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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.

$15k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Community Improvement$369kFood & Nutrition$314kArts & Culture$280kHuman Services$11kPhilanthropy$7kHealth$7k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $5,074, the rows itemized in this filing. The $14,648 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $9,574 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$5,074
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STITCH BUFFALO INC$5,074
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $311k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE PROJECT INC: $271k → 13%MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE PROJECT INC: $29k → 13%PROJECT MONA'S HOUSE: $11k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
Western Ny Coalition of Farmworker Serving Agencies Inc

To promote justice, dignity, and equity for migrants and farmworkers through advocacy, education, outreach, and direct services. We empower our communities to achieve self-sufficiency by fostering collaboration among partners.

Human Services
2
Partnership for the Public Good Inc

Partnership for the Public Good, Inc. is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to help build a more just, sustainable, and culturally vibrant community through action-oriented research, policy development, and citizen engagement.

Community Improvement
3
Syracuse Grows Inc

A grassroots network that cultivates food justice through advocacy, education, and resources in support of urban food production.

Food & Nutrition
4
New York Sustainable Agriculture Working Group

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
5
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
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
Worker Justice Center of New York Inc

Worker Justice Center of New York, Inc. (WJCNY) pusues juistice for those denied hian rights, with a focus on agricultural and other low-wage workers, through legal representation, community empowerment and advocacy for institutional…

Crime & Legal
8
Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art

The Buffalo Institiute for Contemporary Art (Bica) is a art and educational project for Buffalo, NY. Through Innovative exhibitions, cross-discipplinary skills-based programming, and arts ecology development, bica mission is to break down…

Arts & Culture
9
Open Buffalo Inc

Open Buffalo's mission is to advance racial, economic, and ecological justice through skill building, network connecting, and activating leadership opportunities with the ultimate goal for all communities in Western New York to thrive free…

Human Services
10
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
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stitch Buffalo Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

9 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WESTMINSTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE INC: $193,500 · Community ImprovementWESTMINSTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIV…The Tool Library Inc: $175,000 · Community ImprovementThe Tool Library IncMassachusetts Avenue Project Inc: $300,000 · Human ServicesMassachusetts Avenue Project IncPROJECT MONAS HOUSE INC: $11,070 · Human ServicesTorn Space Theater Inc: $275,000 · Arts & CultureTorn Space Theater Inc+1 more: $5,074 · Arts & CultureGrassroots Gardens of Western New York Inc: $14,000 · EnvironmentTHE SERVICE COLLABORATIVE OF WNY: $7,000 · PhilanthropyBUFFALO PRENATAL-PERINATAL NETWORK INC: $7,000 · Health
Community Improvement$368,500Human Services$311,070Arts & Culture$280,074Environment$14,000Philanthropy$7,000Health$7,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMassachusetts Avenue Project Inc: $300,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetTorn Space Theater Inc: $275,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetWESTMINSTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE INC: $193,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetThe Tool Library Inc: $175,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetGrassroots Gardens of Western New York Inc: $14,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPROJECT MONAS HOUSE INC: $11,070 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE SERVICE COLLABORATIVE OF WNY: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBUFFALO PRENATAL-PERINATAL NETWORK INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …The Western New York …Rich Family FoundationUnited Way of Buffalo…The John R Oishei Fou…The Margaret L Wendt …First Niagara Foundat…The Frank G Raichle F…James H Cummings Foun…The Baird FoundationBuffalo Bills Foundat…Health Foundation for…
Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY23.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Junior League of Buffalo Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Junior League of Buffalo Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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