· Public charity
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,…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $266,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $297,150 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $31,150 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DREAM IT DO IT WESTERN NEW YORK | $19,000 |
| WELLSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $19,000 |
| CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER | $19,000 |
| DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM | $19,000 |
| THE BALDWIN CENTER | $19,000 |
| CORNELL COOPERATIVE EXTENSION OF WYOMING COUNTY | $19,000 |
| DETROIT HISPANIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $19,000 |
| BUFFALO MUSEUM OF SCIENCE | $19,000 |
| MISSION IGNITE POWERED BY COMPUTERS FOR CHILDREN INC | $19,000 |
| BUFFALO MARITIME | $19,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER | $19,000 |
| YOUTH MENTORING SERVICES OF NIAGARA COUNTY INC | $19,000 |
| MICHIGAN SCIENCE CENTER | $19,000 |
| WESTMINSTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE | $19,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–21, $143k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 26% of Community Connections of Ny Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 65% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
4 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2021, 4 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $266k 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
- CCCATTARAUGUS COUNTY PROJECT HEAD START INC2× · 2019–2020 · $190k · revenue +18%
- CFCENTER FOR GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH2× · 2018–2019 · $94k · revenue -35%
- CCCHILD CARE COALITION OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIER INC3× · 2018–2020 · $61k · revenue +61%
Funded once
ACCESS OF WNY INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue +95%
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALOone grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue -11%
The Rural Outreach Center Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue +204%
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.
Central ny quest has been established to serve the needs of persons with intellectual, developmental and mental health disorders in the central new york region.
To provide quality, affordable child care for the families of students, faculty and staff of the college, as well as families of other new york state employees and community members.
Establish and operate a charter school to prepare our diverse community of students to succeed academically and professionally regardless of background and circumstance.
Preschool and after school programs for disadvantaged children and assistance for the disadvantaged assistance to disadvataged individuals in the community
The community health center of buffalo, inc operates four freestanding federally qualified health centers licensed as a diagnostic and treatment center under article 28 of the ny state health law. the center provides a broad range of…
The center's mission is to provide quality childcare services to the morrisville state college campus and the local community in a safe and nurturing environment which promotes the social, emotional, physical, language and cognitive…
The suny cortland child care center is dedicated to providing affordable child care for the children of the college's employees and students, which meets the highest nationally recognized standards. qualified staff provide an educational…
The center strives to provide a range of services that support working parents while fostering the emotional, social, physical and intellectual growth of their children. special consideration is given to low income families and families…
The corporation was formed to operate various programs to assist in the development of the mentally and physically disabled. we assist the people we serve through a continuum of service that fosters community participation and personal…
Operate and maintain a day care center for children of students, faculty, and staff of the state university of new york at new paltz, and for children of the greater new paltz community.
Accesscny offers personcentered services that empower individuals of all ages and abilities to reach their full potential as part of our shared community. services are provided with dedication, compassion, innovation, and commitment. the…
The legal aid bureau of buffalo, inc., a not-for-profit organization, provides legal representation to financially needy men, women and children in western new york. through its skilled staff, the legal aid bureau seeks equal justice for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Action Organization of Western New York Inc and the most unlike its peers is Buffalo Public Schools Foundation. 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 29 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 28 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 CATTARAUGUS COUNTY PROJECT HEAD START INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds CHILD CARE COALITION OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIER INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DETROIT HISPANIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF ORLEANS NIAGARA AND ERIE COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds THE BALDWIN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH MENTORING SERVICES OF NIAGARA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COMPUTERS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368) ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO MARITIME CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DREAM IT DO IT WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS OF WNY INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds The Rural Outreach Center Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICES FOR EVERY1 INC ↗
- Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC ↗
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: 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
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 Community Connections of Ny Inc 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.
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