The 2025 grant submission cycle is now OPEN.
Please review and print out a copy of our Guidelines for Funding for the information you must include with your proposal. If you are already familiar with our Guidelines, you may obtain the grant application here.
Questions concerning grant submissions should be directed to Scott McManigle, Executive Director – brf.mcmanigle@gmail.com
All Grant Applications must be received by March 31st at 11:59am.
We appreciate your interest in our foundation
Grant History
| Recipient | 2024 |
| 716 Squash, Inc. | |
| Assembly House 150 | |
| Buffalo Creek Academy Charter School | |
| Buffalo Yacht Club Foundation, Inc. | |
| Grassroots Gardens of WNY | |
| Jewish Community Center of Great Buffalo, Inc. | |
| Nativity Miguel Middle School of Buffalo | |
| Puppy Mill Rescue Team | |
| Visually Impaired Advancement (VIA) | |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities | |
| Total Year: | $102,200.00 |
| Recipient | 2023 |
| Friends of Little Portion Friary | |
| Life Impact DBA Resurrection Life Food Pantry | |
| Resource Council of WNY (BRFCC) | |
| The Tool Library | |
| Torn Space Theater | |
| WNY Heroes, Inc. | |
| Total Year: | $65,250 |
| Recipient | 2022 |
| Buffalo String Works | |
| Gateway – Longview, Inc. | |
| Gerard Place HDFC, Inc. | |
| Great Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame, Inc. | |
| The Buffalo Renaissance Foundation Community Center | |
| The Service Collaborative of WNY, Inc. | |
| UB Foundation School of Architecture and Planning | |
| Total Year: | $65,000 |
| Recipient | 2021 |
| Buffalo Collegiate Charter School | |
| Friends of Little Portion Friary | |
| Kevin Guest House | |
| Lancaster Baseball Booster Club | |
| Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center | |
| Our Lady of Victory National Shrine & Basilica Centennial | |
| The NativityMiguel Middle School of Buffalo | |
| The Buffalo Renaissance Foundation Community Center | |
| Total Year: | $75,000 |
| Recipient | 2020 |
| Resource Council of WNY, Inc. | |
| Junior League of Buffalo (Sculptural Art Initiative) | |
| CEPA Gallery | |
| Buffalo & Erie Naval Park | |
| Total Year: | $27,000 |
| Recipient | 2019 |
| Resource Council of WNY, Inc. | |
| Buffalo Lighthouse Association – Tall Ships | |
| Buffalo & Erie County Naval Park | |
| Total Year: | $12,500 |
| Recipient | 2018 |
| Women and Children’s Hospital | |
| Resource Council of WNY, Inc. | |
| BISON Scholarship Fund, Buffalo | |
| K.IA. Roadmarch | |
| Downtown Sculptural Art Initiative | |
| Gateway-Longview Foundation | |
| SABAH | |
| Police Athletic League of Buffalo | |
| Big Brother Big Sister of Erie County | |
| Junior Achievement of WNY | |
| Nativity Miguel School | |
| Shakespeare in Delaware Park | |
| Thomas and Jean Comer Girl’s Catholic High School Scholarship | |
| The Teacher’s Desk and Our Lady of Hope | |
| Total Year: | $200,700 |
| Recipient | 2017 |
| Women and Children’s Hospital | |
| UB Athletics | |
| Veterans Treatment Court | |
| Buffalo Downtown Art Initiative | |
| Total Year: | $17,500 |
| Recipient | 2016 |
| Women and Children’s Hospital | |
| USS Little Rock Commissioning | |
| Buffalo Downtown Art Initiative | |
| Total Year: | $64,600 |
| Recipient | 2015 |
| Women and Children’s Hospital | |
| Buffalo Downtown Art Initiative – Theodore Roosevelt Site | |
| Catholic Charities of Western New York | |
| USS Little Rock Commissioning | |
| St. Luke’s Mission of Mercy | |
| Total Year: | $32,683 |
| Recipient | 2014 |
| Music is Art | |
| Junior Achievement of Western New York, Inc. | |
| The Bristol Home, Inc. | |
| Diocese of Buffalo: Division of Catholic Education | |
| Autism Services, Inc. | |
| The Episcopal Diocese of Western New York | |
| Be-A-Friend Program, Inc. (Big Brother and Big Sister of Western New York) | |
| ECMC Lifeline Foundation | |
| Women and Children’s Hospital | |
| The Jacobs Institute | |
| BRF Downtown Art Initiative | |
| Total Year: | $51,500 |
| Recipient | 2013 |
| Gateway-Longview Foundation | |
| ECMC Lifeline Foundation | |
| Heritage Centers | |
| Women and Children’s Hospital Foundation of Buffalo | |
| Amherst Police Foundation/Amherst Youth Court | |
| Our Lady of Victory National Shrine and Basilica | |
| Peacemakers of Buffalo | |
| Clear Path for Veterans | |
| Buffalo Downtown Art Initiative | |
| Response to Love Center | |
| Total Year: | $61,150 |
| Recipient | 2012 |
| First Niagara Foundation Mentoring Matters Program | |
| SABAH | |
| Nativity Miguel Middle School of Buffalo | |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Erie County | |
| Homespace | |
| MICE US Foundation | |
| Shakespeare In Delaware Park | |
| Buffalo Downtown Art Initiative | |
| Response To Love Center | |
| US Navy Family Day | |
| BISON Fund | |
| Total Year: | $52,850 |
| Recipient | 2011 |
| Tidewell Hospice | |
| VNA Hospice House | |
