· Public charity
Chautauqua Region Economic Development Corporation
To provide economic opportunity.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 70% of CHAUTAUQUA REGION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $89,000 |
| CHQ VENTURES LLC | $66,611 |
| VILLAGE OF BEMUS POINT | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| 1891 FREDONIA OPERA HOUSE | $25,000 |
| 42 LAKE ERIE | $25,000 |
| CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY AG & FAIR ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| DREAM IT DO IT WESTERN NEW YORK | $25,000 |
| REG LENNA CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $25,000 |
| CHAUTAUQUA OPPORTUNITIES INC | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER INC | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,664 |
| BOUTWELL HILL SKI CLUB INC | $15,000 |
| ROBERT H JACKSON CENTER INC | $11,750 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of your 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.
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 +27% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 18 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, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $431k 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
- LELAKE ERIE COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE3× · 2017–2019 · $216k · revenue +50%
- WDWestfield Development Corporation2× · 2022–2023 · $40k · revenue +27% · 48% of their budget
- DIDREAM IT DO IT WESTERN NEW YORK INC2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue +144%
Funded once
- CACASTELLI AMERICA LLCone grant, 2018 · $300k
- COCITY OF JAMESTOWN - TREASURERone grant, 2023 · $50k
- WPWB PROVISIONS LLC DBA SPLASHone grant, 2023 · $45k
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.
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To transform our region by stimulating the growth and creation of dynamic companies in order to provide a superior standard of living for residents.
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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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Promotion of economic development in the region
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jamestown Renaissance Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Westfield Development Corporation. 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 30 years old; the field is 29. You back the established 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 5% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 44 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 LAKE ERIE COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds MIKEY'S WAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Westfield Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds DREAM IT DO IT WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION OF THE SOUTHERN TIER INC ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds REG LENNA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds 1891 FREDONIA OPERA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LAKEWOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JAMESTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERT H JACKSON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JAMESTOWN CENTER CITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Community Connections At Findley Lake Inc ↗
- Who funds JAMESTOWN RENAISSANCE CORPORATION ↗
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 · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Ttee Uw Jessie Smith Darrah-Charita · Carnahan-Jackson Foundation · Gebbie Foundation Inc · Northern Chautauqua Community Found · Reginald a & Elizabeth S Lenna Fdn Inc Dba Lenna Foundation · Northwest Charitable Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Erie Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Chautauqua Region Economic Development Corporation 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.