How much does Nioga Library System give?

Nioga Library System reported 17 itemized grants totaling $382,326, out of $450,913 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 20 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.

What does Nioga Library System fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).

Who are Nioga Library System's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Wilson Community Library ($44k), Youngstown Free Library ($44k), Ransomville Free Library ($44k).

Does Nioga Library System fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Nioga Library System?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.

Where is Nioga Library System based?

Nioga Library System is based in NY.

Nioga Library System

Nioga Library System at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· 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.

$451k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$170k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$1.4M

02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 17 grants below total $382,326, the rows itemized in this filing. The $450,913 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $68,587 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 $10k10 grants · $70k
$10k–50k6 grants · $142k
$50k–250k1 grant · $170k

$8,200

Median grant

States reached

$4.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
NIAGARA FALLS PUBLIC LIBRARY	$169,929
LOCKPORT PUBLIC LIBRARY	$32,290
WILSON COMMUNITY LIBRARY	$22,273
RANSOMVILLE FREE LIBRARY	$21,955
SANBORN-PEKIN FREE LIBRARY	$21,955
YOUNGSTOWN FREE LIBRARY	$21,955
NORTH TONAWANDA PUBLIC LIBRARY	$21,532
HOAG LIBRARY	$9,444
LEE-WHEDON MEMORIAL LIBRARY	$8,200
WOODWARD MEMORIAL LIBRARY	$7,560
COMMUNITY FREE LIBRARY	$7,273
RICHMOND MEMORIAL LIBRARY	$6,450
CORFU PUBLIC LIBRARY	$6,446
BYRON-BERGEN PUBLIC LIBRARY	$6,425
HOLLWEDEL MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARY	$6,241

02The need

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.7M · 16 repeat orgs$98k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.7M

$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%

Still filing today

44%

40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

YF
Youngstown Free Library
2× · 2024–2025 · $44k · revenue +1%
LM
LEE-WHEDON MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2× · 2024–2025 · $19k · revenue +134%
YC
Yates Community Library
2× · 2024–2025 · $15k · revenue +9%

Funded once

LP
LEWISTON PUBLIC LIBRARY
one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +11%
NP
NEWFANE PUBLIC LIBRARY
one grant, 2024 · $24k
NP
NEWSTEAD PUBLIC LIBRARY
one grant, 2024 · $7k

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.

Field Memorial Library

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Monessen 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.

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Hammond Public Library

public library

Education

Port Byron Library Inc

Free Public Library

Education

New Ipswich Library

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Dolgeville Manheim Public Library

public library

Education

Quechee Library Association

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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Simsbury Free Library

Education

Woodgate Free Library

Public Library

Education

Stony Creek Free Library

Public Library

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William H Bush Memorial Library

—

Bodman Memorial Library

Library

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ransomville Free Library; 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.

04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 23 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

10/11

Grantees still filing

4/11

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,596,911Education$169,401

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

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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA1.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 Nioga Library System funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nioga Library System. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home