Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Awards More Than $630,000 to Western New York Organizations
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 for “Educational Achievement to Low-Income Students”
Advocacy Institute - $15,000 for “General Operations in WNY”
African American Cultural Center of Buffalo - $14,000 for “Long Layover, A New Theatrical Production”
Arts for Learning WNY - $20,000 for “Artworks: Hired to Create. Inspired to Succeed: Year 2 of 3”
Buffalo-Area Engineering Awareness for Minorities (BEAM) - $18,000 for “School Year and Summer Engineering Exploration Programs”
Buffalo Arts Studio - $15,000 for “General Operations”
Buffalo Center for Arts and Technology - $36,000 for “Expanded Arts and Career Readiness Programming”
Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy - $20,000 for “General Operations: Year 1 of 3”
Buffalo Prep - $38,000 for “General Operations”
Buffalo Urban League - $20,000 for “YOLO-Your Life Changing Opportunity”
Cobblestone Society - $10,000 for “General Operations”
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Erie County - $22,650 for “4H Youth Community Action Network”
Create a Healthier Niagara Falls Collaborative - $10,500 for “Champion of Change Training”
Grassroots Gardens of WNY - $15,000 for “General Operations: Year 3 of 3”
Green Options Buffalo aka GObike Buffalo - $19,508 for “City-Wide Equitable Advocacy Committee Development”
Infinity Visual and Performing Arts - $20,000 for “Rooted in Creativity: Equitable Arts Access”
Just Buffalo Literary Center - $15,000 for “General Operations”
King Urban Life Center - $30,000 for “Parent Child PLUS Program”
Martin House Restoration Corporation - $15,000 for “General Operations”
MCC-DC dba West Side Community Services - $15,000 for “General Operations”
Mental Health Advocates of WNY - $30,000 for “Basic Emotional Skills Training (BEST)”
Natural Heritage Trust - $18,000 “Restoring Freedom Park’s Gardens”
Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service - $16,371 for “Urban Outreach Initiative”
Open Buffalo - $20,000 for “Emerging Leaders Program”
Peace of the City - $20,000 for “All of the Arts”
Roycroft Campus Corporation - $20,000 for “Illuminating the Roycroft Campus for Accessibility and Tourism”
Seneca Street Community Development Corporation - $20,000 for “Youth Programs”
Service Collaborative of WNY - $15,000 for “General Operations”
Springville Center for the Arts Theater - $19,362 for “Stained Glass Curtains”
WNY Land Conservancy - $17,000 for “Re-treeing for Rural Community Water Quality”
WNY Women’s Foundation - $36,000 for “MOMs: From Education to Employment Program”
Youth Mentoring Services - $18,500 for “LINKS”
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.