| Buffalo Niagara Convention & Visitors Bureau | |
| Buffalo Prep | |
| Buffalo Scholastic Rowing Association | |
| BISON Scholarship Fund | |
| Back to Basics (Veterans Treatment Court) | |
| Nativity Miguel School of Buffalo | |
| Girls on the Run | |
| Irish Classical Theatre Company | |
| Heritage Centers New Life Residential Center | |
| Global Concepts Charter School | |
| Buffalo Downtown Art Initiative | |
| Total Year: | $105,500 |
| Recipient | 2010 |
| Renaissance Scholars Fund | |
| BISON Fund | |
| American Heart Association | |
| Buffalo Veterans Treatment Center | |
| UB Foundation | |
| Catholic Charities Services Corps | |
| Nardin Academy | |
| People Inc. | |
| Catholic Academy of West Buffalo | |
| Bunkers in Baghdad | |
| Nativity Miguel School of Buffalo | |
| St. Adalbert’s Response to Love Center | |
| Buffalo Downtown Art Initiative | |
| Total Year: | $52,825 |
| Recipient | 2009 |
| Renaissance Scholars Fund | |
| WNY Heroes.org | |
| UB Foundation | |
| Heritage Centers | |
| Holy Angels Academy SAGE Team | |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Erie County | |
| Aspire | |
| Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy | |
| SPCA of Erie County | |
| SABAH | |
| BISON Fund | |
| St. Adalbert’s Response to Love Center | |
| Total Year: | $42,000 |
| Recipient | 2008 |
| Renaissance Scholars Fund | |
| Catholic Academy | |
| ALS – Margaret Robin Fund | |
| Brothers of Mercy | |
| Kevin Guest House | |
| Lothlorien Therapeutic Riding Center | |
| Pioneer Camp & Retreat Center | |
| Amherst Community Church Child Care Center | |
| Meals on Wheels of Buffalo | |
| AIDS Community Services | |
| Young Gentlemen’s Club | |
| BISON Fund | |
| Total Year: | $74,850 |
| Recipient | 2007 |
| Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus | |
| BISON Fund | |
| Upstate New York Transplant Services | |
| University Heights | |
| Community Development Association | |
| Catholic Central School | |
| New Life | |
| Gerard Place | |
| Total Year: | $45,250 |
| Recipient | 2006 |
| Buffalo Niagara Cultural Tourism Initiative | |
| Graycliff | |
| The Buffalo Filling Station | |
| Frank Lloyd Wright’s Boathouse | |
| Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site | |
| Hull House | |
| Erie Canal Harbor Project | |
| Burchfield Penny Arts Center | |
| Michigan Street Preservation Corp | |
| Sisters of Mercy of the Americas | |
| Buffalo State College | |
| Hasek’s Heroes | |
| Buffalo Prep | |
| St Adalbert’s Response to Love Center | |
| Medaille College | |
| Homespace | |
| Shakespeare in the Park | |
| Total Year: | $44,800 |
| Recipient | 2005 |
| Daemen College | |
| Excalibur Leisure Skills Center, Inc. | |
| Kevin Guest House | |
| Lafayette Development Association | |
| SABAH | |
| Sisters Hospital Foundation | |
| St. Adalbert’s Response to Love Center | |
| St. Joseph Hospital Foundation | |
| The Samaritan Center | |
| Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site | |
| Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy | |
| Buffalo Zoo | |
| Total Year: | $29,200 |
| Recipient | 2004 |
| Landmark Society | |
| Child & Family Services | |
| Alleyway Theatre | |
| South Buffalo Food Pantry | |
| The Bristol Home | |
| Homespace | |
| Vive, Inc. | |
| Mount St. Academy | |
| Buffalo Arts Studio | |
| Gow School | |
| Back to Basics Ministry | |
| Buffalo Zoo | |
| Total Year: | $17,500 |
| Recipient | 2003 |
| Books for Kids – Buffalo News | |
| CASA – Court Approved Special Advocate for Childen | |
| Canisius College – Buffalo Regional Conversation | |
| CGR – Center for Governmental Research Study: Thinking Beyond the Boundaries – Cost Reduction Opportunities for Buffalo | |
| Child Art for the Family Court Building | |
| ECMC Lifeline Foundation | |
| Homespace | |
| SPCA – Encouraging Kids with Literacy | |
| St. Columban Center | |
| Total Year: | $25,500 |
| Recipient | 2002 |
| 914th Airlift Wing – Family Support Unit | |
| Boy Scouts of America , Camp Scouthaven | |
| Buffalo School #61 Early Childhood Center | |
| Buffalo Zoological Gardens | |
| Community Foundation of Greater Buffalo – Jog for the Jake | |
| Daemen College | |
| Fellowship of the Disabled | |
| Gloria J. Parks Community Center | |
| Mount St. Joseph Academy | |
| Rebuilding Together | |
| Total Year: | $14,000 |
| Recipient | 2001 |
| Buffalo Alliance for Education/Materials Reuse Program | |
| Child & Family Services | |
| Children’s Scholarship Fund | |
| Computers for Children – KidCo | |
| Early Start Fund | |
| ECMC Lifeline Foundation | |
| Moving Miracles, Inc. | |
| National S.A.F.E. Home Foundation | |
| St. Agatha’s Church | |
| University Presbyterian Church | |
| WNY Veteran’s Housing Coalition | |
| Firefighters World Trade Center Fund | |
| Total Year: | $20,000 |
| Recipient | 2000 |
| Computers for Children – KidCo | |
| Boys & Girls Club of Buffalo | |
