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Reginald a & Elizabeth S Lenna Fdn Inc Dba Lenna Foundation at a glance

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Reginald a & Elizabeth S Lenna Fdn Inc Dba Lenna Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
53
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$3.8MEnvironment$3.0MEducation$2.5MPhilanthropy$1.5MHuman Services$1.1MHealth$1.1MYouth Development$907kCrime & Legal$793kOther$0
02FY2024 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $546k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.5M
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$35M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHAUTAUQUA LAKE WATERSHED MANAGEMEN$200,000
REG LENNA CENTER FOR THE ARTS$150,000
Individual grant recipient$101,500
JAMESTOWN RENAISSANCE CORPORATION$100,000
NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER$100,000
ST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY$100,000
WCA FOUNDATION$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
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 (FY17–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CHAUTAUQUA HOSPICE PALLIATIVE CARE: $1k → 18%YWCA OF JAMESTOWN: $75k → 18%JAMESTOWN YMCA: $70k → 18%YWCA OF JAMESTOWN: $65k → 18%YWCA OF JAMESTOWN: $65k → 18%THE RESOURCE CENTER: $65k → 18%JAMESTOWN YMCA: $65k → 18%YWCA OF JAMESTOWN: $60k → 18%YWCA OF JAMESTOWN: $47k → 18%YWCA OF JAMESTOWN: $45k → 18%YWCA OF JAMESTOWN: $45k → 18%YWCA OF JAMESTOWN: $45k → 18%JAMESTOWN YMCA: $40k → 18%CHAUTAUQUA ADULT DAY CARE CENTERS I: $37k → 18%CHAUTAUQUA ADULT DAY CARE CENTERS I: $12k → 18%CHAUTAUQUA ADULT DAY CARE CENTERS I: $9k → 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 90 repeat orgs$550k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against -9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

90
26

Total granted

$15M
$399k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
-9%

Still filing today

54%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $151k 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
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SB
    ST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +88%
  • MH
    MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $466k · revenue +48%
  • YW
    YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF JAMESTOWN
    8× · 2017–2024 · $447k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • CC
    CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY CHAPTER OF NYSARC INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $65k · revenue +33%
  • LT
    LITTLE THEATRE OF JAMESTOWN INC
    one grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue -14%
  • HEALTHY COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue -44%
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
Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System

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,…

Education
2
Chautauqua Lake Triathlon Coalition Inc
Recreation & Sports
3
The Chautauqua Center Inc

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…

Health
4
Chautauqua County Chamber of Commerce

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

Community Improvement
5
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
6
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
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
Chemung County Library District

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…

Education
9
Northern York County Historical & Preservation Society
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10
Catskill Public Library

A public library with locations in catskill and palenville, new york providing reference materials and various on-line services.

—
11
Chateaugay Memorial Library

Public library

Education
12
Cazenovia Public Library Society Inc

Public library, museum and local history archives

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chautauqua Region Community Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

66 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. 66 of the 124 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/66
Grantees still filing
41/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REG LENNA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $1,809,500 · OtherREG LENNA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INCCHAUTAUQUA LAKE WATERSHED MANAGEMEN: $1,474,366 · OtherCHAUTAUQUA LAKE WATERSHED MANAGEMENST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY: $1,065,000 · OtherST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITYROBERT H JACKSON CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $772,000 · OtherROBERT H JACKSON CENTER FOR JUSTICEUNITED WAY OF SO CHAUTAUQUA CNTY: $570,500 · OtherINFINITY VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS INC: $401,500 · OtherROGER TORY PETERSON INSTITUTE OF NA: $370,750 · OtherJAMESTOWN RENAISSANCE CORPORATION: $425,000 · Other+81 more: $4,065,406 · Other+81 moreCHAUTAUQUA REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $967,000 · PhilanthropyWCA FOUNDATION INC: $101,500 · PhilanthropyROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyCHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · PhilanthropyJAMES PRENDERGAST LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $331,865 · EducationJAMESTOWN COMMUNITY LEARNING COUNCIL: $256,000 · EducationFREDONIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK INC: $201,000 · EducationJAMESTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $112,223 · EducationLAKEWOOD MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $60,250 · Education+6 more: $122,802 · EducationNATIONAL COMEDY CENTER INC: $403,500 · Arts & CultureCHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION: $335,688 · Arts & CultureCHAUTAUQUA REGIONAL YOUTH BALLET INC: $97,500 · Arts & CultureLITTLE THEATRE OF JAMESTOWN INC: $40,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $21,850 · Arts & CultureYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF JAMESTOWN: $447,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF Jamestown NEW YORK: $175,000 · Human ServicesCHAUTAUQUA COUNTY CHAPTER OF NYSARC INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesCHAUTAUQUA ADULT DAY CARE CENTERS INC: $58,600 · Human Services+2 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesAUDUBON COMMUNITY NATURE CENTER: $280,120 · EnvironmentCHAUTAUQUA WATERSHED CONSERVANCY INC: $196,000 · EnvironmentCHAUTAUQUA LAKE PARTNERSHIP INC: $143,500 · EnvironmentWESTERN NEW YORK LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $101,000 · EnvironmentCHAUTAUQUA LAKE ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC: $466,000 · HealthUPMC CHAUTAUQUA AT WCA: $175,000 · HealthHEALTHY COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC: $40,000 · Health
Other$10,954,022Philanthropy$1,248,500Education$1,084,140Arts & Culture$898,538Human Services$748,100Environment$745,620Health$681,000

