Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Buffalo, New York

702
foundations with a Buffalo address
$223.4M
grants paid, FY2024–FY2025
77
say they accept unsolicited
$9,231
median grant

Grantlas lists 702 foundations that gave a Buffalo, New York address on their tax filing — 687 private foundations and 15 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2024–FY2025. Together they paid out $223.4 million in grants in their latest filing year, and 77 of them (11%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a Buffalo foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.

Top 25 of 702 foundations

All 25 foundations below say on their 990-PF that they accept unsolicited requests. Another 52 in this list say so too. Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing.

Foundations in Buffalo, New York
M&t Charitable Foundation$46.2M$44.4M$44.4M–$48MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The John R Oishei Foundation$20,000$9.5M$750–$930,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Cullen Foundation of Western New York$28,700$5.2M$1,260–$400,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Health Foundation for Western & Central$10,000$4.1M$300–$300,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Alexander and Jane Boyd Ta Foundation$30,000$3.4M$3,000–$165,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Margaret L Wendt Foundation$30,000$2.9M$2,400–$779,306FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
James H Cummings Foundation Inc$30,195$2.4M$2,560–$115,600FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Rich Family Foundation$5,000$2.3M$150–$200,150FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Western New York Foundation$5,000$1.5M$48–$500,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Statler Foundation$54,740$1.3M$5,891–$167,644FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Zemsky Family Foundation$4,000$861,384$300–$240,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
E C Wareheim Foundation$10,000$757,000$5,000–$70,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Baird Foundation$2,500$597,573$222–$40,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Anne McCormick Tw$428,907$428,907—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Zeron Foundation$5,000$419,600$1,000–$167,800FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Paul & Helen Ellis Charitable Trust$10,000$415,300$500–$59,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
W W & Lucretia Hafer Scholarship Trust$6,289$393,488$3,039–$42,931FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Thomas A Wendt Family Foundation$10,000$333,600$100–$160,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Harry Dent Family Foundation Inc$2,500$312,500$1,250–$267,500FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Franklin H and Ruth L Wells Foundation$14,500$305,500$3,000–$50,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Edward H Butler Foundation$10,000$270,000$2,500–$50,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Truman Mildred Faulkner Foundation$3,400$259,088$500–$27,470FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Snayberger Memorial Foundation (pf)$1,550$190,138$400–$190,138FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Elf Foundation$2,000$187,000$500–$100,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Lippes Family Charitable Foundation$7,583$176,606$500–$45,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from the 990-PF grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.
  • A median grant larger than the grants paid is not a mistake: the grant schedule and the year’s total come from different parts of the tax filing, and a foundation can list a grant it approved in a year it paid out less.

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Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2024–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.