· Public charity
United Way of Greater Niagara Inc
To invest in education, health, and income programs that deliver measurable results to improve the community today and strengthen it for tomorrow by raising funds to support community organizations
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $289k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NIAGARA FALLS BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $50,455 |
| NORTHTOWNS BOYS & GIRSL CLUB | $39,176 |
| FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES | $27,735 |
| BSA GREATER NIAGARA FRONTIER COUNC | $27,678 |
| NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES | $27,420 |
| NIAGARA AQUARIUM FOUNDATION | $27,300 |
| YOUTH MENTORING SERVICES | $27,300 |
| KENAN CENTER | $22,850 |
| YWCA OF NIAGARA | $20,160 |
| COMMUNITY MISSIONS | $18,248 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF NIAGARA FALLS | $13,916 |
| SALVATION ARMY TONAWANDA CORPS | $13,241 |
| IMMACULATA HOME | $12,740 |
| SALVATION ARMY - LOCKPORT | $11,375 |
| NORTHPOINTE COUNCIL | $7,315 |
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, $864k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 4 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k 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
NIAGARA FALLS BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC8× · 2017–2024 · $504k · revenue +139%
PINNACLE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $362k · revenue +6%- YOYWCA OF NIAGARA FRONTIER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $201k · revenue +22%
Funded once
Native American Community Services of Erie and Niagara County Incone grant, 2024 · $27k · revenue -13%
NIAGARA AQUARIUM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $27k · revenue -36%- KCKENAN CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $23k · revenue +390%
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.
To prevent cruelty to all animals through public education on thier humane treatment and to provide love, care, shelter and advovacy for companion animals in our community.
Family counseling service of northern new york is a private, not-for- profit agency which provides a broad spectrum of high quality, affordable counseling, consultative and education services. the agency is committed to fostering the…
The organization provides charitable relief in the form of emergency shelter, material needs, and compassionate care for the homeless and persons in need in the eastern niagara county, new york area.
To combat juvenile delinquency and community deterioration, while promoting social welfare, physical fitness, and development of good sportsmanship
The mission of the alliance for positive health is to reduce the impact and incidence of hiv/aids and other serious medical and social conditions in northeastern ny.
To provide a variety of library services to the member libraries in niagara, orleans, and genesee counties and perform a number of functions which assist its member public libraries in serving their patrons.
Nia community action center,incs mission is to improve the quality of life for all residents of the triad by building better communities. the goals of the organization are to provide quality services that support the elimination of health…
The agency's mission is to provide a program of services for frail or impaired older adults in a secure group setting, enhancing quality of life, delaying institutionalization and providing respite for caregivers.
We support people with mental health concerns to improve wellness and live independently with dignity, in the community of their choice, through peer-driven services.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health Association of Niagara County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Immaculata Home Inc. 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 59 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 9% 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.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 30 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 NIAGARA FALLS BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds PINNACLE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF NIAGARA FRONTIER INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT FALLS COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE DALE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH MENTORING SERVICES OF NIAGARA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHPOINTE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Boys & Girls Club Of The Northtowns Inc ↗
- Who funds HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NIAGARA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PARACHUTE CREDIT COUNSELING INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF LOCKPORT NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS ONE-STOP CENTER OF WNY INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN NIAGARA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION BUFFALO NIAGARA ↗
- Who funds IMMACULATA HOME INC ↗
- Who funds HEART LOVE & SOUL INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH TONAWANDA INTERCHURCH FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA COUNTY CHAPTER NYSARC INC OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED OF NIAGARA ↗
- Who funds Native American Community Services of Erie and Niagara County Inc ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KENAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MISSIONS OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIER 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: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The John R Oishei Foundation · Grigg-Lewis Foundation Inc · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · Feedmore Western New York Inc · East Hill Foundation · United Way of the Tonawandas Inc · E&W G Foundation · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · Evans Devereux Memorial Fund Ua 11 Uw Virginia Devereux · Foundation 214 Inc
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 Greater Niagara 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.