New York · Private foundation
The Vincent & Harriet Palisano Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $166k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 23
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations The Vincent & Harriet Palisano Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $166k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $175k | 4% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $146k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $229k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $259k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roswell Park Alliance Foundation | $189,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Canisius University | $100,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Villa Maria College of Buffalo | $70,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Niagara University | $58,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Medaille University | $58,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Mt Mercy Academy | $37,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Trocaire College | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Hilbert College | $22,500 | 5 | 0% |
| D'Youville University | $22,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Cardinal O'Hara High School | $18,750 | 5 | n/a |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roswell Park Alliance Foundation | $189,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Canisius University | $100,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Villa Maria College of Buffalo | $70,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Niagara University | $58,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Medaille University | $58,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Mt Mercy Academy | $37,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Trocaire College | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Hilbert College | $22,500 | 5 | 0% |
| D'Youville University | $22,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Cardinal O'Hara High School | $18,750 | 5 | n/a |
| St Josephs Collegiate Institute | $18,750 | 5 | n/a |
| Canisius High School | $18,750 | 5 | n/a |
| Buffalo Academy of the Sacred Heart Inc | $18,750 | 5 | n/a |
| N a R D I N Academy | $18,750 | 5 | n/a |
| Bishop Timonst Jude High School | $18,750 | 5 | n/a |
| Nichols School of Buffalo | $18,750 | 5 | 0% |
| St Francis High School | $18,750 | 5 | n/a |
| Daemen University | $15,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Kleinhans Music Hall Management Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($213k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Vincent & Harriet Palisano 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
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About The Vincent & Harriet Palisano Foundation
- How much does The Vincent & Harriet Palisano Foundation give?
- The Vincent & Harriet Palisano Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $165,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 23 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The Vincent & Harriet Palisano Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (79%), Health (19%), Arts & Culture (2%).
- Who are The Vincent & Harriet Palisano Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Roswell Park Alliance Foundation ($189k), Canisius University ($100k), Villa Maria College of Buffalo ($70k).
- Does The Vincent & Harriet Palisano Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Vincent & Harriet Palisano Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Vincent & Harriet Palisano Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, Education Collaborative of Wny Inc, James H Cummings Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Vincent & Harriet Palisano Foundation based?
- The Vincent & Harriet Palisano Foundation is based in NY.
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