| Irish Classical Theatre Company | |
| Bornhava | |
| Fellowship of the Disabled | |
| Homespace | |
| YMCA Camp Weona | |
| Total Year: | $10,000 |
| Recipient | 1999 |
| Special Olympics | |
| Cradle Beach Camp | |
| Buffalo Therapeutic Riding Center | |
| Buffalo Community Boating Center | |
| Child Care Coalition of Niagara Frontier | |
| Buffalo Zoo | |
| Buffalo Hearing & Speech Center | |
| Early Start Fund (Cornerstone Manor) | |
| Just Buffalo Literacy Center | |
| Mercy Hospital Foundation | |
| Child and Family Services | |
| Buffalo Arts Studio | |
| YMCA Camp Weona | |
| Buffalo Green Fund (Reforest Buffalo) | |
| Total Year: | $20,250 |
| Recipient | 1998 |
| Horizon Health Services | |
| Durham Memorial AME Zion Church | |
| Sisters Hospital Foundation | |
| Department of Pathology/Children’s Hospital | |
| Millard Fillmore Health Systems/Caring Arms Memorial Garden | |
| Center for Joy, Inc. | |
| Ashford Hollow Foundation | |
| BISON Fund | |
| Buffalo Prep | |
| University of New York Tinnitus Clinic of Hearing and Defness Ct. | |
| Claddaugh Commission | |
| Buffalo Arena Metropolitan Ministries – A Regional Conversation | |
| Total Year: | $22,900 |
| Recipient | 1997 |
| BISON Fund | |
| Heritage Education Program | |
| Cradle Beach Camp | |
| Greater Niagara Frontier Council for Boy Scouts of America | |
| Pediatric Digestion & Motility Disorder Society of Childrens Hospital | |
| Theater of Youth | |
| Child Advocacy Center | |
| Recovering Children’s Foundation, Inc. | |
| The Architectural Awareness Project for Buffalo (UB) | |
| UB Athletic Department | |
| Carnegie arts Center | |
| Buffalo Prep | |
| Total Year: | $15,015 |
| Recipient | 1996 |
| Canisius College Basketball Camp | |
| University of Buffalo Division of Athletics | |
| Everything Elmwood | |
| Alcohol and Drug Dependency Services | |
| The Irish Classical Theatre Company | |
| Erie County Special Olympics | |
| Sea Fever | |
| ECMC Life Line Foundation, Inc. | |
| Studio Arena | |
| Sisters Hospital | |
| Compass House | |
| The Green Fund ( Niagara Square Project) | |
| Total Year: | $17,460 |
| Recipient | 1995 |
| Language Development Program | |
| YMCA Camp Weona | |
| People, Inc. | |
| First Shiloh Baptist Church | |
| Aquarium of Niagara Falls | |
| Buffalo Prep | |
| Telephone Assistance Program | |
| Roswell Park Alliance | |
| Sisters Hospital | |
| Studio Arena | |
| Total Year: | $21,000 |
| Recipient | 1994 |
| The Buffalo Hearing & Speech Center | |
| Cradle Beach Camp | |
| UB/BRF Athletic Scholarship | |
| Canisius High School | |
| Hemophilia Center of Western New York | |
| Shakespeare in the Park | |
| Caring for Tomorrow’s Children | |
| Children’s Hospital Intensive Care Nursery | |
| Sisters Hospital | |
| Total Year: | $15,500 |
| Recipient | 1993 |
| Boys and Girls Club of WNY | |
| Southeast Community Work Center | |
| Special Olympics | |
| St. Mary’s School for the Deaf | |
| YMCA of Greater Buffalo | |
| Total Year: | $17,000 |
| Recipient | 1992 |
| Artpark | |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | |
| Independent Living Center | |
| Shakespeare in Delaware Park, Inc. | |
| Skating Association of the Blind & Handicapped, Inc. | |
| The Peter & Tommy Fund, Inc. | |
| World University Games | |
| YMCA of Greater Buffalo | |
| Total Year: | $22,859 |
| Recipient | 1991 |
| Bob Lanier Center | |
| Buffalo Columbus Hospital Foundation | |
| Fellowship of the Disabled | |
| Hemophilia Center of Western New York | |
| Hopevale, Inc. | |
| Roswell Park Cancer Institute | |
| UB Division I Athletic Scholarship Program | |
| Total Year: | $25,500 |
| Recipient | 1990 |
| Daemen College | |
| Kids Escaping Drugs | |
| Total Year: | $2,000 |
| Recipient | 1989 |
| Excalibur Leisure Skills | |
| Family Christmas Adoption | |
| Friends of the Night People | |
| St. Adalbert’s Response to Love Center | |
| Studio Arena Theater | |
| Toy & Equipment Lending Library | |
| Total Year: | $5,800 |
| Recipient | 1988 |
| Lothlorien Therapeutic Riding Center | |
| WNY Veteran’s Housing Coalition | |
| Total Year: | $2,600 |
| Recipient | 1987 |
| Hospice | |
| Toy & Equipment Lending Library | |
| Total Year: | $2,750 |
| Recipient | 1986 |
| Buffalo Philharmonic | |
| John H. Hunt Memorial Fund for Jazz | |
| United Way | |
| University of Buffalo Foundation | |
| Total Year: | $1,625 |
| Recipient | 1985 |
| Friends of the Philharmonic | |
| Total Year: | $12,590 |
| Recipient | Prior to 1985 |
| Hospice / Ethicare | |
| Kidney Foundation | |
| Total Year: | $15,000 |
| Recipient | 2020 |
| Resource Council of WNY, Inc. | |
| Junior League of Buffalo (Sculptural Art Initiative) | |
| CEPA Gallery | |
| Buffalo & Erie Naval Park | |
| Total Year: | $27,000 |
| Recipient | 2019 |
| Resource Council of WNY, Inc. | |
| Buffalo Lighthouse Association – Tall Ships | |
| Buffalo & Erie County Naval Park | |
