· Private foundation
The Paul J Koessler Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $181k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $113k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CANISIUS HIGH SCHOOL | $113,410 |
| BUFFALO MARITIME CENTER | $40,000 |
| HOME OF MY OWN OF WNY | $31,000 |
| SISTERS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BORNHAVA | $25,000 |
| TROCAIRE COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| HAITI DENTAL STGEORGE RC CHURCH | $10,000 |
| BUFFALO OLMSTED PARKS CONSRCY | $10,000 |
| SABAH INC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| BUFFALO NIAGARA WATERKEEPER | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FOUNDATION OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC | $2,000 |
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 (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
20 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CHCANISIUS HIGH SCHOOL6× · 2019–2024 · $424k
BUFFALO MARITIME CENTER INC6× · 2019–2024 · $223k · revenue +191%- SOSISTERS OF CHARITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $150k · revenue -30%
Funded once
- OCOLV CHARITIESone grant, 2023 · $42k
- UPUNIVERSAL POSSIBILITIESone grant, 2023 · $25k
- JGJUST GET OUTSIDE INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · 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.
Inspire joyful exploration of science and nature through engaging experiences, unique resources, and exceptional staff.
To acquire, remediate, and steward lands along wny's waterfronts prioritizing public access.
Support the urban economic development efforts of the region through the acquisition, remediation and management of distressed properties
Open Buffalo's mission is to advance racial, economic, and ecological justice through skill building, network connecting, and activating leadership opportunities with the ultimate goal for all communities in Western New York to thrive free…
Building community; creating connections; saving wildlife through a collaboration for change: the buffalo zoo will be a center of conservation excellence, providing leadership to secure a future where wildlife thrives. we embody our…
Create new public golf and recreation amenities in the city of buffalo; assist in the restoration of frederick law olmsted's south park arboretum; and construct a new education center for underserved, minority youth.
Development of downtown
Committed to jobs creation, material reuse and recycling, and community betterment
The organization's exempt purpose is to promote and cultivate the quality of education and activities for students of the state university of new york at buffalo. the organization carries out those charitable and educational purposes by…
The organization was formed for the specific purpose of operating, maintaining and protecting parks and public spaces in the city of buffalo, new york, including but not limited to parks and public spaces owned or operated by the city of…
To promote, sponsor, and provide facilities for ice hockey for the youth of buffalo and surrounding areas.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 32 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 MARITIME CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SISTERS OF CHARITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VICTORY SPORTS GLOBAL OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO NIAGARA WATERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds SKATING ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND & HAND ↗
- Who funds TROCAIRE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds HOME OF MY OWN OF WNY INC ↗
- Who funds Community Music School ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSAL POSSIBILITIES ↗
- Who funds JUST GET OUTSIDE INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO SCHOLASTIC ROWING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BACK TO BASICS OUTREACH MINISTRIES ↗
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 Baird Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Kenneth & Katherine Koessler Family Foundation Inc · Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc · The John R Oishei Foundation · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · The Hunt Charitable Foundation Inc · The Osc Charitable Foundation · The Frank G Raichle Foundation · Cullen Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Paul J Koessler Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Paul J Koessler Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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