· Private foundation
The Christos Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MATTHEW FOSTER FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| HARVEST HOUSE | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| NIAGARA FRONTIER RADIO READING | $2,000 |
| SEAPC | $2,000 |
| UCHS INCSENIOR WISHES | $2,000 |
| SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE | $1,500 |
| ROBINS NEST CHILDREN'S HOME | $1,500 |
| CHILDRENS HOME SOC OF NC | $1,300 |
| REACH OUT 2 AFRICA | $1,000 |
| HEARTS FOR THE HOMELESS | $1,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE | $1,000 |
| LAKELAND EMERGENCY SQUAD | $1,000 |
| KARE 4 KIDS | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 7 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NFNIAGARA FRONTIER RADIO READING SERVICE INC5× · 2017–2021 · $16k · revenue +306%
- SISLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $5k · revenue +76%
- SFSENSATIONAL FUN INC3× · 2019–2021 · $2k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- FPFAMILY PROMISE OF WNYone grant, 2023 · $1k
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HOLLAND INCone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
- FOFRIENDS OF NIGHT PEOPLE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +153%
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.
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.
It is the mission of carefirst ny, inc. to affirm life through extraordinary, compassionate support and care to patients and families in chemung, steuben and schuyler counties.
The organization provides charitable relief in the form of emergency shelter, material needs, and compassionate care for the homeless and persons in need in the eastern niagara county, new york area.
To advance the health of our community by providing care management and support to families experiencing physical, mental, or behavioral issues with their child. this is done by advancing innovative practices, by collaborating with…
Impacting the homeless of flint and genesee county by providing shelter and life transitioning opportunities with dignity,compassion and respect.
We work to eliminate housing discrimination, promote open communities, and ensure equal access to housing opportunity for all people in central and northern new york.
The children's home of york is a licensed accredited agency providing a continuum of services which empower children to thrive, strengthen families, and enrich communities since 1865.
To receive contributions and distribute funds at its discretion to springbrook ny, inc.
Invest buffalo niagara foundation, inc. is a vehicle to solicit charitable contributions to develop programs, collaborate with, and provide funding to organizations that advance and encourage economic development in western new york.
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…
To acquire and renovate real property in western new york to establish and maintain facilities for the temporary and permanent housing of needy veterans and other special needs individuals.
Fantastic friends of wny, inc. is a social organization for individuals of
How this is measured
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 47 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Matthew Foster Foundation ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA FRONTIER RADIO READING SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds University at Buffalo Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROBIN'S NEST CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds SENSATIONAL FUN INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HOLLAND INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NIGHT PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds LAKELAND EMERGENCY SQUAD ↗
- Who funds PEE WEE HOMES ↗
- Who funds BREAD OF LIFE OUT OF COLDEN NY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP GOOD DAYS AND SPECIAL TIMES INC ↗
- Who funds BIG CREEK PEOPLE IN ACTION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Christos Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Christos Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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