| Total Year: | $12,500 |
| Recipient | 2018 |
| Women and Children’s Hospital | |
| Resource Council of WNY, Inc. | |
| BISON Scholarship Fund, Buffalo | |
| K.IA. Roadmarch | |
| Downtown Sculptural Art Initiative | |
| Gateway-Longview Foundation | |
| SABAH | |
| Police Athletic League of Buffalo | |
| Big Brother Big Sister of Erie County | |
| Junior Achievement of WNY | |
| Nativity Miguel School | |
| Shakespeare in Delaware Park | |
| Thomas and Jean Comer Girl’s Catholic High School Scholarship | |
| The Teacher’s Desk and Our Lady of Hope | |
| Total Year: | $200,700 |
| Recipient | 2017 |
| Women and Children’s Hospital | |
| UB Athletics | |
| Veterans Treatment Court | |
| Buffalo Downtown Art Initiative | |
| Total Year: | $17,500 |
| Recipient | 2016 |
| Women and Children’s Hospital | |
| USS Little Rock Commissioning | |
| Buffalo Downtown Art Initiative | |
| Total Year: | $64,600 |
| Recipient | 2015 |
| Women and Children’s Hospital | |
| Buffalo Downtown Art Initiative – Theodore Roosevelt Site | |
| Catholic Charities of Western New York | |
| USS Little Rock Commissioning | |
| St. Luke’s Mission of Mercy | |
| Total Year: | $32,683 |
| Recipient | 2014 |
| Music is Art | |
| Junior Achievement of Western New York, Inc. | |
| The Bristol Home, Inc. | |
| Diocese of Buffalo: Division of Catholic Education | |
| Autism Services, Inc. | |
| The Episcopal Diocese of Western New York | |
| Be-A-Friend Program, Inc. (Big Brother and Big Sister of Western New York) | |
| ECMC Lifeline Foundation | |
| Women and Children’s Hospital | |
| The Jacobs Institute | |
| BRF Downtown Art Initiative | |
| Total Year: | $51,500 |
| Recipient | 2013 |
| Gateway-Longview Foundation | |
| ECMC Lifeline Foundation | |
| Heritage Centers | |
| Women and Children’s Hospital Foundation of Buffalo | |
| Amherst Police Foundation/Amherst Youth Court | |
| Our Lady of Victory National Shrine and Basilica | |
| Peacemakers of Buffalo | |
| Clear Path for Veterans | |
| Buffalo Downtown Art Initiative | |
| Response to Love Center | |
| Total Year: | $61,150 |
| Recipient | 2012 |
| First Niagara Foundation Mentoring Matters Program | |
| SABAH | |
| Nativity Miguel Middle School of Buffalo | |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Erie County | |
| Homespace | |
| MICE US Foundation | |
| Shakespeare In Delaware Park | |
| Buffalo Downtown Art Initiative | |
| Response To Love Center | |
| US Navy Family Day | |
| BISON Fund | |
| Total Year: | $52,850 |
| Recipient | 2011 |
| Tidewell Hospice | |
| VNA Hospice House | |
| Buffalo Niagara Convention & Visitors Bureau | |
| Buffalo Prep | |
| Buffalo Scholastic Rowing Association | |
| BISON Scholarship Fund | |
| Back to Basics (Veterans Treatment Court) | |
| Nativity Miguel School of Buffalo | |
| Girls on the Run | |
| Irish Classical Theatre Company | |
| Heritage Centers New Life Residential Center | |
| Global Concepts Charter School | |
| Buffalo Downtown Art Initiative | |
| Total Year: | $105,500 |
| Recipient | 2010 |
| Renaissance Scholars Fund | |
| BISON Fund | |
| American Heart Association | |
| Buffalo Veterans Treatment Center | |
| UB Foundation | |
| Catholic Charities Services Corps | |
| Nardin Academy | |
| People Inc. | |
| Catholic Academy of West Buffalo | |
| Bunkers in Baghdad | |
| Nativity Miguel School of Buffalo | |
| St. Adalbert’s Response to Love Center | |
| Buffalo Downtown Art Initiative | |
| Total Year: | $52,825 |
| Recipient | 2009 |
| Renaissance Scholars Fund | |
| WNY Heroes.org | |
| UB Foundation | |
| Heritage Centers | |
| Holy Angels Academy SAGE Team | |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Erie County | |
| Aspire | |
| Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy | |
| SPCA of Erie County | |
| SABAH | |
| BISON Fund | |
| St. Adalbert’s Response to Love Center | |
| Total Year: | $42,000 |
| Recipient | 2008 |
| Renaissance Scholars Fund | |
| Catholic Academy | |
| ALS – Margaret Robin Fund | |
| Brothers of Mercy | |
| Kevin Guest House | |
| Lothlorien Therapeutic Riding Center | |
| Pioneer Camp & Retreat Center | |
| Amherst Community Church Child Care Center | |
| Meals on Wheels of Buffalo | |
| AIDS Community Services | |
| Young Gentlemen’s Club | |
| BISON Fund | |
| Total Year: | $74,850 |
| Recipient | 2007 |
| Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus | |
| BISON Fund | |
| Upstate New York Transplant Services | |
| University Heights | |
| Community Development Association | |
| Catholic Central School | |
| New Life | |
| Gerard Place | |
| Total Year: | $45,250 |
| Recipient | 2006 |
| Buffalo Niagara Cultural Tourism Initiative | |
| Graycliff | |
| The Buffalo Filling Station | |
| Frank Lloyd Wright’s Boathouse | |
| Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site | |
| Hull House | |
| Erie Canal Harbor Project | |
