· Private foundation
The Hunt 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| BUFFALO AKG ART MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF BUFFALO & ERIE COUNTY | $17,500 |
| FEEDMORE WNY | $17,250 |
| CENTRAL PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $15,000 |
| BIRCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER | $6,500 |
| HOPE CHEST | $2,500 |
| PUNT PEDIATRIC CANCER COLLABORATIVE | $1,750 |
| WNY WOMEN'S FUND | $1,500 |
| BUFFALO TORONTO PUBLIC MEDIA | $1,300 |
| NY FUNDERS ALLIANCE | $1,200 |
| ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH ZION | $1,000 |
| BUFFALO OLMSTEAD PARKS CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| NIAGARA LUTHERAN HEALTH FOUNDATION | $500 |
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 (FY18–23, $4k) 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.
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.
34 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 3 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2025 · $585k · revenue +4%
BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +51%- PSPAUL SMITHS COLLEGE4× · 2017–2020 · $29k · revenue +4%
Funded once
JERICHO ROAD MINISTRIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +56%- FPFAMILY PROMISE CENTERone grant, 2022 · $3k
- T1THE 11 DAY POWER PLAY INCone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +20%
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 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, remediate, and steward lands along wny's waterfronts prioritizing public access.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To attract new employers to the buffalo niagara region through outreach to growing companies around the world. to support business attraction, expansion and entrepreneurship, invest buffalo niagara collaborates with local businesses,…
To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our community.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The community health center of buffalo, inc operates four freestanding federally qualified health centers licensed as a diagnostic and treatment center under article 28 of the ny state health law. the center provides a broad range of…
To strengthen the capacity of local united ways through their charitable human service activities to be leaders in achieving results that improve the lives of all new yorkers.
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.
To provide excellent healthcare services without regard to age, sex, race, creed, national origin or disability; to serve as an educational and research center for physicians, nurses and healthcare professionals; to provide health…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc and the most unlike its peers is Eastman Foundation. 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 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% 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 15% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 70 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 ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds PAUL SMITHS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATION OF JUNIOR LEAGUES INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds JERICHO ROAD MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA LUTHERAN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE 11 DAY POWER PLAY INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO PREP INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds FOODLINK INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds PUNT PEDIATRIC CANCER COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO NIAGARA WATERKEEPER 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 Margaret L Wendt Foundation · The Baird Foundation · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · The Western New York Foundation · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · Rich Family Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · The Osc Charitable Foundation · Tower Family Fund Inc · First Niagara 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 Hunt 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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