· Private foundation
The Penn Schoellkopf Fund Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Jacobs Institute | $15,000 |
| Buffalo Therapeutic Riding Center | $5,000 |
| Stephen Comunale Cancer Foundation | $3,000 |
| Feedmore WNY | $3,000 |
| Danny & Ron's Rescue - Save the Strays | $3,000 |
| Salvation Army | $3,000 |
| Genesee Valley Conservancy | $2,000 |
| Planned Parenthood | $2,000 |
| SPCA | $2,000 |
| St Francis Roman Catholic Church in Tonawanda | $2,000 |
| King Urban Life Center | $1,000 |
| Elmwood Franklin School | $1,000 |
| Nichols School | $1,000 |
| Ronald McDonald House | $1,000 |
| Westminster Economic Development Initiative | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–18, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +20% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- TJTHE JACOBS INSTITUTE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $38k · revenue +20%
- BTBUFFALO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +37%
- NSNICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO9× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- MSMadiera Schoolone grant, 2017 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $1k
- FOFriends of Knox Farmone grant, 2022 · $1k
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 acquire, remediate, and steward lands along wny's waterfronts prioritizing public access.
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…
South buffalo charter school provides elementary education to students in grades kindergarten through eighth grade. we are a professional learning community. our focus on learning is driven by research, data and collaborative reflection to…
With unrelenting determination and a commitment to excellence, buffalo collegiate charter school educated students in grades 4 through 12 to graduate from the college of their choice and serve as our next generation of leaders. the…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Establish and operate a charter school to prepare our diverse community of students to succeed academically and professionally regardless of background and circumstance.
Excellence community schools prepares young people in new york city and stamford to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and…
Inspire joyful exploration of science and nature through engaging experiences, unique resources, and exceptional staff.
The school engages the student in a diverse and creative community that nurtures the joy and responsibility of active learning in all, from our youngest learners to our graduates, who leave with the skills essential to college success and…
Engage young minds through projects and partnerships.
At brick buffalo academy charter school ("bracs"), we will graduate a community of learners who will contribute positively to our global society and embrace their role as architects in building a just and better world. we use a holistic…
The buffalo erie niagara land improvement corporation (benlic) seeks to confront and alleviate the problems distressed properties cause to communities by supporting municipal and regional revitalization efforts and strategically acquiring,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Buffalo Prep Inc and the most unlike its peers is Danny & Rons Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 32 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 THE JACOBS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds DANNY & RONS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Genesee Valley Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds ELMWOOD-FRANKLIN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CRADLE BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds KING URBAN LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds OMEGA HORSE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds CAL FIRE BENEVOLENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO PREP 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 Margaret L Wendt Foundation · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc · The Osc Charitable Foundation · The Frank G Raichle Foundation · The Baird Foundation · Edwin M Johnston Jr Family Foundation · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · The Western New York Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · The Helen Dent Lenahan 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 Penn Schoellkopf Fund Inc 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.
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.