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United Way of the Tonawandas Inc

Voluntary fundraising and human service organization working to bring together a united campaign of fundraising efforts of various agencies engaged in providing social services to the local community and foster a balanced program of social services to the community.

$22k
Granted FY2017
11
Grants FY2017
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2017 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$936
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YWCA OF THE TONAWANDAS$6,000
SALVATION ARMY$4,692
THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE NORTHTOWNS$3,736
NORTH TONAWANDA INTER-CHURCH FOOD PANTRY$2,668
FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF NIAGARA$1,000
HEALTH ASSOC OF NIAGARA COUNTY INC$936
GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF BUFFALO & ERIE CO$750
OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED OF NIAGARA INC$672
NOR-TON RED JACKET CLUB INC$500
MENTAL HEALTH ASSOC OF NIAGARA CO$445
NORTHPOINTE COUNCIL INC$445
02The need
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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 (FY17–17, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF NIAGARA: $1k → 14%HEALTH ASSOC OF NIAGARA COUNTY INC: $936 → 14%MENTAL HEALTH ASSOC OF NIAGARA CO: $445 → 14%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 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
Northern York County Historical & Preservation Society
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2
New York Congregational Community Services
Health
3
Open Arms Rescue of Wny
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4
Northeast New York Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health Inc
Public Safety & Disaster
5
Family Counseling Service of Northern New York Inc

Family counseling service of northern new york is a private, not-for- profit agency which provides a broad spectrum of high quality, affordable counseling, consultative and education services. the agency is committed to fostering the…

Human Services
6
Ymca of Central and Northern Westchester Ny Inc

The ymca strengthen's the community by providing quality programs that promote youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility. we are a y without walls model. as a community based service provider, we remain flexible -…

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7
Nysarc Inc New York City Chapter

We are committed to helping people with intellectual (cont. on schedule o) and developmental disabilities to live full lives.

Human Services
8
Gateway Counseling Center Inc

Gateway's organizational mission is a dedication to promoting habilitative and mental health services to developmentally disabled and severely and persistently mentally ill population by establishing a safe environment that supports…

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9
Northeastern Pennsylvania Health Care Foundation
Education
10
Girl Scouts of Northeastern New York

Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.

Youth Development
11
Boys & Girls Club of Northern Westchester

To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens.

Youth Development
12
Mid-Island Y Jewish Community Center in

Provide vital services & foster jewish identity, personal growth, family strength and community. the mid-island y jcc is open to everyone in the community serving individuals of all ages, abilities, and challenges.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health Association of Niagara County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Northpointe Council Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 10 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YWCA OF THE TONAWANDAS: $6,000 · OtherYWCA OF THE TONAWANDASTHE SALVATION ARMY BUFFALO: $4,692 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY BUFFALONORTH TONAWANDA INTERCHURCH FOOD PANTRY: $2,668 · OtherNORTH TONAWANDA INTERCHURCH FOOD PANTRYNIAGARA COUNTY CHAPTER NYSARC INC OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED OF NIAGARA: $672 · OtherNOR-TON RED JACKET CLUBINC: $500 · OtherThe Boys & Girls Club Of The Northtowns Inc: $3,736 · Youth DevelopmentThe Boys & Girls Club O…GIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $750 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN …HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NIAGARA COUNTY INC: $1,381 · Human ServicesHEALTH ASSOC…PINNACLE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesPINNACLE COM…NORTHPOINTE COUNCIL INC: $445 · Health
Other$14,532Youth Development$4,486Human Services$2,381Health$445

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Boys & Girls Club Of The Northtowns Inc: $3,736 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NIAGARA COUNTY INC: $1,381 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPINNACLE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNIAGARA COUNTY CHAPTER NYSARC INC OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED OF NIAGARA: $672 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOR-TON RED JACKET CLUBINC: $500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHPOINTE COUNCIL INC: $445 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 Greater Niagara IncNY20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to United Way of the Tonawandas Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 10 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2019) is on record but names no grant recipient (grants abroad are filed by region only, and grants under $5,000 are not itemized), so the figures above are from FY2017, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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