New York · Private foundation
The Vera B Arrison Foundation
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.
- $145k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 23
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations The Vera B Arrison Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $145k | 5% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $147k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $138k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $180k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $126k | 37% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $110k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Men's Christian Association Buffalo Niagara | $83,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Gliding Starsinc | $60,000 | 6 | 4% |
| The Teachers Desk Inc | $55,000 | 6 | 3% |
| PKD Foundation | $45,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Opportunities Collaborative for Students with Special Needs Inc | $35,000 | 5 | 11% |
| Feedmore Wny Foundation Inc | $34,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Nichols School of Buffalo | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Clement and Karen Arrison Legacy Foundation | $25,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Wings Flights of Hope | $24,500 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Men's Christian Association Buffalo Niagara | $83,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Gliding Starsinc | $60,000 | 6 | 4% |
| The Teachers Desk Inc | $55,000 | 6 | 3% |
| PKD Foundation | $45,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Opportunities Collaborative for Students with Special Needs Inc | $35,000 | 5 | 11% |
| Feedmore Wny Foundation Inc | $34,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Nichols School of Buffalo | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Clement and Karen Arrison Legacy Foundation | $25,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Wings Flights of Hope | $24,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Buffalo Peace House Inc | $20,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Daemen University | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Canisius University | $16,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $13,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Kidney Health Together | $12,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Carmen a Campolo Memorial Fund Inc | $10,000 | 5 | n/a |
| The Rural Outreach Center Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| National Rowing Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wny Heroes Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| St Josephs Indian School | $6,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Fairfield University | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kidney Foundation of Wny Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($300k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Vera B Arrison Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
About The Vera B Arrison Foundation
- How much does The Vera B Arrison Foundation give?
- The Vera B Arrison Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $144,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Vera B Arrison Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (22%), Education (20%), Housing & Shelter (15%).
- Who are The Vera B Arrison Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Young Men's Christian Association Buffalo Niagara ($83k), Gliding Starsinc ($60k), The Teachers Desk Inc ($55k).
- Does The Vera B Arrison Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Vera B Arrison Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Vera B Arrison Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, The Margaret L Wendt Foundation, The Baird Foundation.
- Where is The Vera B Arrison Foundation based?
- The Vera B Arrison Foundation is based in NY.
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