND FAMILY …Insightful Strides Inc: $56,000 · OtherInsightful Stride…GIGIS PLAYHOUSE INC: $51,154 · OtherHOMESPACE CORPORATION: $35,000 · Other+8 more: $96,340 · Other+8 moreROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $707,500 · PhilanthropyROSWELL PARK…+3 more: $50,525 · Philanthropy+3 moreSKATING ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND & HAND: $445,410 · Recreation & SportsSKATING ASS…CRADLE BEACH INC: $196,100 · Recreation & SportsCRADLE BEAC…BUFFALO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC: $26,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $15,974 · Recreation & SportsCHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION: $128,638 · Arts & CultureROCK AUTISM INC: $62,725 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO MEDIA RESOURCES INC: $30,254 · Arts & CultureA CATTARAUGUS FOR TOMORROW INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureBURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER: $11,800 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $6,302 · Arts & Culture
Health$1,655,275Human Services$1,270,945Education$1,006,109Other$1,008,418Philanthropy$758,025Recreation & Sports$683,484Arts & Culture$254,719

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $707,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetKALEIDA HEALTH: $666,666 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION: $630,634 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSKATING ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND & HAND: $445,410 over 7y, 23% of budgetBUFFALO STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $421,385 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetThe Rural Outreach Center Inc: $346,845 over 3y, 14% of budgetSISTERS OF CHARITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $270,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetCRADLE BEACH INC: $196,100 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetVILLA MARIA COLLEGE OF BUFFALO: $174,404 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF ERIE COUNTY: $146,750 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetOpportunities Collaborative for Students with Special Needs Inc: $142,160 over 3y, 42% of budgetVIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT: $137,279 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION: $128,638 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SUMMIT CENTER INC: $125,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSUBURBAN ADULT SERVICES INC: $125,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDAEMEN UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTHY COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC: $100,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF NIAGARA COUNTY INC: $86,075 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICES FOR EVERY1 INC: $85,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TEACHERS DESK INC: $69,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetNYSARC INC ERIE COUNTY CHAPTER: $65,383 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROCK AUTISM INC: $62,725 over 3y, 48% of budgetCANISIUS UNIVERSITY: $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRMHC OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $60,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetNIAGARA UNIVERSITY: $58,914 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInsightful Strides Inc: $56,000 over 2y, 67% of budgetOUR ABILITY ALLIANCE INC: $55,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetPEOPLE INC: $52,413 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAY YES BUFFALO SCHOLARSHIP INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHILLSIDE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGENESEE-LIVINGSTON-ORLEANS-WYOMING COUNTIES NYSARC INC D/B/A ARC GLOW: $42,525 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGATEWAY-LONGVIEW INC: $42,410 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOTHLORIEN THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $40,500 over 3y, 15% of budgetCOMPEER WEST INC: $36,900 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHOMESPACE CORPORATION: $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBUFFALO MEDIA RESOURCES INC: $30,254 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetFANTASTIC FRIENDS OF WNY INC: $29,624 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetBUFFALO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC: $26,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSPECIALIZED EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNIAGARA FALLS MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHERITAGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC: $22,934 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASPIRE OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $21,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN TIER HEALTH CARE SYSTEM INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetKALEIDOSCOPE OF WNY INC: $15,974 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetACCESSIBLE ACADEMICS USA INC: $15,400 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetNational Math Foundation Inc: $15,025 over 1y, 36% of budgetA CATTARAUGUS FOR TOMORROW INC: $15,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetCAMP-GET-A-WAY WESTERN REGION NEW YORK STATE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 13% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Peter and Elizabe…Community Foundation …The John R Oishei Fou…First Niagara Foundat…Mother Cabrini Health…The Margaret L Wendt …Cullen FoundationThe Western New York …Buffalo Sabres Founda…James H Cummings Foun…Health Foundation for…The Ralph C Wilson Jr…
The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower FoundationNY75.8× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Children's Guild Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Children's Guild Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Children's Guild Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Children's Guild Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 68 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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