The Carol J Adragna
Depew, NY · EIN 27-6968082. Reported 73 grants totalling $388,500 to 73 recipients across tax years 2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Carol J Adragna did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $3,000 and $5,000; the smallest was $1,250 and the largest $20,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Red Cross | Buffalo, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| St Jude Childrens Research Hospital | Memphis, TN | $17,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| World Wildlife Fund | Washington, DC | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Roswell Park | Buffalo, NY | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| American Lung Association | Buffalo, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Buffalo City Mission | Buffalo, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Environmental Defense Fund | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Feedmore Wny Foundation | Buffalo, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Salvation Army of Buffalo | Buffalo, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Wounded Warrior Project | Jacksonville, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Hospice Foundation of Wny | Buffalo, NY | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| National Audubon Society | New York, NY | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Guiding Eyes for Blind | Yorktown Heights, NY | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Paralyzed Veterans of America | Washington, DC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Mercy Home for Boys and Girls | Chicago, IL | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Paws for Purple Hearts | Penngrove, CA | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Adoptaplatoon | Lozano, TX | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Buffalo News Neediest | Buffalo, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Alzheimer's Association | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| ASPCA | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Childrens Hospital of Buffalo Found | Buffalo, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Family Justice Center | Buffalo, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Marine Toys for Tots Foundation | Triangle, VA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Mercy Flight | Buffalo, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Mercy Ships | Lindale, TX | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Natural Resources Defense Council | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Ocean Conservancy | Washington, DC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Punt Pediatric Cancer Collaborative | Buffalo, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Rice University | Houston, TX | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Samaritans Purse | Boone, NC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Sierra Club | Oakland, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| SPCA Serving Erie County | West Seneca, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| SUNY at Fredonia | Fredonia, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Susan G Komen | Dallas, TX | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Turning Point Ministry | Stuttgart, AR | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| United Way | Latham, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| University of Hartford | West Hartford, CT | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Variety Kids Telethon | Lancaster, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Als Association | Arlington, VA | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| American Heart Association | Dallas, TX | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Bornhava | Amherst, NY | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Buffalo Adult & Teen Challenge | Buffalo, NY | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Buffalo Zoo | Buffalo, NY | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Doctor Without Boarders | New York, NY | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Kevin Guest House | Buffalo, NY | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Leukemia & Lymophoma Society | New York, NY | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Shriners Hospital for Children | Tampa, FL | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| St Lukes Mission of Mercy | Buffalo, NY | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| University at Buffalo | Buffalo, NY | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Boys Town | Boys Town, NE | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Child Fund | Merrifield, VA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Christian Appalachian Project | Topeka, KS | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Covenant House | New York, NY | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Friends of the Night People | Buffalo, NY | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Habitat for Humanity | Buffalo, NY | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Hope Project of Wny | Williamsville, NY | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Intl Fellowship of Christian and Je | Chicago, IL | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| National Diabetes Foundation | Arcadia, CA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Olv Charities | Lackawanna, NY | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Veterans of Foreign Wars | Kansas City, MO | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Cornell Lab of Ornithology | Ithaca, NY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Defenders of Wildlife | Washington, DC | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Guide Dogs for the Blind | San Rafael, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Jane Goodall Institute | Washington, DC | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Mara Elephant Project | Carmel, IN | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| National Wildlife Federation | Reston, VA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Nature Conservancy | Arlington, VA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Prevention Council of Erie County | Buffalo, NY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Wilderness Society | Washington, DC | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Lancaster Volunteer Ambulance | Lancaster, NY | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Special Plympics New York | Schenectady, NY | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Little Longears Miniature Donkey Re | New Oxford, PA | $1,250 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Wny Land Conservancy | East Aurora, NY | $1,250 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 31 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Where its money goes
56% of its giving went to organizations in New York. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Carol J Adragna's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 46, Depew, NY, 14043. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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