· Private foundation
Reginald a & Elizabeth S Lenna Fdn Inc Dba Lenna Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of REGINALD A & ELIZABETH S LENNA FDN INC DBA LENNA FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $546k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHAUTAUQUA LAKE WATERSHED MANAGEMEN | $200,000 |
| REG LENNA CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $101,500 |
| WCA FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| JAMESTOWN RENAISSANCE CORPORATION | $100,000 |
| ST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER | $100,000 |
| UCAN CITY MISSION | $82,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH ASSN CHAUTAUQUA COUNT | $80,000 |
| INFINITY VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS | $79,500 |
| NEW DIRECTIONS YOUTH FAMILY SERVICE | $75,000 |
| WINIFRED CRAWFORD DIBERT BG CLUB | $74,000 |
| YWCA OF JAMESTOWN | $60,000 |
| YMCA - JAMESTOWN | $56,050 |
| UNITED WAY OF SO CHAUTAUQUA CNTY | $55,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $747k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +29% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.
90 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 6 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $151k 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
REG LENNA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +6%- SBST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +88%
- MHMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $466k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- CCCHAUTAUQUA COUNTY CHAPTER OF NYSARC INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $65k · revenue +27%
- LTLITTLE THEATRE OF JAMESTOWN INCone grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue -14%
HEALTHY COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INCone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue -44%
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.
Ccls is a 36 member cooperative public library system chartered by the nys education department to foster, strengthen, and improve public library services within chautauqua and cattaraugus counties by providing its members with training,…
To provide quality health care services by operating diagnostic and treatment facilities pursuant to article 28 of the public health law of new york state. the center operates clinics in dunkirk, new york, jamestown, new york, gowanda, new…
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.
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 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.
Chemung county library district provides exceptional public library services and programs to our citizens - fulfilling their individual needs for educational, recreational, and cultural information - through contemporary, well-maintained…
A public library with locations in catskill and palenville, new york providing reference materials and various on-line services.
Public library
Public library, museum and local history archives
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chautauqua Region Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kennedy Free Library. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 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) — 3% 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.
66 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 66 of the 124 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 REG LENNA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds ST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF JAMESTOWN ↗
- Who funds JAMESTOWN RENAISSANCE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INFINITY VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds ROGER TORY PETERSON INSTITUTE OF NA ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds JAMES PRENDERGAST LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AUDUBON COMMUNITY NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds JAMESTOWN COMMUNITY LEARNING COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA STRIDERS INC ↗
- Who funds FREDONIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA WATERSHED CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF Jamestown NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds UPMC CHAUTAUQUA AT WCA ↗
- Who funds UNITED CHRISTIAN ADVOCACY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE RELIEF ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA LAKE PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds JAMESTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WCA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN NEW YORK LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA REGIONAL YOUTH BALLET INC ↗
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 · Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Inc · Carnahan-Jackson Foundation · Hultquist Foundation Inc · Ttee Uw Jessie Smith Darrah-Charita · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · United Way of Southern Chautauqua County Inc · Holmberg Foundation Inc · The Western New York Foundation · Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System · Northern Chautauqua Community Found · The Snow Family 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 Reginald a & Elizabeth S Lenna Fdn Inc Dba Lenna Foundation 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.
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