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The Hodgson Russ Charitable 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 you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $77k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO FOUNDATION INC | $77,340 |
| FIREFIGHTER ARNO MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| EVERY BOTTOM COVERED | $10,000 |
| THINGS OF MY VERY OWN INC | $5,000 |
| GRACE GUEST HOUSE | $5,000 |
| SAINTS PLACE INC | $5,000 |
| REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK | $5,000 |
| NATIVITY PREPARATORY ACADEMY ASSOCIATES OF ROCHESTER INC | $5,000 |
| SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE NIGHT PEOPLE INC | $5,000 |
| ST LUKE'S MISSION OF MERCY | $5,000 |
| SHERIDAN PARKSIDE LIFE CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION | $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, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 29% of The Hodgson Russ Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 73% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +4% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 5 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- UAUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $177k · revenue +4%
- SISLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $28k · revenue +144%
- RFREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC4× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +24%
Funded once
BUILD PROMISE INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue 0%- LILIFE IMPACT INCone grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue -29%
WESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -5%
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.
Alongside our parnters, we keep families experiencing homelessness together by offering housing and compassionate support as they find work to find their way back home.
Food bank of central new york is a not-for-profit organization: our mission is to lead the effort to eliminate hunger in our region, through partnerships with others in our community, through education, advocacy, and distribution of…
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 provide safe housing, meals, and necessary services for asylum seekers in the western new york area
The Rochester Food Pantry, an all-volunteer operation, provides food and personal hygiene items free of charge to needy residents who live in and around the Town of Rochester, New York.
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.
Our aim is to try each day to build a new society in the shell of the old as we practice the various works of mercy, and labor with whatever resources, physical as well as spiritual, that we have been given at the time.
Our mission is fourfold: to provide a reliable source of food , to support good nutrition, to offer connections to other services and to strenghten community through shared services.
Using the power of volunteers and community partnerships to expand dignified access to food in the heart of disadvantaged communities.
To offer dignity, hope and a brighter future by providing nutritious food, friendship, and skills training to our Western New York neighbors in need.
Our mission is to provide, at no cost, emergency food and other help for people in need within the City of Rochester and surrounding towns.
Provide temporary shelter and food for homeless families and individuals. also to provide living accomodations through a single resident occupancy program
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child and Family Services Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Nativity Preparatory Academy Associates of Rochester Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 43 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 University at Buffalo Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds The Rural Outreach Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds BUILD PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MISSIONS OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIER INC ↗
- Who funds THINGS OF MY VERY OWN INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTERS OF SARATOGA INC ↗
- Who funds Every Bottom Covered Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NIGHT PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BUFFALO COMMUNITY TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds FIREFIGHTER ARNO MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE FARM COLLECTIVE CORP ↗
- Who funds MADONNA OF THE STREETS INC ↗
- Who funds WNY FOOD WEB INC ↗
- Who funds VILLA MARIA COLLEGE OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION OF GREENE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WESTERN NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Bishop Sheen Ecumenical Housing Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FOODLINK INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE GUEST HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HAVEN HOUSE ↗
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: The John R Oishei Foundation · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · Cullen Foundation · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · The Western New York Foundation · Foundation 214 Inc · East Hill Foundation · The Frank G Raichle Foundation · Rich Family Foundation · Health Foundation for Western & Central New York
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 Hodgson Russ Charitable 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.
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