| Burchfield Penny Arts Center | |
| Michigan Street Preservation Corp | |
| Sisters of Mercy of the Americas | |
| Buffalo State College | |
| Hasek’s Heroes | |
| Buffalo Prep | |
| St Adalbert’s Response to Love Center | |
| Medaille College | |
| Homespace | |
| Shakespeare in the Park | |
| Total Year: | $44,800 |
| Recipient | 2005 |
| Daemen College | |
| Excalibur Leisure Skills Center, Inc. | |
| Kevin Guest House | |
| Lafayette Development Association | |
| SABAH | |
| Sisters Hospital Foundation | |
| St. Adalbert’s Response to Love Center | |
| St. Joseph Hospital Foundation | |
| The Samaritan Center | |
| Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site | |
| Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy | |
| Buffalo Zoo | |
| Total Year: | $29,200 |
| Recipient | 2004 |
| Landmark Society | |
| Child & Family Services | |
| Alleyway Theatre | |
| South Buffalo Food Pantry | |
| The Bristol Home | |
| Homespace | |
| Vive, Inc. | |
| Mount St. Academy | |
| Buffalo Arts Studio | |
| Gow School | |
| Back to Basics Ministry | |
| Buffalo Zoo | |
| Total Year: | $17,500 |
| Recipient | 2003 |
| Books for Kids – Buffalo News | |
| CASA – Court Approved Special Advocate for Childen | |
| Canisius College – Buffalo Regional Conversation | |
| CGR – Center for Governmental Research Study: Thinking Beyond the Boundaries – Cost Reduction Opportunities for Buffalo | |
| Child Art for the Family Court Building | |
| ECMC Lifeline Foundation | |
| Homespace | |
| SPCA – Encouraging Kids with Literacy | |
| St. Columban Center | |
| Total Year: | $25,500 |
| Recipient | 2002 |
| 914th Airlift Wing – Family Support Unit | |
| Boy Scouts of America , Camp Scouthaven | |
| Buffalo School #61 Early Childhood Center | |
| Buffalo Zoological Gardens | |
| Community Foundation of Greater Buffalo – Jog for the Jake | |
| Daemen College | |
| Fellowship of the Disabled | |
| Gloria J. Parks Community Center | |
| Mount St. Joseph Academy | |
| Rebuilding Together | |
| Total Year: | $14,000 |
| Recipient | 2001 |
| Buffalo Alliance for Education/Materials Reuse Program | |
| Child & Family Services | |
| Children’s Scholarship Fund | |
| Computers for Children – KidCo | |
| Early Start Fund | |
| ECMC Lifeline Foundation | |
| Moving Miracles, Inc. | |
| National S.A.F.E. Home Foundation | |
| St. Agatha’s Church | |
| University Presbyterian Church | |
| WNY Veteran’s Housing Coalition | |
| Firefighters World Trade Center Fund | |
| Total Year: | $20,000 |
| Recipient | 2000 |
| Computers for Children – KidCo | |
| Boys & Girls Club of Buffalo | |
| Irish Classical Theatre Company | |
| Bornhava | |
| Fellowship of the Disabled | |
| Homespace | |
| YMCA Camp Weona | |
| Total Year: | $10,000 |
| Recipient | 1999 |
| Special Olympics | |
| Cradle Beach Camp | |
| Buffalo Therapeutic Riding Center | |
| Buffalo Community Boating Center | |
| Child Care Coalition of Niagara Frontier | |
| Buffalo Zoo | |
| Buffalo Hearing & Speech Center | |
| Early Start Fund (Cornerstone Manor) | |
| Just Buffalo Literacy Center | |
| Mercy Hospital Foundation | |
| Child and Family Services | |
| Buffalo Arts Studio | |
| YMCA Camp Weona | |
| Buffalo Green Fund (Reforest Buffalo) | |
| Total Year: | $20,250 |
| Recipient | 1998 |
| Horizon Health Services | |
| Durham Memorial AME Zion Church | |
| Sisters Hospital Foundation | |
| Department of Pathology/Children’s Hospital | |
| Millard Fillmore Health Systems/Caring Arms Memorial Garden | |
| Center for Joy, Inc. | |
| Ashford Hollow Foundation | |
| BISON Fund | |
| Buffalo Prep | |
| University of New York Tinnitus Clinic of Hearing and Defness Ct. | |
| Claddaugh Commission | |
| Buffalo Arena Metropolitan Ministries – A Regional Conversation | |
| Total Year: | $22,900 |
| Recipient | 1997 |
| BISON Fund | |
| Heritage Education Program | |
| Cradle Beach Camp | |
| Greater Niagara Frontier Council for Boy Scouts of America | |
| Pediatric Digestion & Motility Disorder Society of Childrens Hospital | |
| Theater of Youth | |
| Child Advocacy Center | |
| Recovering Children’s Foundation, Inc. | |
| The Architectural Awareness Project for Buffalo (UB) | |
| UB Athletic Department | |
| Carnegie arts Center | |
| Buffalo Prep | |
| Total Year: | $15,015 |
| Recipient | 1996 |
| Canisius College Basketball Camp | |
| University of Buffalo Division of Athletics | |
| Everything Elmwood | |
| Alcohol and Drug Dependency Services | |
| The Irish Classical Theatre Company | |
| Erie County Special Olympics | |
| Sea Fever | |
| ECMC Life Line Foundation, Inc. | |
| Studio Arena | |
| Sisters Hospital | |
| Compass House | |
| The Green Fund ( Niagara Square Project) | |
| Total Year: | $17,460 |
| Recipient | 1995 |
| Language Development Program | |
| YMCA Camp Weona | |
| People, Inc. | |
| First Shiloh Baptist Church | |
| Aquarium of Niagara Falls | |
| Buffalo Prep | |
