· Private foundation
The Statler Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $264k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA | $167,644 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA | $131,247 |
| ERIE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $126,000 |
| THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSISTY | $122,924 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $116,492 |
| CARDINAL O'HARA HIGH SCHOOL | $90,000 |
| NIAGARA UNIVERSITY | $72,600 |
| PAUL SMITH'S COLLEGE | $60,010 |
| NIAGARA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $59,100 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $55,341 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DENVER | $54,138 |
| SAY YES TO EDUCATION | $48,146 |
| BUFFALO STATE UNIVERSITY | $45,000 |
| ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $44,707 |
| SUNY COBLESKILL | $35,000 |
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 (FY19–19, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +18% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k 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
CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA5× · 2019–2024 · $808k · revenue +18%
NIAGARA UNIVERSITY5× · 2019–2024 · $410k · revenue +34%- PSPAUL SMITHS COLLEGE5× · 2019–2024 · $356k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- IUIndiana University School of Medicineone grant, 2021 · $125k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2019 · $68k
CRADLE BEACH INCone grant, 2019 · $60k · revenue -5%
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 educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.
Founded by the sisters of charity of new york, the university of mount saint vincent is an academically excellent, authentically inclusive, catholic and ecumenical liberal arts university. (cont. in sch.o)
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
Molloy university, an independent catholic university, rooted in the dominican tradition of study, spirituality, service, and community, is committed to academic excellence with respect for each person. through transformative education,…
Private, independent university providing higher education to students. The mission of Daemen University is to prepare creative, ethically-minded leaders for a diverse and interconnected world by integrating the intellectual strengths…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
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Marist university is dedicated to helping students develop the intellect, character and skills required for enlightened, ethical, and productive lives in the global community of the 21st century.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Niagara University and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Night People Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 75 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
17 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. 17 of the 42 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 CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PAUL SMITHS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SAY YES TO EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds ERIE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds MERCYHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds CRADLE BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE GUEST HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA LUTHERAN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NIGHT PEOPLE 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: The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · East Hill Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · Evans Devereux Memorial Fund Ua 11 Uw Virginia Devereux · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Statler Foundation 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.
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