· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| BUFFALO OLMSTEAD PARKS CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH ZION | $1,000 |
| NIAGARA LUTHERAN HEALTH FOUNDATION | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%- T1THE 11 DAY POWER PLAY INCone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +20%
- FPFAMILY PROMISE CENTERone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
38 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. 38 of the 70 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO PREP INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASS HOUSE ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Hunt Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hunt Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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