· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Salvation Army | $3,000 |
| Danny & Ron's Rescue - Save the Strays | $3,000 |
| Feedmore WNY | $3,000 |
| SPCA | $2,000 |
| St Francis Roman Catholic Church in Tonawanda | $2,000 |
| Genesee Valley Conservancy | $2,000 |
| Planned Parenthood | $2,000 |
| Westminster Economic Development Initiative | $1,000 |
| Nichols School | $1,000 |
| Ronald McDonald House | $1,000 |
| Elmwood Franklin School | $1,000 |
| King Urban Life Center | $1,000 |
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 (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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- BOBUFFALO OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY INCone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue 0%
- CFCAL FIRE BENEVOLENT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +0%
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 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,…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 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 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 ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Penn Schoellkopf Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Penn Schoellkopf Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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