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THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BUFFALO INC
The junior league of buffalo is an organization of women whose mission is to advance women's leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration, and training.
$198k
Granted FY2024
2
Grants
1
Communities
$175k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Community Improvement$369kHuman Services$311kArts & Culture$275kEnvironment$14kPhilanthropy$7kHealth$7k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
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2020
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2021
gardens
2022
gardens
2023
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2024
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2025
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 2 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $175k
$175,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
- THE TOOL LIBRARY$175,000
- PROJECT MONA'S HOUSE$11,070
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $311k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
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Western Ny Coalition of Farmworker
Facilitate information exchange, advocacy, collaboration among organizations that serve farmworkers.
Human Services
2
Worker Justice Center of New York Inc
Provides legal assistance to farmworkers and other low wage workers in New York State.
Crime & Legal
3
East End Food Institute
East End Food is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to support, promote and advocate for farmers and producers, while ensuring everyone in the community can enjoy and be nourished by local food. We envision the East End of Long…
Food & Nutrition
4
Syracuse Grows Inc
A grassroots network that cultivates food justice through advocacy, education, and resources in support of urban food production.
Food & Nutrition
5
New York Sustainable Agriculture Working
New York Sustainable Agricultural Working Group (NYSAWG) is a not-for-profit organization located in western New York to raise awareness of issues affecting the sustainability of the food and agriculture system. The Organizations mission…
Food & Nutrition
6
East Buffalo Development Corporation
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…
Community Improvement
7
Workers' Center of Central New York Inc
Grassroots Organization focused on workplace and economic justice. Through policy advocacy, leadership development, organizing, and popular education, they support and empower low-wage workers from all backgrounds to combat workplace…
Human Services
8
Good Work Institute Inc
To strengthen collaboration and encourage transition to regenerative systems.
Human Services
9
Western Ny Book Arts Collaborative Inc
To promote, encourage and develop printing and book related arts through education and access for individual artists and underserved communities.
Arts & Culture
10
Wedontwaste Inc
We Dont Waste increases food access and protects the planet by rescuing and repurposing food, while educating and advocating to increase food security and decrease food waste.
Food & Nutrition
11
Reentry Association of Wny Inc
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.
Crime & Legal
12
Goodwill Theatre Inc
The mission of Goodwill Theatre Inc. is to enrich our community by providing access to professional quality performing arts, entertainment, and events in a multi-stage complex.
Arts & Culture
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Westminster Economic Development and the most unlike its peers is Project Monas House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Community Improvement$368,500Human Services$311,070Arts & Culture$275,000Environment$14,000Philanthropy$7,000Health$7,000
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 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TORN SPACE THEATER ↗
- Who funds WESTMINISTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE TOOL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds GRASSROOTS GARDENS OF WESTERN NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds PROJECT MONA'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE SERVICE COLLABORATIVE OF WNY ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO PRENATAL-PERINATAL NETWORK 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.
Community Foundation for Greater BuffaloNY22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo · United Way of Buffalo and Erie County · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · Rich Family Foundation · Health Foundation for Western & Central · First Niagara Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 organisation THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BUFFALO 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE PROJECT INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~8 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +59% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 161585356 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE PROJECT INC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 8 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 36% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The Junior League of Buffalo Inc?
Find your warmest path to The Junior League of Buffalo Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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