Buffalo, N.Y. — The Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo announced awards totaling more than $630,000 to 32 Western New York nonprofit organizations through its 2025 Competitive Grants process. These grants have been awarded to area nonprofits that support at least one of the Community Foundation’s four community goals:
- Achieve racial/ethnic equity
- Promote economic mobility through educational achievement for residents living in low-income households
- Steward significant environmental resources in the context of climate resilience
- Promote regional vibrancy through architecture, arts and culture
The Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo 2025 Competitive Grants recipients are:
- 716 Squash – $15,000
- Advocacy Institute – $15,000
- African American Cultural Center of Buffalo – $14,000
- Arts for Learning WNY – $20,000
- Buffalo-Area Engineering Awareness for Minorities (BEAM) – $18,000
- Buffalo Arts Studio – $15,000
- Buffalo Center for Arts and Technology – $36,000
- Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy – $20,000
- Buffalo Prep – $38,000
- Buffalo Urban League – $20,000
- Cobblestone Society – $10,000
- Cornell Cooperative Extension of Erie County – $22,650
- Create a Healthier Niagara Falls Collaborative – $10,500
- Grassroots Gardens of WNY – $15,000
- Green Options Buffalo aka GObike Buffalo – $19,508
- Infinity Visual and Performing Arts – $20,000
- Just Buffalo Literary Center – $15,000
- King Urban Life Center – $30,000
- Martin House Restoration Corporation – $15,000
- MCC-DC dba West Side Community Services – $15,000
- Mental Health Advocates of WNY – $30,000
- Natural Heritage Trust – $18,000
- Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service – $16,371
- Open Buffalo – $20,000
- Peace of the City – $20,000
- Roycroft Campus Corporation – $20,000
- Seneca Street Community Development Corporation – $20,000
- Service Collaborative of WNY – $15,000
- Springville Center for the Arts Theater – $19,362
- WNY Land Conservancy – $17,000
- WNY Women’s Foundation – $36,000
- Youth Mentoring Services – $18,500
Grant awards are made possible by generous Community Foundation clients who have established funds at the Community Foundation to address our community’s changing needs over time. Information about the 2026 Competitive Grants Process will be posted in December at cfgb.org/nonprofits/grants.
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About the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo
For more than a century, the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo has enhanced and encouraged long-term philanthropy in the Western New York community. A 501 (c)(3) organization, the Community Foundation’s mission is: Connecting people, ideas and resources to improve lives in Western New York. Established in 1919, the Community Foundation has made the most of the generosity of individuals, families, foundations and organizations who entrust charitable assets to the Community Foundation’s care. Learn more at cfgb.org