New York · Nonprofit
CHAUTAUQUA LAKE AND WATERSHED MANAGEMENT ALLIANCE INC
CHAUTAUQUA LAKE AND WATERSHED MANAGEMENT ALLIANCE INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,262,030 to it, the largest being CHAUTAUQUA REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($857,030). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
CHAUTAUQUA LAKE AND WATERSHED MANAGEMENT ALLIANCE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,184 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,184 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Southern Chautauqua County Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Reginald a & Elizabeth S Lenna Fdn Inc Dba Lenna Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 60% · 2018 25% · 2019 36% · 2020 29% · 2021 22% · 2022 26% · 2023 28% · 2024 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of CHAUTAUQUA LAKE AND WATERSHED MANAGEMENT ALLIANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $113k → $290k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CHAUTAUQUA LAKE AND WATERSHED MANAGEMENT ALLIANCE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 LAKE AND WATERSHED MANAGEMENT ALLIANCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
69% 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 LAKE AND WATERSHED MANAGEMENT ALLIANCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 82% · 2022 66% · 2023 52% — diversifying over time.
“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.
Where its funders are
69% of CHAUTAUQUA LAKE AND WATERSHED MANAGEMENT ALLIANCE INC'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 $390k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $872k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Southern Chautauqua County Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchNY · backs 24 organizations that share your funders · funds 32 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchNY · backs 57 organizations that share your funders · funds 82 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Reginald a & Elizabeth S Lenna Fdn Inc Dba Lenna Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchNY · backs 43 organizations that share your funders · funds 63 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Northern Chautauqua Clocalportfolio matchNY · funds 22 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Ttee Uw Jessie Smith Darrah-Charitalocalportfolio matchDE · funds 24 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Gebbie Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchNY · funds 13 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Water Environment Federationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Emil Muller Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Patricia E and Joseph W Phelan Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Northern Chautauqua Community FoundlocalNY · funds 61 organizations near you
- Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library SystemlocalNY · funds 23 organizations near you
- Carnahan-Jackson Foundationshared funderslocalPA · backs 30 organizations that share your funders · funds 39 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like CHAUTAUQUA LAKE AND WATERSHED MANAGEMENT ALLIANCE INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
50%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHAUTAUQUA LAKE AND WATERSHED MANAGEMENT ALLIANCE INC: 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 LAKE AND WATERSHED MANAGEMENT ALLIANCE INC?
- CHAUTAUQUA LAKE AND WATERSHED MANAGEMENT ALLIANCE INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,262,030 to it, the largest being CHAUTAUQUA REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($857,030). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHAUTAUQUA LAKE AND WATERSHED MANAGEMENT ALLIANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,262,030 in grants to CHAUTAUQUA LAKE AND WATERSHED MANAGEMENT ALLIANCE INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHAUTAUQUA LAKE AND WATERSHED MANAGEMENT ALLIANCE INC?
- CHAUTAUQUA REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $857,030 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHAUTAUQUA LAKE AND WATERSHED MANAGEMENT ALLIANCE INC 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.
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 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing