Buffalo Bills giving back
Supporters of Damar Hamilton, the Buffalo Bills safety who suffered cardiac arrest on the field last week, have poured more than $8 million into a GoFundMe page in his name.
Now back in Buffalo, Hamlin also has pledged proceeds from “Did we win?” T-shirts to support the trauma center in Cincinnati that initially treated him.
His team has a long history of funding not only community athletics in the Buffalo region, but also health and human services. Here’s a list of recent grants by the Bills, according to its 2019 foundation tax returns, the most recent publicly available:
| recipient | amount | city |
| Albright-Knox Art Gallery | $3,000 | Buffalo |
| American Cancer Society | $5,000 | Amherst |
| Back to Basics Outreach Ministries | $16,000 | Buffalo |
| Be-A-Friend Program | $5,000 | Buffalo |
| Bennett High School | $1,000 | Buffalo |
| Blessed Sacrament Athletic Club | $2,900 | Buffalo |
| Boys & Girls Club of East Aurora | $40,000 | East Aurora |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Buffalo | $1,500 | Buffalo |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Buffalo | $10,000 | Buffalo |
| Boys Run On | $5,000 | Buffalo |
| Buffalo City Swim Racers | $5,000 | Buffalo |
| Buffalo/Niagara Honor Flight | $25,000 | Cheektowaga |
| Buffalo/Niagara Honor Flight | $2,387 | Cheektowaga |
| Bunkers in Baghdad | $2,500 | Buffalo |
| Cheektowaga Football | $1,000 | Cheektowaga |
| Cleveland Hill Booster Club | $1,000 | Cheektowaga |
| Cradle Beach Camp | $7,500 | Angola |
| CSP Wolfpack Football Program | $1,000 | Sherman |
| Daemen College | $3,000 | Amherst |
| Daemen College | $2,540 | Amherst |
| Daemen College | $5,724 | Amherst |
| East Aurora Parent Teacher Organization | $6,491 | East Aurora |
| ECMC Foundation (Erie County Medical Center) | $100,000 | Buffalo |
| Explore & More Children’s Museum | $50,000 | Buffalo |
| Family Justice Center of Erie County | $5,000 | Buffalo |
| Friends of Family Support | $3,581 | Niagara Falls |
| Girls on the Run | $5,700 | Buffalo |
| Grace Guest House | $2,802 | Buffalo |
| Grand Island Football | $1,000 | Grand Island |
| Hunter’s Hope Foundation | $10,000 | Orchard Park |
| Independent Health Foundation | $6,000 | Buffalo |
| Joe Pro Youth Life Camps | $2,000 | Fairport |
| Kids Escaping Drugs | $5,000 | West Seneca |
| MADD Erie County | $3,200 | Hamburg |
| Mason’s Mission Foundation | $2,500 | Lockport |
| Medina Football | $1,000 | Medina |
| Niagara Erie Youth Sports Association | $10,000 | North Tonawanda |
| Niagara Wheetfield Sports Alliance | $1,000 | Sanborn |
| Northwest Buffalo Community Center | $5,000 | Buffalo |
| Oishei Children’s Hospital | $20,000 | Buffalo |
| P.U.N.T. Pediatric Cancer Collaborative | $10,000 | Buffalo |
| P.U.N.T. Pediatric Cancer Collaborative | $4,020 | Buffalo |
| P.U.N.T. Pediatric Cancer Collaborative | $8,032 | Buffalo |
| Pioneer Varsity Club | $1,000 | Yorkshire |
| Police Athletic League of Buffalo | $27,000 | Buffalo |
| Quaker Athletic Foundation | $1,000 | Orchard Park |
| Rural Outreach Center | $10,000 | East Aurora |
| Salvation Army | $5,000 | Buffalo |
| Say Yes Buffalo | $5,000 | Buffalo |
| Seneca-Babcock Community Association | $5,000 | Buffalo |
| Sensational Fun | $2,000 | Orchard Park |
| Shea’s Performing Arts Center | $5,000 | Buffalo |
| Southwestern Central School | $1,000 | Jamestown |
| SPCA | $2,500 | West Seneca |
| St. Francis High School Football | $1,000 | Hamburg |
| SUNY Fredonia | $4,000 | Fredonia |
| Town of Hamburg | $5,000 | Hamburg |
| Town of Orchard Park | $3,585 | Orchard Park |
| United Way of Buffalo and Erie County | $5,000 | Buffalo |
| United Way of Buffalo and Erie County | $32,000 | Buffalo |
| Valley Community Association | $5,900 | Buffalo |
| Veterans One-Stop Center of WNY | $5,000 | Buffalo |
| Veterans One-Stop Center of WNY | $2,387 | Buffalo |
| Victory Sports Global Outreach | $15,000 | Clarence |
| Visually Impaired Advancement | $5,000 | Buffalo |
| Volunteers of America | $5,000 | Rochester |
| Wellness Institute | $3,000 | Buffalo |
| Western New York Amateur Football Alliance | $10,000 | Hamburg |
| Western New York Amateur Football Alliance | $20,000 | Hamburg |
| Western New York Amateur Football Alliance | $35,000 | Hamburg |