New York · Nonprofit
THE VILLAGE AT ITHACA INC
THE VILLAGE AT ITHACA INC (New York) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,250,237 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TOMPKINS COUNTY INC ($308,806). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $870k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $181k
What The Village at Ithaca Inc does
Mission
To advocate for educational equity and excellence for all students, particularly black/african american, hispanic/latino/latinx, low income, and any other underserved students within tompkins county, through strategic community relationships, assessment of the local districts practices and policies, and responsive programs and services.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Academic support and mentoring - Village at Ithaca provides academic, social, and emotional support for elementary and high school students both during the school day and on weekends. Village at Ithaca specializes in holistic, individualized support for students to achieve their academic goals. We provide support in a variety of settings, including inside and outside of school, in ways that are responsive to student needs.
$295,929 spent56% of program spendingYouth and family advocacy - Every family has different challenges. Village at Ithaca works to address essential needs like food, housing, and internet access, as well as more complicated needs such as advocacy within the school system and culturally responsive programming. Programs include providing early employment opportunities to BIPOC youth and those with barriers to employment in partnership with Tompkins County workforce and other local agencies support families to navigate the CSE process and challenges with extra-curricular activities and transportation weekly distribution of food and household supplies to families without access to existing food pantry/donation sites, while facilitating connection to the existing support services supporting local youth action board to create a response system to help youth out of homelessness and ongoing support of the Stolen Joy Project, which has produced two short films about people of color experiencing oppression in public school.
$63,414 spent12% of program spendingSystems change - We reduce barriers to access for families and students and work within oppressive systems to end discriminatory practices. We consult with teachers and administrators who want to end racism and other systems of oppression within the public education system and support homeless youth during their school years and beyond. We have initiated a transition house Village House for transitioning homeless youth into self supporting youth.
$63,413 spent12% of program spendingProgram service expenses 90,211, grants and allocations 0, revenue 0 village at ithaca acts as fiscal sponsor for the traditional center for indigenous knowledge and healing tcikh. Tcikh exists to provide a culturally safe place for indigenous people as well as sharing indigenous knowledge and advocating for food sovereignty through traditional land management and stewardship practices. Program service expenses 11,115, grants and allocations 0, revenue 0 village at ithaca acts as fiscal sponsor for various other smaller organizations, including black hands universal/business leaders of color photsynthesis, reaching beyond me, and circus culture. These organizations provide engagement and development for bipoc youth and community members
$101,326 spent19% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $524,082.
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 2020 to 2021, from $137k to $282k (+105%).
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: 2020 27% · 2021 17% · 2022 28% · 2023 50% · 2024 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of THE VILLAGE AT ITHACA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Meryl Phipps
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 13 funders, grant income rose $10k → $229k.
7 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 THE VILLAGE AT ITHACA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 19 of 20 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 VILLAGE AT ITHACA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
58% 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 VILLAGE AT ITHACA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 69% · 2019 75% · 2020 57% · 2021 34% · 2022 36% · 2023 26% — 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
83% of THE VILLAGE AT ITHACA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
94% of THE VILLAGE AT ITHACA 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. $562k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
THE VILLAGE AT ITHACA INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding THE VILLAGE AT ITHACA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $968k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$968k
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 THE VILLAGE AT ITHACA 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
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE VILLAGE AT ITHACA INC?
- THE VILLAGE AT ITHACA INC (New York) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,250,237 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TOMPKINS COUNTY INC ($308,806). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE VILLAGE AT ITHACA INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,250,237 in grants to THE VILLAGE AT ITHACA INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE VILLAGE AT ITHACA INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TOMPKINS COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $308,806 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE VILLAGE AT ITHACA 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 20 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