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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.

$131k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$42k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$224kCommunity Improvement$153kYouth Development$98kFood & Nutrition$69kPublic Safety & Disaster$59kEducation$54kCrime & Legal$17kPhilanthropy$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $97k
$10,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY17–25, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHAUT ADULT DAY CARE: $9k → 18%CHAUT ADULT DAY CARE: $9k → 18%CHAUT ADULT DAY CARE: $9k → 18%CHAUT ADULT DAY CARE: $7k → 18%CHAUT ADULT DAY CARE: $6k → 18%CHAUT ADULT DAY CARE: $5k → 18%CHAUT ADULT DAY CARE: $5k → 18%CHAUT ADULT DAY CARE: $5k → 18%CHAUT ADULT DAY CARE: $5k → 18%CHAUTAUQUA FAMILY CENTER: $150 → 18%HOSPICE OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY: $4k → 18%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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$849k · 12 repeat orgs$84k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
15

Total granted

$849k
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+9%

Still filing today

67%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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

  • DM
    DUNKIRK-FREDONIA MEALS ON WHEELS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +6%
  • CA
    CHAUTAUQUA ADULT DAY CARE CENTERS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $61k · revenue +39%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    9× · 2017–2025 · $59k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • OA
    OTHER AGENCIES UNDER 5000
    one grant, 2017 · $24k
  • CO
    CHAUTAUQUA OPPORTUNITIES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +13%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NO CHAUT COUgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue +55%
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
The Chautauqua Center Inc

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…

Health
2
Chautauqua Children's Safety Education Village Inc

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.

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Chautauqua County Chamber of Commerce

To create a business environment in the region where our members can thrive.

Community Improvement
4
Chautauqua Lake and Watershed Management Alliance Inc

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…

Environment
5
Chautauqua Connections Inc

To ensure that children with special needs, or at risk, from birth to age five, will reach their optimal development.

Community Improvement
6
Chautauqua Lake Partnership Inc

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…

Environment
7
Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System

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,…

Education
8
Chautauqua Lake Triathlon Coalition Inc
Recreation & Sports
9
Child Care Council of Dutchess and Putnam Inc

To promote affordable and quality child care, provide information and support to families, and strengthen childhood workforce in dutchess and putnam counties.

Human Services
10
Chautauqua County Education Coalition

Support educational institutions and prepare students for the workforce.

Education
11
Ridgway Chautauqua Dba the New Sherbino Theater

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Chautauqua Home Rehabilitation & Improvement Corp

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.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chautauqua Opportunities Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 28 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
13/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OTHER: $212,263 · OtherOTHERTHE SALVATION ARMY BUFFALO: $78,786 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY BUFFALODUNKIRK-FREDONIA MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $69,435 · OtherDUNKIRK-FREDONIA MEALS ON WHEELS INCYWCA WESTFIELD NY: $58,113 · OtherYWCA WESTFIELD NYBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NCC: $39,134 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NCCGIRL SCOUTS OF WNY: $24,550 · OtherOTHER AGENCIES UNDER 5000: $23,694 · Other+6 more: $17,647 · OtherCHAUTAUQUA COUNTY RURAL MINISTRIES: $151,352 · Community ImprovementCHAUTAUQUA COUNTY RU…CHAUTAUQUA OPPORTUNITIES INC: $15,000 · Community ImprovementCHAUTAUQUA OPPORTUNI…CHAUTAUQUA ADULT DAY CARE CENTERS INC: $60,516 · Human ServicesCHAUTAUQUA ADU…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $59,153 · Human ServicesAmerican Natio…+2 more: $3,744 · Human ServicesLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF CHAUCOINC: $53,781 · Education+1 more: $55 · EducationCHAUTAUQUA STRIDERS INC: $24,802 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NO CHAUT COU: $9,212 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY CH: $16,875 · Crime & LegalUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC: $6,386 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY: $1,346 · PhilanthropyPREVENTION WORKS INC: $4,559 · HealthCHAUTAUQUA BLIND ASSOCIATION INC: $2,058 · Health
Other$523,622Community Improvement$166,352Human Services$123,413Education$53,836Youth Development$34,014Crime & Legal$16,875Philanthropy$7,732Health$6,617

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 budgetCHAUTAUQUA COUNTY RURAL MINISTRIES: $151,352 over 9y, 3.7% of budgetDUNKIRK-FREDONIA MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $69,435 over 9y, 4.0% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA ADULT DAY CARE CENTERS INC: $60,516 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $59,153 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA WESTFIELD NY: $58,113 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF CHAUCOINC: $53,781 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA STRIDERS INC: $24,802 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY CH: $16,875 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA OPPORTUNITIES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NO CHAUT COU: $9,212 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC: $6,386 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCAMPUS & COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $5,202 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPREVENTION WORKS INC: $4,559 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN CHAUTAUQUA C: $4,132 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE: $3,594 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA BLIND ASSOCIATION INC: $2,058 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY: $1,346 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLEGHENY HIGHLANDS COUNCIL INC: $285 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF THE CHAUTAUQUA REGION INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $129 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPATTERSON LIBRARY: $55 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

United Way of Souther…Chautauqua Region Com…Ralph C Sheldon Found…Community Foundation …Northern Chautauqua C…Hultquist Foundation …Reginald a & Elizabet…Feedmore Western New …The Western New York …Amazonsmile FoundationFidelity Investments …
United Way of Southern Chautauqua County IncNY26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Northern Chautauqua C funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Northern Chautauqua C. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 28 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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