· Public charity
United Way of Northern New Yorkinc
To unite communities, resources, and partners to collaboratively address local needs, foster impactful programming, and enhance quality of life.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $175,700 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $286,718 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $111,018 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $152k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WATERTOWN URBAN MISSION | $25,000 |
| VOLUNTEER TRANSPORTATION CENTER INC | $25,000 |
| WATERTOWN FAMILY YMCA INC | $25,000 |
| LITERACY OF NORTHERN NEW YORK | $20,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF WATERTOWN | $15,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF MASSENA | $11,000 |
| POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE OF MASSENA | $11,000 |
| ACR HEALTH | $10,000 |
| LEWIS COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES | $10,000 |
| ST LAWRENCE COUNTY CDP | $9,000 |
| ST LAWRENCE VALLEY RENEWAL HOUSE | $7,700 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF NORTH | $7,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $934k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
28 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TYTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WATERTOWN NY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $293k · revenue +46%
- VTVOLUNTEER TRANSPORTATION CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $267k · revenue +62%
- TWTHRIVE WELLNESS AND RECOVERY INC7× · 2017–2023 · $181k · revenue +187%
Funded once
- HIHAND IN HAND EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue +135%
- MIMOHAWK INDIAN HOUSING CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +31%
- HWHEALTH WORKFORCE NEW YORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +43%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Unity house's mission is to empower and enrich the lives of people in recovery, coping with a mental illness, and/or diagnosed with a developmental disability. this is accomplished by offering supports and services in an inclusive,…
The organization provides behavioral health / social support services to residents in clinton, franklin, essex, warren and washington counties in new york state.
Lamoille county mental health services is a nonprofit organization providing quality developmental and behavioral health to the lamoille valley area, enhancing independence and quality of life.
Accesscny offers personcentered services that empower individuals of all ages and abilities to reach their full potential as part of our shared community. services are provided with dedication, compassion, innovation, and commitment. the…
Tlc health network's mission is to provide a diverse range of quality healthcare services throughout western new york while adhering to the values upon which we were founded:integrity - compassion - accountability - respect - excellence
Discovery behavioral healthcare is a community based health treatment center dedicated to providing state of the art services to foster recovery and resilience in an accessible, respective and caring environment.
The mental health association in chautauqua county commits to radical acceptance, empowerment, and advocacy for our community members who struggle with mental health and substance use.
The agency's mission is to provide a program of services for frail or impaired older adults in a secure group setting, enhancing quality of life, delaying institutionalization and providing respite for caregivers.
Jewish home of central new york senior apartment's mission is to assure maximum independence and dignity offering a broad range of the highest quality of health, residential and community services. jewish home of central new york senior…
To help program participants effect those changes in attitude and behavior that will enable them to make choices associated with a healthy, positive lifestyle free of crime and substance abuse.
To be the leading provider of behavioral and physical healthcare through compassionate and quality services in our community.
To improve the quality of life for all residents of its primary service areas by focusing on meeting the needs of the low-income and disadvantaged population, and to promote the personal and family growth of its constituents as they move…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Ogdensburg and the most unlike its peers is Wilna Champion Transportation Assoc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 27. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 12% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
32 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. 32 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds WATERTOWN URBAN MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WATERTOWN NY INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER TRANSPORTATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THRIVE WELLNESS AND RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY OF NORTHERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds AIDS COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC D/B/A ACR HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE RESOLUTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE VALLEY RENEWAL HOUSE FOR VICTIMS OF FAMILY VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME OF JEFFERSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF OGDENSBURG ↗
- Who funds LEWIS COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE OF MASSENA INC ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds NEW DAY CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF NORTHERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds HOLISTIC LIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTRY FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN VIEW PREVENTION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NYPENN PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC THOUSAND ISLANDS AREA ↗
- Who funds WILNA CHAMPION TRANSPORTATION ASSOC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND & VISUALLY IMPAIRED OF JEFFERSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOC IN JEFFERSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED HELPERS CANTON NURSING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds HAND IN HAND EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MOHAWK INDIAN HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HEALTH WORKFORCE NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds ALCOHOL & SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNCIL OF JEFFERSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds VICTIMS ASSISTANCE CENTER OF JEFFERSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTRY LIBRARY SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN MEDICAL CENTER ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Northern New York Community Foundation Inc · Jane E Deline Foundation · The Delaney Bay Fund Inc · Kinney Drugs Foundation Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Capital District Physicians' Health Plan Inc · 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 Northern New Yorkinc 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.
- Holistic Life Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.