How much did UNITED WAY OF TOMPKINS COUNTY INC grant in FY2025?

Human Services$1.4MHealth$1.1MPhilanthropy$731kYouth Development$422kCommunity Improvement$321kEmployment$264kEducation$234kCrime & Legal$141kFood & Nutrition$135kOther$2.8M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

peerbarriershealth issuescitizensinclusiverefugeesempower

2020

peerbarriershealth issuesinclusiverefugeesempowerliving

2021

playreducedhousingequitystudentsactivitiesmotivated

2022

advancestudentshousingequityrefugeesjailcoaching

2023

researchpriearthfoundededucation pri'snatural historynature

2025

food all'stownvictimssustainablestudentsequityhousing low

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k20 grants · $135k
$10k–50k21 grants · $449k
$50k–250k1 grant · $51k

$10,227

Median grant

States reached

$1.3M

Total assets

Largest grants

GREATER ITHACA ACTIVITIES CENTER$50,779
FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES$42,790
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF TOMPKINSTIOGA$39,613
ITHACA HEALTH ALLIANCE$37,850
FOODNET MEALS ON WHEELS$34,290
YMCA OF ITHACA AND TOMPKINS COUNTY$31,030
CHILD DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL$26,220
HUMAN SERVICES COALITION$25,400
LEARNING WEB INC$25,050
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK$20,568
HEALTHY FOOD FOR ALL$20,302
UNITED WAY OF CORTLAND COUNTY$19,665
ADVOCACY CENTER OF TOMPKINS COUNTY$15,737
ITHACA COMMUNITY CHILDCARE CENTER INC$15,470
UNITED WAY OF BUFFALO & ERIE CO$14,655

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$7.3M · 68 repeat orgs$217k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

68 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$7.3M

$171k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

+3%

Still filing today

78%

73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentEducationOther

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

GI
GREATER ITHACA ACTIVITIES CENTER
7× · 2018–2025 · $584k · revenue +145%
CD
CHILD DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL
7× · 2018–2025 · $389k · revenue +63%
NF
NUTRITION FOR THE ELDERLY FOODNET MEALS ON WHEELS
7× · 2018–2025 · $315k · revenue +32%

Funded once

TC
TOMPKINS COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY RESPONSE
one grant, 2022 · $60k
UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE
one grant, 2022 · $14k · revenue -59%
UW
UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW YORK
one grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue -25%

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.

Tompkins Community Action Inc

Tompkins community action, inc. (tcaction) is located in upstate new york's finger lakes region. tcaction has served the community for over 55 years, implementing programs that support families in their goals to become self-sufficient.

Education

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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Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster sustainable economic growth through service to our members, strategic advocacy, workforce development, destination marketing, and quality of life investments. Our vision is an inclusive…

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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

United Way of Ulster County Inc

To build a stronger, healthier community by raising reources, developing partnerships, and distributing funds to make a measurable difference in peoples lives.

Philanthropy

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

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 addresses critial challenges by connecting people in need with evidence-based…

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United Way of Albany County

To help the people of albany county achieve satisfactory fulfillment and to increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another.

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United Way of Clinton County Iowa

To provide leadership in our communities to 1) identify our most pressing human care needs, 2) to work together to direct the time, energy and resources towards addressing those needs to improve our quality of life.

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United Way of Central Virginia Inc

To mobilize the compassionate power of our community to improve the quality of lives in central virginia.

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Ulster County Community Action

Serving the most in need in ulster county. our program services are designed to respond to changing community needs, to strengthen families, to foster opportunities for education and training, to increase employability, to initiate…

Human Services

United Way of Florence County

To unite our community to improve peoples' lives and build a vital, caring community.

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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 Paleontological Research Institution. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 49 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%1/82

the rest of the field

319/4,991

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.

05the grantee network

74 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

68/74

Grantees still filing

50/74

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,299,953Human Services$1,383,140Health$1,134,388Philanthropy$731,005Youth Development$422,039Community Improvement$321,370Employment$264,117

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.

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.

Community Foundation of TompkinsNY108.2× affinity49 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Tompkins · Legacy Foundation of Tompkins County · Park Foundation Inc · Tompkins Charitable Gift Fund Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Foundation for Jewish · City Federation of Women's · Social Service League of Ithaca Inc · United Way of New York State · Brooks Family Foundation · United Way of the Southern Tier Inc · Central New York Community 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 organisation UNITED WAY OF TOMPKINS COUNTY 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LANSING COMMUNITY COUNCIL.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 161078240 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LANSING COMMUNITY COUNCIL, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 44% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to United Way of Tompkins County Inc?

Find your warmest path to United Way of Tompkins County Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

UNITED WAY OF TOMPKINS COUNTY INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

74 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of Tompkins County Inc?

More from the funding graph

UNITED WAY OF TOMPKINS COUNTY INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

74 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of Tompkins County Inc?

More from the funding graph