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The Fatta Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$147k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$858kCommunity Improvement$378kEducation$139kHealth$17kHuman Services$13kRecreation & Sports$12kFood & Nutrition$11kHousing & Shelter$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
EVERGREENHEALTH FOUNDATION$1,000
BUFFALO ARTS STUDIO$1,000
JOURNEY'S END REFUGEE SERVICES$1,000
HEARTS FOR THE HOMELESS$1,000
CANISIUS UNIVERSITY$1,000
BUFFALO CITY MISSION$1,000
CENTRO CULTUREALE ITALIANO DI BUFFALO$1,000
HOSPICE BUFFALO$1,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%EVERGREENHEALTH FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%HOSPICE BUFFALO: $1k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $1k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $1k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $100 → 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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 25 repeat orgs$456k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
23

Total granted

$1.0M
$424k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+78%

Still filing today

64%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsHealthFood & NutritionOther
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

  • CU
    CANISIUS UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2020–2024 · $96k · revenue +6%
  • BF
    BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY
    3× · 2020–2023 · $90k · revenue +59%
  • CRADLE BEACH INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $12k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • BI
    BRRALLIANCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $352k · revenue +449%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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
Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art

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…

Arts & Culture
2
Ralph Wilson Park Conservancy Inc

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…

Recreation & Sports
3
Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences

Inspire joyful exploration of science and nature through engaging experiences, unique resources, and exceptional staff.

Arts & Culture
4
Buffalo Lighthouse Association Inc

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.

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5
Central Terminal Restoration Corp

To develop the buffalo central terminal - a majestic historic landmark - as a lasting cultural and economic hub for the community.

Arts & Culture
6
Buffalo Niagara Convention Center Management Corporation

To provide supporting services to the tourism and hospitality industries in buffalo and erie county.

Community Improvement
7
Zoological Society of Buffalo Inc

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…

Animals
8
Buffalo Theatre Ensemble Corp
Arts & Culture
9
The Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo

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…

Crime & Legal
10
University At Buffalo Surgeons Inc

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…

Education
11
Buffalo Niagara Heritage Village

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.…

Arts & Culture
12
Buffalo Niagara River Land Trust Inc

To acquire, remediate, and steward lands along wny's waterfronts prioritizing public access.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Buffalo Fine Arts Academy; 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.
04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 51 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
19/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $406,532 · OtherBUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAN A R D I N ACADEMY: $37,750 · OtherN A R D I N ACADEMYAKG BUFFALO MUSEUM: $30,000 · OtherCENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: $25,000 · Other+30 more: $83,188 · Other+30 moreTHE BUFFALO TRANSPORTATION PIERCE-ARROW MUSEUM: $300,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BUFFALO TRANSPORTATION PIER…BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY: $90,000 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY+7 more: $11,500 · Arts & CultureBRRALLIANCE INC: $352,000 · Community ImprovementBRRALLIANCE INCCANISIUS UNIVERSITY: $96,000 · EducationUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Inc: $5,000 · EducationCRADLE BEACH INC: $12,000 · Recreation & SportsBUFFALO MARITIME CENTER INC: $500 · Recreation & SportsMADONNA OF THE STREETS INC: $5,500 · HealthAUTISM SERVICES INC: $1,000 · HealthFEED BUFFALO INC: $5,100 · Food & Nutrition
Other$582,470Arts & Culture$401,500Community Improvement$352,000Education$101,000Recreation & Sports$12,500Health$6,500Food & Nutrition$5,100

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 budgetTHE BUFFALO TRANSPORTATION PIERCE-ARROW MUSEUM: $300,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetCANISIUS UNIVERSITY: $96,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY: $90,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCRADLE BEACH INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMADONNA OF THE STREETS INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFEED BUFFALO INC: $5,100 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLEYWAY THEATRE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF NIGHT PEOPLE INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSaturn Club Historic Preservation Foundation: $3,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetJOURNEY'S END REFUGEE SERVICES INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY MISSION SOCIETY INC: $2,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNIAGARA AEROSPACE MUSEUM: $2,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCENTRO CULTURALE ITALIANO DI BUFFALO INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBUFFALO ARTS STUDIO: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTorn Space Theater Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTITCH BUFFALO INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEL MUSEO FRANCISCO OLLER Y DIEGO RIVERA: $1,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SERVICES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF BUFFALO INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetRACING DOG RESCUE PROJECT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEVERGREENHEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUFFALO FIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetHOSPICE BUFFALO INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUFFALO MARITIME CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Community Foundation …The Western New York …The John R Oishei Fou…The Baird FoundationPaul & Helen Ellis Ch…The Frank G Raichle F…James H Cummings Foun…Tower Family Fund IncCullen FoundationThe Richard W Rupp Fo…The Cameron and Jane …Buffalo Bills Foundat…
Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY43.2× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Fatta Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fatta Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 51 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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