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The Montani Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $290k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NIAGARA UNIVERSITY | $125,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO | $65,000 |
| ST WILLIAMS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| NIAGARA COMMUNITY CENTER | $25,000 |
| THE BOSTON HOME | $15,000 |
| HARVEST OF HOPE | $15,000 |
| HEART LOVE AND SOUL | $7,500 |
| SOUTHEAST GEORGIA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
NIAGARA UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $680k · revenue +36%
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO6× · 2020–2025 · $360k · revenue +5%- UAUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $200k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- SPST PETERS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $10k
- COCollege Of Coastal Georgia Foundation Incone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -5%
MOUNT ST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -7%
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.
The foundation's specific purpose is to solicit, receive, and maintain gifts of money and property, and to make decisions on the distributions of such money and property, to support albany general hospital and health svcs in the general…
The organization's mission is to carry out the purposes of the univ. at buffalo foundation, inc. and the univ. at buffalo by administering research grants; providing financial and administrative services; and acquiring real estate for…
The foundation supports the law school in its mission to increase access to legal education to those from groups underrepresented in the profession and to prepare its graduates for public interest and public service practice.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
To support and strengthen the fundraising programs of the state university of new york at oneonta so that gifts and grants are raised for student scholarships, faculty/student research, lectureships, and numerous academic and institutional…
The foundation shall be formed to support and advance the educational and research activities of the cuny graduate school of public health and health policy by raising funds and making contributions and grants to the graduate school of…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christs healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
The continuing care foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit 501(c) 3 corporation with the sole purpose of raising funds for the benefit of catholic health system home and community based care western new york.
Established to receive and administer gifts and bequests and to pay monies in support of the charitable purposes of Syracuse Home Association and other not-for-profit organizations primarily in Onondaga County.
The mission of the Oswego Health Foundation is to raise and manage philanthropic support for Oswego Health and its not for profit entities as they provide accessible, quality care and improve the health of the residents in our community.
Invest buffalo niagara foundation, inc. is a vehicle to solicit charitable contributions to develop programs, collaborate with, and provide funding to organizations that advance and encourage economic development in western new york.
The goals and objectives of the corporation are as follows:(a) to operate and maintain a nonsectarian, general hospital at one or more locations for the furnishing of inpatient, ambulatory, restorative, preventative and emergency medical…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mount St Mary's Hospital Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Catholic Charities of Buffalo. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 15 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 UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds University at Buffalo Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HEART LOVE & SOUL INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOSTON HOME INC ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HAND IN HAND OF GLYNN INC ↗
- Who funds Southeast Georgia Health System Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds College Of Coastal Georgia Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MOUNT ST MARY'S HOSPITAL 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 · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Montani Family Charitable Foundation 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.
- The Boston Home Inc — 45% of income from government
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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