· Private foundation
The Robert J & Martha B Fierle Fndn
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 $10k10 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $189k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RURAL OUTREACH CENTER | $30,000 |
| BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY BOTANICAL GARDENS | $28,300 |
| BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | $25,000 |
| JERICHO ROAD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $20,000 |
| BUFFALO CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY | $20,000 |
| JUST BUFFALO LITERARY CENTER | $15,000 |
| HORIZON HEALTH SERVICES | $11,016 |
| HALLWALLS CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER | $10,000 |
| CEPA GALLERY | $10,000 |
| BUFFALO AUDUBON TRILLIUM NATURE CENTER | $10,000 |
| JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF BUFFALO | $5,000 |
| FEEDMORE WNY | $5,000 |
| VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $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 (FY17–25, $251k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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
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 +58% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
The Rural Outreach Center Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $210k · revenue +179%
JERICHO ROAD MINISTRIES INC7× · 2019–2025 · $107k · revenue +157%- CFCenter for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- BSBARD SANCTUARY FUNDone grant, 2024 · $15k
- HHHORIZON HEALTH ALLIANCE LTDgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +84%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
The legal aid bureau of buffalo, inc., a not-for-profit organization, provides legal representation to financially needy men, women and children in western new york. through its skilled staff, the legal aid bureau seeks equal justice for…
To attract new employers to the buffalo niagara region through outreach to growing companies around the world. to support business attraction, expansion and entrepreneurship, invest buffalo niagara collaborates with local businesses,…
To acquire, remediate, and steward lands along wny's waterfronts prioritizing public access.
The community health center of buffalo, inc operates four freestanding federally qualified health centers licensed as a diagnostic and treatment center under article 28 of the ny state health law. the center provides a broad range of…
Founded in 1987, leadership buffalo, inc conducts programs designed to enhance development of long-term leadership in the greater buffalo, ny community. the organization develops and unites leaders of diverse backgrounds and perspectives…
By mobilizing members and strategic partners around common goals, the partnership grows private investment and jobs in buffalo niagara through advocacy, business development, and convening.
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 improve the quality of life for elderly, disabled and low-income persons in the western new york area through the provision of free civil legal services. the primary goal is to use the legal system to assure that clients may live…
We. empower. veterans. the veterans one-stop center of wny, inc. is the region's premiere veterans service and advocacy not-for-profit collaborative agency empowering veterans, veteran families and service members in achieving economic…
Lawny increases access to justice through excellent legal representation, advocacy and service.
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,…
We welcome all western new yorkers for high quality, patient-centered primary healthcare.
How this is measured
32 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. 32 of the 57 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 Rural Outreach Center Inc ↗
- Who funds JERICHO ROAD MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds JUST BUFFALO LITERARY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HORIZON HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE FARM COLLECTIVE CORP ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds VIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds FISH OF EAST AURORA INC ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE MICHAELS OF THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ELMA MARILLA AND WALES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds HALLWALLS INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZON HEALTH ALLIANCE LTD ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LOTHLORIEN THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA 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 John R Oishei Foundation · Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc · Cullen Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · United Way of Buffalo and Erie County · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · The Frank G Raichle Foundation · Simple Gifts Fund · Cullen Foundation of Western New York Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Robert J & Martha B Fierle Fndn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert J & Martha B Fierle Fndn. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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