How much did CHAUTAUQUA REGION ECONOMIC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of CHAUTAUQUA REGION ECONOMIC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

foundationsosteopathicchildren

2019

arenafoundationslivesosteopathicchildren

2022

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2023

ccpeg prioritypriority streetagreement

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k5 grants · $34k
$10k–50k15 grants · $314k
$50k–250k2 grants · $156k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.9M

Total assets

Largest grants

GHOSTFISH BREWING$89,000
CHQ VENTURES LLC$66,611
VILLAGE OF BEMUS POINT$30,000
VILLAGE OF LAKEWOOD$30,000
1891 FREDONIA OPERA HOUSE$25,000
42 LAKE ERIE$25,000
REG LENNA CENTER FOR THE ARTS$25,000
CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY AG & FAIR ASSOCIATION$25,000
CHAUTAUQUA OPPORTUNITIES INC$25,000
DREAM IT DO IT WESTERN NEW YORK$25,000
CITY OF DUNKIRK$20,000
NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER INC$20,000
VILLAGE OF SHERMAN$17,664
BOUTWELL HILL SKI CLUB INC$15,000
ROBERT H JACKSON CENTER INC$11,750

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 11%. 99% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$538k · 9 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$538k

$619k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%

+26%

Still filing today

56%

35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $425k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Community ImprovementEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthRecreation & SportsOther

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

LE
LAKE ERIE COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE
3× · 2017–2019 · $216k · revenue +20%
WD
WESTFIELD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
2× · 2022–2023 · $40k · revenue +82% · 48% of their budget
JC
JAMESTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
3× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +34%

Funded once

CA
CASTELLI AMERICA LLC
one grant, 2018 · $300k
WP
WB PROVISIONS LLC DBA SPLASH
one grant, 2023 · $45k
MA
MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION OF THE SOUTHERN TIERgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +42% · 41% of their budget

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

04Your field

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.

Greater Erie Economic Development

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Wayne Economic Development Corporation

The corporation was formed to lessen the burdens of government and act in the public interest; to facilitate economic activities throughout wayne county, ny including the location and expansion of civic, industrial and commercial…

Community Improvement

Erie County Economic Development

To facilitate both the creation and retention of jobs within erie county and increase economic opportunities for individuals and businesses through comprehensive economic development programs.

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Lewis County Development Corporation

To promote and facilitate economic opportunity for the people of lewis county, ny.

Community Improvement

Jamestown Area Chamber of Commerce

Mission is to partner with businesses and organizations to promote and advocate for the civic, economic and social well being of the jamestown region.

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Essex County Industrial Development

Our mission is to create a viable business atmosphere that will attract compatible and diverse sustainable economic development opportunities.

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Jay County Development Corporation

Encourage business to originate, expand current facilities, or relocate to areas within jay county, indiana, in order to expand job opportunities of the residents of jay county, indiana

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Jersey City Economic Development Corp

To promote, encourage and assist in the industrial, commercial and economic development of the city of jersey city, thereby increasing the commercial/trade of the city creating greater employment opportunities and broadening the tax base.

Community Improvement

Johnstown Industrial Development Corpora

Promotion of economic development in the region.

Community Improvement

Canandaigua Area Development Corporation

To pursue projects that improve the economic health of the canandaigua area by expanding the tax base and creating new employment opportunities.

Community Improvement

Adirondack Regional Chambers of

To enhance business in the community and to provide a networking environment for area businesses, promote tourism in the community and develop new business.

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St Lawrence County Property Development

To foster the creation, retention and expansion of jobs and economic opportunity in st. lawrence county, new york ny constructing, acquiring, rehabilitating and improving sites, buildings, and other related facilities in st. lawrence…

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jamestown Renaissance Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Lake Erie College of Osteopathic. 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 26 years old; the field is 28. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 5% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/21

the rest of the field

121/2,634

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.

05the grantee network

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

17/18

Grantees still filing

10/18

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,090,214Education$277,000Community Improvement$97,500Arts & Culture$56,750Philanthropy$45,000Recreation & Sports$10,000Health$5,000

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.

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.

Ralph C Sheldon Foundation IncNY16× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Inc · Chautauqua Region Community Foundation · Gebbie Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 organisation CHAUTAUQUA REGION ECONOMIC 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: WESTFIELD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

9 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +82% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 161335767 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on WESTFIELD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 48% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Chautauqua Region Economic?

Find your warmest path to Chautauqua Region Economic through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CHAUTAUQUA REGION ECONOMIC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Chautauqua Region Economic?

More from the funding graph

CHAUTAUQUA REGION ECONOMIC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Chautauqua Region Economic?

More from the funding graph