· 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.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $113k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $365k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BISHOP LUDDEN JR SR HIGH SCHOOL | $250,000 |
| BUFFALO CREEK ACADEMY | $200,000 |
| BUFFALO AKG ART MUSEUM | $60,000 |
| GOLISANO INSTITUTE | $55,200 |
| SHEA'S PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $50,000 |
| BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $25,000 |
| CITIZEN SCIENCE COMMUNITY RESOURCES | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION | $23,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| YWCA OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIER | $20,000 |
| NONE LIKE YOU - WE CARE OUTREACH | $7,600 |
| ELMWOOD FRANKLIN SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| MOTHERS AGAINST VIOLENCE OF BUFFALO INC | $6,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ITALIAN HERITAGE 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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $81k) 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +29% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
81 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 62 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $182k 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
- SJST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2023 · $326k · revenue +29%
- TBTHE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC8× · 2017–2024 · $308k · revenue +118%
- BCBUFFALO CREEK ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL3× · 2021–2024 · $213k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- ACASPEN CLIMATE SUMMIT SPONSORSHIPone grant, 2022 · $50k
- WAWOMENS AND CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $39k
- HPHARRISON'S PLAYMAKERSone grant, 2022 · $30k
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 educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Establish and operate a charter school to prepare our diverse community of students to succeed academically and professionally regardless of background and circumstance.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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…
St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To assist the faculty of the department of pediatrics at the university at buffalo in the delivery of health care, improve the ability of the faculty to perform clinical research, maximize resources to foster academic, research and…
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To provide quality, affordable child care for the families of students, faculty and staff of the college, as well as families of other new york state employees and community members.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Hospital of Buffalo Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Thurman Thomas Family Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
81 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. 81 of the 200 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 BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO CREEK ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds MEDAILLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds WNY WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Franciscan Center Inc ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds WNY HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF NIAGARA FRONTIER INC ↗
- Who funds GERARD PLACE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds HEART LOVE & SOUL INC ↗
- Who funds THE VALLEY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION 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 · 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
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 Osc 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.
- Pillar Care Continuum — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.