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United Way of New York State

To strengthen the capacity of local united ways through their charitable human service activities to be leaders in achieving results that improve the lives of all new yorkers.

$29k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$29k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
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01What you fund
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What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Philanthropy$546kHuman Services$130k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$29,064
Median grant
1
States reached
$527k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY$29,064
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–21, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%UNITED WAY WESTCHESTER PUTNAM: $23k → 9%UNITED WAY GREATER CAPITAL REGION: $22k → 14%UNITED WAY WESTCHESTER PUTNAM: $15k → 9%UNITED WAY GREATER CAPITAL REGION: $8k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$532k · 11 repeat orgs$67k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of -3% since the first grant, against -27% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
7

Total granted

$532k
$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-3%
-27%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $129k · revenue +42%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER AND PUTNAM
    2× · 2020–2021 · $38k · revenue +99%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF BROOME COUNTY INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $23k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC
    one grant, 2021 · $19k · revenue +2%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF TOMPKINS COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $18k · revenue -27%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW YORKINC
    one grant, 2021 · $9k · revenue +23%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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United Way of New York State

To strengthen the capacity of local united ways through their charitable human service activities to be leaders in achieving results that improve the lives of all new yorkers.

Philanthropy
2
United Way of Northern Chautauqua C

The united way of northern chautauqua co inc envisions a community that works together, striving to improve the lives of others, while promoting ideals that facilitate lasting positive changes. empowering our local communities through…

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3
United Way Manitowoc County Inc

United way's mission is to improve lives.

Philanthropy
4
United Way of Greater Rochester Inc

United way of greater rochester's mission is to unite the good will and resources of the greater rochester community so that everyone can thrive. united way supports a broad network of human service organizations, community initiatives and…

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5
United Way of Windham County Inc

United way of windham county (uwcc) advances the common good by creating opportunities for a better way of life for all, focusing on education, income and health - the building blocks of a better quality of life.

Philanthropy
6
United Way of Seneca County Inc

The mission of the organization is to mobilize the caring power of the community to advance the common good by measurably improving lives.

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7
United Way of Tuscarawas County Inc

The mission of the united way of tuscarawascounty inc is to invest in local programs and services thateffectively improve the lives of tuscarawas county residents.

Philanthropy
8
United Way of North Central Ohio Inc

At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.

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9
United Way of Monongalia and Preston Counites Inc

The uwmpc enhances the quality of life in our community by helping those in need. we serve as a leader in building a stronger and healthier community by developing resources and creating partnerships to empower individuals to improve their…

Philanthropy
10
United Way of Whiteside County

Providing dynamic leadership in uniting people and resources to create lasting change that improves lives and strengthens our communities.

Philanthropy
11
United Way of Cumberland County Inc

Organization is dedicated to raising funds for programs that meet the human care needs of the people of cumberland county.

Philanthropy
12
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central New York Inc and the most unlike its peers is United Way of Long Island. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
7/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY — $129,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITYUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC — $81,071 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INCUNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC — $77,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INCUNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY — $54,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTYUNITED WAY OF ROCKLAND — $42,700 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF ROCKLANDUNITED WAY OF THE DUTCHESS-ORANGE REGION INC — $31,200 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE DUTCHESS-ORANGE REGION INCUNITED WAY OF THE ADIRONDACK REGION INC — $23,300 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF BROOME COUNTY INC — $22,700 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC — $21,100 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC — $19,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF TOMPKINS COUNTY INC — $18,400 · Philanthropy+3 more — $17,800 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF LONG ISLAND — $59,500 · OtherUNITED WAY …UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW YORKINC — $9,000 · OtherUNITED WAY …ALLEGANY COUNTY UNITED WAY INC — $3,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER AND PUTNAM — $37,500 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY …UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION — $30,000 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY …
Philanthropy$537,271Other$71,500Human Services$67,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY — $129,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC — $81,071 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC — $77,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LONG ISLAND — $59,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY — $54,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ROCKLAND — $42,700 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER AND PUTNAM — $37,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE DUTCHESS-ORANGE REGION INC — $31,200 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE ADIRONDACK REGION INC — $23,300 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BROOME COUNTY INC — $22,700 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC — $21,100 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC — $19,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF TOMPKINS COUNTY INC — $18,400 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW YORKINC — $9,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY FOR CORTLAND COUNTY INC — $6,700 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MOHAWK VALLEY INC — $6,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MID RURAL NEW YORK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetALLEGANY COUNTY UNITED WAY INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

United Way of the Gre…United Way WorldwideUnited Way of Tompkin…Charities Aid Foundat…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
United Way of the Greater Capital RegionNY15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of the Greater Capital Region · United Way Worldwide · United Way of Tompkins County Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization United Way of New York State funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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