· Private foundation
The Viyu Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $88k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BEAVER MEADOW AUDUBON SOCIETY | $40,000 |
| PARK SCHOOL OF BUFFALO | $25,000 |
| MIU - SUSTAINABLE LIVING NATURAL SCIENCES | $12,000 |
| TEAM RUBICON | $11,000 |
| THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUFFALO | $5,000 |
| FEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC | $5,000 |
| BUFFALO MUSEUM OF SCIENCE | $5,000 |
| HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD CENTRAL & WESTERN NEW YORK INC | $5,000 |
| KENSINGTON CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO INC | $5,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CHILDREN | $3,000 |
| PINE ISLAND CAMP INC | $2,000 |
| NATURAL SELECTION FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| OLD FORT NIAGARA ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
23 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
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 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
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
- TPTHE PARK SCHOOL OF BUFFALO9× · 2017–2025 · $187k · revenue +15%
- TRTEAM RUBICON INC8× · 2018–2025 · $81k · revenue +10%
- TNTHE NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2020 · $30k
- MOMEALS ON WHEELSone grant, 2022 · $5k
GARY SINISE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +39%
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.
Invest buffalo niagara foundation, inc. is a vehicle to solicit charitable contributions to develop programs, collaborate with, and provide funding to organizations that advance and encourage economic development in western new york.
To attract new employers to the buffalo niagara region through outreach to growing companies around the world. to support business attraction, expansion and entrepreneurship, invest buffalo niagara collaborates with local businesses,…
To acquire, remediate, and steward lands along wny's waterfronts prioritizing public access.
Niagara university educates its students and enriches their lives through programs in the liberal arts and through career preparation, informed by the catholic and vincentian traditions.
The legal aid bureau of buffalo, inc., a not-for-profit organization, provides legal representation to financially needy men, women and children in western new york. through its skilled staff, the legal aid bureau seeks equal justice for…
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
Food bank of central new york is a not-for-profit organization: our mission is to lead the effort to eliminate hunger in our region, through partnerships with others in our community, through education, advocacy, and distribution of…
The buffalo erie niagara land improvement corporation (benlic) seeks to confront and alleviate the problems distressed properties cause to communities by supporting municipal and regional revitalization efforts and strategically acquiring,…
To improve the quality of life of the people and neighborhoods we serve by preparing, equipping and empowering them to meet the challenges of contemporary urban life and realize their full potential.
New york restoration project ("nyrp") believes that nature is a fundamental right of every new yorker. nyrp works collaboratively with residents in communities across the five boroughs to renovate gardens, restore parks, plant trees,…
The organization's mission is to carry out the purposes of the univ. at buffalo foundation, inc. and the univ. at buffalo by administering research grants; providing financial and administrative services; and acquiring real estate for…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Buffalo Renaissance Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Meals on Wheels Foundation. 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 40 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.
21 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. 21 of the 31 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 THE PARK SCHOOL OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Central Algoma Land Trust ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds AFRICA COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds FARM AID INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO VALLEY RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds OLD FORT NIAGARA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds Pine Island Camp ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WE THE PROTESTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels Foundation ↗
- Who funds NICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION 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: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · Simple Gifts Fund · Tower Family Fund Inc · The Baird Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Equitable Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Viyu 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.
- Farm Aid Inc — 100% of income from government
- The New England Center for Children Inc — 3% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.