· Private foundation
The Montgomery Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k6 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $230k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | $40,000 |
| ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION | $39,500 |
| BUFFALO MUSEUM OF SCIENCE TIFFT NATURE PRESERVE | $30,000 |
| MUSICAL FARE THEATRE | $25,000 |
| SENECA STREET COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| THE JACKSON LABORATORY | $15,000 |
| NEW CANAAN NATURE CENTER | $10,000 |
| PARK SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| MIRACLE LEAGUE OF CONNECTICUT | $10,000 |
| KEVIN GUEST HOUSE | $5,000 |
| A BETTER CHANCE NEW CANAAN | $5,000 |
| SENECA STREET UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| VETERANS'S ONE-STOP CENTER OF WNY | $2,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 93% 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 +35% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 4 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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
- SSSENECA STREET COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION6× · 2020–2025 · $145k · revenue +4%
- MLMIRACLE LEAGUE OF CONNECTICUT INC5× · 2021–2025 · $60k · revenue +11%
- NCNew Canaan Nature Center Association Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- TPTHE PARK SCHOOL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $200k
- EMEXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUMone grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +11%
- BCBEECHWOOD CONTINUING CARE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $90k
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.
Providing outstanding leadership in medicine by promoting excellence and innovation in clinical care, education, and public policy
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…
The mission of the racine zoological society is to foster an enlightening and affordable wildlife experience that improves the bond between people and nature. the society will provide for the recreation and education of the people, the…
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.
Wmc new york, inc. shall at all times be operated exclusively for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes within the meaning of section 170(c)(2)(b) and 501(c)(3) of the code, and for the purpose of engaging in various activities…
To advance the health of our community by providing care management and support to families experiencing physical, mental, or behavioral issues with their child. this is done by advancing innovative practices, by collaborating with…
The foundation exists to support the vision and mission of the brooklyn hospital center (tbhc) through a charitable organization committed to the brooklyn community. the primary purpose and scope of the foundation is to support a broad…
The mission of healthix inc. is to create an achievable, sustainable and replicable model for integrating clinical information across multiple health care organizations which supports new york state and federal strategic health information…
Bronx children's museum's mission is to foster curiosity, creativity, and a lifelong love of learning for children and families regardless of background. we provide a gateway for more than 100,000 children annually to arts, culture, and…
Zoo new york, by example and action, provides knowledge and motivation for conserving nature in new york state through science-based natural and cultural experiences.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The organization operates an incubator facility to identify and aid start-up businesses with a purpose of stimulating development and increasing interaction between the university at buffalo and such businesses.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kaleida Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife in Crisis Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
21 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. 21 of the 47 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 ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SENECA STREET COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PARK SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds New Canaan Nature Center Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds KALEIDA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KEVIN GUEST HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds COVENANT SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE JACOBS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds HAMBURG ALUMNI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CRADLE BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 716 Squash 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: The Baird Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · Cullen Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Ferguson Electric Foundation · Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc · The Osc Charitable Foundation · East Hill Foundation · E&W G Foundation · James H Cummings Foundation Inc
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 Montgomery Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Miracle League of Connecticut Inc — 0% 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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