· Community foundation
Chautauqua Region Community Foundation Inc
The foundation is a nonprofit, community corporation created by and for the people of chautauqua county.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k33 grants · $229k
- $10k–50k47 grants · $978k
- $50k–250k21 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+1 grant · $552k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION | $552,065 |
| YWCA JAMESTOWN | $184,322 |
| NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER INC | $167,620 |
| JAMESTOWN CENTER CITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $157,020 |
| FILLING THE GAP INC | $130,138 |
| REG LENNA CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $116,103 |
| WINIFRED CRAWFORD DIBERT BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF JAMESTOWN | $106,488 |
| CHAUTAUQUA LAKE AND WATERSHED MANAGEMENT ALLIANCE | $102,500 |
| CITY OF JAMESTOWN NY | $102,164 |
| UNITED WAY OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY | $99,872 |
| ROBERT H JACKSON CENTER | $83,666 |
| MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY | $75,890 |
| ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $74,706 |
| FEED MORE WNY | $71,350 |
| FENTON HISTORY CENTER | $70,636 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
116 repeat relationships: 83 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +94% · 29% of their budget
JAMESTOWN CENTER CITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION5× · 2021–2025 · $916k · revenue +30%- CLCHAUTAUQUA LAKE AND WATERSHED MANAGEMENT ALLIANCE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $857k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $259k
- SPSTS PETER & PAUL ROMAN CATHOLIC CHone grant, 2020 · $149k
EHS INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +1%
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.
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.
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…
To create a business environment in the region where our members can thrive.
To reverse the trend of further deterioration of the County of Chautauqua's housing and commercial stock; control and modestly improve promising properties so that reputable buyers can be attracted.
Chemung county library district provides exceptional public library services and programs to our citizens - fulfilling their individual needs for educational, recreational, and cultural information - through contemporary, well-maintained…
Public library service for the town of camillus, new york
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…
To ensure that children with special needs, or at risk, from birth to age five, will reach their optimal development.
Provided library materials and services to residents of manchester and shortsville, ny and the surrounding area.
The chemung county historical society seeks to deepen our audience's understanding of the past and the role of histroy in our future. to achieve this, the society uses diverse and evolving collections to engage audiences through…
Provide various educational, cultural, and museum programs and services to area residents and tourists in order to promote an appreciation of ontario county, ny.
How this is measured
116 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 116 of the 197 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JAMESTOWN CENTER CITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA LAKE AND WATERSHED MANAGEMENT ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds REG LENNA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF JAMESTOWN ↗
- Who funds FILLING THE GAP INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WINIFRED CRAWFORD DIBERT BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JAMESTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERT H JACKSON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ROGER TORY PETERSON INSTITUTE OF NA ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF Jamestown NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds JAMESTOWN RENAISSANCE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FENTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF JAMESTOWN NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds INFINITY VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds AUDUBON COMMUNITY NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds JAMES PRENDERGAST LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE ↗
- Who funds ST SUSAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY CLUB OF JAMESTOWN COMMUNITY SERVICE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA STRIDERS INC ↗
- Who funds JAMESTOWN COMMUNITY LEARNING COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY CHAPTER OF NYSARC INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Inc · Reginald a & Elizabeth S Lenna Fdn Inc Dba Lenna Foundation · United Way of Southern Chautauqua County Inc · Carnahan-Jackson Foundation · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Hultquist Foundation Inc · Ttee Uw Jessie Smith Darrah-Charita · Holmberg Foundation Inc · The Western New York Foundation · Northern Chautauqua Community Found · Chautauqua Region Economic Development Corporation · Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Chautauqua Region Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chautauqua Region Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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