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Wh Greene Foundation at a glance

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Wh Greene Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$765k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$158k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$771kPhilanthropy$585kEducation$546kReligion$397kHuman Services$348kFood & Nutrition$240kInternational$193kHousing & Shelter$97kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $141k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $556k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHOB FOUNDATION$158,000
PUNT FOUNDATION$75,000
GIRLS EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE$60,000
OLV CHARITIES$60,000
ST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL$53,200
FRIENDS OF THE NIGHT PEOPLE$50,000
ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION$50,000
BUILD PROMISE INC$50,000
RESPONSE FOR LOVE CENTER$25,000
ST LUKE'S MISSION OF MERCY$25,000
ST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY$20,000
NATIVITY OF OUR LORD SCHOOL$16,000
MISERICORDIA HEART OF MERCY$15,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO$15,000
HOSPICE OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $157k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CHURCHES IN ACTION: $8k → 13%CHURCHES IN ACTION: $8k → 13%CHURCHES IN ACTION: $8k → 13%CHURCHES IN ACTION: $5k → 13%CHURCHES IN ACTION: $4k → 13%CHURCHES IN ACTION: $2k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $20k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $20k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $13k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $10k → 13%BUILD PROMISE INC: $50k → 13%BUILD PROMISE INC: $12k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 36 repeat orgs$101k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
18

Total granted

$3.2M
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
0%

Still filing today

39%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyInternationalHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF NIGHT PEOPLE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $240k · revenue +68%
  • PP
    PUNT PEDIATRIC CANCER COLLABORATIVE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $226k · revenue ×11
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $213k · revenue +180%

Funded once

  • BP
    BETTER PARKS BUFFALO INC
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -99%
  • SL
    ST LUCKE'S MISSION OF MERCY
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • MADONNA OF THE STREETS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +53%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Breast Cancer Network of Western New Yorkinc

Our mission is to support the well being of all western new yorkers impacted by breast cancer.

Health
2
Nursing Sisters Home Care Inc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
3
St Catherine of Siena Medical Center

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
4
Catholic Health System of Long Island

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities

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5
Chs Physician Partners Pc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
6
Hospice Foundation of Wny Inc

The mission of the hospice foundation of western new york is tosolicit, accept, administer and invest charitable funds on behalf ofhospice & palliative care buffalo, inc. and its affiliates. theseinclude: hospice buffalo, inc., the…

Philanthropy
7
Our Lady of Consolation Geriatric Care Center

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christs healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
8
Good Shepherd Hospice

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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9
New York Congregational Community Services
Health
10
Invest Buffalo Niagara Foundation Inc

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.

Community Improvement
11
Children's Health Home of Wny Inc

To advance the health of our community by providing care management and support to families experiencing physical, mental, or behavioral issues with their child. this is done by advancing innovative practices, by collaborating with…

Health
12
St Charles Hospital Corp

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Hospital of Buffalo Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Ballers for Jesus Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 57 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/27
Grantees still filing
14/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL: $322,460 · OtherST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOLCHOB FOUNDATION: $299,000 · OtherCHOB FOUNDATIONOLV CHARITIES: $265,000 · OtherOLV CHARITIESFRIENDS OF NIGHT PEOPLE INC: $240,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF NIGHT PEOPLE INCST LUKE'S MISSION OF MERCY: $140,000 · OtherST LUKE'S MISSION OF MERCYRESPONSE FOR LOVE CENTER: $135,000 · OtherRESPONSE FOR LOVE CENTERST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY: $117,500 · OtherST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITYMISERICORDIA HEART OF MERCY: $90,000 · OtherNATIVITY OF OUR LORD SCHOOL: $71,100 · Other+30 more: $402,710 · Other+30 morePUNT PEDIATRIC CANCER COLLABORATIVE INC: $225,500 · HealthPUNT PEDIATRIC …THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION: $212,500 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S …MADONNA OF THE STREETS INC: $20,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $206,000 · PhilanthropyROSWELL PARK …CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO: $147,000 · PhilanthropyCATHOLIC CHAR…THE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $25,500 · PhilanthropyTHE BISON CHI…NORTHERN CHAUTAUQUA COMMUNITY FOUND: $20,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyGIRLS EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE INC: $182,725 · InternationalHAND IN HAND FOR HAITI: $10,000 · International+1 more: $3,125 · InternationalCITY MISSION SOCIETY INC: $62,500 · Human ServicesBUILD PROMISE INC: $62,000 · Human ServicesChurches in Action Inc: $32,500 · Human ServicesDUNKIRK CONFERENCE CENTER INC: $31,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsORCHARD PARK POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$2,082,770Health$459,000Philanthropy$399,500International$195,850Human Services$157,000Recreation & Sports$32,000Crime & Legal$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF NIGHT PEOPLE INC: $240,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetPUNT PEDIATRIC CANCER COLLABORATIVE INC: $225,500 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION: $212,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $206,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGIRLS EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE INC: $182,725 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO: $147,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY: $117,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCITY MISSION SOCIETY INC: $62,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBUILD PROMISE INC: $62,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetChurches in Action Inc: $32,500 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetDUNKIRK CONFERENCE CENTER INC: $31,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetTHE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $25,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBETTER PARKS BUFFALO INC: $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMADONNA OF THE STREETS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNORTHERN CHAUTAUQUA COMMUNITY FOUND: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHAND IN HAND FOR HAITI: $10,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $3,125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONESUS FEST FOR CHARITY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE SUMMIT CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIRISH CLASSICAL THEATER CO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE 11 DAY POWER PLAY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAURORA ICE ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHORIZON VILLAGE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 FRIENDS OF NIGHT PEOPLE INC ↗
  • Who funds PUNT PEDIATRIC CANCER COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO ↗
  • Who funds ST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CITY MISSION SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds BUILD PROMISE INC ↗
  • Who funds Churches in Action Inc ↗
  • Who funds DUNKIRK CONFERENCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds BETTER PARKS BUFFALO INC ↗
  • Who funds MADONNA OF THE STREETS INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN CHAUTAUQUA COMMUNITY FOUND ↗
  • Who funds HAND IN HAND FOR HAITI ↗
  • Who funds ORCHARD PARK POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN 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.

Community Foundation …The John R Oishei Fou…J&S Laidig Family Fou…Mother Cabrini Health…Verizon FoundationRusso Family Charitab…The Osc Charitable Fo…Dreamcatcher Foundati…Buffalo Sabres Founda…Rich Family FoundationHealth Foundation for…The Western New York …
Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY35.1× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The John R Oishei Foundation · J&S Laidig Family Foundation Inc 3717 · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Russo Family Charitable Foundation Inc · The Osc Charitable Foundation · Dreamcatcher Foundation Inc · Buffalo Sabres Foundation · Rich Family Foundation · Health Foundation for Western & Central New York · The Western New York Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wh Greene Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wh Greene Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 57 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-PF 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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