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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

$352k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2024
16
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$22,850
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,455
Organizations funded a year
16 to 23
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$3.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations United Way of Greater Niagara Inc 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%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Youth DevelopmentPublic BenefitFood & NutritionOther
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 arriving14$347k29%
FY202316$378k0%
FY202223$438k0%
FY202123$443k0%
FY202023$457k17%
FY201922$516k14%
FY201819$486k0%
FY201719$486kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$1.6MYouth Development$1.0MHealth$361kEducation$169kPublic Safety & Disaster$113kCrime & Legal$105kFood & Nutrition$84kHousing & Shelter$52kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget United Way of Greater Niagara Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNiagara Falls Boys & Girls Club Inc: $503,566 over 8y, 7.5% of budgetPinnacle Community Services Inc: $362,435 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetYWCA of Niagara Frontier Inc: $200,851 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetGreat Falls Council Inc Boy Scouts of America: $197,013 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetThe Dale Association Inc: $191,421 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetYouth Mentoring Services of Niagara County Inc: $180,724 over 8y, 10% of budgetNorthpointe Council Inc: $158,620 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetNiagara University: $125,294 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Boys & Girls Club Of The Northtowns Inc: $119,464 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetHealth Association of Niagara County Inc: $111,237 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetNeighborhood Legal Services Inc: $105,497 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetParachute Credit Counseling Inc: $99,585 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetYMCA of Lockport New York: $82,977 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetNiagara Community Action Program Inc: $77,381 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetVeterans One-Stop Center of Wny Inc: $61,072 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetMental Health Association in Niagara County Inc: $59,259 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association Buffalo Niagara: $54,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetImmaculata Home Inc: $52,334 over 5y, 22% of budgetHeart Love & Soul Inc: $49,609 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetLiteracy New York Inc: $43,350 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetNorth Tonawanda Interchurch Food Pantry: $34,714 over 5y, 12% of budgetNiagara County Chapter Nysarc Inc Opportunities Unlimited of Niagara: $32,241 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNative American Community Services of Erie and Niagara County Inc: $27,420 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNiagara Aquarium Foundation: $27,300 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKenan Center Inc: $22,850 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCommunity Missions of the Niagara Frontier Inc: $18,248 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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 for Greater Buffalo IncNY45× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Way of Greater Niagara Inc

How much does United Way of Greater Niagara Inc give?
United Way of Greater Niagara Inc reported 15 grants totaling $351,909 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does United Way of Greater Niagara Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (46%), Youth Development (28%), Health (10%).
Who are United Way of Greater Niagara Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Niagara Falls Boys & Girls Club Inc ($504k), Pinnacle Community Services Inc ($362k), The Salvation Army ($322k).
Does United Way of Greater Niagara Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Greater Niagara Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, The John R Oishei Foundation, Grigg-Lewis Foundation Inc.
Where is United Way of Greater Niagara Inc based?
United Way of Greater Niagara Inc 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 30 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.

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