New York · Nonprofit
CHAUTAUQUA OPPORTUNITIES INC
CHAUTAUQUA OPPORTUNITIES INC (New York) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $706,138 to it, the largest being CHAUTAUQUA REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($329,155). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $706k
- Net assets
- $9.3M
What Chautauqua Opportunities Inc does
Mission
Chautauqua opportunities, inc.'s mission is to lead the fight against poverty by mobilizing resources and creating partnerships to promote empowerment, economic independence and opportunities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Early care and education - provide education to families and their children through programs such as head start and universal pre-k.
$7,158,903 spent$1,154,283 earned by the program47% of program spendingHousing and community development - provide services and opportunities to low income persons, as well as provided assistance in the administration of other services. Specific programs include section 8 housing choice voucher and weatherization assistance.
$3,639,958 spent$436,348 earned by the program24% of program spendingHealth & family services - provides adult and senior home health services, and residential, educational, and asset development services to children and their families through such programs as fatherhood initiative, youth safehouses, after-school programs, and respite.
$2,395,136 spent$21,808 earned by the program16% of program spendingChild care council - provides resources, referrals, training, and other supports for childcare providers: expenses, 2,153,323; program service revenues, 232,992. Central services - charges and fees to organization's funded programs for provided administrative and other services, 1,041,169. Expenses of 2,715,474 as reported on form 990, part ix, column (c).
$2,153,324 spent$1,274,161 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,347,321.
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 2022 to 2023, from $8.1M to $14M (+76%).
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 80% · 2018 80% · 2019 79% · 2020 76% · 2021 78% · 2022 82% · 2023 83% · 2024 84% · 2025 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of CHAUTAUQUA OPPORTUNITIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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
Diane Hewitt-Johnson
CEO
Board chair
Kevin O'Connell
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $4k → $118k.
4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 OPPORTUNITIES 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 OPPORTUNITIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 OPPORTUNITIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 85% · 2022 51% · 2023 90% — growing more concentrated.
“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
50% of CHAUTAUQUA OPPORTUNITIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
54% of CHAUTAUQUA OPPORTUNITIES 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 $326k that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $380k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 OPPORTUNITIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 328 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 328 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CHAUTAUQUA OPPORTUNITIES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $83.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$80.9M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.8M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$1.2M
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 OPPORTUNITIES INC
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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
- Chaut Opportunities for Developmen · exempt
- Fredonia Commons Affordable Housing · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA OPPORTUNITIES INC?
- CHAUTAUQUA OPPORTUNITIES INC (New York) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $706,138 to it, the largest being CHAUTAUQUA REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($329,155). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHAUTAUQUA OPPORTUNITIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $706,138 in grants to CHAUTAUQUA OPPORTUNITIES INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHAUTAUQUA OPPORTUNITIES INC?
- CHAUTAUQUA REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $329,155 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHAUTAUQUA OPPORTUNITIES 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 16 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing