· Public charity
United Way of Tompkins County Inc
The mission of united way of tompkins county is to strengthen lives by mobilizing the caring power of 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 42 grants below total $634,593 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $866,669 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $232,076 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 $10k20 grants · $135k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $449k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
71 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 5 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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
- GIGREATER ITHACA ACTIVITIES CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $704k · revenue +142%
- CDCHILD DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $511k · revenue +32%
- NFNUTRITION FOR THE ELDERLY IN TOMPKINS COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $388k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- TCTOMPKINS COUNTYone grant, 2022 · $60k
- BHBETTER HOUSING FOR TOMPKINS COUNTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $18k · revenue +130%
- ICIthaca City School Districtone grant, 2023 · $10k
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 United Way of Central New York Inc and the most unlike its peers is Food Justice Projects 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 49 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
76 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. 76 of the 91 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 FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF ITHACA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER ITHACA ACTIVITIES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds NUTRITION FOR THE ELDERLY IN TOMPKINS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING WEB INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN SERVICES COALITION OF TOMPKINS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ITHACA HEALTH ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADVOCACY CENTER OF TOMPKINS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Suicide Prevention and Crisis Service of TC Inc ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGE INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY FOR CORTLAND COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ITHACA COMMUNITY CHILDCARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALCOHOL AND DRUG COUNCIL OF TOMPKINS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ITHACA AND TOMPKINS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds TOMPKINS COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Loaves and Fishes of Tompkins County Inc ↗
- Who funds DROP-IN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITIES ALTERNATIVES AND RESOURCES OF TOMPKINS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BADEN POWELL COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds DISPLACED HOMEMAKERS CENTER OF TC INC ↗
- Who funds Cancer Resource Center of the Finger Lakes ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ITHACA YOUTH BUREAU ↗
- Who funds TOMPKINS LEARNING PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DISPUTE RESOLUTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Tioga United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds GADABOUT TRANSPORTATION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FRANZISKA RACKER CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds ENFIELD COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE AT ITHACA INC ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE OF SYRACUSE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION ↗
- Who funds ITHACA NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY READING PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CAYUGA COUNTY 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 Tompkins County Inc · Legacy Foundation of Tompkins County · Park Foundation Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Social Service League of Ithaca Inc · City Federation of Women's Organizations Inc · Tompkins Charitable Gift Fund Inc · Triad Foundation Inc · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · Norathco Foundation · Brooks Family Foundation · The Tsb Foundation Inc
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 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.
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.