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United Way of Southern Chautauqua County Inc

United way of southern chautauqua county mobilizes the community to help people improve their lives.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$155k
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 2025.

Human Services$4.2MYouth Development$2.4MHealth$1.4MPublic Safety & Disaster$625kCrime & Legal$610kEducation$563kFood & Nutrition$180kEmployment$86kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $366k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $655k
$24,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE RESOURCE CENTER: $102k → 18%YWCA: $91k → 18%YWCA: $91k → 18%YWCA OF JAMESTOWN: $91k → 18%YWCA OF JAMESTOWN: $91k → 18%YWCA: $91k → 18%YWCA: $91k → 18%YWCA OF JAMESTOWN: $88k → 18%YWCA OF JAMESTOWN: $88k → 18%YWCA OF JAMESTOWN: $88k → 18%FAMILY SERVICE OF THE CHAUT REGION: $88k → 18%FAMILY SERVICE OF THE CHAUT REGION: $88k → 18%FAMILY SERVICE OF THE CHAUT REGION: $85k → 18%FAMILY SERVICE OF THE CHAUT REGION: $85k → 18%FAMILY SERVICE OF THE CHAUT REGION: $83k → 18%FAMILY SERVICE OF THE CHAUT REGION: $83k → 18%YMCA: $76k → 18%YMCA: $76k → 18%YMCA: $75k → 18%YMCA: $75k → 18%FAMILY SERVICE OF THE CHAUT REGION: $70k → 18%FAMILY SERVICE OF THE CHAUT REGION: $70k → 18%FAMILY SERVICE OF THE CHAUT REGION: $70k → 18%YMCA: $66k → 18%YMCA: $66k → 18%YMCA: $66k → 18%YMCA: $65k → 18%YMCA: $65k → 18%YWCA: $58k → 18%YWCA: $56k → 18%NYSARC - THE RESOURCE CENTER: $52k → 18%YWCA: $40k → 18%THE RESOURCE CENTER: $39k → 18%YWCA OF JAMESTOWN: $32k → 18%CHAUTAUQUA ADULT DAY CARE: $32k → 18%CHAUTAUQUA ADULT DAY CARE: $32k → 18%CHAUTAUQUA ADULT DAY CARE: $32k → 18%CHAUTAUQUA ADULT DAY CARE: $32k → 18%CHAUTAUQUA ADULT DAY CARE: $32k → 18%CHAUTAUQUA ADULT DAY CARE: $32k → 18%CHAUTAUQUA ADULT DAY CARE: $32k → 18%CHAUTAUQUA ADULT DAY CARE: $32k → 18%CHAUTAUQUA ADULT DAY CARE: $32k → 18%THE RESOURCE CENTER: $29k → 18%YWCA OF JAMESTOWN: $21k → 18%CHAUTAUQUA ADULT DAY CARE: $17k → 18%NYSARC - THE RESOURCE CENTER: $16k → 18%CHAUTAUQUA CO CHAPTER NYSARC: $15k → 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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 32 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against -82% for those funded once.

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
2

Total granted

$10M
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
-82%

Still filing today

78%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 ServicesHealthEducationCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • WC
    WINIFRED CRAWFORD DIBERT BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JAMESTOWN INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +49%
  • YW
    YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF JAMESTOWN
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +19%
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF Jamestown NEW YORK
    9× · 2017–2025 · $629k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • CC
    CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY EDUCATION COALITION
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -82%
  • SL
    ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $9k
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
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
2
Chautauqua County Chamber of Commerce

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

Community Improvement
3
Chautauqua Hospice and Palliative Care

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

Human Services
4
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
5
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
6
Central New York Quest Inc

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.

Human Services
7
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
8
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
9
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
10
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
11
Chautauqua Region Economic Development Corporation

To provide economic opportunity.

