· Public charity
United Way of Northern Chautauqua C
The UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN CHAUTAUQUA Co inc envisions a community that works together, striving to improve the lives of others, while promoting ideals that facilitate lasting positive changes.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $97k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OTHER | $42,221 |
| CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY RURAL MINISTRY | $21,000 |
| LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF CHAUTAUQUA | $12,750 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NCC | $10,500 |
| DUNKIRK FREDONIA MEALS ON WHEELS | $10,500 |
| WESTFIELD YMCA | $9,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY DUNKIRK | $7,500 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $6,375 |
| CHILD ADVOCACY PROGRAM | $5,625 |
| CHAUT ADULT DAY CARE | $5,250 |
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 (FY17–25, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, 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 +39% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% 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
- DMDUNKIRK-FREDONIA MEALS ON WHEELS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +6%
- CACHAUTAUQUA ADULT DAY CARE CENTERS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $61k · revenue +39%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches9× · 2017–2025 · $59k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- OAOTHER AGENCIES UNDER 5000one grant, 2017 · $24k
- COCHAUTAUQUA OPPORTUNITIES INCone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +13%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NO CHAUT COUgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue +55%
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 provide quality health care services by operating diagnostic and treatment facilities pursuant to article 28 of the public health law of new york state. the center operates clinics in dunkirk, new york, jamestown, new york, gowanda, new…
To teach children about their responsibilities whenever they ride a bus, pedal a bike, or walk down a street, thus helping children develop a positive attitude about traffic safety.
To create a business environment in the region where our members can thrive.
The alliance was formed for the purpose of working in collaboration with lake and watershed-related organizations, municipalities, and other stakeholders in chautauqua county, ny, to promote and facilitate implementation of recommendations…
To ensure that children with special needs, or at risk, from birth to age five, will reach their optimal development.
Improving the quality of chautauqua lake, located in chautauqua county in upstate new york. the organization is concerned about the water quality, especially the proliferation of weeds and algae and their accumulation near the shore and…
Ccls is a 36 member cooperative public library system chartered by the nys education department to foster, strengthen, and improve public library services within chautauqua and cattaraugus counties by providing its members with training,…
To promote affordable and quality child care, provide information and support to families, and strengthen childhood workforce in dutchess and putnam counties.
Support educational institutions and prepare students for the workforce.
The ridgway chautauqua is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit community-based organization focused on offering and supporting programs that promote lifelong learning, the arts, culture and community and that embody the chautauqua tradition. our…
To improve the quality of housing stock and appearance of communities of chautauqua county and to improve the living conditions of the county's low-income residents.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chautauqua Opportunities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Patterson Library. 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 51 years old; the field is 28. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 28 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 CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY RURAL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds DUNKIRK-FREDONIA MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA ADULT DAY CARE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds YWCA WESTFIELD NY ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF CHAUCOINC ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA STRIDERS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY CH ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NO CHAUT COU ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMPUS & COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PREVENTION WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN CHAUTAUQUA C ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA BLIND ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY HIGHLANDS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF THE CHAUTAUQUA REGION INC ↗
- Who funds LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds PATTERSON 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: United Way of Southern Chautauqua County Inc · Chautauqua Region Community Foundation Inc · Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Northern Chautauqua Community Found · Hultquist Foundation Inc · Reginald a & Elizabeth S Lenna Fdn Inc Dba Lenna Foundation · Feedmore Western New York Inc · The Western New York Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Northern Chautauqua C 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.