| Telephone Assistance Program | |
| Roswell Park Alliance | |
| Sisters Hospital | |
| Studio Arena | |
| Total Year: | $21,000 |
| Recipient | 1994 |
| The Buffalo Hearing & Speech Center | |
| Cradle Beach Camp | |
| UB/BRF Athletic Scholarship | |
| Canisius High School | |
| Hemophilia Center of Western New York | |
| Shakespeare in the Park | |
| Caring for Tomorrow’s Children | |
| Children’s Hospital Intensive Care Nursery | |
| Sisters Hospital | |
| Total Year: | $15,500 |
| Recipient | 1993 |
| Boys and Girls Club of WNY | |
| Southeast Community Work Center | |
| Special Olympics | |
| St. Mary’s School for the Deaf | |
| YMCA of Greater Buffalo | |
| Total Year: | $17,000 |
| Recipient | 1992 |
| Artpark | |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | |
| Independent Living Center | |
| Shakespeare in Delaware Park, Inc. | |
| Skating Association of the Blind & Handicapped, Inc. | |
| The Peter & Tommy Fund, Inc. | |
| World University Games | |
| YMCA of Greater Buffalo | |
| Total Year: | $22,859 |
| Recipient | 1991 |
| Bob Lanier Center | |
| Buffalo Columbus Hospital Foundation | |
| Fellowship of the Disabled | |
| Hemophilia Center of Western New York | |
| Hopevale, Inc. | |
| Roswell Park Cancer Institute | |
| UB Division I Athletic Scholarship Program | |
| Total Year: | $25,500 |
| Recipient | 1990 |
| Daemen College | |
| Kids Escaping Drugs | |
| Total Year: | $2,000 |
| Recipient | 1989 |
| Excalibur Leisure Skills | |
| Family Christmas Adoption | |
| Friends of the Night People | |
| St. Adalbert’s Response to Love Center | |
| Studio Arena Theater | |
| Toy & Equipment Lending Library | |
| Total Year: | $5,800 |
| Recipient | 1988 |
| Lothlorien Therapeutic Riding Center | |
| WNY Veteran’s Housing Coalition | |
| Total Year: | $2,600 |
| Recipient | 1987 |
| Hospice | |
| Toy & Equipment Lending Library | |
| Total Year: | $2,750 |
| Recipient | 1986 |
| Buffalo Philharmonic | |
| John H. Hunt Memorial Fund for Jazz | |
| United Way | |
| University of Buffalo Foundation | |
| Total Year: | $1,625 |
| Recipient | 1985 |
| Friends of the Philharmonic | |
| Total Year: | $12,590 |
| Recipient | Prior to 1985 |
| Hospice / Ethicare | |
| Kidney Foundation | |
| Total Year: | $15,000 |
| Recipient | 2020 |
| Resource Council of WNY, Inc. | |
| Junior League of Buffalo (Sculptural Art Initiative) | |
| CEPA Gallery | |
| Buffalo & Erie Naval Park | |
| Total Year: | $27,000 |
| Recipient | 2019 |
| Resource Council of WNY, Inc. | |
| Buffalo Lighthouse Association – Tall Ships | |
| Buffalo & Erie County Naval Park | |
| Total Year: | $12,500 |
| Recipient | 2018 |
| Women and Children’s Hospital | |
| Resource Council of WNY, Inc. | |
| BISON Scholarship Fund, Buffalo | |
| K.IA. Roadmarch | |
| Downtown Sculptural Art Initiative | |
| Gateway-Longview Foundation | |
| SABAH | |
| Police Athletic League of Buffalo | |
| Big Brother Big Sister of Erie County | |
| Junior Achievement of WNY | |
| Nativity Miguel School | |
| Shakespeare in Delaware Park | |
| Thomas and Jean Comer Girl’s Catholic High School Scholarship | |
| The Teacher’s Desk and Our Lady of Hope | |
| Total Year: | $200,700 |
| Recipient | 2017 |
| Women and Children’s Hospital | |
| UB Athletics | |
| Veterans Treatment Court | |
| Buffalo Downtown Art Initiative | |
| Total Year: | $17,500 |
| Recipient | 2016 |
| Women and Children’s Hospital | |
| USS Little Rock Commissioning | |
| Buffalo Downtown Art Initiative | |
| Total Year: | $64,600 |
| Recipient | 2015 |
| Women and Children’s Hospital | |
| Buffalo Downtown Art Initiative – Theodore Roosevelt Site | |
| Catholic Charities of Western New York | |
| USS Little Rock Commissioning | |
| St. Luke’s Mission of Mercy | |
| Total Year: | $32,683 |
| Recipient | 2014 |
| Music is Art | |
| Junior Achievement of Western New York, Inc. | |
| The Bristol Home, Inc. | |
| Diocese of Buffalo: Division of Catholic Education | |
| Autism Services, Inc. | |
| The Episcopal Diocese of Western New York | |
| Be-A-Friend Program, Inc. (Big Brother and Big Sister of Western New York) | |
| ECMC Lifeline Foundation | |
| Women and Children’s Hospital | |
| The Jacobs Institute | |
| BRF Downtown Art Initiative | |
| Total Year: | $51,500 |
| Recipient | 2013 |
| Gateway-Longview Foundation | |
| ECMC Lifeline Foundation | |
| Heritage Centers | |
| Women and Children’s Hospital Foundation of Buffalo | |
| Amherst Police Foundation/Amherst Youth Court | |
| Our Lady of Victory National Shrine and Basilica | |
| Peacemakers of Buffalo | |
| Clear Path for Veterans | |
| Buffalo Downtown Art Initiative | |
| Response to Love Center | |
| Total Year: | $61,150 |
| Recipient | 2012 |
| First Niagara Foundation Mentoring Matters Program | |
| SABAH | |
| Nativity Miguel Middle School of Buffalo | |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Erie County | |
