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United Fund for Western Orleans County United Way of W Orleans County at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

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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 FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% 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
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $50,050, the rows itemized in this filing. The $77,995 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $27,945 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 $10k4 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$9,800
Median grant
1
States reached
$738k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Community Action$10,250
Orleans County YMCA$10,000
ARC Camp Rainbow$9,800
P Raising Kids$8,500
Arc Meals on Wheels$6,000
Individual grant recipient$5,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $72k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Project Stork: $12k → 10%COMMUNITY ACTION: $17k → 11%Project Stork: $10k → 10%Community Action: $15k → 11%Community Action: $10k → 11%COMMUNITY ACTION: $8k → 11%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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$449k · 8 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against -17% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
3

Total granted

$449k
$79k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
-17%

Still filing today

38%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

  • GY
    GLOW YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $93k · revenue +70%
  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACTION OF ORLEANS AND GENESEE INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $51k · revenue +16%
  • Project Stork Inc
    2× · 2021–2022 · $22k · revenue +192%

Funded once

  • CF
    Comm Found for Greater Buff
    one grant, 2022 · $62k
  • Genesee Orleans Ministry of Concern Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $11k · revenue -17%
  • KC
    Kendall Comm Food Cupboard
    one grant, 2021 · $7k
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
04the grantee network

6 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/6
Grantees still filing
3/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GENESEE-ORLEANS COUNTIES CHAPTER NYSARC INC: $144,150 · OtherGENESEE-ORLEANS COUNTIES CHAPTER NYSARC INCGLOW YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $93,050 · OtherGLOW YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INCComm Found for Greater Buff: $62,000 · OtherComm Found for Greater BuffP Raising Kids: $49,500 · OtherP Raising KidsORLEANS COUNTY ADULT LEARNING SERVICES: $43,000 · OtherORLEANS COUNTY ADULT LEARNING SERVICESIROQUOIS TRAIL COUNCIL INC - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $28,750 · OtherIROQUOIS TRAIL COUNCIL INC - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICADIOCESE OF WESTERN NEW YORK: $19,000 · Other+3 more: $22,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION OF ORLEANS AND GENESEE INC: $50,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTIO…Project Stork Inc: $21,500 · Human ServicesProject Stork I…
Other$461,950Human Services$72,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGENESEE-ORLEANS COUNTIES CHAPTER NYSARC INC: $144,150 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGLOW YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $93,050 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION OF ORLEANS AND GENESEE INC: $50,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetIROQUOIS TRAIL COUNCIL INC - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $28,750 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetProject Stork Inc: $21,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetGenesee Orleans Ministry of Concern Inc: $10,500 over 1y, 2.3% 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 GENESEE-ORLEANS COUNTIES CHAPTER NYSARC INC ↗
  • Who funds GLOW YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION OF ORLEANS AND GENESEE INC ↗
  • Who funds IROQUOIS TRAIL COUNCIL INC - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds Project Stork Inc ↗
  • Who funds Genesee Orleans Ministry of Concern 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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization United Fund for Western Orleans County United Way of W Orleans County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Fund for Western Orleans County United Way of W Orleans County. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 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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