· Private foundation
The Macmurtrie Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE PET PANTRY AT ST MATTHIAS | $500 |
| HEART OF NIAGARA ANIMAL RESCUE | $500 |
| NIAGARA COUNTY SPCA | $500 |
| TEN LIVES CLUB | $500 |
| KAT COLONY OF NIAGARA | $500 |
| FEED MORE WNY FOUNDATION | $500 |
| BUFFALO CITY MISSION | $500 |
| FERAL CATS FOCUS OF WNY | $500 |
| NIAGARA GOSPEL RESCUE MISSION | $500 |
| HEART LOVE & SOUL | $500 |
| GOOSENECK HILL WATERFOWL SANCTUARY | $500 |
| HAWK CREEK WILDLIFE CENTER | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $6k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
14 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- NCNIAGARA COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $5k · revenue +14%
HEART LOVE & SOUL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $4k · revenue +53%- NGNIAGARA GOSPEL RESCUE MISSION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $4k · revenue +517%
Funded once
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To provide services to homeless animals
Heartland humane society is a no-kill shelter for dogs and cats. the mission is to provide temporary shelter and care to homeless/lost animals, to educate the public on proper care of animals, and to promote neuter and spay programs.
To educate the residents of erie county on proper care, housing and support of animals; to prevent animal cruelty in erie county, and to provide temporary shelter for homeless pets.
The society exists to educate the public on care and responsible treatment of animals to humanely provide for and protect unwanted lost and abused animals and to create a quality environment for all animals through its policies and…
The sanctuary's mission is to provide permanent care, including shelter, food, vetrinary care and medicine for all of our animals, all of whom are not adoptable, in our cage free, no-kill shelter. the sanctuary also operates a low cost…
We are an animal shelter that houses, vets and feeds stray animals in our area.
Rescue abandoned dogs from out of nys
The Organization's mission is to rescue dogs from high-kill animal shelters and place them in loving forever homes. All dogs rescued are given necessary medical care prior to adoption, including required vaccinations. Dogs are placed in…
The Betterment of the lives of stray, owned and abandoned companion animals in Saginaw County, MI. Our county has over 20,000 households living below the federal poverty guidelines that own at least one pet. We are their safety net. We…
Dog rescue and care nurturing finding a home
The potsdam humane society operates a not-for-profit animal shelter, which provides care and protection to animals in need, including the returning of lost pets to their homes, giving proper medical attention and/or arranging for their…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Niagara Gospel Rescue Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Heart of Niagara Animal Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 NIAGARA COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds HEART LOVE & SOUL INC ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA GOSPEL RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF NIAGARA ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds TEN LIVES CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds HAWK CREEK WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDMORE WNY FOUNDATION 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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Joanne and Frank Collins Charitable Foundation · E&W G Foundation · The Baird Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organization The Macmurtrie Foundation 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.
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 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.
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