| Homespace | |
| MICE US Foundation | |
| Shakespeare In Delaware Park | |
| Buffalo Downtown Art Initiative | |
| Response To Love Center | |
| US Navy Family Day | |
| BISON Fund | |
| Total Year: | $52,850 |
| Recipient | 2011 |
| Tidewell Hospice | |
| VNA Hospice House | |
| Buffalo Niagara Convention & Visitors Bureau | |
| Buffalo Prep | |
| Buffalo Scholastic Rowing Association | |
| BISON Scholarship Fund | |
| Back to Basics (Veterans Treatment Court) | |
| Nativity Miguel School of Buffalo | |
| Girls on the Run | |
| Irish Classical Theatre Company | |
| Heritage Centers New Life Residential Center | |
| Global Concepts Charter School | |
| Buffalo Downtown Art Initiative | |
| Total Year: | $105,500 |
| Recipient | 2010 |
| Renaissance Scholars Fund | |
| BISON Fund | |
| American Heart Association | |
| Buffalo Veterans Treatment Center | |
| UB Foundation | |
| Catholic Charities Services Corps | |
| Nardin Academy | |
| People Inc. | |
| Catholic Academy of West Buffalo | |
| Bunkers in Baghdad | |
| Nativity Miguel School of Buffalo | |
| St. Adalbert’s Response to Love Center | |
| Buffalo Downtown Art Initiative | |
| Total Year: | $52,825 |
| Recipient | 2009 |
| Renaissance Scholars Fund | |
| WNY Heroes.org | |
| UB Foundation | |
| Heritage Centers | |
| Holy Angels Academy SAGE Team | |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Erie County | |
| Aspire | |
| Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy | |
| SPCA of Erie County | |
| SABAH | |
| BISON Fund | |
| St. Adalbert’s Response to Love Center | |
| Total Year: | $42,000 |
| Recipient | 2008 |
| Renaissance Scholars Fund | |
| Catholic Academy | |
| ALS – Margaret Robin Fund | |
| Brothers of Mercy | |
| Kevin Guest House | |
| Lothlorien Therapeutic Riding Center | |
| Pioneer Camp & Retreat Center | |
| Amherst Community Church Child Care Center | |
| Meals on Wheels of Buffalo | |
| AIDS Community Services | |
| Young Gentlemen’s Club | |
| BISON Fund | |
| Total Year: | $74,850 |
| Recipient | 2007 |
| Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus | |
| BISON Fund | |
| Upstate New York Transplant Services | |
| University Heights | |
| Community Development Association | |
| Catholic Central School | |
| New Life | |
| Gerard Place | |
| Total Year: | $45,250 |
| Recipient | 2006 |
| Buffalo Niagara Cultural Tourism Initiative | |
| Graycliff | |
| The Buffalo Filling Station | |
| Frank Lloyd Wright’s Boathouse | |
| Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site | |
| Hull House | |
| Erie Canal Harbor Project | |
| Burchfield Penny Arts Center | |
| Michigan Street Preservation Corp | |
| Sisters of Mercy of the Americas | |
| Buffalo State College | |
| Hasek’s Heroes | |
| Buffalo Prep | |
| St Adalbert’s Response to Love Center | |
| Medaille College | |
| Homespace | |
| Shakespeare in the Park | |
| Total Year: | $44,800 |
| Recipient | 2005 |
| Daemen College | |
| Excalibur Leisure Skills Center, Inc. | |
| Kevin Guest House | |
| Lafayette Development Association | |
| SABAH | |
| Sisters Hospital Foundation | |
| St. Adalbert’s Response to Love Center | |
| St. Joseph Hospital Foundation | |
| The Samaritan Center | |
| Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site | |
| Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy | |
| Buffalo Zoo | |
| Total Year: | $29,200 |
| Recipient | 2004 |
| Landmark Society | |
| Child & Family Services | |
| Alleyway Theatre | |
| South Buffalo Food Pantry | |
| The Bristol Home | |
| Homespace | |
| Vive, Inc. | |
| Mount St. Academy | |
| Buffalo Arts Studio | |
| Gow School | |
| Back to Basics Ministry | |
| Buffalo Zoo | |
| Total Year: | $17,500 |
| Recipient | 2003 |
| Books for Kids – Buffalo News | |
| CASA – Court Approved Special Advocate for Childen | |
| Canisius College – Buffalo Regional Conversation | |
| CGR – Center for Governmental Research Study: Thinking Beyond the Boundaries – Cost Reduction Opportunities for Buffalo | |
| Child Art for the Family Court Building | |
| ECMC Lifeline Foundation | |
| Homespace | |
| SPCA – Encouraging Kids with Literacy | |
| St. Columban Center | |
| Total Year: | $25,500 |
| Recipient | 2002 |
| 914th Airlift Wing – Family Support Unit | |
| Boy Scouts of America , Camp Scouthaven | |
| Buffalo School #61 Early Childhood Center | |
| Buffalo Zoological Gardens | |
| Community Foundation of Greater Buffalo – Jog for the Jake | |
| Daemen College | |
| Fellowship of the Disabled | |
| Gloria J. Parks Community Center | |
| Mount St. Joseph Academy | |
| Rebuilding Together | |
| Total Year: | $14,000 |
| Recipient | 2001 |
| Buffalo Alliance for Education/Materials Reuse Program | |
| Child & Family Services | |
| Children’s Scholarship Fund | |
| Computers for Children – KidCo | |
| Early Start Fund | |
| ECMC Lifeline Foundation | |
| Moving Miracles, Inc. | |
| National S.A.F.E. Home Foundation | |
