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NIAGARA-ORLEANS REGIONAL LAND IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION

NIAGARA-ORLEANS REGIONAL LAND IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $459,043 to it, the largest being ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ($459,043). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.2M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$459k
Net assets
$991k
1/1 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Niagara-Orleans Regional Land Improvement Corporation does

Mission

The corporation was created by five governmental units: the county of niagara, the county of orleans, the city of lockport, the city of niagara falls and the city of north tonawanda. The board of the corporation is appointed by the five creating governmental units. The governments will make foreclosed properties available to the corporation with renumeration being made in the future as the properties are sold, based on a profit sharing formula.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Program expenses related to acquisition, stabilization and sale of vacant & abandoned properties for redevelopment.

    $594,624 spent$50,000 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $594,624.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($237k) Expenses 100 ($99k) Net assets 100 ($157k)2020 Revenue 154 ($366k) Expenses 170 ($168k) Net assets 226 ($355k)2021 Revenue 60 ($143k) Expenses 331 ($328k) Net assets 94 ($148k)2022 Revenue 435 ($1.0M) Expenses 159 ($158k) Net assets 649 ($1.0M)2023 Revenue 101 ($240k) Expenses 222 ($220k) Net assets 661 ($1.0M)2024 Revenue 179 ($426k) Expenses 256 ($253k) Net assets 295 ($464k)2025 Revenue 490 ($1.2M) Expenses 641 ($635k) Net assets 629 ($991k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (490)Expenses (641)Net assets (629)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $148k to $1.0M (+592%).

$157k
$365k
$148k
$1.0M
$1.0M
$464k
$1.0M
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 87% · 2023 62% · 2024 98% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

96% of NIAGARA-ORLEANS REGIONAL LAND IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,434 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$138k
’19
$198k
’20
−$185k
’21
$874k
’22
$20k
’23
$172k
’24
$527k
’25
2.0
months of
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.

Board chair

Richard Updegrove

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed1010101010109
Joined·+0+0+2+0+2+4
No longer listed·002025
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $60k → $399k.

Funder
'19
'20
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of NIAGARA-ORLEANS REGIONAL LAND IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION’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.

Where its funders are

NIAGARA-ORLEANS REGIONAL LAND IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 1 state in all.

MD

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

’19
’20
New York out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

NIAGARA-ORLEANS REGIONAL LAND IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin45% · top quartile
Months of reserve2.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)30% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like NIAGARA-ORLEANS REGIONAL LAND IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION

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In New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds NIAGARA-ORLEANS REGIONAL LAND IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION?
NIAGARA-ORLEANS REGIONAL LAND IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $459,043 to it, the largest being ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ($459,043). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NIAGARA-ORLEANS REGIONAL LAND IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $459,043 in grants to NIAGARA-ORLEANS REGIONAL LAND IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NIAGARA-ORLEANS REGIONAL LAND IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION?
ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $459,043 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NIAGARA-ORLEANS REGIONAL LAND IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 1 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