· Public charity
United Way of the Southern Tier Inc
To unite and prioritize resources to improve the quality of life for every person and family in our community.
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 68 grants below total $2,818,258 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,007,695 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $189,437 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 $10k22 grants · $168k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $611k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+2 grants · $793k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRO ACTION OF STEUBEN AND YATES INC | $535,025 |
| FAMILY SERVICE SOCIETY INC | $257,757 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF STEUBEN COUNTY | $163,867 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY (OF STEUBEN COUNTY) | $157,583 |
| CIDS | $150,815 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CHEMUNG COUNTY | $101,510 |
| FAMILY SERVICES OF CHEMUNG COUNTY INC | $88,266 |
| FAITH IN ACTION STEUBEN COUNTY | $84,108 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE CAPE FEAR AREA | $82,687 |
| HOME & HEALTH CARE SERVICES INC | $82,175 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE | $80,775 |
| ARBOR HOUSING AND DEVELOPMENT | $69,607 |
| INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES | $68,640 |
| SALVATION ARMY - ELMIRA | $64,773 |
| CATAWBA COUNTY UNITED WAY | $51,464 |
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, $12.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
64 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 15 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $328k 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
- PAPRO ACTION OF STEUBEN AND YATES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $5.2M · revenue +73%
- FSFamily Service Society Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +20%
- CICOMPREHENSIVE INTERDISCIPLINARY DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +21%
Funded once
- CACOMMUNITY ARTS OF ELMIRA INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $22k · revenue +363%
- CICOMET INFORMATION LLCone grant, 2022 · $20k
- BSBOY SCOUTS FIVE RIVERS COUNICL INCone grant, 2019 · $19k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Rochester and the most unlike its peers is United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc. 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 48 years old; the field is 31. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
70 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. 70 of the 90 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 PRO ACTION OF STEUBEN AND YATES INC ↗
- Who funds Family Service Society Inc ↗
- Who funds COMPREHENSIVE INTERDISCIPLINARY DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ARBOR HOUSING AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES OF CHEMUNG COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HOME & HEALTH CARE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM INC OF CHE ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA FIVE RIVERS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Corning Meals on Wheels Inc ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF CHEMUNG COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NYPENN PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds CHEMUNG COUNTY CHILD CARE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ADDISON YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds LEGAL ASSISTANCE OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds NONNIE HOOD PARENT RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ELMIRA AND THE TWIN TIERS INC ↗
- Who funds CASA of the Southern Tier Inc ↗
- Who funds HORNELL CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds HORNELL AREA CONCERN FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds THE TRI COUNTY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE SOUTHERN FINGER LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds Corning Comfort Care Inc Bampas House ↗
- Who funds CORNING DAY PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELMIRA-CORNING AND THE FINGER LAKES INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes Inc · Corning Incorporated Foundation · The Triangle Fund · Finger Lakes Performing Provider System Inc · The Hilliard Foundation Inc · Tioga Downs Regional Community Foundation Inc · Douglas G Anderson Leigh R Evans Foundation · The Anderson Foundation Inc · United Way of Tompkins County Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · The Bethesda Foundation Inc · Meadows Charitable Trust
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 the Southern Tier Inc 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.
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% 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.