· Private foundation
The Joseph and Anna Gartner Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Joseph and Anna Gartner Foundation’s FY2026 grant dollars went to Community Foundation For Greater Buffalo Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2026 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2025, the last year The Joseph and Anna Gartner Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 44 organizations, $219k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2026.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k84 grants · $209k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH | $10,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN & CEN | $7,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| BUFFALO AKG ART MUSEUM | $6,000 |
| ROCHESTER MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER | $5,000 |
| BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR RESEACH FOUNDATI | $5,000 |
| BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| GEVA THEATER CENTER | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| WXXIPUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| MAZON | $5,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $4,500 |
| UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MU | $4,500 |
| BUFFALO TORONTO PUBLIC MEDIA | $4,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
109 repeat relationships: 74 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call). Read against FY2025, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $83k · revenue +98%- MAMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger9× · 2017–2025 · $49k · revenue +50%
THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ROCHESTERSYRone grant, 2017 · $4k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMone grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue 0%
- WNWESTERN NY PUBLIC BROADCASTINGone grant, 2023 · $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 mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
How this is measured
77 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 77 of the 134 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds AICE INC AMERICAN-ISRAELI COOPERATIVE ENTERPRISE ↗
- Who funds NAMI National ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds EXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ELIE WIESEL FOUNDATION 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: The Baird Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The Western New York Foundation · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Simple Gifts Fund · Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Joseph and Anna Gartner Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Joseph and Anna Gartner Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Bridges Homeward Inc: 77% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc: 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- Simmons University: 1% of income from government
- Jewish Community Day School Inc: 1% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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