· Public charity
United Way of Cattaraugus & Allegany Counties Inc
To improve the quality of life by mobilizing resources to meet the needs of the community.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of UNITED WAY OF CATTARAUGUS & ALLEGANY COUNTIES INC’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.
The 15 grants below total $145,325 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $210,267 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $64,942 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 · FY2026
- Under $10k9 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $79k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Allegany Senior Foundation | $19,000 |
| YMCA of the Twin Tiers | $15,000 |
| St Bonaventure University | $13,000 |
| American Red Cross | $11,600 |
| Trinity Christian Daycare | $10,000 |
| Special Olympics New York | $10,000 |
| Rural Outreach Center | $9,700 |
| Salvation Army | $9,000 |
| Genesis House | $8,000 |
| Accord Corporation | $7,600 |
| Catholic Charities | $7,200 |
| Community Care of WNY | $7,000 |
| Girl Scouts of WNY | $6,475 |
| HomeCare & Hospice | $6,000 |
| Fillmore Powerhouse Youth Cen | $5,750 |
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 (FY17–26, $345k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.
18 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2026, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- GHGENESIS HOUSE OF OLEAN INC9× · 2017–2026 · $166k · revenue +418%
- SBST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2026 · $101k · revenue +88%
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC8× · 2017–2026 · $96k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- ACALLEGANY COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM - SUBSTANCE ABUSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2025 · $20k · revenue +112%
- ACALLEGANY COUNTY ASSOC FOR BLINDgraduatedone grant, 2025 · $10k · revenue +33%
- OFOLEAN FOOD PANTRY INCgraduatedone grant, 2025 · $8k · revenue +76%
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.
Advance care alliance of new york, inc. (acany) is dedicated to providing the support and services for you or your loved one with an intellectual or developmental disability need to lead an active, healthy, and fulfilling life. acany was…
Home care services (under contract with various mco organizations)
Providing nbsp;quality nbsp;home nbsp;health nbsp;care nbsp;services nbsp;vocational nbsp;/education nbsp;training nbsp;senior nbsp;citizens nbsp;services nbsp;hiv/aides nbsp;and nbsp;housing nbsp;to nbsp;improve nbsp;and nbsp;dignify…
Accesscny offers personcentered services that empower individuals of all ages and abilities to reach their full potential as part of our shared community. services are provided with dedication, compassion, innovation, and commitment. the…
Provide meals to residents that are home bound or are unable to cook for themselves
Jewish home of central new york senior apartment's mission is to assure maximum independence and dignity offering a broad range of the highest quality of health, residential and community services. jewish home of central new york senior…
It is the mission of carefirst ny, inc. to affirm life through extraordinary, compassionate support and care to patients and families in chemung, steuben and schuyler counties.
To provide a comprehensive array of services including case management, physician, hospital and nursing home care to adults age 55 and older who are medically eligible for nursing home care
Options for community living, inc. is dedicated to supporting all individuals and families in developing their fullest potential for independent living. the organization provides services that prepare participants for the demands and…
Food bank of central new york is a not-for-profit organization: our mission is to lead the effort to eliminate hunger in our region, through partnerships with others in our community, through education, advocacy, and distribution of…
Acap works in partnership with families and communities to empower people to achieve economic self-sufficiency and an improved quality of life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Allegany-Steuben Counties Chapter Nysarcinc and the most unlike its peers is Saving Grace Outreach Inc. 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 48 years old; the field is 29. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
18 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. 18 of the 24 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 GENESIS HOUSE OF OLEAN INC ↗
- Who funds ST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OLEAN NY AND BRADFORD PA ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH CAREGIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ALLEGANY SENIOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECTIONS IN INDEPENDENT LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds CATTARAUGUS COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEGANY COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM - SUBSTANCE ABUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SAVING GRACE OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds ALLEGANY-STEUBEN COUNTIES CHAPTER NYSARCINC ↗
- Who funds ALLEGANY COUNTY ASSOC FOR BLIND ↗
- Who funds ACCORD CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OLEAN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CUBA CIRCULATING LIBRARY ↗
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: Allegany County United Way Inc · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Greater Olean Community Foundation Dba Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation · Feedmore Western New York Inc · Ft & Anna C Manley Mem Tw Pfdn · Cutco Foundation Inc · The Stitt Foundation Inc · East Hill Foundation · Health Foundation for Western & Central New York · The Western New York Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 United Way of Cattaraugus & Allegany Counties Inc 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.