· Public charity
Nioga Library System
To provide a variety of library services to the member libraries in niagara, orleans, and genesee counties and perform a number of functions which assist its member public libraries in serving their patrons.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 20 grants below total $507,073 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $533,811 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $26,738 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $230k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $219k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NIAGARA FALLS PUBLIC LIBRARY | $219,151 |
| LOCKPORT PUBLIC LIBRARY | $31,968 |
| NORTH TONAWANDA PUBLIC LIBRARY | $26,228 |
| LEWISTON PUBLIC LIBRARY | $24,519 |
| NEWFANE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $23,552 |
| WILSON COMMUNITY LIBRARY | $22,197 |
| RANSOMVILLE FREE LIBRARY | $21,887 |
| YOUNGSTOWN FREE LIBRARY | $21,887 |
| RICHMOND MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $13,628 |
| HOAG LIBRARY | $12,154 |
| LEE-WHEDON MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $11,145 |
| WOODWARD MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $10,316 |
| COMMUNITY FREE LIBRARY | $10,035 |
| CORFU PUBLIC LIBRARY | $9,649 |
| BYRON-BERGEN PUBLIC LIBRARY | $9,209 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of your 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.
6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $204k went to new ones.
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
- VPVARIOUS PUBLIC LIBRARIES IN NIOGA LIBRARY SYSTEM2× · 2021–2022 · $720k
- NFNIAGARA FALLS PUBLIC LIBRARY2× · 2023–2024 · $342k
- LPLOCKPORT PUBLIC LIBRARY2× · 2023–2024 · $44k
Funded once
- LPLEWISTON PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +11%
- NPNEWFANE PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2024 · $24k
- WCWilson Community Libraryone grant, 2024 · $22k · revenue -52%
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.
public library
Monessen Public Library provides collection facilities and services to the people of the Monessen community, which assists them in fulfilling their need for information, research sources, and cultural enrichment.
Free Public Library
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Public Library
The Quechee Library serves as a public library and freely provides access and materials for information, lifelong learning, entertainment, and reflection, as well as programs to foster community and engagement.
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Public library
Public Library
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ransomville Free Library and the most unlike its peers is Corfu Public Library. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 21 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 LEWISTON PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Wilson Community Library ↗
- Who funds RANSOMVILLE FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Youngstown Free Library ↗
- Who funds LEE-WHEDON MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Community Free Library ↗
- Who funds CORFU PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds HAXTON MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Yates Community Library ↗
- Who funds SEYMOUR 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: 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 Nioga Library System 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.