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United Way of Cayuga County Inc

Program funding to local impact partners as part of the organizations multi-year community plan focused on achieving outcomes in the four specific areas determined to be essential in improving people's lives and strengthening our community. The impact areas are based on the united way's goals for the common good - income, education, and…

$545k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2025
19
Organizations funded FY2024
5%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$17,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$103,500
Organizations funded a year
18 to 21
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$3.3M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 5% of the organizations United Way of Cayuga County Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’23’24
Arts & CultureCivil RightsHealthPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving22$535k9%
FY202419$503k5%
FY202320$471k10%
FY202118$402k6%
FY202018$411k6%
FY201921$545k24%
FY201821$587k19%
FY201720$674kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$1.1MYouth Development$906kHealth$457kPublic Safety & Disaster$262kEducation$245kHousing & Shelter$201kRecreation & Sports$133kArts & Culture$102kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Young Men's Christian Association & Womens Educational & Industrial Union$525,28082%
Transportation Project for Cayuga County Inc$294,470820%
United Cerebral Palsy Assoc Cayuga Co$180,50081%
Longhouse Council Bsa Cayuga County$163,8488n/a
Literacy Volunteers of Cayuga Co Inc$155,500827%
The Salvation Army$153,7508n/a
Aurora of Central New York Inc$137,37481%
Cayuga Counseling Services Inc$116,74812%
Chapel House Inc$108,75082%
Mozaic Chapter Nysarc Inc$107,00050%
Show all 24 grantees
All grantees of United Way of Cayuga County Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Young Men's Christian Association & Womens Educational & Industrial Union$525,28082%
Transportation Project for Cayuga County Inc$294,470820%
United Cerebral Palsy Assoc Cayuga Co$180,50081%
Longhouse Council Bsa Cayuga County$163,8488n/a
Literacy Volunteers of Cayuga Co Inc$155,500827%
The Salvation Army$153,7508n/a
Aurora of Central New York Inc$137,37481%
Cayuga Counseling Services Inc$116,74812%
Chapel House Inc$108,75082%
Mozaic Chapter Nysarc Inc$107,00050%
Booker T Washington Community Center of Auburn Ny Inc$100,00027%
Perform 4 Purpose Inc$67,500619%
Arise Child & Family Service Inc$65,50040%
Comfortcare of Cayuga County Inc$64,45723%
Girl Scouts of Nypenn Pathways Inc$58,04820%
The Rescue Mission Alliance of Syracuse$51,25060%
American Red Cross$40,5002n/a
Catholic Charities of the Finger Lakes$35,0242n/a
Auburn Public Theater Inc$27,00041%
Freedom Recreational Services for Youth With Disabilities Inc$17,000123%
Auburn Senior Services Inc$15,80010%
Abc Cayuga Inc$10,17622%
Merry-Go-Round Playhouse Inc$7,50010%
Human Services Coalition of Cayuga County Inc$5,5001n/a

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

United Way of Cayuga County Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYoung Men's Christian Association & Womens Educational & Industrial Union: $525,280 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetTransportation Project for Cayuga County Inc: $294,470 over 8y, 20% of budgetUnited Cerebral Palsy Assoc Cayuga Co: $180,500 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetLiteracy Volunteers of Cayuga Co Inc: $155,500 over 8y, 27% of budgetAurora of Central New York Inc: $137,374 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetCayuga Counseling Services Inc: $116,748 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetChapel House Inc: $108,750 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetMozaic Chapter Nysarc Inc: $107,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBooker T Washington Community Center of Auburn Ny Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetPerform 4 Purpose Inc: $67,500 over 6y, 19% of budgetArise Child & Family Service Inc: $65,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetComfortcare of Cayuga County Inc: $64,457 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetGirl Scouts of Nypenn Pathways Inc: $58,048 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Rescue Mission Alliance of Syracuse: $51,250 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAuburn Public Theater Inc: $27,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetFreedom Recreational Services for Youth With Disabilities Inc: $17,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetAuburn Senior Services Inc: $15,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAbc Cayuga Inc: $10,176 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMerry-Go-Round Playhouse Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Central New York Community Foundation IncNY29.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central New York Community Foundation Inc · Fred L Emerson Foundation Inc · Jim and Juli Boeheim Foundation Inc · De French Foundation Inc · The Stanley W Metcalf Foundation Inc · Allyn Family Foundation Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Columbian Foundation Inc · The John Ben Snow Foundation Inc · Collier Community Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About United Way of Cayuga County Inc

How much does United Way of Cayuga County Inc give?
United Way of Cayuga County Inc reported 22 grants totaling $545,443 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does United Way of Cayuga County Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (26%), Youth Development (22%), Health (11%).
Who are United Way of Cayuga County Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Young Men's Christian Association & Womens Educational & Industrial Union ($525k), Transportation Project for Cayuga County Inc ($294k), United Cerebral Palsy Assoc Cayuga Co ($181k).
Does United Way of Cayuga County Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Cayuga County Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Central New York Community Foundation Inc, Fred L Emerson Foundation Inc, Jim and Juli Boeheim Foundation Inc.
Where is United Way of Cayuga County Inc based?
United Way of Cayuga County Inc is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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