· Public charity
United Way of Southern Chautauqua County Inc
United way of southern chautauqua county mobilizes the community to help people improve their lives.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 40% of UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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, $3.0M) 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 +28% since the first grant, against -82% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- WCWINIFRED CRAWFORD DIBERT BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JAMESTOWN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +44%
- YWYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF JAMESTOWN9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +19%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF Jamestown NEW YORK9× · 2017–2025 · $629k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- CCCHAUTAUQUA COUNTY EDUCATION COALITIONone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -82%
- SLST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $9k
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 ensure that children with special needs, or at risk, from birth to age five, will reach their optimal development.
To create a business environment in the region where our members can thrive.
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 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.
Chpc's mission is to provide comprehensive palliative/end-of-life care and education.
Central ny quest has been established to serve the needs of persons with intellectual, developmental and mental health disorders in the central new york region.
To promote affordable and quality child care, provide information and support to families, and strengthen childhood workforce in dutchess and putnam counties.
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…
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…
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 provide economic opportunity.
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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 34 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 WINIFRED CRAWFORD DIBERT BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JAMESTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF JAMESTOWN ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF THE CHAUTAUQUA REGION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF Jamestown NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA STRIDERS INC ↗
- Who funds PREVENTION WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds JAMESTOWN COMMUNITY LEARNING COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY CHAPTER OF NYSARC INC ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA ADULT DAY CARE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY CH ↗
- Who funds CASA OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HELPING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA BLIND ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF JAMESTOWN AREA INC ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA LAKE CHILD CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED CHRISTIAN ADVOCACY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY HIGHLANDS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Community Connections At Findley Lake Inc ↗
- Who funds THE RELIEF ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds WIB INC DBA Chautauqua Works ↗
- Who funds INFINITY VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Western New York ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA CHILDREN'S SAFETY EDUCATION VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds JAMESTOWN RENAISSANCE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY EDUCATION COALITION ↗
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: Chautauqua Region Community Foundation Inc · Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Inc · Reginald a & Elizabeth S Lenna Fdn Inc Dba Lenna Foundation · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · United Way of Northern Chautauqua C · Carnahan-Jackson Foundation · Hultquist Foundation Inc · The Western New York Foundation · Ttee Uw Jessie Smith Darrah-Charita · Northern Chautauqua Community Found · Holmberg Foundation Inc · Northwest Charitable 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 organization United Way of Southern Chautauqua County Inc 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.