New York · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC (New York) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,369,665 to it, the largest being Employees' Federated Community Service ($1,326,942). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.1M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $6.4M
- Net assets
- $5.0M
What United Way of Central New York Inc does
Mission
To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community impact:united way's community program fund currently provides funding to 74 programs at 33 local agencies that passed our fiscal and management review. Our eight outcome areas are: children are born healthy and have the social, emotional, and developmental supports to thrive. People can meet their basic needs. Children enter school ready and are reading at grade level by third grade. Youth ages 13-18 develop the academic, social, and emotional skills for success in high school and beyond. Adults can gain employment, maintain their jobs, and advance in their careers. Individuals with trauma, mental illness, and substance abuse diseases receive support, treatment, and prevention. Older adults are safe, healthy, and able to maintain the highest possible quality. Families and individuals become self-sufficient; securing and maintaining education and income to support their basic needs and build wealth of life.
$4,451,424 spentof which $3,365,297 as grants$177,525 earned by the program62% of program spendingLiteracy coalition of onondaga county:the literacy coalition of onondaga county began in 2007-2008. Lcoc works to achieve 100% literacy across all ages. Lcoc brings together stakeholders to monitor literacy and support programs that support learning for children and adults. The lcoc continues to participate in the dolly parton imagination library and is the oldest and largest program in nys. More than 1.6m children in onondaga county have received a free book in the mail every month from birth to age five. Lcoc also focuses on literacy services for adults.
$595,947 spent8% of program spendingHousing & homeless coalition:the housing and homeless coalition of central new york (hhc) acts as the local hud continuum of care (coc ny-505). The united way of central new york became the collaborative applicant in 2017 and the staff of hhc became united way employees.hhc is dedicated to reducing, preventing, and ultimately ending homelessness in our community. The hhc allocates and oversees federal funding to service providers in the three-county region: onondaga, oswego, and cayuga. Prior to the pandemic, through the work of the hhc, homelessness in this region had been reduced. Since 2021, homelessness has increased dramatically and the hhc has been instrumental in bringing together people to address the new challenges that have arisen. Hhc has also brought in new grants during the year and has added staff.
$785,926 spent11% of program spendingCa$h coalition:united way of central new york administers the ca$h coalition, convener of organizations and businesses dedicated to promoting financial stability and asset-building opportunities for low-to-moderate-income individuals and families in onondaga county. The ca$h coalition oversees free tax preparation services through the vita (volunteer income tax assistance) program. Total returns were 3,222 generating returns of $4.1m.2-1-1:2-1-1 cny is an information and referral service launched in february 2015 that serves onondaga, oswego, madison, jefferson, lewis, and st. Lawrence counties. It is supported by nys, onondaga county, and united way. In the past twelve months, the total number of calls/texts to 211 cny between 7/1/23 and 6/30/24 is 36,680.regional volunteer center:united way of central new york coordinates a comprehensive volunteer center serving cayuga, cortland, madison, onondaga and oswego counties. Our volunteer center was actively involved in pandemic relief efforts. We connected 1,109 referrals for opportunities within the community. The day of caring in 2023 mobilized 1,215 volunteers logged a total of over 3,645 hours on our day of caring, completing 100+…
$1,380,001 spent19% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,213,298.
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 2023 to 2024, from $9.0M to $10M (+13%).
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 6% · 2018 12% · 2019 15% · 2020 25% · 2021 30% · 2022 29% · 2023 24% · 2024 27% · 2025 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $450k → $515k.
12 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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: $8.4M from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest United Way of Central New York Inc); $5.5M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Central New York Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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 WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
46% 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 WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 69% · 2019 33% · 2020 39% · 2021 22% · 2022 20% · 2023 15% — 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
57% of UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
92% of UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK 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. $923k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC's funding base is broadening — from 11 funders to 22 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.0M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.6M
- Department of the Treasury$444k
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 UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK 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
98%
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 UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK 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 UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC?
- UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC (New York) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,369,665 to it, the largest being Employees' Federated Community Service ($1,326,942). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $6,369,665 in grants to UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC?
- Employees' Federated Community Service is the largest funder on record, with $1,326,942 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK 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 51 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