New York · Nonprofit
FUND FOR THE ARTS OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC
FUND FOR THE ARTS OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $166,500 to it, the largest being HULTQUIST FOUNDATION INC ($105,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FUND FOR THE ARTS OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC has grown faster than half of the 9,650 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,650 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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.
- Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- United Way of Southern Chautauqua County Incshared funderslocal
- The Lake Placid Association for Music Drama and Art Incportfolio 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.
100% of FUND FOR THE ARTS OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $6k → $32k.
From the IRS filings of FUND FOR THE ARTS OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY 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
FUND FOR THE ARTS OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 83% · 2019 91% · 2020 91% · 2021 83% · 2022 52% · 2023 50% — 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
100% of FUND FOR THE ARTS OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 3 funders put you under-funded among the 56 organizations that share them.
- Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchNY · backs 37 organizations that share your funders · funds 82 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Southern Chautauqua County Incshared funderslocalNY · backs 12 organizations that share your funders · funds 32 organizations near you
- The Lake Placid Association for Music Drama and Art Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- CNY Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Artswestchester Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Liebergesell Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brooklyn Arts Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Flushing Council on Culture and the Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Huntington Arts Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South Shore Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Reginald a & Elizabeth S Lenna Fdn Inc Dba Lenna Foundationshared funderslocalNY · backs 35 organizations that share your funders · funds 63 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 FUND FOR THE ARTS OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY 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.
Public support
56%
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 FUND FOR THE ARTS OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY 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.
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 FUND FOR THE ARTS OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC?
- FUND FOR THE ARTS OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $166,500 to it, the largest being HULTQUIST FOUNDATION INC ($105,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FUND FOR THE ARTS OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $166,500 in grants to FUND FOR THE ARTS OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FUND FOR THE ARTS OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC?
- HULTQUIST FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $105,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FUND FOR THE ARTS OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3funders 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