· Private foundation
The Frank G Raichle Foundation
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| DARWIN D MARTIN HOUSE | $10,000 |
| BUFFALO PREP INC | $10,000 |
| HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC | $10,000 |
| FEEDMORE FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NEW YORK | $10,000 |
| CAMP GOOD DAYS & SPECIAL TIMES INC | $8,000 |
| CITY MISSION SOCIETY INC | $8,000 |
| FRIENDS OF 805 DELAWARE AVENUE INC | $5,000 |
| AMHERST MEALS ON WHEELS INC | $5,000 |
| JERICHO ROAD MINISTRIES INC | $5,000 |
| GIGIS PLAYHOUSE INC | $5,000 |
| JUSTICE FOR MIGRANT FAMILIES INC | $5,000 |
| MOTHER'S AGAINST VIOLENCE IN BUFFALO INC | $5,000 |
| BUFFALO ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| ERIE COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROJECT INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $121k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% 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 +25% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 9 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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
- HFHOSPICE FOUNDATION OF WNY INC2× · 2022–2025 · $15k · revenue +30%
BUFFALO PREP INC2× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +15%- ECErie County Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers Project Inc2× · 2023–2025 · $10k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BUFFALO INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +8%
- HRHolocaust Resource Center of BuffaloIncone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -11%
BACK TO BASICS OUTREACH MINISTRIESone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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…
East Buffalo Development Corporation is a community-based real estate development corporation committed to our mission of leveraging private and public funds to drive equitable and inclusive eastside planning, construction, land use, and…
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.
Lawny increases access to justice through excellent legal representation, advocacy and service.
Respond to economic, social, educational, and cultural needs of hispanic/latinos in western new york through bilingual, bicultural services that promote self-sufficiency and improve quality of life.
To acquire, remediate, and steward lands along wny's waterfronts prioritizing public access.
To lessen the burdens of government and to foster the creation, retention, and expansion of jobs and economic opportunities for the benefit of the City of Buffalo, New York, and the local economy. The Corporation's operations are conducted…
Founded in 1987, leadership buffalo, inc conducts programs designed to enhance development of long-term leadership in the greater buffalo, ny community. the organization develops and unites leaders of diverse backgrounds and perspectives…
To promote justice, dignity, and equity for migrants and farmworkers through advocacy, education, outreach, and direct services. We empower our communities to achieve self-sufficiency by fostering collaboration among partners.
RAWNY is dedicated to serving our community by supporting the men and women who have experienced incarceration, and the agencies that serve them, to ensure anyone reentering has access to needed resources and support.
To improve the quality of life for elderly, disabled and low-income persons in the western new york area through the provision of free civil legal services. the primary goal is to use the legal system to assure that clients may live…
Create new public golf and recreation amenities in the city of buffalo; assist in the restoration of frederick law olmsted's south park arboretum; and construct a new education center for underserved, minority youth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice Foundation of Wny Inc and the most unlike its peers is Challenger Sports League 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 30 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 6% 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.
87 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 87 of the 103 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 HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF WNY INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDMORE WNY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO PREP INC ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP GOOD DAYS AND SPECIAL TIMES INC ↗
- Who funds Erie County Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers Project Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER OF ERIE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JERICHO ROAD MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE FOR MIGRANT FAMILIES WNY ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WESTERN NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds Holocaust Resource Center of BuffaloInc ↗
- Who funds BACK TO BASICS OUTREACH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds The Rural Outreach Center Inc ↗
- Who funds KING URBAN LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS OF WNY INC ↗
- Who funds DANCEABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds UJIMA COMPANY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO PEACE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR DEAF EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE MICHAELS OF THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds AMHERST MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO STRING WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FEED BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds Partnership For the Public Good Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSICALFARE THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
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 · First Niagara Foundation · Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc · Cullen Foundation · United Way of Buffalo and Erie County · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · The Baird Foundation · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Rich Family 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 Frank G Raichle Foundation 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.
- National Center for Victims of Crime Inc — 10% of income from government
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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