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Northern Chautauqua Community Found

It is the mission of the foundation to enrich the area in which we live and work. To this end, the foundation has five primary goals: 1. To be a catalyst for the establishment of endowments to benefit the community both now and in the future; 2. To provide a vehicle for donors' varied interests; 3. To promote local philanthropy; 4. To…

$1.3M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
43
Itemized grants FY2024
32
Organizations funded FY2023
28%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$855k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,250
Organizations funded a year
11 to 32
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$43M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 28% of the organizations Northern Chautauqua Community Found funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving43$855k65%
FY202332$610k28%
FY202226$483k50%
FY202111$739k9%
FY202011$712k9%
FY201929$742k62%
FY201822$292k50%
FY201724$239kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$1.3MCommunity Improvement$732kPhilanthropy$706kArts & Culture$485kEducation$278kSocial Science$247kFood & Nutrition$239kHealth$152kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 72 grantees
All grantees of Northern Chautauqua Community Found by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
1891 Fredonia Opera House Inc$379,650825%
Chautauqua Region Economic Development Corporation$377,560533%
Lily Dale Assembly$288,45988%
Feedmore Western New York Inc$111,52060%
Luca S Calanni Foundation Inc$75,0001n/a
United Way of Northern Chautauqua C$74,978217%
Dunkirk Humane Society Inc$71,973510%
Chautauqua County Rural Ministries$71,11373%
Chautauqua Area Habitat for Humanity Inc$65,664323%
Northern Chautauqua Catholic School$57,2945n/a
Dunkirk-Fredonia Meals on Wheels Inc$55,02383%
Children's Love Fund Inc$53,7336n/a
St Columban's on the Lake Home for the Well-Aged Inc$47,54361%
Westfield Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc$45,75044%
St Francis High School$41,8503n/a
Young Women's Christian Association of Jamestown$31,12631%
Brooks-Tlc Hospital System$30,63520%
Anderson Lee Library$30,58054%
First United Methodist Church$30,1203n/a
Highmark Health$30,0001n/a
Cycon Equipment$29,9971n/a
City of Dunkirk Dept of Planning and Development$28,0002n/a
The Salvation Army$25,5523n/a
Fredonia College Foundation of the State University of New York Inc$25,41130%
Literacy Volunteers of Chaucoinc$23,89537%
Chautauqua Institution$23,25030%
Boys and Girls Club of Ncc$22,7312n/a
Full Circle Family Services Inc$22,0002n/a
Friends of the Chautauqua County Ch$20,59022%
Urban Vantage LLC$20,0001n/a
Sinclairville Free Library$16,000110%
Wca Home$16,0002n/a
St Elizabeth Ann Seton Church$15,9752n/a
Festivals Fredonia Inc$15,500216%
Lake Shore Child Care Center Inc$15,02021%
Lake Shore Center for the Arts$15,0101n/a
WIB INC DBA Chautauqua Works$15,00020%
Access to the Arts Inc$15,0001n/a
Chautauqua Opportunities Inc$14,47010%
Erie 2 Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Boces Loguidice Center$14,0001n/a
Chautauqua Township Historical Society Inc$12,7171n/a
Centaur Stride Inc$12,200210%
Historical Society of Dunkirk$11,500130%
The Camp Gross Foundation Inc$10,558127%
United Way of Southern Chautauqua County Inc$10,00011%
Chautauqua Adult Day Care$10,0001n/a
The Chautauqua Center Inc$10,00010%
Cassadaga Lakes Association Inc$10,0001n/a
Junior Achievement of Western New York$10,00012%
Northlake Family Recreation Inc$10,0001n/a
Fredonia Volunteer Fire Department$9,50014%
Imagine Forestville Corporation$9,0101n/a
Westfield Development Corporation$9,000114%
Chaut Cty Agri and Fair Assn Inc$8,79411%
Town of Hanover$8,7291n/a
Grange Patrons of Husbandry New York State Grange Inc$8,3431n/a
Cassadaga Cemetery Corp$8,1501n/a
Old First Ward Community Assoc Inc$7,50012%
Village of Silver Creek Ny$7,5001n/a
Sheridan Historical Society$7,3221n/a
Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy Inc$6,90011%
Revitalize Dunkirk Inc$6,8251n/a
Concord Grape Belt Heritage Assn Inc$6,10719%
Western New York Rural Area Health Education Center$6,00010%
Chautauqua Striders Inc$5,50011%
Plusfarm LLC$5,4001n/a
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$5,20010%
Boys and Girls Club of No Chaut Cou$5,14013%
Chautauqua County Sheriffs Office Mounted Association$5,0001n/a
Sinclairville 76ers Association for Better Living Inc$5,00014%
Chautauqua County Historical Society$5,00016%
Westfield Community Kitchen Inc$5,0001n/a

Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Northern Chautauqua Community Found supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budget1891 Fredonia Opera House Inc: $379,650 over 8y, 25% of budgetChautauqua Region Economic Development Corporation: $377,560 over 5y, 33% of budgetLily Dale Assembly: $288,459 over 8y, 7.7% of budgetFeedmore Western New York Inc: $111,520 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Northern Chautauqua C: $74,978 over 2y, 17% of budgetDunkirk Humane Society Inc: $71,973 over 5y, 9.5% of budgetChautauqua County Rural Ministries: $71,113 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetChautauqua Area Habitat for Humanity Inc: $65,664 over 3y, 23% of budgetDunkirk-Fredonia Meals on Wheels Inc: $55,023 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetSt Columban's on the Lake Home for the Well-Aged Inc: $47,543 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetWestfield Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc: $45,750 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of Jamestown: $31,126 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBrooks-Tlc Hospital System: $30,635 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAnderson Lee Library: $30,580 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetFredonia College Foundation of the State University of New York Inc: $25,411 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLiteracy Volunteers of Chaucoinc: $23,895 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetChautauqua Institution: $23,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Chautauqua County Ch: $20,590 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSinclairville Free Library: $16,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetFestivals Fredonia Inc: $15,500 over 2y, 16% of budgetLake Shore Child Care Center Inc: $15,020 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetWIB INC DBA Chautauqua Works: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetChautauqua Opportunities Inc: $14,470 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCentaur Stride Inc: $12,200 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetHistorical Society of Dunkirk: $11,500 over 1y, 30% of budgetThe Camp Gross Foundation Inc: $10,558 over 1y, 27% of budgetUnited Way of Southern Chautauqua County Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Chautauqua Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJunior Achievement of Western New York: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFredonia Volunteer Fire Department: $9,500 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetWestfield Development Corporation: $9,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetChaut Cty Agri and Fair Assn Inc: $8,794 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetOld First Ward Community Assoc Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetChautauqua Watershed Conservancy Inc: $6,900 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetConcord Grape Belt Heritage Assn Inc: $6,107 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetWestern New York Rural Area Health Education Center: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetChautauqua Striders Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of No Chaut Cou: $5,140 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSinclairville 76ers Association for Better Living Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetChautauqua County Historical Society: $5,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 41.

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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.

Chautauqua Region Community Foundation IncNY36× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chautauqua Region Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Inc · Reginald a & Elizabeth S Lenna Fdn Inc Dba Lenna Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · United Way of Northern Chautauqua C · Carnahan-Jackson Foundation · United Way of Southern Chautauqua County Inc · Jessie C Wilson Memorial Trust Fund · Chautauqua Region Economic Development Corporation · Hultquist Foundation Inc · Feedmore Western New York Inc

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.

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About Northern Chautauqua Community Found

How much does Northern Chautauqua Community Found give?
Northern Chautauqua Community Found reported 43 itemized grants totaling $854,926, out of $1,276,697 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 32 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Northern Chautauqua Community Found fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (28%), Community Improvement (15%), Philanthropy (15%).
Who are Northern Chautauqua Community Found's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: 1891 Fredonia Opera House Inc ($380k), Chautauqua Region Economic Development Corporation ($378k), Lily Dale Assembly ($288k).
Does Northern Chautauqua Community Found fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Northern Chautauqua Community Found?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chautauqua Region Community Foundation Inc, Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Inc.
Where is Northern Chautauqua Community Found based?
Northern Chautauqua Community Found is based in NY.

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 106 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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