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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 FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.6M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$29MHealth$3.5MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.9MHousing & Shelter$1.4MCommunity Improvement$411kInternational$117kArts & Culture$50kFood & Nutrition$20k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 6 grants below total $3,506,878 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $28,733,405 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $25,226,527 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $277k
  • $250k+3 grants · $3.2M
$537,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$146M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University at Buffalo Foundation Inc$1,646,139
University Medical Resident Services$1,040,000
University Emergency Medical Services Inc$537,500
UB Alumni Association$211,952
University Dental Resident Services$65,000
SUNYAB Student Association$6,287
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO FOUNDATION INC: $10.0M → 13%SUNY IMPACT FOUNDATION INC: $60k → 17%SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $58k → 14%UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO FOUNDATION INC: $6.7M → 13%University at Buffalo Foundation Inc: $1.6M → 13%UBF FACULTY-STUDENT HOUSING CORP: $1.4M → 13%FNUB INC: $1.3M → 13%UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO FOUNDATION INC: $686k → 13%UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO FOUNDATION INCUBATOR INC: $343k → 13%UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO FOUNDATION INC: $285k → 13%FNUB INC: $243k → 13%FNUB INC: $238k → 13%UB FOUNDATION SERVICES INC: $143k → 13%UB FOUNDATION SERVICES INC: $138k → 13%UB ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $122k → 13%FNUB INC: $118k → 13%FNUB INC: $112k → 13%UB ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $97k → 13%FNUB INC: $93k → 13%UB ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $72k → 13%UB ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $71k → 13%UB ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $68k → 13%UB ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $67k → 13%UB ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $66k → 13%UB ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $65k → 13%UB FOUNDATION SERVICES INC: $64k → 13%UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO: $1.8M → 13%UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO: $1.6M → 13%UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO: $1.4M → 13%UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO: $709k → 13%UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO: $230k → 13%UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO: $219k → 13%University Dental Resident Services: $65k → 13%University Medical Resident Services: $1.0M → 13%University Emergency Medical Services Inc: $538k → 13%UB ASSOCIATES INC: $500k → 13%UB ASSOCIATES INC: $500k → 13%UNIVERSITY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC: $403k → 13%UNIVERSITY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC: $403k → 13%UNIVERSITY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC: $337k → 13%UNIVERSITY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC: $324k → 13%ACADEMIC MEDICINE SERVICES INC: $300k → 13%UNIVERSITY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC: $290k → 13%UNIVERSITY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC: $283k → 13%UNIVERSITY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC: $272k → 13%UB ASSOCIATES INC: $114k → 13%UNIVERSITY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC: $66k → 13%UB Alumni Association: $212k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$33M · 13 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
12

Total granted

$33M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+12%

Still filing today

92%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthInternationalPublic Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyOther

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

  • UA
    University at Buffalo Foundation Inc
    5× · 2020–2025 · $19M · revenue +180%
  • UE
    UNIVERSITY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +94%
  • FI
    FNUB Inc
    7× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M · revenue ×20 · 73% of their budget

Funded once

  • UF
    UBF Faculty-Student Housing Corp
    one grant, 2022 · $1.4M · revenue +22%
  • AM
    ACADEMIC MEDICINE SERVICES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $300k · revenue +25%
  • TS
    THE SPECTRUM STUDENT PERIODICAL INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -32% · 60% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
University Urology Inc

University urology, inc. is organized exclusively for the purposes of supporting the educational mission of the jacobs school of medicine at the state university of new york at buffalo (school) by participating in the plan for the…

Education
2
University At Buffalo Neurosurgery Inc

University at buffalo neurosurgery, inc. is an academic neurosurgical group committed to excellence in patient care, research, and education. our mission is to develop and implement sound strategies that focus on quality medical services,…

Health
3
University At Buffalo Surgeons Inc

University at buffalo surgeons, inc., is a large team of surgeons dedicated to the improvement of the health of our patients, cutting edge research, and the professional development of our students and residents. we are committed to…

Education
4
University At Buffalo Graduate Student Association Inc

Gsa represents the graduate students at the state university of new york at buffalo, as their voice to the university administration, faculty and staff as well as the community in general.gsa serves the graduate students by sponsoring…

Education
5
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
University Orthopaedic Services Inc

Provide orthopaedic services to the patients of wny as well as provide clinical instruction to the students and residents of suny buffalo jacobs school of medicine.

Health
8
Ub Family Medicine Inc

Ub family medicine, inc. is committed to encourage and assist the faculty of the department of family medicine at the jacobs school of medicine at the state university of new york at buffalo in the delivery of health care. the organization…

Health
9
University Psychiatric Practice Inc

The corporation assists the state university of new york at buffalo department of psychiatry in the delivery of health care, recruitment and retention of teaching physicians, and support of research in the field of psychiatry.

Health
10
University At Albany Foundation

The mission of the university at albany foundation is to encourage, receive, accept, hold, invest, and manage money and property of every description, and the disbursement thereof for the promotion, development and advancement of the…

Education
11
University Gynecologists & Obstetricians

To provide the highest quality care to the population of western new york in the specialty areas of general and high risk obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive endocrinology & infertility.

Unclassified
12
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University At Buffalo Student Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chiari & Syringomyelia Research Foundation Inc. 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 27 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%22%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr19%39%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr19%26%20–35yr13%7%35–55yr16%66%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/28
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,732

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.

04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 28 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
17/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

University at Buffalo Foundation Inc — $19,269,939 · EducationUniversity at Buffalo Foundation IncUBF Faculty-Student Housing Corp — $1,437,436 · EducationUBF Faculty-Student Housing CorpUB ASSOCIATES INC — $1,113,569 · EducationUB ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC — $839,685 · Education+10 more — $650,366 · EducationSTATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON — $6,043,130 · OtherSTATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW…University Medical Resident Services — $1,040,000 · OtherUniversity Medical Resi…UB Foundation Services Inc — $345,180 · Other+3 more — $181,510 · OtherUNIVERSITY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC — $2,916,142 · Public Safety & DisasterUNIVERSIT…FNUB Inc — $2,121,486 · PhilanthropyACADEMIC MEDICINE SERVICES INC — $300,000 · HealthSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION — $101,191 · Health+2 more — $17,500 · HealthSWASIA CHARITY FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $20,000 · InternationalBRIDGING THE GAP AFRICA INC — $5,400 · International
Education$23,310,995Other$7,609,820Public Safety & Disaster$2,916,142Philanthropy$2,121,486Health$418,691International$25,400

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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
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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

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

Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation

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 UB Foundation Activities Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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