How much does Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System give?

Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System reported 36 itemized grants totaling $503,753, out of $577,611 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 36 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (98%), Arts & Culture (2%).

Who are Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: James Prendergast Library Association ($941k), Olean Public Library ($727k), Dunkirk Free Library ($105k).

Does Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Where is Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System based?

Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System is based in NY.

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New York · Public charity

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, acquisition, and processing.

$578k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 36
Itemized grants FY2024: 36
Organizations funded FY2023: 0%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $504k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $7,595
Largest grant, FY2024: $123,683
Organizations funded a year: 16 to 36; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $1.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	36	$504k	0%
FY2023	36	$384k	0%
FY2022	36	$418k	0%
FY2021	36	$506k	0%
FY2020	36	$361k	0%
FY2019	16	$294k	0%
FY2018	36	$684k	0%
FY2017	36	$684k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Education$3.8MArts & Culture$64k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
James Prendergast Library Association	$941,046	8	17%
Olean Public Library	$726,813	8	9%
Dunkirk Free Library	$104,807	8	n/a
Seneca Nation Library	$99,642	8	n/a
Darwin R Barker Library	$92,314	8	5%
Patterson Library	$82,018	8	4%
Lakewood Memorial Library	$80,123	8	7%
Blount Library Inc	$78,379	8	17%
City of Salamanca	$76,802	8	n/a
Memorial Library of Little Valley	$75,775	7	24%

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All grantees of Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
James Prendergast Library Association	$941,046	8	17%
Olean Public Library	$726,813	8	9%
Dunkirk Free Library	$104,807	8	n/a
Seneca Nation Library	$99,642	8	n/a
Darwin R Barker Library	$92,314	8	5%
Patterson Library	$82,018	8	4%
Lakewood Memorial Library	$80,123	8	7%
Blount Library Inc	$78,379	8	17%
City of Salamanca	$76,802	8	n/a
Memorial Library of Little Valley	$75,775	7	24%
Ahira Hall Memorial Library	$74,317	8	n/a
Randolph Free Library	$73,173	7	n/a
Ripley Public Library	$69,574	8	n/a
Anderson Lee Library	$69,067	8	5%
Mary E Seymour Memorial Free Library	$66,593	7	10%
Chautauqua Institution	$64,015	8	0%
Falconer Public Library	$61,961	8	n/a
Portville Free Library	$59,960	8	11%
Ellington Farman Library	$58,893	7	n/a
Gowanda Free Library	$58,163	7	14%
Sinclairville Free Library	$58,145	7	11%
Ashville Free Library	$56,473	7	22%
Ellicottville Memorial Library	$54,802	7	13%
Mayville Library	$54,741	7	12%
Clymer-French Creek Library	$53,772	7	n/a
Delevan-Yorkshire Public Library	$53,014	7	40%
Fluvanna Free Library	$52,737	7	29%
Kennedy Free Library	$52,257	7	21%
Cattaraugus Free Library	$52,234	8	14%
Town of Busti	$51,185	7	n/a
Allegany Public Library	$50,427	7	n/a
King Memorial Library	$49,151	7	n/a
Myers Memorial Library	$47,347	7	9%
Bemus Point Free Library	$46,256	7	10%
Minerva Free Library	$45,506	7	27%
Alexander Findley Community Library	$44,129	7	25%

Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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 Community Foundation IncNY28.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chautauqua Region Community Foundation Inc · Reginald a & Elizabeth S Lenna Fdn Inc Dba Lenna Foundation · Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Inc · Carnahan-Jackson Foundation · John Henry Eldred Jr Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System

How much does Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System give?: Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System reported 36 itemized grants totaling $503,753, out of $577,611 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 36 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (98%), Arts & Culture (2%).
Who are Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: James Prendergast Library Association ($941k), Olean Public Library ($727k), Dunkirk Free Library ($105k).
Does Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chautauqua Region Community Foundation Inc, Reginald a & Elizabeth S Lenna Fdn Inc Dba Lenna Foundation, Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Inc.
Where is Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System based?: Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System is based in NY.