Funding search · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · grants
The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation: all 1,450 grants
Largest first · $434.7M across 2022–2024 · back to the overview
- $1.0M
Westminster Economic Development Initiative Inc (Wedi) · Buffalo, NY · 2023
$1,000,000 to support westminster economic development initiative, inc.s (wedi) new west side bazaar in buffalo.
- $1.0M
43north Bpc · Buffalo, NY · 2022
To support high-growth entrepreneurship and increase access to venture capital in western new york.
- $1.0M
Budc · Buffalo, NY · 2022
To support the construction of the ralph wilson park entry garden and dog park.
- $1.0M
Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens Society · Buffalo, NY · 2022
To support the capital campaign for the expansion of the buffalo botanical gardens.
- $1.0M
Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Detroit, MI · 2022
To support pontiac funders collaborative to improve economic growth and quality of life.
- $1.0M
Detroit Economic Growth Association · Detroit, MI · 2022
To support the detroit means business coalition.
- $1.0M
Detroit Regional Chamber Foundation · Detroit, MI · 2022
To support detroit drives degrees community college collaborative (d3c3).
- $1.0M
Detroit Regional Partnership Foundation · Detroit, MI · 2022
To support operations.
- $1.0M
Develop Detroit · Detroit, MI · 2022
Support for the incubator kitchen within the detroit food commons.
- $1.0M
Economic Development Group Doing Business As the Northland Workforce Traini · Buffalo, NY · 2022
To support education and training in advanced manufacturing and clean energy careers.
- $1.0M
Friends of the Rouge · Plymouth, MI · 2022
To support the rouge gateway trail project.
- $1.0M
Huron Waterloo Pathways Initiative · Chelsea, MI · 2022
To support the construction of the iron belle trail in washtenaw and wayne counties.
- $1.0M
Ralph Wilson Park Conservancy · Buffalo, NY · 2022
To support organizational capacity.
- $1.0M
Techtown Detroit · Detroit, MI · 2022
To support operations at techtown and its entrepreneurship and small business programs.
- $1.0M
The Research Foundation for the State University of New York · Buffalo, NY · 2022
To support project management and planning for the wny regional revitalization partnership.
- $1.0M
The Rural Outreach Center (Roc) · East Aurora, NY · 2022
To support a multi use, multi generational facility to increase access to safe play for rural families.
- $1.0M
The Western New York Foundation · Buffalo, NY · 2022
Nonprofit support & innovation
- $1.0M
Ymca of the Twin Tiers · Olean, NY · 2022
Capital support to the ymca of the twin tiers to build an outdoor center.
- $985,347
Causewave Community Partners · Rochester, NY · 2024
NextWave Mission Accelerator
- $982,780
Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo · Buffalo, NY · 2024
Project Play Western New York
- $961,100
Natural Heritage Trust · Albany, NY · 2022
To support construction on the empire state trail western new york trail system.
- $950,000
Jamestown Community College Foundation · Jamestown, NY · 2024
WNY Advanced Manufacturing & Tech Coalition: Advanced Manufacturing Technician Training
- $950,000
Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Detroit, MI · 2023
To support the connection, vernor viaduct, between the corktown and mexicantown neighborhoods.
- $935,325
Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Detroit, MI · 2023
To support the next phase of project play southeast michigan.
- $921,000
Monroe County Community College · Monroe, MI · 2022
To support detroit drives degrees community college collaborative (d3c3).
- $900,000
The Boston Foundation Inc (Dba the Philanthropic Initiative) · Boston, MA · 2024
WNY Respite Program
- $900,000
Eastern Market Corporation · Detroit, MI · 2023
To support entrepreneurship/small business support programming and organizational capacity-building/sustainability.
- $900,000
Tapestry Charter School · Buffalo, NY · 2023
To support the construction of a track to be used by youth throughout the city of buffalo.
- $900,000
Pay It Forward Ny Llc Fund of Social Finance · Boston, MA · 2022
To launch a pay it forward fund in western new york.
- $876,430
Rand Corporation · Santa Monica, CA · 2023
To support the evaluation of the pedals program in se michigan and western ny.
- $870,000
Budc · Buffalo, NY · 2023
To support the city of buffalos plan for development and improve long-term sustainability of the citys downtown waterfront.
- $870,000
Budc · Buffalo, NY · 2022
To support the city of buffalos plan to coordinate development of the citys downtown waterfront.
