The Children's Guild Foundation Inc
Buffalo, NY · EIN 16-0756286. Reported 78 grants totalling $4,338,216 to 50 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For The Children's Guild Foundation Inc, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E500) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 50 distinct organizations, with 15% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 22% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $25,000. Half of what it reported fell between $15,000 and $67,160; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $375,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Childrens Hospital of Buffalo Foundation | Buffalo, NY | $630,634 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Roswell Park Alliance Foundation | Buffalo, NY | $625,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Buffalo State College Foundation Inc | Buffalo, NY | $421,385 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Rural Outreach Center Inc | East Aurora, NY | $310,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Skating Association for the Blind and Handicapped Inc | Buffalo, NY | $280,410 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Our Lady of Victory Homes of Charity Inc | Lackawanna, NY | $157,840 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Cradle Beach Inc | Angola, NY | $143,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Via Visually Impaired Advancement | Buffalo, NY | $137,279 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Chautauqua Institution | Chautauqua, NY | $128,638 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Suburban Adult Services Inc | Elma, NY | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Child & Family Services of Erie County | Buffalo, NY | $122,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Healthy Community Alliance Inc | Gowanda, NY | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Villa Maria College of Buffalo | Buffalo, NY | $85,350 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Sisters of Charity Hospital Foundation Inc | Buffalo, NY | $70,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Opportunities Collaborative for Students With Special Needs Inc | Tonawanda, NY | $67,160 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rock Autism Inc | Cheektowaga, NY | $62,725 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Canisius University of Buffalo New York | Buffalo, NY | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rmhc of Western New York Inc | Buffalo, NY | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Insightful Strides Inc | Attica, NY | $56,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| People Inc | Williamsville, NY | $52,413 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Daemen University | Amherst, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Nysarc Inc | Williamsville, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Say Yes Buffalo Scholarship Inc | Buffalo, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Genesee Livingston Orleans Wyoming Counties Chapter Nysarc Inc | Mount Morris, NY | $42,525 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Summit Center Inc | Getzville, NY | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Buffalo Media Resources Inc | Buffalo, NY | $30,254 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Community Services for EVERY1 Inc | Buffalo, NY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Homespace Corporation | Buffalo, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Specialized Early Childhood Center of Western New York Inc | Buffalo, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| United Cerebral Palsy Association of Niagara County Inc | Niagara Falls, NY | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Fantastic Friends of Wny Inc | Orchard Park, NY | $24,624 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Gateway-Longview | Williamsville, NY | $22,400 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gigis Playhouse Inc | Buffalo, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Southern Tier Health Care System Inc | Olean, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Teachers Desk Inc | Buffalo, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Heritage Christian Services Inc | Rochester, NY | $18,735 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kaleidoscope of Wny Inc | Elma, NY | $15,974 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Accessible Academics USA Inc | Buffalo, NY | $15,400 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| National Math Foundation Inc | Ithaca, NY | $15,025 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| A Cattaraugus for Tomorrow Inc | Ellicottville, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Camp Get-a-Way of Western Region Nys Inc | Wyoming, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Our Ability Alliance Inc | Glenmont, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Burchfield-Penney Art Center | Buffalo, NY | $11,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Centaur Stride Inc | Westfield, NY | $11,645 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Champion Project Inc | West Seneca, NY | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Aspire of Western New York Inc | Getzville, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Center for Self Advocacy Inc | Buffalo, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Home of My Own of Wny Inc | East Amherst, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Lothlorien Therapeutic Ride Cnt Inc | East Aurora, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Sensational Fun Inc | Orchard Park, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
19 of 50 (38%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Rural Outreach Center
Mental Health Clinical Support - Buff State College Foundation
Applied Behavioral Analyst Program - Our Lady of Victory Homes of Charity
OLV Evaluation and Treatment Center - Sabah
Summer Athletes Bold at Heart skating program - Sasi
Abbott Road Respite project - Chautauqua Institution
Chautauqua Institution Arts Education program
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 45 of 50 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 21 | $515,994 | $15,000 |
| 2021 | 11 | $816,487 | $50,000 |
| 2022 | 14 | $708,950 | $23,862 |
| 2023 | 13 | $979,895 | $40,000 |
| 2024 | 19 | $1,316,890 | $25,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. 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 grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $25,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Children's Guild Foundation Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 726 Exchange Street 1016, Buffalo, NY, 14210.
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