New York · Nonprofit
FINGER LAKES UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY
FINGER LAKES UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $524,323 to it, the largest being Greater Rochester Health Foundation ($105,296). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $17M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $524k
- Net assets
- $8.4M
What Finger Lakes United Cerebral Palsy does
Mission
Happiness house is an educational, health and human service organization that excels in providing the highest quality integrated programs and services to children and adults with and without disabilities, to their families and to the finger lakes community. Our belief in the principles of equal opportunity, independence and realization of individual potential is the cornerstone of who we are and what we do. We believe "what happens here changes lives forever."
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
New friends- this is an innovative preschool for children with and without disabilities, which integrates children in classrooms based on educational criteria. Persons served 200
$4,534,656 spent$4,831,434 earned by the program33% of program spendingSpecial classes- this program includes special education therapy. Persons served 48
$1,972,759 spent$2,106,466 earned by the program15% of program spendingOpwdd- this program provides services to persons with developmental disabilities. Persons served 320
$2,660,517 spent$2,181,592 earned by the program20% of program spendingEarly intervention: expenses: $87,886 including grants of $ revenue: $101,508related services expenses: $159,559 including grants of $0 revenue: $199,010diagnostic treatment center expenses: $668,023 including grants of $0 revenue: $613,5441:1 aide expenses:$936,040 including grants of $0 revenue: $1,042,958head start expenses: $0 including grants of $0 revenue: $0 evaluations expenses: $175,148 including grants of $0 revenue: $177,132title I expenses: $357,882 including grants of $0 revenue: $0service coordination expenses: $139,225 including grants of $0 revenue: $152,163esshi expenses: $115,886 including grants of $0 revenue: $0shared journey expenses: $1,769 including grants of $0 revenue: $0 tbi expenses: $770,272 including grants of $0 revenue: $880,876ira expenses: $842,234 including grants of $0 revenue: $982,675transitional home expenses: $101,948 including grants of $0 revenue: $56,290summer recreation expeneses: $9,022 including grants of $0 revenue: $9,933grhf:expeneses: $66,055 including grants of $0 revenue: $0
$4,430,949 spent$4,216,089 earned by the program33% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,598,881.
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 2022 to 2023, from $7.8M to $11M (+43%).
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 10% · 2018 9% · 2019 8% · 2020 5% · 2021 9% · 2022 22% · 2023 11% · 2024 13% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
19% of FINGER LAKES UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Darrell Whitbeck
Chief executive director
Board chair
Joyce Weir
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $17k → $95k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $816k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Ability Partners Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money FINGER LAKES UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY raised.
From the IRS filings of FINGER LAKES UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY’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 UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
50% 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 UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 43% · 2019 34% · 2020 31% · 2021 54% · 2022 66% · 2023 94% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
60% of FINGER LAKES UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
100% of FINGER LAKES UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY'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. $127k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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 UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,843 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like FINGER LAKES UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- Ability Partners Foundation · exempt
- Happiness House Apartments Housing Development Fund Co Inc · exempt
- Ability Partners Inc · exempt
- Rochester Rehabilitation Center Inc · exempt
- United Cerebral Palsy Association of the Rochester Area Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FINGER LAKES UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY?
- FINGER LAKES UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $524,323 to it, the largest being Greater Rochester Health Foundation ($105,296). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FINGER LAKES UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $524,323 in grants to FINGER LAKES UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FINGER LAKES UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY?
- Greater Rochester Health Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $105,296 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FINGER LAKES UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY 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 9 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