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Holmberg Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $214k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FREDONIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $46,500 |
| YMCA | $23,500 |
| CHAUTAUQUA STRIDERS INC | $23,000 |
| INFINITY PERFORMING ARTS | $20,000 |
| JAMES PRENDERGAST LIBRARY | $19,000 |
| ST SUSAN CENTER | $15,000 |
| DIBERT BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $13,000 |
| AUDUBON COMMUNITY NATURE CENTER | $12,000 |
| YWCA | $12,000 |
| JAMESTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| JAMESTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| JAMESTOWN COMMUNITY LEARNING COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| THE RELIEF ZONE | $8,000 |
| ROGER TORY PETERSON INSTITUTE | $7,500 |
| FUND FOR THE ARTS OF CHAUTAUQUA | $6,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, 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 +12% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- CSCHAUTAUQUA STRIDERS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $153k · revenue +45%
- RTROGER TORY PETERSON INSTITUTE OF NA9× · 2017–2025 · $123k · revenue +133%
- JCJAMESTOWN COMMUNITY LEARNING COUNCIL9× · 2017–2025 · $88k · revenue +144%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $40k
- LVLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF CHAUTAUQUAone grant, 2023 · $12k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
Improving the quality of chautauqua lake, located in chautauqua county in upstate new york. the organization is concerned about the water quality, especially the proliferation of weeds and algae and their accumulation near the shore and…
To provide quality health care services by operating diagnostic and treatment facilities pursuant to article 28 of the public health law of new york state. the center operates clinics in dunkirk, new york, jamestown, new york, gowanda, new…
The ridgway chautauqua is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit community-based organization focused on offering and supporting programs that promote lifelong learning, the arts, culture and community and that embody the chautauqua tradition. our…
The chautauqua foundation, inc. exists to support the long-term sustainability of chautauqua institution with a particular focus on the preservation, the appropriate use, and the growth of endowment funds.
To carry out the purposes of and benefit the lakeside association
The chautauqua watershed conservancy's mission is to preserve and enhance the water quality, scenic beauty, and ecological health of the lakes, streams, and watersheds of the chautauqua region.
Chautauqua institution is dedicated to the exploration in human values and the enrichment of life through a program that explores the important religious, social, and political issues of our times.
The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.
The united way of northern chautauqua co inc envisions a community that works together, striving to improve the lives of others, while promoting ideals that facilitate lasting positive changes. empowering our local communities through…
Lclc provides opportunities for spiritual growth, renewal and christ-centered community in the wonder of god's creation.
Ccls is a 36 member cooperative public library system chartered by the nys education department to foster, strengthen, and improve public library services within chautauqua and cattaraugus counties by providing its members with training,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chautauqua Region Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Lake View Cemetery Inc. 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 43 years old; the field is 28. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 5% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 40 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 FREDONIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds JAMESTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA STRIDERS INC ↗
- Who funds ROGER TORY PETERSON INSTITUTE OF NA ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JAMESTOWN COMMUNITY LEARNING COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA LAKE AND WATERSHED MANAGEMENT ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE RELIEF ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds AUDUBON COMMUNITY NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST SUSAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE ARTS OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA LAKE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF THE CHAUTAUQUA REGION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED CHRISTIAN ADVOCACY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds JIM Club of America Inc ↗
- Who funds ROBERT H JACKSON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA REGIONAL YOUTH BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds SINCLAIRVILLE FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LAKE VIEW CEMETERY 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: Chautauqua Region Community Foundation Inc · Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Inc · Reginald a & Elizabeth S Lenna Fdn Inc Dba Lenna Foundation · Carnahan-Jackson Foundation · Ttee Uw Jessie Smith Darrah-Charita · Hultquist Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · United Way of Southern Chautauqua County Inc · Northern Chautauqua Community Found · Northwest Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Holmberg Foundation 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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