- $857,274
Lakeshore Connections · Buffalo, NY · 2022
To support help me grow western new york
- $850,000
Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Detroit, MI · 2024
Programming, Capital, and Capacity Support for Detroit's Regional Parks
- $850,000
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Washington, DC · 2023
To support the southeast michigan resiliency fund and the establishment of the save our great lakes western new york priority fund.
- $850,000
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022
To support se michigan resiliency fund and the save our great lakes wny priority fund.
- $845,175
The Western New York Foundation · Buffalo, NY · 2024
iCAP Expansion
- $800,000
Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor Commission · Buffalo, NY · 2024
Michigan Street AAHC: Capacity & Program Support
- $800,000
Nybdc Local Development Corporation Dba Pursuit Community Finance · Albany, NY · 2023
To establish the wny small business loan fund.
- $800,000
Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Detroit, MI · 2022
To support the detroit parks coalition
- $769,615
Lakeshore Connections · Buffalo, NY · 2023
To support help me grow western new york as a systems builder and leader in early childhood in western new york.
- $750,000
Enterprise Community Partners · Detroit, MI · 2024
Enterprise Detroit CDO Fund Phase 2
- $750,000
Fair Food Network · Detroit, MI · 2024
Michigan Good Food Fund-Southeast Michigan Regional Food Network
- $750,000
Henry Ford Community College Foundation · Dearborn, MI · 2024
D3C3 Implementation Phase I
- $750,000
Lawrence Technological University · Southfield, MI · 2024
Growing the Accelerator's Capacity to Support Advanced Manufacturing
- $750,000
Niagara Arts and Cultural Center · Niagara Falls, NY · 2024
NACC Theater Renovation
- $750,000
Community Foundation of Monroe County · Monroe, MI · 2023
This grant will make it possible for partners in monroe county with cfmc as fiduciary to construct the monroe loop trail.
- $750,000
Enterprise Community Partners · Detroit, MI · 2023
To support phase 2 of the detroit cdo fund.
- $750,000
Fair Food Network · Detroit, MI · 2023
Support for the michigan good food fund and the establishment of a regional hub for food business development in southeast mi.
- $740,000
Beverly Gray Business Exchange Center · Buffalo, NY · 2024
RRP -- East Buffalo Small Business
- $737,809
Ny Funders Alliance Initiatives Fund · Syracuse, NY · 2024
Western New York Nonprofit Support Group
- $716,259
Lakeshore Connections · Buffalo, NY · 2024
Help Me Grow
- $707,622
Ymca of Metropolitan Detroit · Detroit, MI · 2022
To support and expand the mobile component of the equipment sharing program.
- $702,500
Open Space Institute Land Trust · New York, NY · 2023
To renovate and install green infrastructure in three parks identified in the buffalo parks master plan.
- $702,500
Open Space Institute Land Trust · New York, NY · 2022
To renovate and install green infrastructure based on the buffalo parks master plan
- $700,000
Washtenaw Community College · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024
D3C3 Implementation Phase I: Advance Ypsi
- $700,000
Alfred State College Development Fund · Alfred, NY · 2023
To support the wny works platform and assess areas of regional programmatic collaboration between jcc, gcc, and asc.
- $700,000
Beverly Gray Business Exchange Center · Buffalo, NY · 2023
To support the small business growth initiative, led by the exchange at beverly gray and the foundry.
- $700,000
Monroe Community College Foundation · Rochester, NY · 2023
To support start-up operational and capital equipment costs for the finger lakes workforce development center.
- $700,000
Schoolcraft College · Livonia, MI · 2023
To support the student success, k-12 alignment, and mobility sector talent pipeline development strategies as a part of dc3c.
- $700,000
Washtenaw Community College · Ann Arbor, MI · 2022
To support detroit drives degrees community college collaborative (d3c3).
- $696,500
Capital Impact Partners · Arlington, VA · 2023
Support for capital impact partners equitable development initiative and predevelopment subgrant program.
- $680,095
Ymca of Metropolitan Detroit · Detroit, MI · 2023
To support and expand the mobile component of the equipment sharing program.
- $673,057
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · Boston, MA · 2023
To expand the capacity of the ournotes component of opennotes.
- $665,000
The Boston Foundation Inc (Dba the Philanthropic Initiative) · Boston, MA · 2023
To support the expansion of exhale, the family caregiver initiative.
