Carnahan-Jackson Foundation
The Carnahan-Jackson Foundation is a trust that was created and operates for religious, charitable, scientific, testing for public safety, literary, or educational purposes, or for the prevention of cruelty to children or animals. Its geographic funding focus is Western NY.
Chautauqua Region Community Foundation
The Chautauqua Region Community Foundation annually awards over $1.5 million through competitive grant-making opportunities across a broad range of organizations and projects located in or serving Southern Chautauqua County.
Gebbie Foundation
The Gebbie Foundation is a private foundation with a strategic focus on revitalizing downtown Jamestown through economic development initiatives.
Holmberg Foundation
The Holmberg Foundation is a private foundation. Its purpose is to support religious, charitable, or educational needs.
Hultquist Foundation
The Hultquist Foundation is a private foundation that has an emphasis on religious, charitable and educational organizations in Chautauqua County.
Jessie Smith Darrah Fund
The Jessie Smith Darrah Fund is a charitable trust that assists, supports, promotes, and advances charitable, philanthropic, religious, educational, patriotic, health, and social purposes.
Northern Chautauqua Community Foundation
The Northern Chautauqua Community Foundation provides grants to a wide variety of charitable organizations. We are structured to support the most pressing needs in the community today and, as these needs change, so will our funding focus.
The Lenna Foundation
The Lenna Foundation is a private foundation that makes grants to charitable organizations, educational institutions, and foundations benefiting Southwestern New York.
Ralph C. Sheldon Foundation
The Sheldon Foundation is a private foundation that devotes financial assistance to advance the physical, educational and cultural well-being of the people of the southerly portion of Chautauqua County, New York.
United Way Chautauqua County
In 2024, the United Way of Northern Chautauqua County and the United Way of Southern Chautauqua County merged. United Way’s annual fundraising campaign provides the resources to make grants in the areas of Youth Opportunity, Health Equity, Community Resilience and Self-Sufficiency. Funds are granted on a two-year cycle.
Winifred Crawford Dibert Foundation Fund
The Dibert Foundation Fund supports charitable organizations in Chautauqua County, with a focus on supporting organizations providing services historically supported by Mrs. Dibert.