New York · Nonprofit
CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION
CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION (New York) receives grants from 125 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,152,521 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($8,252,147). 76 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $63M
- Funders on record
- 125
- Grants received
- $28M
- Net assets
- $298M
What Chautauqua Institution does
Mission
Chautauqua Institution is dedicated to the exploration in human values and the enrichment of life through a program that explores the important religious, social, and political issues of our times.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
With a foucus on lifelong learning, Chautauqua Institution brings to its constituents and to the surrounding communities the perspectives and innovations of thought and interfaith leaders, context experts, and renowned performers and prodigies in the context of four pillars of foucus: education, religion, recreation and the arts. Our learning environment is characterized by intergenerational, civil dialogue and participation. A broad range of programs are curated to appeal to an increasingly diverse audience. In excess of 4,000 students across generations participate in special studies classes each year and more than 100,000 visitors attend our programs and services annually. Community outreach to the schools in surrounding counties brings the gifts and intellects of our leaders and performing arts organizations to area schools. Hundreds of area school children are served annually through school based programs as well as field trips to Chautauqua Institution. Our online streaming channel, chq assembly, brings much of chautauqua's programming to a nation-wide audience, enhancing the accessibility of chautauqua's mission.
$19,041,807 spentof which $1,007,415 as grants$8,251,236 earned by the program54% of program spendingSupport services, box office and parking municipal services which include facility maintenance and food service for students. These services are necessary for all program function. (100,000+ are served)
$16,268,697 spent$19,898,618 earned by the program46% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $35,310,504.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $118M to $272M (+130%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 22% · 2022 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Deborah E Moore
Executive director - foundation
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 64 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $4.0M.
47 of 125 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $49M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Chautauqua Foundation Inc); $2k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest Bechtolt Private Family Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION raised.
From the IRS filings of CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 125 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
58% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 25% · 2019 25% · 2020 18% · 2021 45% · 2022 29% · 2023 25% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
51% of CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
53% of CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $13M that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 22 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15M arriving through sponsors registered in 20 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$30k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Chautauqua Foundation Inc · exempt
- Chautauqua Hotel Company Inc · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION?
- CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION (New York) receives grants from 125 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,152,521 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($8,252,147). 76 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION have?
- IRS filings report 125 organizations giving $28,152,521 in grants to CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION, 76 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $8,252,147 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 125 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing