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CHAUTAUQUA RAILS TO TRAILS INC

CHAUTAUQUA RAILS TO TRAILS INC (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $166,920 to it, the largest being CHAUTAUQUA REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($62,945). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$19k
Revenue FY2018
6
Funders on record
$167k
Grants received
$189k
Net assets
4/6 repeat funders

Against its field

CHAUTAUQUA RAILS TO TRAILS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,898 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin46% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,898 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2018

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $22k.

Funder
'17
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
5
4
3
3
1
1

3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 RAILS TO TRAILS 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 RAILS TO TRAILS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

60% 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 RAILS TO TRAILS INC.

38%
largest funder
94%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 73% · 2021 50% · 2022 95% · 2023 95% — 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

60% of CHAUTAUQUA RAILS TO TRAILS 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 $67k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from New York funders.

NY
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
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’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k 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.

03Its place in the field

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 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 RAILS TO TRAILS 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

Allegany Trails Inc78%Erie Cattaraugus Rail Trail Inc78%Champlain Area Trails Inc75%Harlem Valley Rail Trail Associatio72%Chautauqua County Equestrian Trail System72%Catskill Revitalization Corporation72%Schoharie County Trail Association Inc71%Adirondack Hamlets to Huts Inc70%

Nationally

Allegany Trails Inc78%Erie Cattaraugus Rail Trail Inc78%Rails to Trails of Wayne County75%Cumberland Valley Rails to Trails Council Inc75%Champlain Area Trails Inc75%Roanoke River Rails-To-Trails Inc73%Catonsville Rails to Trail Inc73%Northern Central Rail to Trail72%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHAUTAUQUA RAILS TO TRAILS 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds CHAUTAUQUA RAILS TO TRAILS INC?
CHAUTAUQUA RAILS TO TRAILS INC (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $166,920 to it, the largest being CHAUTAUQUA REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($62,945). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CHAUTAUQUA RAILS TO TRAILS INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $166,920 in grants to CHAUTAUQUA RAILS TO TRAILS INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHAUTAUQUA RAILS TO TRAILS INC?
CHAUTAUQUA REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $62,945 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHAUTAUQUA RAILS TO TRAILS 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 FY2018 (financials across 2018–2018), and the filings of 6funders 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