Endowment Options

Nonprofit Endowment and Long-Term Fund Options

Each of the Community Foundation’s relationships with our nonprofit clients is different due to our clients’ unique missions and needs. Regardless of your choice, your organization maintains responsibility for honoring your donors’ intent and restrictions. Currently, the Community Foundation is working with more than 85 organizations.

Endowments are designed to create a sustainable source of funding for organizations. For example, a gift of $400,000 given in 1975 increased to a value of $1.5 million in 2017 without anyone adding to the original gift. During that time, $1.7 million was granted out from the original gift.

For those organizations committed to providing services over a long period of time – and require a sustainable source of funding to do so – the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo provides an excellent option for endowment management.

Organizations that work with us benefit from our more than $500 million investment portfolio that has consistently outperformed benchmarks.

Organization Funds We Currently Manage

Boys & Girls Clubs of Buffalo, Inc.
Boys & Girls Club of Eden
Buffalo Audubon Society, Inc.

“By establishing an endowment at the community Foundation, we knew the money would not run out. It allowed us to put safeguards in place to ensure the money would be used to carry out our mission forever.” – Andrew Johnson, Jr., Buffalo Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.

Buffalo City Mission
Buffalo Green Fund, Inc.
Buffalo Naval Park Committee
Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy
Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus, Inc.
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Society
Buffalo Rotary Foundation, Inc.
Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences (Tifft Farm)
Church Mission of Help
Community Services Support Foundation Inc.
ECMC Lifeline Foundation
Eden Community Foundation, Inc.
Erie County SPCA
Family & Children’s Service of Niagara, Inc.
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies
Friends of Night People Future Growth Fund (WNY Resource Council)
Gateway-Longview Foundation
Grassroots Gardens of Buffalo, Inc.
Hawk Creek Wildlife Center, Inc.
Hispanic Women’s League
Housing Opportunities Made Equal (HOME)
Junior League of Buffalo, Inc.
Library Foundation of Buffalo & Erie County
Martin House Restoration Corporation
Meals on Wheels Foundation of WNY, Inc.
Medina Sandstone Society, Inc.
Middlebury Historical Society
Niagara Frontier Veterinary Society Pet Emergency Fund
Niagara Hospice, Inc.
Orchard Park Public Library
PFLAG Buffalo Niagara
Planned Parenthood of Central and Western New York

“We talked about planned giving for a long time and chose to partner with the Community Foundation to start our endowment for a number of reasons. Not only do we have flexibility to use the funds as we see fit, but the Community Foundation’s team is constantly bringing national best practices back to our region.”
– Rhonda Frederick, President and CEO of People Inc.

Police Athletic League of Buffalo, Inc.
Polish Arts Club of Buffalo
Preservation Buffalo Niagara
St. John Hospice
710 Main Street, Inc.
The Buffalo Seminary
The National Federation for Just Communities of WNY
The Park School of Buffalo
Trocaire College
United Way of Buffalo & Erie County
Variety Club of Buffalo/Tent #7
Western New York Land Conservancy
Western New York Manufacturing Engineers Education Trust
Wilson Library Board of Trustees
WNY Women’s Foundation
YMCA Buffalo Niagara
YWCA of Niagara