· Private foundation
The Perna Family Charitable Foundation 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 FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $1,750 |
| CRISIS SERVICES | $1,000 |
| DANCEABILITY INC | $1,000 |
| ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE | $850 |
| ERIE COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION | $500 |
| PEACE PRINTS OF WNY | $500 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH | $350 |
| HOSPICE BUFFALO INC | $200 |
| FEDERATION OF ITALIAN-AMERICAN SOCIETIES OF WESTERN NEW YORK | $125 |
| THE ASSOCIATION OF MARIAN HELPERS | $75 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 6% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +4% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 7 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, 49% 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
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2024–2025 · $4k
- RPROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE2× · 2024–2025 · $2k
- ECERIE COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $700 · revenue +4%
Funded once
- TRTHE RIDE FOR ROSWELLone grant, 2024 · $500
- DUD'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $500 · revenue 0%
- NONATIVITY OF OUR LORD CATHOLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $200
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.
The mission of the hospice foundation of western new york is tosolicit, accept, administer and invest charitable funds on behalf ofhospice & palliative care buffalo, inc. and its affiliates. theseinclude: hospice buffalo, inc., the…
We are western new york's community based healthcare organization dedicated to the care and support of individuals with a serious or end of life illness. we represent a passionate and diverse team of professionals dedicated to the holistic…
Health care system management and support
University at buffalo surgeons, inc., is a large team of surgeons dedicated to the improvement of the health of our patients, cutting edge research, and the professional development of our students and residents. we are committed to…
We, st. joseph's medical and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. joseph's medical is a member of st. joseph's health and trinity health.
To provide primary emergency care medical services in wny and clinical instruction and supervision to the students of the jacobs school of medicine at the state university of new york at buffalo.
The corporation assists the state university of new york at buffalo department of psychiatry in the delivery of health care, recruitment and retention of teaching physicians, and support of research in the field of psychiatry.
University at buffalo neurosurgery, inc. is an academic neurosurgical group committed to excellence in patient care, research, and education. our mission is to develop and implement sound strategies that focus on quality medical services,…
Provide orthopaedic services to the patients of wny as well as provide clinical instruction to the students and residents of suny buffalo jacobs school of medicine.
University urology, inc. is organized exclusively for the purposes of supporting the educational mission of the jacobs school of medicine at the state university of new york at buffalo (school) by participating in the plan for the…
Academic medicine services, inc. (ams) exists to further the educational and research mission of the department of medicine and jacobs school of medicine at the state university of new york at buffalo.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice Buffalo Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Federation of Italian American Societies of Western New York. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 15 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 SUICIDE PREVENTION & CRISIS SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds DANCEABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds ERIE COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds D'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds WINGS FLIGHTS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds The Federation of Italian American Societies of Western New York ↗
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: The John R Oishei Foundation · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Perna Family Charitable Foundation 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.