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Community Connections of Ny Inc

To establish, oversee, supervise and maintain programs for children and their families, human services programs, wellness programs, and other facilities and programs, incidental thereto to the extent appropriate for the effective delivery of child and family care services in new york state and to establish and develop training programs,…

$297k
Granted FY2021
14
Itemized grants FY2021
14
Organizations funded FY2021
100%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$266k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$19,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$19,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 14
FY2018 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
2
Total assets, FY2021
$3.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 100% of the organizations Community Connections of Ny Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $266k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21
EducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsArts & CultureHealthOther
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
FY202114$266k100%
FY20203$99k0%
FY20197$243k71%
FY20189$112kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2021.

Education$286kHuman Services$132kPublic Benefit$94kYouth Development$57kScience & Tech$47kCommunity Improvement$30kEmployment$19kRecreation & Sports$19kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 27 grantees

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($19k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Community Connections of Ny Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCattaraugus and Wyoming Counties Project Head Start: $190,072 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetCenter for Governmental Research Inc: $94,100 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetChild Care Resource Network: $60,538 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBuffalo Public Schools Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 70% of budgetDream It Do It Western New York: $19,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetWestminster Economic Development Initiative: $19,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYMCA of Greater Rochester: $19,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMichigan Science Center: $19,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetChallenger Learning Center: $19,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetBuffalo Maritime: $19,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetMission Ignite Powered by Computers for Children Inc: $19,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetYouth Mentoring Services of Niagara County Inc: $19,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetDowntown Boxing Gym Youth Program: $19,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Baldwin Center: $19,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBuffalo Museum of Science: $19,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDetroit Hispanic Development Corporation: $19,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCatholic Charities of Buffalo: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rural Outreach Center Inc: $11,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNew Directions Youth & Family Services: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Services for the Developmentally Disabled: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAccess of Wny: $11,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetBuffalo Hearing & Speech Center: $5,026 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 22.

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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.

Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY31× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The John R Oishei Foundation · United Way of Buffalo and Erie County · Lakeshore Connections Inc · The Frank G Raichle Foundation · Cullen Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Independent Health Association Inc · Children's Foundation of Erie County 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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How do I get to Community Connections of Ny Inc?

Find your warmest path to Community Connections of Ny Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Community Connections of Ny Inc

How much does Community Connections of Ny Inc give?
Community Connections of Ny Inc reported 14 itemized grants totaling $266,000, out of $297,150 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2021.
What does Community Connections of Ny Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2021, its largest causes are Education (40%), Human Services (18%), Public Benefit (13%).
Who are Community Connections of Ny Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2021: Cattaraugus and Wyoming Counties Project Head Start ($190k), Center for Governmental Research Inc ($94k), Child Care Resource Network ($61k).
Does Community Connections of Ny Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Community Connections of Ny Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, The John R Oishei Foundation, United Way of Buffalo and Erie County.
Where is Community Connections of Ny Inc based?
Community Connections of Ny 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 28 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $18k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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