How much did UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHAUTAUQUA grant in FY2025?

Human Services$2.7MHealth$999kCrime & Legal$560kYouth Development$492kEducation$473kFood & Nutrition$160kEmployment$86kInternational$46kCommunity Improvement$40kOther$3.7M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

specialjamestown districtircinfinity visualvisual performingperforming artsinfinity seeks

2020

ircinfinity visualvisual performingperforming artsinfinity seeksespriavailable

2021

espristudentsjunior achievement

2022

espristudentsjunior achievement

2023

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2024

plan

2025

plan

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k2 grants · $16k
$10k–50k17 grants · $366k
$50k–250k8 grants · $655k

$24,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.6M

Total assets

Largest grants

WCD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$155,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$117,500
YWCA OF JAMESTOWN$88,000
FAMILY SERVICE OF THE CHAUT REGION$70,000
YMCA$65,500
CHAUTAUQUA STRIDERS INC$58,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$51,000
PREVENTION WORKS$50,000
JAMESTOWN COMMUNITY LEARNING COUNC$43,000
MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION$39,000
CHAUTAUQUA ADULT DAY CARE$32,000
CHILD ADVOCACY PROGRAM$31,000
CASA OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY$25,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF SWNY$24,000
CHAUTAUQUA BLIND ASSOCIATION$23,500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$9.3M · 32 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against -61% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$9.3M

$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%

-61%

Still filing today

78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

WB
WCD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
8× · 2018–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +44%
YO
YWCA OF JAMESTOWN
8× · 2018–2025 · $924k · revenue +18%
Y
YMCA
8× · 2018–2025 · $553k · revenue +24%

Funded once

CC
CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY ED COALITION
one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -61%
SL
ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
one grant, 2023 · $9k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Chautauqua County Chamber of Commerce

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

Community Improvement

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

Chemung County Child Care Council Inc

The child care council is a private not-for-profit that provides child care referrals, administers the child care subsidy program, processes child care subsidy bills, administers the child adult care food program, serves as the local…

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Chautauqua Lake Partnership Inc

Maintenance of chautauqua lake located in upstate new york.

Environment

Chautauqua Home Rehabilitation &

Improve the housing stock of chautauqua county and the living conditions of its low-income residents.

Housing & Shelter

Council On Adolescents of Catawba

To reduce teen pregnancy, provide mentoring programs, create awareness about distracted driving, and empowering youth to making healthly life choices

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Chautauqua Region Economic

The main purpose of chautauqua region economic development corporation is to promote job growth in the community.

Community Improvement

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

Child Care Council of Dutchess

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

Human Services

Chautauqua Hospice and Palliative Care

Chpc's mission is to provide comprehensive palliative/end-of-life care and education.

Human Services

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. empowering our local communities through…

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Ridgway Chautauqua

To offer and support programs that promote lifelong learning, the arts, culture and community, embody the chautauqua tradition and advance the creative economic vitality of our region.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chautauqua Opportunities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chautauqua County Education Coalition. 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 44 years old; the field is 29. 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 4% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%1/34

the rest of the field

33/790

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.

05the grantee network

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

25/27

Grantees still filing

22/27

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,868,597Human Services$2,715,556Health$999,358Crime & Legal$560,000Youth Development$492,365Education$473,255Food & Nutrition$160,000

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.

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.

Chautauqua Region Community FoundationNY69.7× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chautauqua Region Community Foundation · Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Inc · United Way of Northern Chautauqua C · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo · Reginald a & Elizabeth S Lenna Fdn Inc · Carnahan-Jackson Foundation · Northern Chautauqua Community Found · Holmberg Foundation Inc · Hultquist Foundation Inc · The Winifred Crawford Dibert Foundation · Ttee Uw Jessie Smith Darrah-Charita · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 organisation UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHAUTAUQUA 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CASA OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 270063621 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CASA OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 22% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to United Way of Southern Chautauqua?

Find your warmest path to United Way of Southern Chautauqua through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHAUTAUQUA

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of Southern Chautauqua?

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UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHAUTAUQUA

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of Southern Chautauqua?

More from the funding graph