· Community foundation
Greater Olean Community Foundation Dba Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation
Our goal is to assist community members in their philanthropic endeavors to help others thus enriching the quality of life in our community.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of GREATER OLEAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA CATTARAUGUS REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’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.
The 40 grants below total $1,137,949 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,663,284 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $525,335 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $143k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $395k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $298k
- $250k+1 grant · $302k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHALLENGER CENTER FOR SPACE SCIENCE EDUCATION | $301,535 |
| OLEAN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $224,285 |
| KIDS AND CANCER BENEFIT | $74,047 |
| TRI-COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC | $46,697 |
| Individual grant recipient | $41,558 |
| YMCA OF THE TWIN TIERS | $36,705 |
| CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF THE TWIN TIERS REGION | $32,010 |
| OLEAN MEDITATION CENTER | $30,658 |
| OLEAN BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $30,000 |
| SOUTHERN TIER HEALTH CARE SYSTEM INC | $26,845 |
| HIGH POINT FEDERAL CREDIT UNION | $24,297 |
| WINCHESTER ARMAMENT INC | $19,000 |
| OLEAN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $16,871 |
| DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM - PITTSBURGH CHAPTER | $16,500 |
| SPCA IN CATTARAUGUS COUNTY | $15,495 |
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 (FY19–25, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
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 +22% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $523k 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
- OGOLEAN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +62%
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OLEAN NY AND BRADFORD PA8× · 2018–2025 · $898k · revenue +71%
- OBOLEAN BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION4× · 2021–2025 · $219k · revenue +182% · 31% of their budget
Funded once
- DIDREAM IT DO IT WNYone grant, 2022 · $75k
- ACACCORD CORPORATIONone grant, 2020 · $56k · revenue +3%
- IVISCHU VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2024 · $14k
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.
To assist all people with their educational, informational and recreational needs.
The organization leads and inspires community wide efforts that significantly improve the quality of life and the prosperity of the Otsego County, NY area. Connecting people who care with causes that matter, we leverage collective…
The mission of the Cattaraugus County Land Bank Corporation is to restore and build value in the community by returning underutilized properties to dynamic and productive use, preserving and creating quality housing, enhancing the quality…
The mission of olean general hospital is to provide excellent care in response to the health care needs of the olean, ny and bradford, pa communities. in support of this mission, olean general hospital is committed to the following:-…
To provide information to the community in Ontario County through publications, promotions, and marketing. The Chamber concentrates on membership, economic prosperity, organizational image and impact and organizational effectiveness.
To preserve Rural Health Care by Promoting Wellness and Ensuring Access to Quality Local Care
The foundation strives to improve the health and well-being of people in need who live in the towns we serve through financial assistance, community partnerships, education opportunities, and support of wellness initiatives.
Catskill Revitalization Corporation (CRC) is a not-for-profit organization organized to rehabilitate the former Catskill Mountain branch line and for community revitalization and commercial and industrial development. It was formed in 1986…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olean General Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Rushford Lake Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% 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 8% 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.
35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 74 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 OLEAN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OLEAN NY AND BRADFORD PA ↗
- Who funds Challenger Center for Space Science Education ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds OLEAN BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CONTINENTAL 1 ↗
- Who funds ACCORD CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OLEAN MEDITATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OLEAN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS IN CATTARAUGUS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds EMPIRE ANIMAL RESCUE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GENESIS HOUSE OF OLEAN INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF THE TWIN TIER REGION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH CAREGIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN TIER HEALTH CARE SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS ADVOCATING MEMORIAL PRESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds Kallies Krusade Inc ↗
- Who funds ALLEGANY PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
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: Cutco Foundation Inc · Ft & Anna C Manley Mem Tw Pfdn · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The Stitt Foundation Inc · United Way of Cattaraugus & Allegany Counties Inc · Feedmore Western New York Inc · East Hill Foundation · Health Foundation for Western & Central New York · The Western New York Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Greater Olean Community Foundation Dba Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation 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.