New York · Nonprofit
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC (New York) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,892,653 to it, the largest being ACTION FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY INC ($7,146,733). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $9.9M
- Net assets
- $7.2M
What Volunteers of America of Western New York Inc does
Mission
Enable people in the community to break the cycle of poverty and reach their full potential by encouraging positive development and promoting self-sufficiency as further described in part iii, line 4.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Promoting self-sufficiency - the organization promotes self sufficiency for individuals and families who have experienced homelessness, or other personal crisis, including chemical dependency, involvement with the corrections systems and unemployment. The organization focuses on solution-oriented approaches, using a continuum of services from prevention to intervention to long-term support. The organization offers programs as follows (see schedule o):corrections/re-entry programs - residential re-entry center and home confinement services for individuals leaving prison; community based residential program for parolees; cognitive based intervention programming for incarcerated adults; and step by step life and parenting skills programs for incarcerated women.homeless services - emergency shelters and support services for homeless individuals and families, rapid re-housing, and transitional housing for veterans. Permanent supportive housing - affordable housing, rental assistance, and case management services for homeless and chronically homeless populations.workforce development - job skills training programs for unemployed or underemployed persons, in coordination with potential…
$9,423,971 spentof which $1,297,572 as grants$7,077,657 earned by the program76% of program spendingEncouraging positive development - the organization provides services to encourage positive development for troubled and at-risk children and youth, while also promoting the healthy development of all children, adolescents, and their families. The organization's programs provide a continuum of care and support for young people ages birth to 12 through prevention, early intervention, crisis intervention, and long-term services that include child and family services - head start, early head start, universal pre-k, expanded pre-k, early childhood, school-age children, and full-day summer camp.
$2,977,660 spent$1,048,204 earned by the program24% of program spendingFostering independence - the organization fosters the health and independence of the elderly through quaility affordable housing and a wide range of community services including senior housing - affordable housing with on-site support services for low-income seniors.
$71,113 spentof which $1,200 as grants1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,472,744.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $16M to $18M (+10%).
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 54% · 2018 59% · 2019 59% · 2020 57% · 2021 59% · 2022 61% · 2023 62% · 2024 57% · 2025 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Junior Dillion
CEO
Board chair
Diane Caselli
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $1.2M.
7 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 OF AMERICA OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 29 of 31 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
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 OF AMERICA OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 85% · 2019 74% · 2020 83% · 2021 76% · 2022 68% · 2023 74% — 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
53% of VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
98% of VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF WESTERN 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. $787k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Government funding VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40.4M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$24.6M
- Department of Justice$14.8M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$927k
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 VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF WESTERN 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
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- Voawny Southeast Towers LLC · disregarded
- Voa Cobblestone Place Housing Development Fund Company Inc · exempt
- Voa Cobblestone Place Apartments LLC · partnership
- Voa Cobblestone at Lake LLC · partnership
- Voa Cobblestone at Ridge and Ravenside Inc · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC?
- VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC (New York) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,892,653 to it, the largest being ACTION FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY INC ($7,146,733). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $9,892,653 in grants to VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC?
- ACTION FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,146,733 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF WESTERN 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.
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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 31 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