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United Fund for Western Orleans County United Way of W Orleans County

United Way Agency - Fundraising to provide financial assistance to local nonprofit organizations.

$78k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Itemized grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$50k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$9,800
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,250
Organizations funded a year
5 to 8
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$738k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations United Fund for Western Orleans County United Way of W Orleans County funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesOther
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 arriving5$50k20%
FY20235$80k0%
FY20226$143k17%
FY20218$103k38%
FY20207$96k29%
FY20195$62kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$298kYouth Development$78kArts & Culture$62kEducation$43kHealth$22kFood & Nutrition$16kReligion$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Genesee-Orleans Counties Chapter Nysarc Inc$144,15060%
Glow Young Men's Christian Association Inc$93,05060%
Community Action of Orleans and Genesee Inc$50,50040%
Orleans County Adult Learning Services$43,0004n/a
Iroquois Trail Council Inc - Boy Scouts of America$28,75042%
Project Stork Inc$21,500211%
Diocese of Western New York$19,0002n/a
Genesee Orleans Ministry of Concern Inc$10,50012%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($124k), not named here.

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.

Community Foundation …United Way of Greater…Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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About United Fund for Western Orleans County United Way of W Orleans County

How much does United Fund for Western Orleans County United Way of W Orleans County give?
United Fund for Western Orleans County United Way of W Orleans County reported 6 itemized grants totaling $50,050, out of $77,995 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 8 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does United Fund for Western Orleans County United Way of W Orleans County fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (55%), Youth Development (14%), Arts & Culture (11%).
Who are United Fund for Western Orleans County United Way of W Orleans County's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Genesee-Orleans Counties Chapter Nysarc Inc ($144k), Glow Young Men's Christian Association Inc ($93k), Community Action of Orleans and Genesee Inc ($51k).
Does United Fund for Western Orleans County United Way of W Orleans County fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as United Fund for Western Orleans County United Way of W Orleans County?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is United Fund for Western Orleans County United Way of W Orleans County based?
United Fund for Western Orleans County United Way of W Orleans County 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 12 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $69k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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