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Carnahan-Jackson Foundation at a glance

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Carnahan-Jackson Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$754k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.2MHuman Services$1.1MYouth Development$918kArts & Culture$323kPhilanthropy$292kHealth$241kEnvironment$209kHousing & Shelter$130kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $381k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $358k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
New Directions Youth & Family Service$75,000
YWCA OF JAMESTOWN$70,500
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHAUTAUQUA$60,000
Reg Lenna Center For The Arts Inc$52,500
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JAMESTOWN INC (WDC)$50,000
FEEDMORE FOUNDATION OF WNY$50,000
UCAN$42,500
CHAUTAUQUA STRIDERS INC$38,000
YMCA OF JAMESTOWN$30,700
James Prendergast Library Association$30,000
ROGER TORY PETERSON INSTITUTE$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
A CHILDREN'S PLACE$25,000
INFINITY VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS$25,000
HOUGHTON COLLEGE$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $916k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SOLDIERS BEST FRIEND: $1k → 11%UCAN: $50k → 14%UCAN: $43k → 14%UCAN: $40k → 14%UCAN: $40k → 14%THE AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $8k → 14%THE AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $5k → 14%Chautauqua Hospice and Palliative Care: $100k → 18%Chautauqua Hospice and Palliative Care: $10k → 18%YMCA OF JAMESTOWN: $90k → 18%YMCA OF JAMESTOWN: $75k → 18%YMCA OF JAMESTOWN: $72k → 18%YWCA OF JAMESTOWN: $71k → 18%YWCA OF JAMESTOWN: $67k → 18%YMCA OF JAMESTOWN: $61k → 18%YWCA OF JAMESTOWN: $59k → 18%YMCA OF JAMESTOWN: $51k → 18%YWCA OF JAMESTOWN: $34k → 18%YMCA OF JAMESTOWN: $31k → 18%ELIZABETH WARNER MARVIN COMMUNITY HOUSE: $5k → 18%YMCA CAMP ONYAHSA: $3k → 18%YWCA OF JAMESTOWN: $2k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
OH
PA
CO
VA
AZ
DC
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.1M · 53 repeat orgs$498k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

53 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
31

Total granted

$5.1M
$408k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
0%

Still filing today

57%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF Jamestown NEW YORK
    7× · 2019–2025 · $382k · revenue +20%
  • CS
    CHAUTAUQUA STRIDERS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $343k · revenue +45%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $275k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • CA
    CHAUTAUQUA AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $130k · revenue -77% · 69% of their budget
  • MM
    MYERS MEMORIAL LIBRARYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $40k · revenue +33% · 44% of their budget
  • FP
    FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Chautauqua Center Inc

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…

Health
2
Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System

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,…

Education
3
Mental Health Association in Chautauqua County Inc

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.

Health
4
Chautauqua County Chamber of Commerce

To create a business environment in the region where our members can thrive.

Community Improvement
5
Ridgway Chautauqua Dba the New Sherbino Theater

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Chautauqua Lake Partnership Inc

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…

Environment
7
Cayuga Medical Associates Pc

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…

Health
8
United Way of Northern Chautauqua C

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…

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9
United Way of Central New York Inc

To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our community.

Philanthropy
10
Chautauqua Adult Day Care Centers 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.

Human Services
11
Catskill Public Library

A public library with locations in catskill and palenville, new york providing reference materials and various on-line services.

