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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 43 grants below total $854,926 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,276,697 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $421,771 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 $10k20 grants · $150k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $383k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $323k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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 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 +34% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $616k 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
- 1F1891 FREDONIA OPERA HOUSE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $380k · revenue +62%
- CRCHAUTAUQUA REGION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION5× · 2019–2023 · $378k · revenue +49% · 33% of their budget
- LDLily Dale Assembly8× · 2017–2024 · $288k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- AOALL OTHER RECIPIENT ORGS 5000one grant, 2021 · $479k
- HHHIGHMARK HEALTHone grant, 2017 · $30k
- CECYCON EQUIPMENTone grant, 2018 · $30k
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.
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.
To create a business environment in the region where our members can thrive.
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.
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 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.
Acquire/develop public trails
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 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…
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.
To permanently protect land with significant conservation value in western new york, for the benefit of future generations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Chautauqua Center Inc and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 27. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 106 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 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 ↗
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 · 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
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 Northern Chautauqua Community Found 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.