New York · Public charity
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.
- $15k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $5k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,074
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,074
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 2
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.0M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations The Junior League of Buffalo Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $186k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $5k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $186k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $201k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $7k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $7k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $7k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $29k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $546k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts Avenue Project Inc | $300,000 | 2 | 36% |
| Torn Space Theater Inc | $275,000 | 1 | 26% |
| Westminster Economic Development Initiative Inc | $193,500 | 1 | 3% |
| The Tool Library Inc | $175,000 | 1 | 23% |
| Grassroots Gardens of Western New York Inc | $14,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Project Monas House Inc | $11,070 | 1 | 2% |
| The Service Collaborative of Wny | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Buffalo Prenatal-Perinatal Network Inc | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Stitch Buffalo Inc | $5,074 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
The Junior League of Buffalo Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 Western New York Foundation · Rich Family Foundation · United Way of Buffalo and Erie County · The John R Oishei Foundation · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · The Frank G Raichle Foundation · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · The Baird Foundation · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · Health Foundation for Western & Central New York
How this is measured
About The Junior League of Buffalo Inc
- How much does The Junior League of Buffalo Inc give?
- The Junior League of Buffalo Inc reported 1 itemized grants totaling $5,074, out of $14,648 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Junior League of Buffalo Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (37%), Food & Nutrition (32%), Arts & Culture (28%).
- Who are The Junior League of Buffalo Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Massachusetts Avenue Project Inc ($300k), Torn Space Theater Inc ($275k), Westminster Economic Development Initiative Inc ($194k).
- Does The Junior League of Buffalo Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Junior League of Buffalo Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, The Western New York Foundation, Rich Family Foundation.
- Where is The Junior League of Buffalo Inc based?
- The Junior League of Buffalo Inc is based in NY.
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