· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| YWCA OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIER | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
81 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. 81 of the 200 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 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 CITY MISSION SOCIETY 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 · 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Osc Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Osc Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Pillar Care Continuum: 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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