· Private foundation
The Vincent & Harriet Palisano Foundation
Its FY2025 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, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $81k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| VILLA MARIA COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| MOUNT MERCY ACADEMY | $7,500 |
| KLEINHANS MUSIC HALL | $5,000 |
| CANISIUS UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| TROCAIRE COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| NIAGARA UNIVERSITY | $4,500 |
| HILBERT COLLEGE | $4,500 |
| D'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITY | $4,500 |
| VILLA MARIA COLLEGE | $4,000 |
| CARDINAL O'HARA HIGH SCHOOL | $3,750 |
| NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL | $3,750 |
| ST JOSEPH'S COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE | $3,750 |
| NICHOLS SCHOOL | $3,750 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CUCANISIUS UNIVERSITY5× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +13%
VILLA MARIA COLLEGE OF BUFFALO5× · 2021–2025 · $70k · revenue +16%
NIAGARA UNIVERSITY5× · 2021–2025 · $59k · revenue +28%
Funded once
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.
Union Institute & University educates highly motivated adults who seek academic programs to engage, enlighten, and empower them to pursue professional goals and a lifetime of learning and service. Offering accredited bachelors, masters,…
Since 1902, Franklin University has been a pioneer in meeting the needs of adult students who have the ambition to continue their education in combination with other responsibilities, receiving its status as a tax exempt organization in…
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
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,…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Rooted in our Mercy Catholic liberal arts identity, we educate and inspire diverse learners in an environment where faith and reason flourish together for meaningful lives, dignified work, and leadership in service toward a just and loving…
Alfred University's mission is helping students realize their purpose. People living a life of purpose enjoy longer and happier lives. Alfred University promotes its mission through three core strengths - Intersections, Mentorship, and…
The College is a diverse learning community that strives for academic excellence in the Catholic and Jesuit tradition through comprehensive programs rooted in the liberal arts and sciences.
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
Dillard university's mission is to produce graduates who excel and become world leaders and are broadly educated, culturally aware and concerned with improving the human condition.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
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.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 24 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 ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANISIUS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VILLA MARIA COLLEGE OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MEDAILLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TROCAIRE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HILBERT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds D'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds DAEMEN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KLEINHANS MUSIC HALL MANAGEMENT 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: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Education Collaborative of Wny Inc · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Tw Lk Mills & Tr Mills Scholar Tr · Zeron Foundation · Kenneth & Katherine Koessler Family Foundation Inc · The Osc Charitable Foundation · Dreamcatcher Foundation Inc · The Baird Foundation · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Vincent & Harriet Palisano Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Vincent & Harriet Palisano Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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