With Youth For Youth (WYFY) — Western New York
Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo
A 24-member youth advisory board aged 13-17 directly awards over $2 million in grants of $25,000-$150,000 to out-of-school-time and youth sports programs across nine Western New York counties.
- Indicative award
- $25k–$150k (total award)Requests range from a $25,000 minimum to a $150,000 maximum, drawn from a pool of just over $2 million beginning in 2026. Multi-year funding is not available.
- Timing
- Annual cycleAnnual cycle · Jan, FebNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.The round opened 20 January 2026 and closed 23 February 2026 at 4 p.m., with decisions in April 2026 and funds distributed June 2026. No subsequent date is published.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Open to 501(c)(3) nonprofits, government agencies, and schools registered with the NY State Education Department serving youth ages 5-18 in the nine Western New York counties. Universities are not among the listed eligible applicants, so a researcher's route is as an evaluation or documentation partner to an eligible grantee. Tackle football, school-sanctioned athletic teams, sporting goods, religious purposes, and multi-year requests are excluded.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- out-of-school time · afterschool systems · youth voice · community sports · workforce development
- Apply at
- https://www.cfgb.org/nonprofits/grants/with-youth-for-youth-wyfy-grant-opportunities-for-western-new-york/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. Funder link last confirmed to resolve on 2026-09-25.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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