· Public charity
Western New York Library Resources Council
WESTERN NEW YORK LIBRARY RESOURCES COUNCIL is a member-driven organization that helps libraries build connections with each other, library users and the larger community.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NIAGARA FALLS PUBLIC LIBRARY | $9,000 |
| NIAGARA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $8,948 |
| CHAUTAUQUA-CATTARAUGUS LIBRARY SYS | $8,948 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 4 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NLNIOGA LIBRARY SYSTEM6× · 2019–2025 · $67k · revenue +39%
BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER2× · 2020–2023 · $18k · revenue +51%- BBBUFFALO BROADCAST PIONEERS INC AKA BUFFALO BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATIA2× · 2020–2021 · $15k · revenue +116% · 33% of their budget
Funded once
- BABUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY COone grant, 2018 · $8k
- BPBUFFALO PUBLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2018 · $8k
- LDLily Dale Assemblyone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +7%
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.
6 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. 6 of the 11 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Western New York Library Resources Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Western New York Library Resources Council. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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