Funding search · EIN 161578180 · Buffalo, NY

Edwin M Johnston Jr Family Foundation

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

103
grants reported
$1.2M
total given
2022–2025
filing years
$10,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 20222025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Top recipients

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  • Road To Responsibility4 grants · $138,000
  • Say Yes Buffalo1 grant · $72,000
  • Ducks Unlimited3 grants · $55,000
  • The Park School4 grants · $54,779
  • The Trustees4 grants · $50,000
  • Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy3 grants · $40,856
  • Elmwood Franklin School2 grants · $38,500
  • Nichols School1 grant · $37,000
  • Bluffton Self Help3 grants · $35,000
  • Gobike Buffalo3 grants · $33,000

Giving over time

$312,999
2022
$255,499
2023
$298,881
2024
$298,279
2025

Grant history

The 100 largest of 103 grants.

  • $72,000

    Say Yes Buffalo · Buffalo, NY · 2023

    Charitable

  • $50,000

    Road To Responsibility · Marshfield, MA · 2022

    Services for individuals with disabilities

  • $37,000

    Nichols School · Buffalo, NY · 2025

    Capital campaign

  • $35,000

    Road To Responsibility · Marshfield, MA · 2023

    Services for individuals with disabilities

  • $30,000

    Partnership With Native Americans · Addison, TX · 2025

    Charitable

  • $30,000

    Rainforest Trust · Warrenton, VA · 2025

    To save endangered wildlife and protects

  • $30,000

    Road To Responsibility · Marshfield, MA · 2024

    Services for individuals with disabilities

  • $25,000

    The Trustees · Boston, MA · 2024

    Arts & environmental conservation

  • $25,000

    Charter School Applied Technologies · Buffalo, NY · 2023

    Education

  • $25,000

    Ducks Unlimited · Memphis, TN · 2022

    Charitable

  • $25,000

    Elmwood Franklin School · Buffalo, NY · 2022

    Capital campaign

  • $25,000

    The Bison Children'S Scholarship Fund · Buffalo, NY · 2022

    Scholarships - capital campaign

  • $23,000

    Road To Responsibility · Marshfield, MA · 2025

    Services for individuals with disabilities

  • $21,500

    Gobike Buffalo · Buffalo, NY · 2022

    Education and advocacy for rebuilding streets and infrastructure to support community health, etc.

  • $20,000

    Ducks Unlimited · Memphis, TN · 2024

    Charitable

  • $20,000

    Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper · Buffalo, NY · 2022

    Preserve and protect clean water

  • $20,000

    The Park School · Snyder, NY · 2022

    Education

  • $19,779

    The Park School · Snyder, NY · 2025

    Education

  • $15,856

    Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy · Buffalo, NY · 2024

    Preservation of buffalo olmsted parks

  • $15,000

    Bluffton Self Help · Bluffton, SC · 2025

    Charitable

  • $15,000

    Boys & Girls Club of Bluffton · Bluffton, SC · 2025

    To enable all young people to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens

  • $15,000

    The Doug Flutie Jr Foundation for Autism · Newton, MA · 2025

    Charitable

  • $15,000

    The Salvation Army · West Nyack, NY · 2025

    To preach the gospel of jesus christ and to meet human needs in his name without discrimination

  • $15,000

    Fractured Atlas · New York, NY · 2024

    Charitable

  • $15,000

    The Nature Conservancy · Arlington, VA · 2024

    Charitable

  • $15,000

    Wright Tavern Legacy Trust · Concord, MA · 2024

    Charitable

  • $15,000

    Spca of Erie County · Tonawanda, NY · 2023

    Charitable

  • $13,500

    Elmwood Franklin School · Buffalo, NY · 2023

    Capital campaign

  • $13,000

    Buffalo Seminary · Buffalo, NY · 2024

    Charitable

  • $13,000

    Unicef USA Impact Fund for Children · New York, NY · 2024

    Charitable

  • $13,000

    Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy · Buffalo, NY · 2023

    Preservation of buffalo olmsted parks

  • $12,000

    Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy · Buffalo, NY · 2022

    Preservation of buffalo olmsted parks

  • $10,000

    Alzheimer'S Association · Chicago, IL · 2025

    To end alzheimer's and all other dementia

  • $10,000

    Art for All · Kenmore, WA · 2025

    To empower people with disabilities

  • $10,000

    Ducks Unlimited · Memphis, TN · 2025

    Charitable

  • $10,000

    Habitat for Humanity of Cape Cod · Yarmouthport, MA · 2025

    Charitable

  • $10,000

    Pga Tour First Tee Foundation · Ponte Vedra Beach, FL · 2025

    Charitable

  • $10,000

    The Trustees · Boston, MA · 2025

    Arts & environmental conservation

  • $10,000

    Bluffton Self Help · Bluffton, SC · 2024

    Charitable

  • $10,000

    Cotuit Center for the Arts · Cotuit, MA · 2024

    Artistic developement

  • $10,000

    Gobike Buffalo · Buffalo, NY · 2024

    Education and advocacy for rebuilding streets and infrastructure to support community health, etc.

  • $10,000

    Nativity Miguel School · Buffalo, NY · 2024

    Education

  • $10,000

    Pga Tour First Tee Foundation · Ponte Vedra Beach, FL · 2024

    Charitable

  • $10,000

    Tabor Academy · Marion, MA · 2024

    Education

  • $10,000

    The Doug Flutie Jr Foundation for Autism · Newton, MA · 2024

    Charitable

  • $10,000

    The Park School · Snyder, NY · 2024

    Education

  • $10,000

    Bluffton Self Help · Bluffton, SC · 2023

    Charitable

  • $10,000

    Girls Education Collaborative · East Aurora, NY · 2023

    Charitable

  • $10,000

    Dignity in Asylum · Concord, MA · 2022

    Housing and support for asylum seekers and refugees

  • $10,000

    Save the Manatee · Maitland, FL · 2022

    Animal rights

  • $10,000

    The Trustees · Boston, MA · 2022

    Arts & environmental conservation

  • $10,000

    Whales & Dolphins Conservation · Plymouth, MA · 2022

    Animal rights

  • $9,000

    Whales & Dolphins Conservation · Plymouth, MA · 2024

    Animal rights

  • $9,000

    Whales & Dolphins Conservation · Plymouth, MA · 2023

    Animal rights

  • $8,000

    The Buddy Dog Humane Society · Sudbury, MA · 2023

    Animal welfare

  • $7,500

    Cotuit Center for the Arts · Cotuit, MA · 2025

    Artistic developement

  • $7,025

    Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · Hilton Head Island, SC · 2024

    Charitable

  • $7,000

    Oars · Concord, MA · 2022

    Charitable

  • $7,000

    Open Table Concord · Concord, MA · 2022

    Charitable

  • $7,000

    The Buddy Dog Humane Society · Sudbury, MA · 2022

    Animal welfare

  • $6,000

    Oars · Concord, MA · 2023

    Charitable

  • $6,000

    Westminister Presbyterian Church · Buffalo, NY · 2022

    Capital fund

  • $5,000

    Eat Bay Food Pantry · Bristol, RI · 2025

    To engage, educate and empower the east bay in creating a hunger-free community

  • $5,000

    Nativity Miguel School · Buffalo, NY · 2025

    Education

  • $5,000

    Rosies Place · Boston, MA · 2025

    To help poor and homeless women

  • $5,000

    Buffalo City Mission · Buffalo, NY · 2024

    Support for the homeless and the poor

  • $5,000

    Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper · Buffalo, NY · 2024

    Preserve and protect clean water

  • $5,000

    Dignity in Asylum · Concord, MA · 2024

    Housing and support for asylum seekers and refugees

  • $5,000

    Habitat for Humanity of Cape Cod · Yarmouthport, MA · 2024

    Charitable

  • $5,000

    Oars · Concord, MA · 2024

    Charitable

  • $5,000

    Spca of Erie County · Tonawanda, NY · 2024

    Charitable

  • $5,000

    The Buddy Dog Humane Society · Sudbury, MA · 2024

    Animal welfare

  • $5,000

    Dignity in Asylum · Concord, MA · 2023

    Housing and support for asylum seekers and refugees

  • $5,000

    Pga Tour First Tee Foundation · Ponte Vedra Beach, FL · 2023

    Charitable

  • $5,000

    Tabor Academy · Marion, MA · 2023

    Education

  • $5,000

    The Park School · Snyder, NY · 2023

    Education

  • $5,000

    The Trustees · Boston, MA · 2023

    Arts & environmental conservation

  • $5,000

    Assembly House 150 · Buffalo, NY · 2022

    Education

  • $5,000

    Charter School Applied Technologies · Buffalo, NY · 2022

    Education

  • $5,000

    Hospice Buffalo · Cheektowaga, NY · 2022

    Charitable

  • $5,000

    Ocean Cleanup North Pacific Foundation · New York, NY · 2022

    Enviromental protection

  • $5,000

    The Concord Childrens Center · Concord, MA · 2022

    Education

  • $5,000

    Tommy'S Place Foundation · Quincy, MA · 2022

    Human services

  • $4,999

    Fractured Atlas · New York, NY · 2023

    Charitable

  • $4,999

    Fractured Atlas · New York, NY · 2022

    Charitable

  • $4,000

    Downeast Salmon Federation · Columbia Falls, ME · 2025

    To conserve and restore wild sea-run fish and their habitats in downeast maine

  • $4,000

    Whales & Dolphins Conservation · Plymouth, MA · 2025

    Animal rights

  • $4,000

    Tommy'S Place Foundation · Quincy, MA · 2023

    Human services

  • $3,500

    Nativity Miguel School · Buffalo, NY · 2022

    Education

  • $3,000

    Tommy'S Place Foundation · Quincy, MA · 2025

    Human services

  • $3,000

    Habitat for Humanity of Cape Cod · Yarmouthport, MA · 2022

    Charitable

  • $2,500

    Aspca Cape Cod · Boston, MA · 2025

    To protect animals

  • $2,500

    Maine Natural History Observatory · Gouldsboro, ME · 2025

    Natural history observation

  • $2,500

    Niagara Gospel Rescue Mission · Niagara Falls, NY · 2024

    Charitable

  • $2,500

    Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · Hilton Head Island, SC · 2023

    Charitable

  • $2,000

    Young Life · Colorado Springs, CO · 2024

    Charitable

  • $2,000

    Ocean Voyages Institute · Sausalito, CA · 2022

    Enviromental protection

  • $2,000

    Sadie Nash Leadership Project · New York, NY · 2022

    Education

  • $1,500

    City Squash · Bronx, NY · 2024

    Charitable

  • $1,500

    Gobike Buffalo · Buffalo, NY · 2023

    Education and advocacy for rebuilding streets and infrastructure to support community health, etc.

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.