Community Improvement
12
Family Services of Chemung County Inc

The purpose of family services is to assist individuals, families and the community in meeting the complexities of daily living by fostering the ability to develop and maintain positive relationships and promote healthy, independent…

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

27 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. 27 of the 34 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/27
Grantees still filing
19/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WINIFRED CRAWFORD DIBERT BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JAMESTOWN INC: $1,417,000 · OtherWINIFRED CRAWFORD DIBERT BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF J…THE SALVATION ARMY BUFFALO: $1,085,500 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY BUFFALOAMERICAN RED CROSS: $594,970 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSGIRL SCOUTS OF WNY: $233,000 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF WNYCOMMUNITY HELPING HANDS INC: $205,629 · OtherJAMESTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $156,568 · Other+11 more: $609,415 · Other+11 moreYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF JAMESTOWN: $1,014,364 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATI…FAMILY SERVICE OF THE CHAUTAUQUA REGION INC: $721,800 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE OF THE CHAUTAUQUA …YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF Jamestown NEW YORK: $628,842 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION…CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY CHAPTER OF NYSARC INC: $325,782 · Human ServicesCHAUTAUQUA COUNTY CHAPTER OF NYSA…CHAUTAUQUA ADULT DAY CARE CENTERS INC: $316,795 · Human ServicesCHAUTAUQUA ADULT DAY CARE CENTERS…MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC: $521,135 · HealthMENTAL HEAL…PREVENTION WORKS INC: $370,000 · HealthPREVENTION …CHAUTAUQUA BLIND ASSOCIATION INC: $193,646 · HealthCHAUTAUQUA …FRIENDS OF THE CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY CH: $255,000 · Crime & LegalCASA OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC: $225,000 · Crime & LegalUNITED CHRISTIAN ADVOCACY NETWORK INC: $130,000 · Crime & LegalCHAUTAUQUA STRIDERS INC: $461,730 · Youth DevelopmentTHE RELIEF ZONE INC: $90,500 · Youth DevelopmentJAMESTOWN COMMUNITY LEARNING COUNCIL: $333,255 · EducationCHAUTAUQUA LAKE CHILD CARE CENTER: $176,000 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationMEALS ON WHEELS OF JAMESTOWN AREA INC: $180,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$4,302,082Human Services$3,007,583Health$1,084,781Crime & Legal$610,000Youth Development$552,230Education$519,255Food & Nutrition$180,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWINIFRED CRAWFORD DIBERT BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JAMESTOWN INC: $1,417,000 over 9y, 21% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF JAMESTOWN: $1,014,364 over 9y, 8.3% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF THE CHAUTAUQUA REGION INC: $721,800 over 9y, 8.3% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF Jamestown NEW YORK: $628,842 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC: $521,135 over 9y, 13% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA STRIDERS INC: $461,730 over 9y, 6.9% of budgetPREVENTION WORKS INC: $370,000 over 9y, 4.4% of budgetJAMESTOWN COMMUNITY LEARNING COUNCIL: $333,255 over 9y, 3.5% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA COUNTY CHAPTER OF NYSARC INC: $325,782 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA ADULT DAY CARE CENTERS INC: $316,795 over 9y, 4.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY CH: $255,000 over 9y, 3.5% of budgetCASA OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC: $225,000 over 9y, 22% of budgetCOMMUNITY HELPING HANDS INC: $205,629 over 8y, 10% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA BLIND ASSOCIATION INC: $193,646 over 9y, 9.4% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF JAMESTOWN AREA INC: $180,000 over 9y, 3.7% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA LAKE CHILD CARE CENTER: $176,000 over 9y, 4.1% of budgetUNITED CHRISTIAN ADVOCACY NETWORK INC: $130,000 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetALLEGHENY HIGHLANDS COUNCIL INC: $129,000 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetCommunity Connections At Findley Lake Inc: $90,500 over 7y, 8.5% of budgetTHE RELIEF ZONE INC: $90,500 over 9y, 3.4% of budgetWIB INC DBA Chautauqua Works: $85,732 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetINFINITY VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS INC: $56,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetJunior Achievement of Western New York: $56,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA CHILDREN'S SAFETY EDUCATION VILLAGE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA OPPORTUNITIES INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJAMESTOWN RENAISSANCE CORPORATION: $17,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA COUNTY EDUCATION COALITION: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% 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 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 ↗

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.

Chautauqua Region Com…Ralph C Sheldon Found…Reginald a & Elizabet…Community Foundation …United Way of Norther…Carnahan-Jackson Foun…Hultquist Foundation …The Western New York …Ttee Uw Jessie Smith …Northern Chautauqua C…Holmberg Foundation I…Northwest Charitable …
Chautauqua Region Community Foundation IncNY68× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 34 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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