· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against -5% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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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.
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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.
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How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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 · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Montani Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Montani Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Boston Home Inc: 45% of income from government
How this is measured
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