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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 FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $289k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$22,850
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
YOUTH MENTORING SERVICES$27,300
NIAGARA AQUARIUM FOUNDATION$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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING: $17k → 13%CONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING: $17k → 13%CONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING: $17k → 13%CONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING: $16k → 13%CONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING: $16k → 13%CONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING: $16k → 13%COMMUNITY MISSIONS: $18k → 14%FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $70k → 14%FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $70k → 14%FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $70k → 14%FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $34k → 14%FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $32k → 14%FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $32k → 14%FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $28k → 14%FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $28k → 14%NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $27k → 14%FAMILY YMCA: $18k → 14%FAMILY YMCA: $18k → 14%FAMILY YMCA: $18k → 14%HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NIAGARA COUNT: $17k → 14%HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NIAGARA COUNT: $16k → 14%HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NIAGARA COUNT: $16k → 14%HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NIAGARA COUNT: $16k → 14%HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NIAGARA COUNT: $16k → 14%HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NIAGARA COUNT: $15k → 14%HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NIAGARA COUNT: $15k → 14%THE DALE ASSOCIATION: $30k → 14%THE DALE ASSOCIATION: $28k → 14%THE DALE ASSOCIATION: $28k → 14%THE DALE ASSOCIATION: $28k → 14%THE DALE ASSOCIATION: $26k → 14%THE DALE ASSOCIATION: $26k → 14%THE DALE ASSOCIATION: $25k → 14%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 26 repeat orgs$96k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
4

Total granted

$3.5M
$96k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+17%

Still filing today

77%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthEducationPublic 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NIAGARA FALLS BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $504k · revenue +216%
  • PINNACLE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $362k · revenue +6%
  • YO
    YWCA OF NIAGARA FRONTIER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $201k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • Native American Community Services of Erie and Niagara County Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $27k · revenue -13%
  • NIAGARA AQUARIUM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $27k · revenue -36%
  • KC
    KENAN CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $23k · revenue +390%
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Northern York County Historical & Preservation Society
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2
Family Counseling Service of Northern New York Inc

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…

Human Services
3
Western New York Independent Living Inc

Western new york independent living, inc., a family of agencies, is a multi-cultural, grassroots, peer directed, civil rights organization that provides a full range of assistance, programs, and services to enhance the quality of life for…

Health
4
Nysarc Inc New York City Chapter

We are committed to helping people with intellectual (cont. on schedule o) and developmental disabilities to live full lives.

Human Services
5
Housing Options Made Easy

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.

Health
6
Westchester Independent Living Center Inc

Westchester independent living center ("the center") is the leading community advocate, dedicated to improving the quality of life of people with disabiliities by promoting individual self determination and human rights, societal change…

Human Services
7
Heritage Christian Services Inc

At heritage christian services, we believe in possibilities. established in 1984, heritage christian services strives to advance an inclusive and equitable community. our more than 3,900 employees work alongside the people who choose our…

Human Services
8
Nami Rochester Ny Inc

Nami rochester's mission is to provide support, education and advocacy to individuals and families.

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9
Lockport Cares Inc

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.

Education
10
Chautauqua Adult Day Care Centers Inc

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.

Human Services
11
Northeast Youth & Family Services

Transforming lives by ensuring access to care that nurtures healing, cultivates community, and inspires hope.

Health
12
Nicks Community

Nicks Community is dedicated to the support and service of adult individuals with disabilities.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca of Niagara Frontier Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/26
Grantees still filing
18/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY: $321,572 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYYWCA OF NIAGARA FRONTIER INC: $200,851 · OtherYWCA OF NIAGARA FRONTIER INCGREAT FALLS COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $197,013 · OtherGREAT FALLS COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAYOUTH MENTORING SERVICES OF NIAGARA COUNTY INC: $180,724 · OtherYOUTH MENTORING SERVICES OF NIAGARA COUNTY INCAMERICAN RED CROSS ERIE & NIAGARA: $112,582 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS ERIE & NIAGARANEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES INC: $105,497 · OtherNEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES INCTHE SALVATION ARMY BUFFALO: $87,211 · OtherYMCA OF LOCKPORT NEW YORK: $82,977 · OtherNIAGARA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $77,381 · OtherMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN NIAGARA COUNTY INC: $59,259 · Other+7 more: $242,915 · Other+7 morePINNACLE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $362,435 · Human ServicesPINNACLE COMMUNITY SERVICES…THE DALE ASSOCIATION INC: $191,421 · Human ServicesTHE DALE ASSOCIATION INCHEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NIAGARA COUNTY INC: $111,237 · Human ServicesHEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NIAGA…PARACHUTE CREDIT COUNSELING INC: $99,585 · Human ServicesPARACHUTE CREDIT COUNSELING…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION BUFFALO NIAGARA: $54,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOC…+2 more: $45,668 · Human ServicesNIAGARA FALLS BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $503,566 · Youth DevelopmentNIAGARA FALLS BOYS …The Boys & Girls Club Of The Northtowns Inc: $119,464 · Youth DevelopmentThe Boys & Girls Cl…NORTHPOINTE COUNCIL INC: $158,620 · HealthNIAGARA UNIVERSITY: $125,294 · EducationVETERANS ONE-STOP CENTER OF WNY INC: $61,072 · Public BenefitHEART LOVE & SOUL INC: $49,609 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,667,982Human Services$864,346Youth Development$623,030Health$158,620Education$125,294Public Benefit$61,072Food & Nutrition$49,609

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

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
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 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 ↗

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 …The John R Oishei Fou…Grigg-Lewis Foundatio…Buffalo Bills Foundat…Feedmore Western New …East Hill FoundationUnited Way of the Ton…E&W G FoundationThe Peter and Elizabe…First Niagara Foundat…Evans Devereux Memori…Foundation 214 Inc
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization United Way of Greater Niagara Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Greater Niagara Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 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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