· Private foundation
The Fatta Foundation Inc
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 $10k12 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUFFALO TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM | $100,000 |
| AKG BUFFALO MUSEUM | $30,000 |
| FEED BUFFALO | $3,000 |
| HAVEN HOUSE | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| CENTRO CULTUREALE ITALIANO DI BUFFALO | $1,000 |
| HOSPICE BUFFALO | $1,000 |
| CANISIUS UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| JOURNEY'S END REFUGEE SERVICES | $1,000 |
| BUFFALO ARTS STUDIO | $1,000 |
| BUFFALO CITY MISSION | $1,000 |
| HEARTS FOR THE HOMELESS | $1,000 |
| EVERGREENHEALTH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +52% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 3 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- CUCANISIUS UNIVERSITY2× · 2020–2024 · $96k · revenue +6%
- BFBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY3× · 2020–2023 · $90k · revenue +59%
CRADLE BEACH INC2× · 2020–2022 · $12k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- BIBRRALLIANCE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $352k · revenue +449%
- CFCENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTone grant, 2020 · $25k
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIESone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
The Buffalo Institiute for Contemporary Art (Bica) is a art and educational project for Buffalo, NY. Through Innovative exhibitions, cross-discipplinary skills-based programming, and arts ecology development, bica mission is to break down…
The organization was formed for the specific purpose of operating, maintaining and protecting parks and public spaces in the city of buffalo, new york, including but not limited to parks and public spaces owned or operated by the city of…
Inspire joyful exploration of science and nature through engaging experiences, unique resources, and exceptional staff.
Preservation, protection and restoration of the buffalo new york lighthouses and to maintain and develop the area surrounding them in accordance with their historical significance.
To develop the buffalo central terminal - a majestic historic landmark - as a lasting cultural and economic hub for the community.
To provide supporting services to the tourism and hospitality industries in buffalo and erie county.
Building community; creating connections; saving wildlife through a collaboration for change: the buffalo zoo will be a center of conservation excellence, providing leadership to secure a future where wildlife thrives. we embody our…
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…
University at buffalo surgeons, inc., is a large team of surgeons dedicated to the improvement of the health of our patients, cutting edge research, and the professional development of our students and residents. we are committed to…
To instill, educate, and cultivate in a public audience an informed appreciation of the american past and its impact on current lifestyles, culture, and historical development of the town of amherst, including the village of williamsville.…
To acquire, remediate, and steward lands along wny's waterfronts prioritizing public access.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Buffalo Fine Arts Academy and the most unlike its peers is Racing Dog Rescue Project. 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 35 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 51 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 BRRALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BUFFALO TRANSPORTATION PIERCE-ARROW MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CANISIUS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CRADLE BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds MADONNA OF THE STREETS INC ↗
- Who funds FEED BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEYWAY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University at Buffalo Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NIGHT PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds Saturn Club Historic Preservation Foundation ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY'S END REFUGEE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO ARTS STUDIO ↗
- Who funds CENTRO CULTURALE ITALIANO DI BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA AEROSPACE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Torn Space Theater Inc ↗
- Who funds STITCH BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds EVERGREENHEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RACING DOG RESCUE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SERVICES 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: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The Western New York Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · The Baird Foundation · Paul & Helen Ellis Charitable Trust Trubee Wealth Advisors · The Frank G Raichle Foundation · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · Tower Family Fund Inc · Cullen Foundation · The Richard W Rupp Foundation · The Cameron and Jane Baird Foundation · Buffalo Bills 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 Fatta 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.