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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.

$1.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$302k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$2.1MHuman Services$845kCommunity Improvement$518kEducation$491kArts & Culture$392kReligion$240kPublic Benefit$174kAnimals$129kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 40 grants below total $1,137,949, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,663,284 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $525,335 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $143k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $395k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $298k
  • $250k+1 grant · $302k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SAVING GRACE OUTREACH: $6k → 16%GENESIS HOUSE OF OLEAN INC: $16k → 16%GENESIS HOUSE OF OLEAN INC: $8k → 16%GENESIS HOUSE OF OLEAN INC: $7k → 16%GENESIS HOUSE OF OLEAN: $6k → 16%GENESIS HOUSE OF OLEAN INC: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.0M · 31 repeat orgs$840k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
23

Total granted

$5.0M
$317k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+11%

Still filing today

55%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $523k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementAnimalsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • OG
    OLEAN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +62%
  • YM
    YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OLEAN NY AND BRADFORD PA
    8× · 2018–2025 · $898k · revenue +71%
  • OB
    OLEAN BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    4× · 2021–2025 · $219k · revenue +182% · 31% of their budget

Funded once

  • DI
    DREAM IT DO IT WNY
    one grant, 2022 · $75k
  • AC
    ACCORD CORPORATION
    one grant, 2020 · $56k · revenue +3%
  • IV
    ISCHU VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2024 · $14k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Olean Public Library

To assist all people with their educational, informational and recreational needs.

Education
2
Community Foundation of Otsego County Inc

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…

Philanthropy
3
Cattaraugus County Land Bank Corporation

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…

Community Improvement
4
Olean General Hospital

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:-…

Health
5
The Catskill Recreation Center Inc
Recreation & Sports
6
Ontario County Chamber of Commerce Inc

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.

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7
Chautauqua Lake Triathlon Coalition Inc
Recreation & Sports
8
Lake Plains Community Care Network Inc

To preserve Rural Health Care by Promoting Wellness and Ensuring Access to Quality Local Care

Health
9
Greater Erie Economic Development Corporation
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10
Conant Community Health Center Corp
Health
11
Ottauquechee Health Foundation Inc

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.

—
12
Catskill Revitalization Corporation

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…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olean General Hospital Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
19/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OLEAN NY AND BRADFORD PA: $898,009 · OtherYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OLEAN NY AND BRADFORD…Challenger Center for Space Science Education: $301,535 · OtherChallenger Center for Space Science EducationIndividual grant recipient: $291,558 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $288,306 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCITY OF OLEAN: $173,533 · OtherCITY OF OLEAN+52 more: $998,399 · Other+52 moreOLEAN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,915,091 · PhilanthropyOLEAN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION+3 more: $52,680 · PhilanthropyOLEAN BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $218,606 · Community ImprovementCONTINENTAL 1: $135,000 · Community ImprovementTRI-COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC: $248,543 · Arts & CultureCITIZENS ADVOCATING MEMORIAL PRESERVATION INC: $26,250 · Arts & CultureAFRICAN AMERICAN CENTER FOR CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT INC: $11,000 · Arts & CultureST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $37,809 · HealthSOUTHERN TIER HEALTH CARE SYSTEM INC: $26,845 · HealthKallies Krusade Inc: $17,715 · HealthBRADFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $11,900 · HealthSOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS IN CATTARAUGUS COUNTY: $45,042 · AnimalsEMPIRE ANIMAL RESCUE SOCIETY INC: $42,874 · AnimalsOLEAN MEDITATION CENTER INC: $51,883 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $19,254 · Religion
Other$2,951,340Philanthropy$1,967,771Community Improvement$353,606Arts & Culture$285,793Health$94,269Animals$87,916Religion$71,137

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOLEAN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,915,091 over 9y, 11% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OLEAN NY AND BRADFORD PA: $898,009 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetTRI-COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC: $248,543 over 8y, 23% of budgetOLEAN BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $218,606 over 4y, 31% of budgetCONTINENTAL 1: $135,000 over 3y, 82% of budgetACCORD CORPORATION: $56,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOLEAN MEDITATION CENTER INC: $51,883 over 4y, 93% of budgetOLEAN FOOD PANTRY INC: $45,834 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetSOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS IN CATTARAUGUS COUNTY: $45,042 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetEMPIRE ANIMAL RESCUE SOCIETY INC: $42,874 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetGENESIS HOUSE OF OLEAN INC: $41,660 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $37,809 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF THE TWIN TIER REGION INC: $32,010 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetINTERFAITH CAREGIVERS INC: $31,141 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetSOUTHERN TIER HEALTH CARE SYSTEM INC: $26,845 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCITIZENS ADVOCATING MEMORIAL PRESERVATION INC: $26,250 over 3y, 33% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $19,254 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $17,854 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALLEGANY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $15,700 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetBRADFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $11,900 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE INTANDEM FOUNDATION INC: $11,049 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN CENTER FOR CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT INC: $11,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetGREATER OLEAN INC: $10,845 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $10,490 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATTARAUGUS COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $10,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEDUCATIONAL DISC GOLF EXPERIENCE: $9,868 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetERIE CATTARAUGUS RAIL TRAIL INC: $9,754 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY: $8,619 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOB MCCARTHY FOUNDATION: $7,951 over 1y, 13% of budgetRUSHFORD LAKE FOUNDATION: $7,920 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetSAVING GRACE OUTREACH INC: $5,700 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCANTICLE FARM INC: $5,300 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA-CATTARAUGUS LIBRARY SYSTEM: $5,200 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

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.

Cutco Foundation IncFt & Anna C Manley Me…Community Foundation …The Stitt Foundation …United Way of Cattara…Feedmore Western New …East Hill FoundationHealth Foundation for…The Western New York …The Ralph C Wilson Jr…Amazonsmile Foundation
Cutco Foundation IncNY32.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Greater Olean Community Foundation Dba Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greater Olean Community Foundation Dba Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 74 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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