New York · Nonprofit
Volunteers Improving Neighborhood Environments Inc
Volunteers Improving Neighborhood Environments Inc (New York) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,398,590 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF BROOME COUNTY INC ($502,083). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Volunteers Improving Neighborhood Environments Inc does
Mission
The organization is committed to developing a sustainable community food system by bringing together diverse groups of people, with a focus on youth development, to establish community gardens, urban agriculture and community green spaces. The organization strives to develop and beautify urban sites and empower community members of all ages and abilities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Urban Farm & Youth Program: The organization's urban farm program provides healthy and affordable food to local residents and combats the pervasiveness of urban blight in the downtown region. The urban farm enjoys healthy partnerships with local restaurants and organizations to support its programming. The urban farm produce is available for sale through VINES Farm Share program. A portion of the produce is purchased and used by several local restaurants and another portion is donated to the Community Hunger Outreach Warehouse (CHOW), which distributes the produce to local food pantries and families in need. As part of this program VINES manages growing space in the Town of Conklin, in which VINES grows food for both its farm share program and donation. In addition, VINES runs a Grow Binghamton Youth Program, which is a year-round youth employment program designed for youth, ages fourteen to twenty-one, to build life skills while growing food for the community. Youth also help run the Build a Garden Program through which youth construct and prepare raised garden beds at people's homes and portable garden bags that allow people to safely grow food at their homes while avoiding lead…
$317,364 spent53% of program spendingFarm Share: The organization works with local farms to help individuals eat produce that is harvested in the area through a weekly subscription to a box of produce. As part of the program, the organization offers different size subscriptions, income based discounts, flexible payment plans, and provides weekly education to subscribers. As a result of the discounts offered and the additional contributions and grants received to support the program,the organization shows a loss on the sale of the produce but receives sufficient support for the program to cover the loss.
$101,683 spent$-19,447 earned by the program17% of program spendingCommunity Gardens: As of the end of 2024, the organization has twenty-two (22) community gardens; fifteen (15) located in the City of Binghamton, one (1) located in the Village of Johnson City, one (1) located in Endwell, one (1) located in the Town of Vestal, two (2) located in the Village of Endicott,one (1) in the Town of Fenton, and one (1) in the Town of Dickinson. At a community garden, individuals can rent a raised garden bed for their own use for a yearly fee. The garden bed comes built and ready for planting with fertile soil and on-site water as well as access to compost, water, and seeds.
$85,765 spent$8,187 earned by the program14% of program spendingOther Minor Programs: The organization runs other minor programs from time to time in support of its mission to developing a sustainable and just community food system.
$51,800 spent$1,000 earned by the program9% of program spendingGreen Thumb Education: The organization's green thumb education series provides community members an opportunity to learn about a variety of gardening and culinary topics through hands-on workshops and related activities.
$37,711 spent6% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $594,323.
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 $1.6M to $3.1M (+92%).
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 16% · 2018 19% · 2019 25% · 2020 34% · 2021 30% · 2022 46% · 2023 66% · 2024 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Volunteers Improving Neighborhood Environments Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Chris Caroompas
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $48k → $216k.
6 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 Volunteers Improving Neighborhood Environments 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
Volunteers Improving Neighborhood Environments Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% 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
72% 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 Volunteers Improving Neighborhood Environments Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 54% · 2019 98% · 2020 26% · 2021 53% · 2022 53% · 2023 51% — 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
60% of Volunteers Improving Neighborhood Environments Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
75% of Volunteers Improving Neighborhood Environments 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. $220k 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
Volunteers Improving Neighborhood Environments Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,394 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,394 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Volunteers Improving Neighborhood Environments 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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Volunteers Improving Neighborhood Environments Inc?
- Volunteers Improving Neighborhood Environments Inc (New York) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,398,590 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF BROOME COUNTY INC ($502,083). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Volunteers Improving Neighborhood Environments Inc have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,398,590 in grants to Volunteers Improving Neighborhood Environments Inc, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Volunteers Improving Neighborhood Environments Inc?
- UNITED WAY OF BROOME COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $502,083 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Volunteers Improving Neighborhood Environments 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 19 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