How much did THE SEYMOUR H KNOX FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2021?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 100% of THE SEYMOUR H KNOX FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

educationmedical

2021

museummusic

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2021 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

Under $10k14 grants · $14k
$250k+1 grant · $20M

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC$19,644,400
BUFFALO SHAMROCKS HOCKEY CLUB INC$2,000
716 SQUASH INC$1,500
CAZENOVIA COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC$1,000
BROOKS SCHOOL$1,000
MJ RUBENSTEIN MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY$1,000
NICHOLS SCHOOL$1,000
GEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM$1,000
LAKE FOREST COLLEGE$1,000
ARTPARK & COMPANY INC$1,000
CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION$1,000
BUFFALO ARTS STUDIO$1,000
UB FOUNDATION$500
SPORTSMENS AMERICAN MUSIC FOUNDATION$500
MUSIC IS ART$500

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

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.

Niagara University

Niagara university educates its students and enriches their lives though programs in the liberal arts and through career preparation, informed by the catholic and vincentian traditions.

Education

Nichols School of Buffalo

Private co-educational secondary school serving grades 5-12 with a 2022-23 enrollment of 579 students.

Education

Erie Art Museum

Museum promotes visual arts and builds community through exhibitions, classes, and performances.

Arts & Culture

Buffalo Sabres Alumni Association

Philanthropy

Syracuse Arts Academy

The education of students grades k-9.

Education

Great Lakes Center for the Arts

Educate and serve all in northern michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.

Arts & Culture

Syracuse University

Syracuse university is a non-profit research university devoted to education, research and public engagement.

Education

University of Rochester

The provision of higher education in the liberal arts and sciences, medicine and dentistry, nursing and music; research; and charitable patient care services.

Education

Le Moyne College

The college is a diverse learning community that strives for academic excellence in the catholic and jesuit tradition through comprehensive programs.

Education

Brockport Community Museum

Arts & Culture

Long Island University

Provide excellence and access in education to those who seek to expand their knowledge. see sch o.

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St John's University New York

St. john's university is a catholic, vincentian, metropolitan, and global institution of higher education.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Buffalo Arts Studio and the most unlike its peers is George Eastman Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

11/12

Grantees still filing

11/12

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$20,150,400Health$60,000Education$3,000Arts & Culture$2,500Recreation & Sports$2,000Public Benefit$1,500

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.

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.

Cullen FoundationNY15.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cullen Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · Rich Family Foundation · The Baird Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · Foundation for Jewish · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 organisation THE SEYMOUR H KNOX 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.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BUFFALO PREP.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~6 months of operating runway; revenue held over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 161359846 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on BUFFALO PREP, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 6 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue held over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Seymour H Knox Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Seymour H Knox Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE SEYMOUR H KNOX FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Seymour H Knox Foundation Inc?

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THE SEYMOUR H KNOX FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Seymour H Knox Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph