New York · Nonprofit
WESTMINSTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE INC
WESTMINSTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE INC (New York) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,061,770 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ($1,951,811). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
WESTMINSTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE INC has grown faster than half of the 4,197 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,197 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Children's Guild Foundation Incshared funderslocal
- Brattleboro Development Credit Corpportfolio match
- Impact100 Westchester Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 35% · 2018 33% · 2019 33% · 2020 45% · 2021 16% · 2022 10% · 2023 51% · 2024 69%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of WESTMINSTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $186k → $2.0M.
8 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of WESTMINSTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
WESTMINSTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
45% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund WESTMINSTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 53% · 2019 44% · 2020 25% · 2021 61% · 2022 40% · 2023 50% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
59% of WESTMINSTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
69% of WESTMINSTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 36 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Children's Guild Foundation Incshared funderslocalNY · backs 38 organizations that share your funders · funds 46 organizations near you
- Brattleboro Development Credit Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Impact100 Westchester Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Center for Regional Strategies Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cameron Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Glasser Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Women's Business Centersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hope for Youth Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Westmoreland-Fayette Workforce Investment Boardportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cullen Foundation of Western New York Incshared funderslocalNY · backs 59 organizations that share your funders · funds 75 organizations near you
- Cullen Foundationshared funderslocalNY · backs 84 organizations that share your funders · funds 135 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding WESTMINSTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.7M
- Small Business Administration$1.7M
- Department of the Treasury$1.1M
- Department of Agriculture$375k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like WESTMINSTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- West Side Bazaar Inc (Wsbi) · exempt
- 1432 Niagara Buffalo LLC · partnership
- Wsb Buffalo Mm LLC (Wsb Buffalo) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WESTMINSTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds WESTMINSTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE INC?
- WESTMINSTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE INC (New York) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,061,770 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ($1,951,811). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WESTMINSTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $8,061,770 in grants to WESTMINSTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WESTMINSTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,951,811 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WESTMINSTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 36funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing