New York · Nonprofit
UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC
UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC (New York) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,445,974 to it, the largest being BROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($313,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What United Community Centers Inc does
Mission
United community centers (ucc) is a social justice driven community center that has been wotking with residents in the east new york (eny) neighborhood of brooklyn for over 60 years. Our mission is to work together with residents of all ages and cultures to address our community's challenges, celebrate it strengths, and provide services that improve lives. We have organized and advocated for child care, environmental justice, reproductive justice, imigration, transportation, affordable housing, and food justice.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Ucc early learning center creates a learning environment that represents the diversity of our city, in which children learn to live with one another and begin to develop an understanding of themselves and of their world. We serve 60 preschoolers, ages 2 to 5 years with school day and extended day licensed child care and nutritious meals. We design exciting and cultural authentic learning environments, use standards-based instructional strategies and assessment tools. We focus intensively on the child's individual needs while incorporating a balance of child-centered and teacher-directed instruction presented in a range of environments including large and small groups, dyads, and one-to-one teaching. This provides children with the tools they need to be ready to learn and be successful as they transition to the kindergarten environment.
$2,167,556 spent69% of program spendingThe east new york farms project (enyf) is an urban agriculture and food justice project of the united community centers division of chldc. Now entering its 27th year, enyf's mission is to organize youth and adult residents to address food justice in our community by promoting local sustainable agriculture and community-led economic development. Our goal is to leverage local resources to empower residents to address their needs through a revitalization strategy that increases community food security, promotes health, and supports the preservation of natural resources. Our program includes: 20+ youth in a paid agricultural internship; 200+ adults in the gardener network; one urban farm and a teaching garden; two youth- run farmers' markets from end-of-june - november.
$675,476 spent21% of program spendingProtecting the east (pte) is a peer leadership sexual health education and reproductive justice program. Pte promotes healthy relationships among youth and young adults in east new york, a historically underserved bipoc neighborhood. Pte utilizes various intervention strategies, including 10 paid peer educators ages 16-21 engaging other young people in sexual health conversations in street outreach and community events, a comprehensive social media and marketing outreach campaign, tailored and curated education sessions/workshops at local schools and health clinics; distribution of 2000+ at-home hiv, pregnancy, and sti tests annually; and a series of community events aimed at bringing further attention to sexual health, hiv prevention, healthy relationships, and reproductive justice.
$306,630 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,149,662.
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 $3.4M to $4.0M (+16%).
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 70% · 2018 72% · 2019 74% · 2020 74% · 2021 79% · 2022 80% · 2023 73% · 2024 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Sarita Daftary-Steel
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $181k → $276k.
6 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
42% 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 UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 26% · 2019 32% · 2020 17% · 2021 13% · 2022 22% · 2023 18% — 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
58% of UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC'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
59% of UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS 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. $376k 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
UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC is better cushioned than half of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS 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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC?
- UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC (New York) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,445,974 to it, the largest being BROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($313,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $2,445,974 in grants to UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC?
- BROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $313,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS 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 36 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