- $664,845
Lakeshore Connections · Buffalo, NY · 2024
PEDALS WNY Expansion
- $644,000
Michigan Nonprofit Association · Detroit, MI · 2023
To support intermediaries in their work helping address the existing and covid-19 related challenges facing nonprofits.
- $625,000
Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Detroit, MI · 2024
NEI Inclusive Small Business Support Network 2021 - 2025
- $625,000
Nybdc Local Development Corporation Dba Pursuit Community Finance · Albany, NY · 2024
WNY Small Business Loan Fund
- $625,000
Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Detroit, MI · 2023
To support the new five-year strategy of the new economy initiative (nei).
- $612,283
Ymca of Metropolitan Detroit · Detroit, MI · 2024
"Y on the Fly" Mobile Equipment Sharing Project
- $600,000
Center for Regional Strategies · Buffalo, NY · 2024
Greater Niagara Agritourism Scoping Initiative & Property Improvement Program
- $600,000
Detroit Regional Chamber Foundation · Detroit, MI · 2024
D3C3 Implementation Phase I
- $600,000
Per Scholas · Bronx, NY · 2023
To launch a site in buffalo and two satellite campuses that will provide training and job placement in middle-skill tech pathways.
- $600,000
Community Foundation of Greater Rochester · Rochester, MI · 2022
To support design, engineering and construction of 7.7 miles of the michigan airline trail.
- $598,500
Capital Impact Partners · Arlington, VA · 2024
Detroit Equitable Development Initiative
- $556,050
Budc · Buffalo, NY · 2023
To support implementation of phase 1 of ralph wilson park in buffalo, new york.
- $531,300
Friends of the Detroit River · Taylor, MI · 2022
To support critical improvements to the downriver linked greenway.
- $530,000
Community Foundation of Monroe County · Monroe, MI · 2022
To connect the monroe loop trail to the river raisin heritage trail system.
- $500,000
Advancing Macomb Foundation · Mount Clemens, MI · 2024
Great Lakes Way Trail - connect gap/pedestrian bridge
- $500,000
Caringbridge · Bloomington, MN · 2024
Caregiver Journey Research Initiative
- $500,000
Center for Regional Strategies · Buffalo, NY · 2024
Phase 1: Accelerate Ideas "Rapid Prize" Competition
- $500,000
Chautauqua Region Community Foundation · Jamestown, NY · 2024
The Capacity Lab
- $500,000
Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo · Buffalo, NY · 2024
Shoreline Trail Enhancement Project - Phase 1 and 2
- $500,000
Connected Communities · Rochester, NY · 2024
The Greenwood Project/ Rochester RRP
- $500,000
Friends of Wayne County Parks · Livonia, MI · 2024
Holliday Nature Preserve
- $500,000
Greater Rochester Housing Partnership · Rochester, NY · 2024
Harper's Corner Revitalization
- $500,000
Monroe Community College Foundation · Rochester, NY · 2024
Finger Lakes Workforce Development (FWD) Center
- $500,000
Niagara Falls Boys & Girls Club · Niagara Falls, NY · 2024
Innovate & Inspire: Strengthening Boys & Girls Clubs Across WNY
- $500,000
Oakland Schools · Waterford, MI · 2024
Help Me Grow Michigan Expansion
- $500,000
Rochesterworks · Rochester, NY · 2024
Rochester Downtown Career Center
- $500,000
Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers · Americus, GA · 2024
RCI Strategic Planning for Action
- $500,000
Advancing Macomb Foundation · Mount Clemens, MI · 2023
To support the clinton river spillway pedestrian bridge.
- $500,000
Caringbridge · Bloomington, MN · 2023
To support caringbridges caregiver journey research initiative.
- $500,000
Council of Michigan Foundations · Detroit, MI · 2023
To allocate michigan spark grant funds through regional and local community foundations.
- $500,000
Friends of Wayne County Parks · Livonia, MI · 2023
To support the revitalization of the holliday nature preserve in wayne county, michigan.
- $500,000
Niagara Arts and Cultural Center · Niagara Falls, NY · 2023
To support the renovation and restoration of the niagara arts and cultural centers grand theater.
- $500,000
Niagara Falls National Heritage Area · Niagara University, NY · 2023
To support the digitization of the niagara fall public librarys local history collection.
- $500,000
Torn Space Theater · Buffalo, NY · 2023
To support torn space theaters capital plan in the fillmore neighborhood on buffalos east side.
- $500,000
Youthprise · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
To support the development of youth hubs that will center young people and integration within programs and intermediaries.

