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Zeron Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $243k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JESSICA AND MATTHEW ENSTICE GIFT FUND OF THE BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE | $167,800 |
| NIAGARA UNIVERSITY | $75,000 |
| NARDIN ACADEMY | $45,000 |
| BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $35,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME LAW SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| BPS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HOSPICE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CANISIUS HIGH SCHOOL | $8,300 |
| VIA | $7,500 |
| SEVERN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BUFFALO CREEK INC | $5,000 |
| THE EMPIRE CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC | $5,000 |
| GRASSROOTS GARDENS | $5,000 |
| GLIDING STARS | $5,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $213k 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
NIAGARA UNIVERSITY3× · 2021–2024 · $77k · revenue +28%- GSGLIDING STARSINC3× · 2021–2024 · $15k · revenue +109%
- FOFRIENDS OF BUFFALO CREEK INC2× · 2022–2024 · $10k · revenue ×12 · 52% of their budget
Funded once
- NSNICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALOone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -24%
- BNBUFFALO NIAGARA MEDICAL CAMPUS INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +23%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIESone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
Buffalo academy of science is a tuition-free, college-preparatory charter school teaching students in a diverse community to be successful in a globally-oriented environment, using innovative and dynamic teaching methods with a small…
With unrelenting determination and a commitment to excellence, buffalo collegiate charter school educated students in grades 4 through 12 to graduate from the college of their choice and serve as our next generation of leaders. the…
St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Private, independent university providing higher education to students. The mission of Daemen University is to prepare creative, ethically-minded leaders for a diverse and interconnected world by integrating the intellectual strengths…
Establish and operate a charter school to prepare our diverse community of students to succeed academically and professionally regardless of background and circumstance.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.
South buffalo charter school provides elementary education to students in grades kindergarten through eighth grade. we are a professional learning community. our focus on learning is driven by research, data and collaborative reflection to…
Rochester academy of science charter school (the school) is a not-for-profit education corporation that operates kindergarten through 12th grades and is dedicated to providing quality education to a diverse body of students in the…
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 Rochester Community Robotics. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 49 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 52 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 BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ECMC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EMPIRE CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds GLIDING STARSINC ↗
- Who funds NICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BUFFALO CREEK INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO NIAGARA MEDICAL CAMPUS INC ↗
- Who funds BPS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE SOCCER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SEVERN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CITRS INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER COMMUNITY ROBOTICS ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH 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 · The Baird Foundation · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · The Osc Charitable Foundation · Robert & Patricia Colby Foundation 115319998 · New Era Cap Foundation · The Marks Family Foundation · Cullen Foundation of Western New York Inc · Rich Family Foundation · Cullen Foundation · First Niagara 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 Zeron 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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