· Private foundation
Carnahan-Jackson Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $384k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $128k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF JAMESTOWN | $75,060 |
| Reg Lenna Center For The Arts Inc | $52,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JAMESTOWN INC (WDC) | $45,000 |
| UCAN | $40,000 |
| CHAUTAUQUA STRIDERS INC | $35,000 |
| James Prendergast Library Association | $27,250 |
| A CHILDREN'S PLACE | $25,000 |
| INFINITY VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS | $25,000 |
| FEEDMORE FOUNDATION OF WNY | $25,000 |
| HOUGHTON COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| Westfield Memorial Hospital Foundation | $25,000 |
| AUDUBON COMMUNITY NATURE CENTER | $20,000 |
| THE RELIEF ZONE | $20,000 |
| JAMESTOWN COMMUNITY LEARNING | $20,000 |
| ROGER TORY PETERSON INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $762k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF Jamestown NEW YORK6× · 2019–2024 · $352k · revenue +20%
- CSCHAUTAUQUA STRIDERS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $305k · revenue +45%
- TRTHE RELIEF ZONE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $220k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- CACHAUTAUQUA AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCone grant, 2022 · $130k · revenue -77% · 69% of their budget
- CHCHAUTAUQUA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CAREone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -35%
- MMMYERS MEMORIAL LIBRARYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $40k · revenue +33% · 44% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide quality health care services by operating diagnostic and treatment facilities pursuant to article 28 of the public health law of new york state. the center operates clinics in dunkirk, new york, jamestown, new york, gowanda, new…
Ccls is a 36 member cooperative public library system chartered by the nys education department to foster, strengthen, and improve public library services within chautauqua and cattaraugus counties by providing its members with training,…
To create a business environment in the region where our members can thrive.
The mental health association in chautauqua county commits to radical acceptance, empowerment, and advocacy for our community members who struggle with mental health and substance use.
The ridgway chautauqua is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit community-based organization focused on offering and supporting programs that promote lifelong learning, the arts, culture and community and that embody the chautauqua tradition. our…
Improving the quality of chautauqua lake, located in chautauqua county in upstate new york. the organization is concerned about the water quality, especially the proliferation of weeds and algae and their accumulation near the shore and…
The united way of northern chautauqua co inc envisions a community that works together, striving to improve the lives of others, while promoting ideals that facilitate lasting positive changes. empowering our local communities through…
To promote and support community health in jamestown, new york through the support of the upmc chautauqua and any other affiliates of wca group, inc.
The agency's mission is to provide a program of services for frail or impaired older adults in a secure group setting, enhancing quality of life, delaying institutionalization and providing respite for caregivers.
A public library with locations in catskill and palenville, new york providing reference materials and various on-line services.
The alliance was formed for the purpose of working in collaboration with lake and watershed-related organizations, municipalities, and other stakeholders in chautauqua county, ny, to promote and facilitate implementation of recommendations…
Cayuga Medical Associates, as a member of Cayuga Health System, will remain the region's leading healthcare system, and most trusted driver of integrated health services, together with valued partners. We empower our people and employ our…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Women's Christian Association of Jamestown and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 84 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF Jamestown NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA STRIDERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE RELIEF ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED CHRISTIAN ADVOCACY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds INFINITY VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF JAMESTOWN ↗
- Who funds JAMES PRENDERGAST LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UCAN ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds WESTFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JAMESTOWN COMMUNITY LEARNING COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds AUDUBON COMMUNITY NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE ↗
- Who funds HOUGHTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds REG LENNA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds ROGER TORY PETERSON INSTITUTE OF NA ↗
- Who funds FEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MYERS MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds JAMESTOWN CENTER CITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY CH ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA LAKE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Chautauqua Region Community Foundation Inc · Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Inc · Reginald a & Elizabeth S Lenna Fdn Inc Dba Lenna Foundation · Ttee Uw Jessie Smith Darrah-Charita · Hultquist Foundation Inc · Holmberg Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The Western New York Foundation · United Way of Southern Chautauqua County Inc · Northern Chautauqua Community Found · Gebbie Foundation Inc · Chautauqua Region Economic Development Corporation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Carnahan-Jackson Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.