| St. Agatha’s Church | |
| University Presbyterian Church | |
| WNY Veteran’s Housing Coalition | |
| Firefighters World Trade Center Fund | |
| Total Year: | $20,000 |
| Recipient | 2000 |
| Computers for Children – KidCo | |
| Boys & Girls Club of Buffalo | |
| Irish Classical Theatre Company | |
| Bornhava | |
| Fellowship of the Disabled | |
| Homespace | |
| YMCA Camp Weona | |
| Total Year: | $10,000 |
| Recipient | 1999 |
| Special Olympics | |
| Cradle Beach Camp | |
| Buffalo Therapeutic Riding Center | |
| Buffalo Community Boating Center | |
| Child Care Coalition of Niagara Frontier | |
| Buffalo Zoo | |
| Buffalo Hearing & Speech Center | |
| Early Start Fund (Cornerstone Manor) | |
| Just Buffalo Literacy Center | |
| Mercy Hospital Foundation | |
| Child and Family Services | |
| Buffalo Arts Studio | |
| YMCA Camp Weona | |
| Buffalo Green Fund (Reforest Buffalo) | |
| Total Year: | $20,250 |
| Recipient | 1998 |
| Horizon Health Services | |
| Durham Memorial AME Zion Church | |
| Sisters Hospital Foundation | |
| Department of Pathology/Children’s Hospital | |
| Millard Fillmore Health Systems/Caring Arms Memorial Garden | |
| Center for Joy, Inc. | |
| Ashford Hollow Foundation | |
| BISON Fund | |
| Buffalo Prep | |
| University of New York Tinnitus Clinic of Hearing and Defness Ct. | |
| Claddaugh Commission | |
| Buffalo Arena Metropolitan Ministries – A Regional Conversation | |
| Total Year: | $22,900 |
| Recipient | 1997 |
| BISON Fund | |
| Heritage Education Program | |
| Cradle Beach Camp | |
| Greater Niagara Frontier Council for Boy Scouts of America | |
| Pediatric Digestion & Motility Disorder Society of Childrens Hospital | |
| Theater of Youth | |
| Child Advocacy Center | |
| Recovering Children’s Foundation, Inc. | |
| The Architectural Awareness Project for Buffalo (UB) | |
| UB Athletic Department | |
| Carnegie arts Center | |
| Buffalo Prep | |
| Total Year: | $15,015 |
| Recipient | 1996 |
| Canisius College Basketball Camp | |
| University of Buffalo Division of Athletics | |
| Everything Elmwood | |
| Alcohol and Drug Dependency Services | |
| The Irish Classical Theatre Company | |
| Erie County Special Olympics | |
| Sea Fever | |
| ECMC Life Line Foundation, Inc. | |
| Studio Arena | |
| Sisters Hospital | |
| Compass House | |
| The Green Fund ( Niagara Square Project) | |
| Total Year: | $17,460 |
| Recipient | 1995 |
| Language Development Program | |
| YMCA Camp Weona | |
| People, Inc. | |
| First Shiloh Baptist Church | |
| Aquarium of Niagara Falls | |
| Buffalo Prep | |
| Telephone Assistance Program | |
| Roswell Park Alliance | |
| Sisters Hospital | |
| Studio Arena | |
| Total Year: | $21,000 |
| Recipient | 1994 |
| The Buffalo Hearing & Speech Center | |
| Cradle Beach Camp | |
| UB/BRF Athletic Scholarship | |
| Canisius High School | |
| Hemophilia Center of Western New York | |
| Shakespeare in the Park | |
| Caring for Tomorrow’s Children | |
| Children’s Hospital Intensive Care Nursery | |
| Sisters Hospital | |
| Total Year: | $15,500 |
| Recipient | 1993 |
| Boys and Girls Club of WNY | |
| Southeast Community Work Center | |
| Special Olympics | |
| St. Mary’s School for the Deaf | |
| YMCA of Greater Buffalo | |
| Total Year: | $17,000 |
| Recipient | 1992 |
| Artpark | |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | |
| Independent Living Center | |
| Shakespeare in Delaware Park, Inc. | |
| Skating Association of the Blind & Handicapped, Inc. | |
| The Peter & Tommy Fund, Inc. | |
| World University Games | |
| YMCA of Greater Buffalo | |
| Total Year: | $22,859 |
| Recipient | 1991 |
| Bob Lanier Center | |
| Buffalo Columbus Hospital Foundation | |
| Fellowship of the Disabled | |
| Hemophilia Center of Western New York | |
| Hopevale, Inc. | |
| Roswell Park Cancer Institute | |
| UB Division I Athletic Scholarship Program | |
| Total Year: | $25,500 |
| Recipient | 1990 |
| Daemen College | |
| Kids Escaping Drugs | |
| Total Year: | $2,000 |
| Recipient | 1989 |
| Excalibur Leisure Skills | |
| Family Christmas Adoption | |
| Friends of the Night People | |
| St. Adalbert’s Response to Love Center | |
| Studio Arena Theater | |
| Toy & Equipment Lending Library | |
| Total Year: | $5,800 |
| Recipient | 1988 |
| Lothlorien Therapeutic Riding Center | |
| WNY Veteran’s Housing Coalition | |
| Total Year: | $2,600 |
| Recipient | 1987 |
| Hospice | |
| Toy & Equipment Lending Library | |
| Total Year: | $2,750 |
| Recipient | 1986 |
| Buffalo Philharmonic | |
| John H. Hunt Memorial Fund for Jazz | |
| United Way | |
| University of Buffalo Foundation | |
| Total Year: | $1,625 |
| Recipient | 1985 |
| Friends of the Philharmonic | |
| Total Year: | $12,590 |
| Recipient | Prior to 1985 |
| Hospice / Ethicare | |
| Kidney Foundation | |
| Total Year: | $15,000 |
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