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Community Action Organization of Western New York Inc

To promote opportunities for low-income individuals, families, and communities to achieve and sustain self-sufficiency through advocacy partnerships, access to services and low-to-moderate income housing development.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Itemized grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
8%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$1.2M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$95,897
Largest grant, FY2025
$215,231
Organizations funded a year
12 to 12
FY2022 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$18M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Community Action Organization of Western New York Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Human ServicesOther
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
FY2025still arriving12$1.2M0%
FY202412$895k8%
FY202312$859k17%
FY202212$2.7Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$3.3MHuman Services$884kYouth Development$685kRecreation & Sports$387kFood & Nutrition$246kArts & Culture$141k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Holy Cross Head Start Inc$2,015,047134%
Kidz Zone$672,3994n/a
Seneca Babcock Community Association Inc$653,4334n/a
Puddle Jumpers$387,1274n/a
The YWCA of Western New York Inc$329,03345%
Queen City Early Childhood Center$285,4014n/a
Starlight Family Daycare$261,6094n/a
Mary's Little Lamb$246,1274n/a
Friends of Lighthouse Inc$213,6923n/a
House of Learning$182,3494n/a
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All grantees of Community Action Organization of Western New York Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Holy Cross Head Start Inc$2,015,047134%
Kidz Zone$672,3994n/a
Seneca Babcock Community Association Inc$653,4334n/a
Puddle Jumpers$387,1274n/a
The YWCA of Western New York Inc$329,03345%
Queen City Early Childhood Center$285,4014n/a
Starlight Family Daycare$261,6094n/a
Mary's Little Lamb$246,1274n/a
Friends of Lighthouse Inc$213,6923n/a
House of Learning$182,3494n/a
Family Help Center Inc$171,80341%
Deuxanges Center Inc$140,8643n/a
First Friends Daycare$86,3922n/a
Sweet Dreams Center$35,1712n/a
Bower's Buddies$12,1421n/a

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About Community Action Organization of Western New York Inc

How much does Community Action Organization of Western New York Inc give?
Community Action Organization of Western New York Inc reported 12 itemized grants totaling $1,225,425, out of $1,296,656 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 12 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
What does Community Action Organization of Western New York Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (59%), Human Services (16%), Youth Development (12%).
Who are Community Action Organization of Western New York Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Holy Cross Head Start Inc ($2.0M), Kidz Zone ($672k), Seneca Babcock Community Association Inc ($653k).
Does Community Action Organization of Western New York Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Community Action Organization of Western New York Inc based?
Community Action Organization of Western New York Inc 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 15 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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