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Chautauqua Region Economic Development Corporation

To provide economic opportunity.

$509k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2024
15
Organizations funded FY2023
80%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$89,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 15
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.9M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 80% of the organizations Chautauqua Region Economic Development Corporation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 87% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $279k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’22’23
Community ImprovementEducationRecreation & SportsOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving22$504k82%
FY202315$319k80%
FY20227$178k100%
FY20194$96k50%
FY20184$400k25%
FY20174$110kn/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.

Community Improvement$584kEmployment$335kEducation$236kRecreation & Sports$120kHealth$81kArts & Culture$78kEnvironment$54kFood & Nutrition$45kOther$0

Top grantees

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

Show all 23 grantees
All grantees of Chautauqua Region Economic Development Corporation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Castelli America LLC$300,0001n/a
Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine$216,00030%
Mikey's Way Foundation Inc$45,00034%
Westfield Development Corporation$40,000248%
Dream It Do It Western New York Inc$35,000211%
Manufacturers Association of the Southern Tier Inc$30,000141%
Chautauqua County Chamber of Commerce$30,00032%
Reg Lenna Center for the Arts Inc$25,00012%
1891 Fredonia Opera House Inc$25,00013%
Lakewood Community Development Corporation$25,000115%
Chautauqua Opportunities Inc$25,00010%
National Comedy Center Inc$20,00011%
Imagine Forestville Corporation$20,0001n/a
Jamestown Community College Foundation Inc$20,00021%
Boutwell Hill Ski Club Inc$15,0001n/a
Robert H Jackson Center Inc$11,75012%
Jamestown Center City Development Corporation$10,00010%
Cassadaga Lakes Association Inc$10,0001n/a
Pga Tour First Tee Foundation Inc$10,0001n/a
Community Connections At Findley Lake Inc$8,00014%
Jamestown Renaissance Corporation$7,50011%
Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Na$6,25010%
Erie Homes for Children & Adults Inc$5,00010%

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($667k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Chautauqua Region Economic Development Corporation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine: $216,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMikey's Way Foundation Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetWestfield Development Corporation: $40,000 over 2y, 48% of budgetDream It Do It Western New York Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetManufacturers Association of the Southern Tier Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetChautauqua County Chamber of Commerce: $30,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetReg Lenna Center for the Arts Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budget1891 Fredonia Opera House Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetLakewood Community Development Corporation: $25,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetChautauqua Opportunities Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Comedy Center Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJamestown Community College Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRobert H Jackson Center Inc: $11,750 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetJamestown Center City Development Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Connections At Findley Lake Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetJamestown Renaissance Corporation: $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetRoger Tory Peterson Institute of Na: $6,250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetErie Homes for Children & Adults Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 18.

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 IncNY28.3× affinity11 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 · 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

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 Region Economic Development Corporation

How much does Chautauqua Region Economic Development Corporation give?
Chautauqua Region Economic Development Corporation reported 22 grants totaling $508,950 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Chautauqua Region Economic Development Corporation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (36%), Employment (21%), Education (15%).
Who are Chautauqua Region Economic Development Corporation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Castelli America LLC ($300k), Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine ($216k), Mikey's Way Foundation Inc ($45k).
Does Chautauqua Region Economic Development Corporation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Chautauqua Region Economic Development Corporation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chautauqua Region Community Foundation Inc, Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Inc, Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc.
Where is Chautauqua Region Economic Development Corporation based?
Chautauqua Region Economic Development Corporation is based in NY.

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 44 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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