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MARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC

MARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,214,085 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC ($1,332,000). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$48M
Funders on record
65
Grants received
$4.2M
Net assets
$17M
41/65 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Mary Cariola Children's Center Inc does

Mission

Mary cariola children's center is the regional leader in personalized, interdisciplinary, evidence-based education and life skill solutions that inspire and empower individuals with complex disabilities and their families. Mary cariola children's center sets the standard in clinical services for children with developmental disabilities, delays and complex or multiple disabilities. Mary cariola children's center is dedicated to excellence in family-centered educational, residential, therapeutic and community support. As an independent, not-for-profit agency, mary cariola children's center has three campuses as well as six residences in the rochester, ny region serving nearly 500 students and 50 residents.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. School age education at mary cariola children's center provides instructional and therapeutic services to children with multiple disabilities from age 5 to 21. The school age education program allows children to thrive in an positive, upbeat environment, often meeting milestones that were once thought impossible. Students come from a ten county region and from 50 school districts throughout western new york. Approximately 356 children served.

    $22,979,584 spent$28,286,296 earned by the program
    59% of program spending
  2. Residential placement - when medical issues and behavioral challenges make living at home difficult, mary cariola provides six group homes across monroe county. Approximately 44 clients call mary cariola home as they receive around-the-clock guidance, clinical and direct care, and support with ongoing opportunities to learn and grow. The common goal of all of each house is to enable the children and young adults to reach their full potential in a caring home environment where parents and families are always welcome.

    $9,171,777 spent$11,315,660 earned by the program
    24% of program spending
  3. Preschool education (program) is designed for children from age 3 to 5. Students attend school each day in either a half or full-day program. Children's abilities and developmental delays can vary significantly. A range of class sizes and staff ratios is available to meet individual educational and social needs. A major goal of the preschool is to provide intensive (often one-on-one) attention to the children during these formative years to maximize the opportunity for academic and social growth and increase chances for success in a less restrictive environment. Approximately 79 children served.

    $4,485,490 spent$5,007,185 earned by the program
    12% of program spending
  4. Workshop - the adaptive equipment workshop exists to create, adapt, and repair equipment and devices that improve the quality of life for children with disabilities. Over the last 20+ years, our one-person staff has released a steady stream of innovations and adaptions to help children turn in, turn on, stand up, and move around.

    $146,934 spent$89,887 earned by the program
    0% of program spending
  5. Evaluations - our team of evaluators provide comprehensive preschool evaluations for children suspected of not meeting developmental milestones as appropriate for their age.

    $7,680 spent$493 earned by the program
    0% of program spending
  6. Idea funding - as part of the individuals with disabilities education act, the school districts who contract with mary cariola children's center are required to share funding received from the federal government with the agency. These funds are used for enhancements to programs which are not required by the children's iep's and not paid for by tuition dollars.

    $889,890 spent$925,668 earned by the program
    2% of program spending
  7. Family support services - each child served is given a complete functional behavioral assessment and a behavior support plan developed specifically for him or her. This program includes family training, monitoring, review and oversight for each plan and participant throughout their time in the program.

    $219,996 spent
    1% of program spending
  8. Community habiliation - highly trained employees provide community habilitation services and implement the behavior support plans developed through family support services to ensure consistency and success. High levels of oversight and monitoring are included in this service.

    $216,406 spent$260,845 earned by the program
    1% of program spending
  9. Therapeutic respite - most of the same highly trained employees provide therapeutic respite services within our ira and implement the same habilitative and behavioral programming that is developed for the individual through the family support services. It is the third serivce in our unique package of services supporting families with children who have significant behavioral challenges. The children have regularly scheduled stays in the ira so that their families can have a much needed break and spend time with their other children and take care of other life events. High levels of oversight and monitoring are included in this service.

    $144,154 spent$82,477 earned by the program
    0% of program spending
  10. Health homes - our health home care management program provides medicaid-eligible children ages 0-21 with chronic medical and behavioral health conditions with comprehensive care management, care coordination and health promotion, comprehensive transitional care, patient and family support, and referrals to community supports to promote preventove and quality health care.

    $256,408 spent$178,366 earned by the program
    1% of program spending
  11. Cariola collaborative - the cariola collaborative extends the same quality, innovation and interdisciplinary approach to professional learning and consultation opportunities throughout our community and beyond. Through the collaborative, individuals from a variety of disciplines have the opportunity to come together to enhance their professional skills. Whether it's in-person or online training or direct consultation, the collaborative introduces professionals to innovative, best practice approaches vital to the care and education of individuals with complex disabilities.

    $379,033 spent$420,073 earned by the program
    1% of program spending

The 11 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $38,897,352.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($32M) Expenses 100 ($31M) Net assets 100 ($7.2M)2018 Revenue 106 ($34M) Expenses 107 ($34M) Net assets 132 ($9.5M)2019 Revenue 113 ($36M) Expenses 110 ($34M) Net assets 133 ($9.5M)2020 Revenue 117 ($37M) Expenses 118 ($37M) Net assets 87 ($6.2M)2021 Revenue 121 ($38M) Expenses 119 ($37M) Net assets 174 ($13M)2022 Revenue 146 ($46M) Expenses 142 ($44M) Net assets 205 ($15M)2023 Revenue 129 ($41M) Expenses 129 ($40M) Net assets 158 ($11M)2024 Revenue 126 ($40M) Expenses 129 ($40M) Net assets 174 ($12M)2025 Revenue 151 ($48M) Expenses 140 ($44M) Net assets 231 ($17M)
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Revenue (151)Expenses (140)Net assets (231)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $24M to $29M (+21%).

$21M
$23M
$24M
$29M
$33M
$29M
$29M
$31M
$32M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 2% · 2022 13% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$519k
’17
$72k
’18
$1.4M
’19
$285k
’20
$1.4M
’21
$1.8M
’22
$622k
’23
−$284k
’24
$4.4M
’25
1.5
months of
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

Karen Zandi

CEO/president

Board chair

Linda Miller

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+6+8+3+2+3+4+5+3
No longer listed·85313456
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $114k → $517k.

10 of 65 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 MARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 65 funders by total. 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

MARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% 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

59% 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 MARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC.

32%
largest funder
51%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 22% · 2019 46% · 2020 48% · 2021 26% · 2022 45% · 2023 32% — 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

40% of MARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

54% of MARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.9M that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from New York funders.

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NY
MA
CT
RI
MO
DE
NC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like MARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 10%Fundraising 0%

Governance

23
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

92%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Mary Cariola Foundation Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds MARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC?
MARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,214,085 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC ($1,332,000). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 65 organizations giving $4,214,085 in grants to MARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC?
UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,332,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC 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 65 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing