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UB Foundation Activities Inc

The mission of the organization is to undertake and perform activities in support of the educational purposes of the state university of new york at buffalo and its various departments, divisions or other entities.

$29M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Itemized grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
11%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$3.5M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$537,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,646,139
Organizations funded a year
5 to 12
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$146M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations UB Foundation Activities Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$3.5M50%
FY20249$7.4M11%
FY20239$1.1M11%
FY202211$3.6M45%
FY20217$11M29%
FY20205$2.5M20%
FY201912$1.8M33%
FY20189$2.9M22%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$29MHealth$3.5MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.9MHousing & Shelter$1.4MCommunity Improvement$411kInternational$117kArts & Culture$50kFood & Nutrition$20k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University at Buffalo Foundation Inc$19,269,93959%
State University of New York at Binghamton$6,043,1306n/a
University Emergency Medical Services Inc$2,916,14291%
FNUB Inc$2,121,486773%
UBF Faculty-Student Housing Corp$1,437,43616%
Ub Associates Inc$1,113,56934%
University Medical Resident Services$1,040,0001n/a
Ub Alumni Association Inc$839,6859100%
University at Buffalo Foundation Incubator Inc$411,141439%
UB Foundation Services Inc$345,180384%
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Where it is load-bearing

UB Foundation Activities Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Inc: $19,269,939 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetUniversity Emergency Medical Services Inc: $2,916,142 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetFNUB Inc: $2,121,486 over 7y, 73% of budgetUBF Faculty-Student Housing Corp: $1,437,436 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetUb Associates Inc: $1,113,569 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetUb Alumni Association Inc: $839,685 over 9y, 100% of budgetUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Incubator Inc: $411,141 over 4y, 39% of budgetUB Foundation Services Inc: $345,180 over 3y, 84% of budgetAcademic Medicine Services Inc: $300,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSchool of Management Alumni Association State University of Ny at Buffalo: $111,260 over 5y, 35% of budgetSyrian American Medical Society Foundation: $101,191 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSuny Impact Foundation Inc: $72,604 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $68,096 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Spectrum Student Periodical Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 60% of budgetSwasia Charity Foundation a Nj Nonprofit Corporation: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $19,947 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMedGlobal Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChiari & Syringomyelia Research Foundation Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetUniversity at Buffalo Student Association Inc: $6,287 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAuxiliary Services State University College at Oswego Inc: $6,056 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStony Brook Foundation Inc: $5,525 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity at Buffalo Dental Student Association Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetUniversity at Buffalo Medical Student Polity Inc: $5,210 over 1y, 1.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA0.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About UB Foundation Activities Inc

How much does UB Foundation Activities Inc give?
UB Foundation Activities Inc reported 6 itemized grants totaling $3,506,878, out of $28,733,405 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does UB Foundation Activities Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (79%), Health (10%), Public Safety & Disaster (5%).
Who are UB Foundation Activities Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University at Buffalo Foundation Inc ($19M), State University of New York at Binghamton ($6.0M), University Emergency Medical Services Inc ($2.9M).
Does UB Foundation Activities Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as UB Foundation Activities Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is UB Foundation Activities Inc based?
UB Foundation Activities Inc is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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