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THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC

THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC (New York) receives grants from 113 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,519,514 to it, the largest being MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ($7,200,000). 62 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$172M
Funders on record
113
Grants received
$33M
Net assets
$37M
62/113 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What The Center for Discovery Inc does

Mission

The center for discovery offers individuals with a range of disabilities and medical frailties - and their families - innovative educational, clinical, residential, social and creative arts experiences designed to enrich their lives through personal accomplishment.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Residential services - the pediatric residential program is comprised of 24 icf's (intermediate care facilities) providing care for 156 individuals, aged 5-21. The program includes universally designed residences that work in collaboration with an integrative nature-based education program, medical and clinical services, creative arts therapies as well as other innovative programs. The adult residential program features a continuum of care across 25 residential opportunities, including icf's and ira's (individualized residential alternatives) for 185 adults, from age 21 to senior citizens. The adult program emphasizes personal progression, individual preferences and community participation through a range of enriching and therapeutic experiences.

    $82,510,959 spent$94,199,516 earned by the program
    54% of program spending
  2. Education program - the center for discovery (tcfd) is the largest provider in new york state for children with complex conditions, including autism. We currently are approved to serve 420 students ages 5-22: 164 residential and 256 day students. Our program integrates special education, clinical services (including occupational, physical, and speech therapy), behavioral intervention by board certified behavior analysts, rehabilitation technology, adaptive physical education, and arts-based therapies, all within universally designed spaces and a nature-based learning environment. Certified by both nysed and opwdd, the school and residential programs operate seamlessly, implementing our synerge6 curriculum as our framework for instruction to ensure continuity of care and education. Length of stay is individualized. Some students remain at tcfd through graduation at age 22, while others transition earlier to a less restrictive level of care within the new york state education department (nysed) continuum of services. All admission, transition, and discharge plans are collaboratively developed, goal-oriented, and student-centered.

    $44,739,738 spent$44,663,870 earned by the program
    29% of program spending
  3. Children's specialty hospital - the center for discovery's first-of-its-kind children's specialty hospital is transforming the standard of care for children and adolescents with complex conditions. The hospital provides specialized, short-term care for children with complex disabilities, along with support and training for their families, caregivers, and school districts. The specialty hospital's intensive, integrated treatment model enables each child to transition back to their home - and into their communities - reducing the need for long-term residential care. The hospital is expected to save new york state millions of dollars each year, with the goal of replicating this model throughout the state and the nation.

    $8,913,087 spent$4,438,067 earned by the program
    6% of program spending
  4. Day habilitation - the day habilitation program at the center for discovery serves 185 adults, from age 21 to senior citizens, with complex disabilities, medical frailties, and a variety of aging issues. We strive to emphasize lifelong personal progression in relation to the synerge6 model of care through a range of enriching and therapeutic experiences. Opportunities focus on reinforcing basic life skills, fostering social experiences, and building a vocational foundation. Our curriculum consists of a variety of areas, including fiber arts, creative arts, herbal production, farm integration, and other areas of identified interest.

    $7,509,229 spent$15,477,030 earned by the program
    5% of program spending
  5. Clinic services - the discovery health center is a nys department of health certified clinic that offers center residents and individuals from the larger community, a broad range of outpatient services. The center provides comprehensive health/medical and clinical services, including primary care and dental services, coordinated by a team that includes a medical director, primary care physicians and specialists, nurse practitioners, psychologists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech language pathologists and audiologists.

    $5,939,094 spent$2,729,440 earned by the program
    4% of program spending
  6. Grants from governmental agencies - therapists, speech language pathologists and audiologists.

    $3,980,978 spent$652,627 earned by the program
    3% of program spending

The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $153,593,085.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($110M) Expenses 100 ($108M) Net assets 100 ($25M)2018 Revenue 106 ($117M) Expenses 107 ($115M) Net assets 107 ($26M)2019 Revenue 109 ($120M) Expenses 109 ($118M) Net assets 108 ($27M)2020 Revenue 106 ($117M) Expenses 112 ($121M) Net assets 50 ($12M)2021 Revenue 110 ($121M) Expenses 116 ($125M) Net assets 35 ($8.6M)2022 Revenue 128 ($141M) Expenses 126 ($136M) Net assets 51 ($13M)2023 Revenue 129 ($142M) Expenses 130 ($140M) Net assets 44 ($11M)2024 Revenue 155 ($171M) Expenses 142 ($153M) Net assets 131 ($32M)2025 Revenue 156 ($172M) Expenses 155 ($167M) Net assets 151 ($37M)
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Revenue (156)Expenses (155)Net assets (151)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $137M to $164M (+20%).

$132M
$134M
$140M
$132M
$137M
$164M
$172M
$177M
$175M
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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: 2017 0% · 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 2% · 2022 7% · 2023 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

5% of THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,214 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.3M
’17
$1.3M
’18
$1.7M
’19
−$4.0M
’20
−$3.8M
’21
$4.8M
’22
$1.9M
’23
$18M
’24
$4.4M
’25
0.8
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

Dr Theresa Hamlin

President and CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

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Listed232326272525272726
Joined·+1+6+3+2+2+4+10+2
No longer listed·132422103
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 46 funders, grant income rose $787k → $5.7M.

25 of 113 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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: $17M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Center for Discovery Endowment Fund Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC raised.

From the IRS filings of THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 113 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

THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

44% 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 THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC.

22%
largest funder
48%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 32% · 2019 38% · 2020 22% · 2021 39% · 2022 29% · 2023 35% — diversifying over time.

“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

43% of THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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

87% of THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

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WI
NY
MA
NV
IN
PA
NJ
CT
RI
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KY
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NC
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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. $14M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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

Against its field

THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,256 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve0.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,256 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025

Government funding THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.

Federal$1.2M
grants $1.2Mcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$1.2M

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 7%Fundraising 1%

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

NY

Part of a family of 5 related entities

  • The Center for Discovery Magnet Services Corporation · exempt
  • The Center for Discovery Endowment Fund Inc · exempt
  • Sdtc Foundation Inc · exempt
  • Sullivan Cp Residence Corporation · exempt
  • Developmental Residential Services Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC?
THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC (New York) receives grants from 113 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,519,514 to it, the largest being MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ($7,200,000). 62 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC have?
IRS filings report 113 organizations giving $32,519,514 in grants to THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC, 62 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC?
MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY 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.

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 113 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