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 budgetREG LENNA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $1,809,500 over 8y, 25% of budgetST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY: $1,065,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $967,000 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC: $466,000 over 7y, 9.6% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF JAMESTOWN: $447,000 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetJAMESTOWN RENAISSANCE CORPORATION: $425,000 over 6y, 36% of budgetNATIONAL COMEDY CENTER INC: $403,500 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetINFINITY VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS INC: $401,500 over 8y, 11% of budgetROGER TORY PETERSON INSTITUTE OF NA: $370,750 over 8y, 6.1% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION: $335,688 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetJAMES PRENDERGAST LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $331,865 over 8y, 9.2% of budgetAUDUBON COMMUNITY NATURE CENTER: $280,120 over 7y, 6.4% of budgetJAMESTOWN COMMUNITY LEARNING COUNCIL: $256,000 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA STRIDERS INC: $253,500 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetFREDONIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK INC: $201,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA WATERSHED CONSERVANCY INC: $196,000 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF Jamestown NEW YORK: $175,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetUPMC CHAUTAUQUA AT WCA: $175,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED CHRISTIAN ADVOCACY NETWORK INC: $174,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetTHE RELIEF ZONE INC: $165,000 over 8y, 7.0% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA LAKE PARTNERSHIP INC: $143,500 over 3y, 30% of budgetJAMESTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $112,223 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetWCA FOUNDATION INC: $101,500 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetWESTERN NEW YORK LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $101,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA REGIONAL YOUTH BALLET INC: $97,500 over 8y, 8.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF JAMESTOWN AREA INC: $94,500 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY HELPING HANDS INC: $91,500 over 7y, 4.4% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $79,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetST COLUMBAN'S ON THE LAKE HOME FOR THE WELL-AGED INC: $66,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA COUNTY CHAPTER OF NYSARC INC: $65,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAKEWOOD MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $60,250 over 4y, 9.6% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA ADULT DAY CARE CENTERS INC: $58,600 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $47,500 over 2y, 27% of budgetFENTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF JAMESTOWN NEW YORK: $46,249 over 4y, 15% of budgetLITTLE THEATRE OF JAMESTOWN INC: $40,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetHEALTHY COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC: $40,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetST SUSAN CENTER INC: $35,250 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetFLUVANNA FREE LIBRARY: $31,000 over 2y, 44% of budgetMYERS MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $26,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA LAKE ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF LAKE VIEW CEMETERY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSINCLAIRVILLE FREE LIBRARY: $20,500 over 3y, 20% of budgetKENNEDY FREE LIBRARY: $20,402 over 5y, 9.1% of budgetNATURAL HERITAGE TRUST: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA COUNTY EDUCATION COALITION: $20,000 over 2y, 7.2% 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 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 ↗

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…Ralph C Sheldon Found…Carnahan-Jackson Foun…Hultquist Foundation …Ttee Uw Jessie Smith …Community Foundation …United Way of Souther…Holmberg Foundation I…The Western New York …Chautauqua-Cattaraugu…Northern Chautauqua C…The Snow Family Found…
Chautauqua Region Community Foundation IncNY106.3× affinity49 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Reginald a & Elizabeth S Lenna Fdn Inc Dba Lenna Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Reginald a & Elizabeth S Lenna Fdn Inc Dba Lenna Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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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    Find your warmest path to Reginald a & Elizabeth S Lenna Fdn Inc Dba Lenna Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 124 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-PF 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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