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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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
43
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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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
02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 43 grants below total $854,926, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,276,697 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $421,771 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $150k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $383k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $323k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$43M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHAUTAUQUA REGION ECONOMIC DEV CORP$100,250
MORGAN STANLEY$80,000
LUCA S CALANNI FOUNDATION$75,000
1891 FREDONIA OPERA HOUSE$67,341
UW OF NORTHENR CHAUTAUQUA CTY$43,169
FEEDMORE WNY$42,500
LILY DALE ASSEMBLY$41,703
CHAUT HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE$30,054
CRCF$20,000
AHIRA HALL MEMORIAL LIBRARY$19,797
NCCS$19,349
HILBERT COLLEGE BASKETBALL CAMP$19,200
LAKESHORE HUMANE SOCIETY$16,460
ST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL$16,000
SINCLAIRVILLE FREE LIBRARY$16,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS WNY REGION: $5k → 13%CENTAUR STRIDE INC: $6k → 18%CENTAUR STRIDE INC: $6k → 18%LAKE SHORE FAMILY CENTER: $10k → 13%LAKESHORE FAMILY CENTER: $5k → 13%YWCA OF JAMESTOWN: $13k → 18%YWCA OF JAMESTOWN: $10k → 18%YWCA OF JAMESTOWN: $8k → 18%SINCLAIRVILLE 76ERS ASSOCIATION: $5k → 18%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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 36 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
41

Total granted

$3.2M
$898k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+27%

Still filing today

64%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $616k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • 1F
    1891 FREDONIA OPERA HOUSE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $380k · revenue +62%
  • CR
    CHAUTAUQUA REGION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    5× · 2019–2023 · $378k · revenue +49% · 33% of their budget
  • LD
    Lily Dale Assembly
    8× · 2017–2024 · $288k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • AO
    ALL OTHER RECIPIENT ORGS 5000
    one grant, 2021 · $479k
  • HH
    HIGHMARK HEALTH
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
  • CE
    CYCON EQUIPMENT
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
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
Northern York County Historical & Preservation Society
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2
Chautauqua Adult Day Care Centers Inc

The agency's mission is to provide a program of services for frail or impaired older adults in a secure group setting, enhancing quality of life, delaying institutionalization and providing respite for caregivers.

Human Services
3
Chautauqua County Chamber of Commerce

To create a business environment in the region where our members can thrive.

Community Improvement
4
Chautauqua Home Rehabilitation & Improvement Corp

To improve the quality of housing stock and appearance of communities of chautauqua county and to improve the living conditions of the county's low-income residents.

Housing & Shelter
5
Chautauqua Lake Partnership Inc

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…

Environment
6
Chautauqua Lake Triathlon Coalition Inc
Recreation & Sports
7
Chautauqua County Land Bank Corporation

To reverse the trend of further deterioration of the County of Chautauqua's housing and commercial stock; control and modestly improve promising properties so that reputable buyers can be attracted.

Housing & Shelter
8
Chautauqua Rails to Trails Inc

Acquire/develop public trails

Environment
9
Ridgway Chautauqua Dba the New Sherbino Theater

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Chautauqua Lake and Watershed Management Alliance Inc

The alliance was formed for the purpose of working in collaboration with lake and watershed-related organizations, municipalities, and other stakeholders in chautauqua county, ny, to promote and facilitate implementation of recommendations…

Environment
11
Wca Foundation Inc

To promote and support community health in jamestown, new york through the support of the upmc chautauqua and any other affiliates of wca group, inc.

Philanthropy
12
Western New York Land Conservancy Inc

To permanently protect land with significant conservation value in western new york, for the benefit of future generations.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Chautauqua Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lily Dale Assembly. 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

46 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. 46 of the 106 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/46
Grantees still filing
33/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALL OTHER RECIPIENTS 5000: $938,629 · OtherALL OTHER RECIPIENTS 5000ALL OTHER RECIPIENT ORGS 5000: $479,062 · OtherALL OTHER RECIPIENT ORGS 5000+88 more: $1,755,246 · Other+88 moreCHAUTAUQUA REGION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $377,560 · Community ImprovementCHAUTAUQUA…CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY RURAL MINISTRIES: $71,113 · Community ImprovementCHAUTAUQUA…+1 more: $14,470 · Community Improvement1891 FREDONIA OPERA HOUSE INC: $379,650 · Arts & Culture1891 FRED…CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION: $23,250 · Arts & CultureCHAUTAUQU…Lily Dale Assembly: $288,459 · Social ScienceCHAUTAUQUA REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $122,233 · PhilanthropyLUCA S CALANNI FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · PhilanthropyWESTFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $45,750 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyFEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $111,520 · Food & NutritionCONCORD GRAPE BELT HERITAGE ASSN INC: $6,107 · Food & NutritionANDERSON LEE LIBRARY: $30,580 · EducationFREDONIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK INC: $25,411 · EducationLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF CHAUCOINC: $23,895 · EducationSINCLAIRVILLE FREE LIBRARY: $16,000 · Education
Other$3,172,937Community Improvement$463,143Arts & Culture$402,900Social Science$288,459Philanthropy$252,983Food & Nutrition$117,627Education$95,886

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 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 budgetCHAUTAUQUA REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $122,233 over 4y, 0.4% 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
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 1891 FREDONIA OPERA HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHAUTAUQUA REGION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Lily Dale Assembly ↗
  • Who funds CHAUTAUQUA REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds LUCA S CALANNI FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN CHAUTAUQUA C ↗
  • Who funds DUNKIRK HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY RURAL MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds CHAUTAUQUA AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds DUNKIRK-FREDONIA MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
  • Who funds ST COLUMBAN'S ON THE LAKE HOME FOR THE WELL-AGED INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF JAMESTOWN ↗
  • Who funds BROOKS-TLC HOSPITAL SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds ANDERSON LEE LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds FREDONIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF CHAUCOINC ↗
  • Who funds CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds Full Circle Family Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY CH ↗

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 Com…Community Foundation …Ralph C Sheldon Found…Reginald a & Elizabet…The Western New York …United Way of Norther…Carnahan-Jackson Foun…United Way of Souther…Jessie C Wilson Memor…Chautauqua Region Eco…Hultquist Foundation …Feedmore Western New …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Northern Chautauqua Community Found funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Northern Chautauqua Community Found. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 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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