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12
Wca Foundation Inc

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.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Southern Chautauqua County Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 89 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/52
Grantees still filing
31/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Fredonia College Foundation of: $425,000 · OtherFredonia College Foundation ofTHE SALVATION ARMY: $309,500 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYJAMESTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $243,920 · OtherJAMESTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGEINFINITY VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS INC: $188,500 · OtherINFINITY VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS INCBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JAMESTOWN INC: $142,500 · OtherREG LENNA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $137,000 · OtherFEEDMORE FOUNDATION OF WNY: $115,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JAMESTOWN INC (WDC): $95,000 · OtherROGER TORY PETERSON INSTITUTE OF NA: $92,580 · OtherCHAUTAUQUA AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $130,000 · Other+54 more: $887,738 · Other+54 moreYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF Jamestown NEW YORK: $382,220 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRIST…YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF JAMESTOWN: $231,600 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRI…UCAN: $172,500 · Human ServicesUCANCHAUTAUQUA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE: $110,000 · Human ServicesCHAUTAUQUA HOSPICE…+3 more: $19,515 · Human ServicesCHAUTAUQUA STRIDERS INC: $343,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHAUTAUQUA S…THE RELIEF ZONE INC: $239,700 · Youth DevelopmentTHE RELIEF Z…+2 more: $25,500 · Youth DevelopmentJAMES PRENDERGAST LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $174,805 · EducationJAMES PREN…JAMESTOWN COMMUNITY LEARNING COUNCIL: $139,000 · EducationJAMESTOWN …HOUGHTON UNIVERSITY: $110,000 · EducationHOUGHTON U…UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $42,000 · EducationUNITED NEG…MYERS MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $40,000 · EducationMYERS MEMO…+1 more: $10,000 · EducationUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC: $275,000 · PhilanthropyWESTFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $121,725 · PhilanthropyCHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC: $19,565 · Philanthropy+1 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED CHRISTIAN ADVOCACY NETWORK INC: $170,000 · Crime & LegalFRIENDS OF THE CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY CH: $30,000 · Crime & LegalAUDUBON COMMUNITY NATURE CENTER: $132,000 · EnvironmentCHAUTAUQUA LAKE ASSOCIATION INC: $24,500 · Environment
Other$2,766,738Human Services$915,835Youth Development$608,200Education$515,805Philanthropy$418,290Crime & Legal$200,000Environment$156,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF Jamestown NEW YORK: $382,220 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA STRIDERS INC: $343,000 over 9y, 7.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC: $275,000 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetTHE RELIEF ZONE INC: $239,700 over 9y, 15% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF JAMESTOWN: $231,600 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetINFINITY VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS INC: $188,500 over 8y, 6.4% of budgetJAMES PRENDERGAST LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $174,805 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetUCAN: $172,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED CHRISTIAN ADVOCACY NETWORK INC: $170,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetJAMESTOWN COMMUNITY LEARNING COUNCIL: $139,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetREG LENNA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $137,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetAUDUBON COMMUNITY NATURE CENTER: $132,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $130,000 over 1y, 69% of budgetWESTFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $121,725 over 5y, 18% of budgetHOUGHTON UNIVERSITY: $110,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE: $110,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetROGER TORY PETERSON INSTITUTE OF NA: $92,580 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetFEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $42,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMYERS MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $40,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetJAMESTOWN CENTER CITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $37,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetST SUSAN CENTER INC: $33,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA CHILDREN'S SAFETY EDUCATION VILLAGE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY CH: $30,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA LAKE ASSOCIATION INC: $24,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC: $19,565 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA REGIONAL YOUTH BALLET INC: $17,800 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBEMUS POINT FREE LIBRARY: $13,661 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $13,515 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAZELTINE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $11,700 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetIMPACT CAMPUS FELLOWSHIP INC: $10,500 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY HELPING HANDS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA REGION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetSTARFLIGHT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWELLS COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROBERT H JACKSON CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetYOUTH EDUCATION IN THE ARTS: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Health System: $5,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELIZABETH WARNER MARVIN COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTEN LIVES CLUB INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHERN CHAUTAUQUA CANINE RESCUE INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTHERN TIER HEALTH CARE SYSTEM INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL COMEDY CENTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOLDIERS BEST FRIEND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEVA INC: $650 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE RELIEF ZONE INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF JAMESTOWN ↗
  • Who funds INFINITY VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds JAMES PRENDERGAST LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds UCAN ↗
  • Who funds UNITED CHRISTIAN ADVOCACY NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds JAMESTOWN COMMUNITY LEARNING COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds REG LENNA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds AUDUBON COMMUNITY NATURE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CHAUTAUQUA AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HOUGHTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CHAUTAUQUA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE ↗
  • 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 ST SUSAN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CHAUTAUQUA CHILDREN'S SAFETY EDUCATION VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY CH ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Chautauqua Region Com…Ralph C Sheldon Found…Reginald a & Elizabet…Ttee Uw Jessie Smith …Hultquist Foundation …Holmberg Foundation I…Community Foundation …The Western New York …United Way of Souther…Northern Chautauqua C…Gebbie Foundation IncChautauqua Region Eco…
Chautauqua Region Community Foundation IncNY67.6× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Carnahan-Jackson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carnahan-Jackson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 89 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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