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Whitten Arts Foundation
Its FY2020 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 FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JUST BUFFALO LITERACY CENTER | $15,773 |
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 (FY19–19, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
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.
5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2020, 4 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 FY2020, 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
- JBJUST BUFFALO LITERARY CENTER INC2× · 2019–2020 · $36k · revenue +26%
BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER3× · 2017–2019 · $25k · revenue +51%- DUD'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITY2× · 2017–2018 · $3k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- DHDonald H Cloudsley Foundationone grant, 2019 · $27k · revenue -95% · 100% of their budget
- RPROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $26k · revenue -2%
- SJST JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY PARISHone grant, 2019 · $20k
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.
The Buffalo Institiute for Contemporary Art (Bica) is a art and educational project for Buffalo, NY. Through Innovative exhibitions, cross-discipplinary skills-based programming, and arts ecology development, bica mission is to break down…
The organization was formed for the specific purpose of operating, maintaining and protecting parks and public spaces in the city of buffalo, new york, including but not limited to parks and public spaces owned or operated by the city of…
To foster a better quality of life in buffalo and the western new york region.
The buffalo niagara partnership foundation is a vehicle for the initiations and promotion of key economic development projects in the buffalo area.
The mission of the Binghamton Philharmonic is building community through the power of live music.
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,…
CNY Arts' mission is to promote, support, and celebrate arts and culture in Central New York.
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.
To acquire, remediate, and steward lands along wny's waterfronts prioritizing public access.
Artpark & company fosters a transformative world of artistic engagement that explores the human experience, cultivates creativity, and encourages curiosity. our work is informed by a long tradition of discovery, an expectation of artistic…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Buffalo State College Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Donald H Cloudsley Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 22 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 JUST BUFFALO LITERARY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Donald H Cloudsley Foundation ↗
- Who funds ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds Partnership For the Public Good Inc ↗
- Who funds D'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds IRISH CLASSICAL THEATER CO ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY'S END REFUGEE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Tre & Associates Inc ↗
- Who funds READ TO SUCCEED BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO NIAGARA WATERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHAKESPEARE IN DELAWARE PARK 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 · Cullen Foundation · Cullen Foundation of Western New York Inc · The John R Oishei Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · The Cameron and Jane Baird Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · Red Top Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Weissman Family Foundation Inc · Children's Foundation of Erie County 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 Whitten Arts 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.
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.
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