New York · Nonprofit
FINGER LAKES INDEPENDENCE CENTER
FINGER LAKES INDEPENDENCE CENTER (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,653 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF TOMPKINS COUNTY INC ($31,590). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.7M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $42k
- Net assets
- $6.5M
What Finger Lakes Independence Center does
Mission
To empower all people with disabilities while creating an inclusive society through the elimination of social and architectural barriers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Flic provides services to empower people with disabilities to achieve their personal maximum independence, and are included in their community. To achieve empowerment for people with disabilities, we provide the following services to people with disabilities and their family: 1. Individual and self-advocacy2. Information and referral3. Peer counseling;4. High school transition5. Transition from nursing home to community living6. Independent living skills guidance7. Employment assistance8. Work incentives and benefits planning9. Emergency preparedness planning10. Home exterior ramp installations11. Loan of assistive devices and durable medical equipment12. Assistance matching needs with home based assistance
$588,511 spent$24,000 earned by the program12% of program spendingThe center is committed to the goals of the consumer directed personal assistance program, including empowerment of the consumer to control and independently recruit, hire, train, supervise and (if need be) terminate the personal assistants with whom they choose to work. The center works in a limited administrative capacity with the consumer and his or her personal assistants, acting only as the statutory fiscal intermediary to provide necessary management of personnel and payroll functions as required by 18 nycrr 505.28. Personal assistants are provided only statutory benefits and are not, and never have been, subject to the general personnel/employment policies and practices of the agency. The center does not consider personal assistants to be employees of the agency. Also acts as the fiscal intermediary for the consumer directed personal assistance services (cdpas) program in tompkins and tioga counties, providing medicaid sponsored persons with disabilities needing home health care with the ability to hire and manage their own care attendants.
$4,423,654 spent$5,242,050 earned by the program88% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,012,165.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $4.3M to $5.9M (+38%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 11% · 2018 9% · 2019 8% · 2020 5% · 2021 8% · 2022 8% · 2023 8% · 2024 5% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of FINGER LAKES INDEPENDENCE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Janette Lynch
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $7k → $1k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of FINGER LAKES INDEPENDENCE CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
FINGER LAKES INDEPENDENCE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
76% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund FINGER LAKES INDEPENDENCE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
88% of FINGER LAKES INDEPENDENCE CENTER's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $63 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
FINGER LAKES INDEPENDENCE CENTER holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FINGER LAKES INDEPENDENCE CENTER
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FINGER LAKES INDEPENDENCE CENTER: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FINGER LAKES INDEPENDENCE CENTER?
- FINGER LAKES INDEPENDENCE CENTER (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,653 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF TOMPKINS COUNTY INC ($31,590). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FINGER LAKES INDEPENDENCE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $41,653 in grants to FINGER LAKES INDEPENDENCE CENTER, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FINGER LAKES INDEPENDENCE CENTER?
- UNITED WAY OF TOMPKINS COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $31,590 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FINGER LAKES INDEPENDENCE CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing