New York · Private foundation
The Osc Charitable Foundation
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.
- $800k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2024
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 32 to 65
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 47% of the organizations The Osc Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 38 | $800k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $669k | 47% |
| FY2022 | 60 | $409k | 37% |
| FY2021 | 42 | $389k | 69% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $296k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 65 | $280k | 46% |
| FY2018 | 46 | $334k | 35% |
| FY2017 | 51 | $234k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buffalo Fine Arts Academy | $464,908 | 8 | 0% |
| St John Fisher University | $326,256 | 7 | 0% |
| The Bison Children's Scholarship Fund Inc | $308,190 | 8 | 2% |
| Buffalo Creek Academy Charter School | $212,591 | 3 | 6% |
| The Children's Hospital of Buffalo Foundation | $138,878 | 5 | 0% |
| Bishop Timonst Jude High School | $92,332 | 3 | n/a |
| Nichols School of Buffalo | $87,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Medaille University | $77,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities of Buffalo | $73,575 | 4 | 0% |
| Citizens Science Community Resources Inc | $53,200 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 99 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 101 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Osc Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · The Baird Foundation · Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc · Cullen Foundation · Rich Family Foundation
How this is measured
About The Osc Charitable Foundation
- How much does The Osc Charitable Foundation give?
- The Osc Charitable Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $799,850 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 65 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Osc Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (43%), Arts & Culture (18%), Health (13%).
- Who are The Osc Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Buffalo Fine Arts Academy ($465k), St John Fisher University ($326k), The Bison Children's Scholarship Fund Inc ($308k).
- Does The Osc Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Osc Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Osc Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation, The Western New York Foundation.
- Where is The Osc Charitable Foundation based?
- The Osc Charitable Foundation is based in NY.
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