New York · Nonprofit
PREVENTION WORKS INC
PREVENTION WORKS INC (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $476,691 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC ($370,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $477k
- Net assets
- $243k
What Prevention Works Inc does
Mission
To build a safe and healthy environment by effectively educating the community on positive life choices.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Prevention Works - deals with the treatment of alcoholism through information referral and preventative intervention
$870,408 spent$927,175 earned by the program52% of program spendingCommunity Prevention and Intervention Project (CPIP) - focuses on developing localized, coordinated, culturally responsive, and comprehensive prevention services to reduce behavioral health disparities such as access to prevention in specific geographic areas in our state that are currently underserved.
$272,617 spentof which $73,737 as grants$291,932 earned by the program16% of program spendingOther Activities, including Social Network, Kids and Sibs, Opoid Settlement, Hope and Healing, Youth Bureau, and CYPEP (Complete Youth Prevention Education Project)
$222,845 spent$259,746 earned by the program13% of program spendingCommunity coalition - includes a variety of programs and initiatives to address the alcohol and drug issues in the county
$182,097 spent$200,000 earned by the program11% of program spendingDrug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program - established to mobilize communities to prevent youth substance use and strengthen local prevention infrastructure. The program funds community-based coalitions that engage multiple sectors of the community to address local substance use problems among youth.
$108,354 spent$119,567 earned by the program6% of program spendingSOR (State Opiod Response) - a program that aims to help reduce unmet treatment needs and opioid-related overdose deaths across America.
$23,659 spent$26,563 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,679,980.
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 $246k to $325k (+32%).
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 82% · 2018 77% · 2020 86% · 2021 72% · 2022 63% · 2023 56% · 2024 68% · 2025 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of PREVENTION WORKS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Melanie Witkowski
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $35k → $51k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 PREVENTION WORKS INC’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
PREVENTION WORKS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 PREVENTION WORKS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 84% · 2021 96% · 2022 98% · 2023 99% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of PREVENTION WORKS INC'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. $12k 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
PREVENTION WORKS INC has grown faster than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding PREVENTION WORKS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $875k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$875k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like PREVENTION WORKS 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.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 PREVENTION WORKS INC: 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 PREVENTION WORKS INC?
- PREVENTION WORKS INC (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $476,691 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC ($370,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PREVENTION WORKS INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $476,691 in grants to PREVENTION WORKS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PREVENTION WORKS INC?
- UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $370,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PREVENTION WORKS 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 5 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