· Private foundation
The Statler Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $35,000 |
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 (FY19–19, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +18% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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 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.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 42 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Statler Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Statler Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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