The Children's Guild Foundation Inc
Buffalo, NY · EIN 16-0756286. Reported 59 grants totalling $3,021,326 to 41 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, 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. 41 distinct organizations, with 21% 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. 21% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $25,000. Half of what it reported fell between $15,000 and $60,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $214,908. 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 |
| Buffalo State College Foundation Inc | Buffalo, NY | $421,385 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Roswell Park Alliance Foundation | Buffalo, NY | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Skating Association for the Blind and Handicapped Inc | Buffalo, NY | $185,200 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| 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 | $112,279 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Rural Outreach Center Inc | East Aurora, NY | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| 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 |
| Rock Autism Inc | Cheektowaga, NY | $42,725 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Genesee Livingston Orleans Wyoming Counties Chapter Nysarc Inc | Mount Morris, NY | $42,525 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Buffalo Media Resources Inc | Buffalo, NY | $30,254 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Community Services for EVERY1 Inc | Buffalo, NY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chautauqua Institution | Chautauqua, NY | $28,638 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| 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 |
| Child & Family Services of Erie County | Buffalo, NY | $22,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Gateway-Longview | Williamsville, NY | $22,400 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gigis Playhouse Inc | Buffalo, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Teachers Desk Inc | Buffalo, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| 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 |
| Our Ability Alliance Inc | Glenmont, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Summit Center Inc | Getzville, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Insightful Strides Inc | Attica, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| 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 |
15 of 41 (37%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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.
- 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 - Via
O&M Training for School Aged blind or visually impaired children - Sisters of Charity Hospital Foundation
Artic Sun Cooling System Grant - Rural Outreach Center Inc
New Building Construction Project
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 36 of 41 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- 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 |
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
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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 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 726 Exchange Street 1016, Buffalo, NY, 14210.
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