United Way of the Dutchess-Orange
Poughkeepsie, NY · EIN 06-1045698. Reported 160 grants totalling $2,381,088 to 38 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For United Way of the Dutchess-Orange, the IRS classifies it as a federated giving programme -- a United Way, Jewish federation, Community Chest or similar (NTEE T70Z).
- How spread out its giving is. 38 distinct organizations, with 23% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 87% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,500 and $15,000; the smallest was $5,615 and the largest $63,147. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Westchester and Putnam Inc | White Plains, NY | $546,485 | 14 | 4 | 2024 |
| Community Action Partnership for Dutchess County Inc | Poughkeepsie, NY | $211,000 | 10 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hudson River Housing | Poughkeepsie, NY | $174,000 | 16 | 4 | 2024 |
| Regional Food Bank of N E Ny Inc | Latham, NY | $127,386 | 8 | 4 | 2024 |
| Legal Services of the Hudson Valley | White Plains, NY | $106,000 | 8 | 4 | 2024 |
| Americas Best Charities | San Rafael, CA | $96,151 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Chc Creating Healthier Communities | Alexandria, VA | $79,550 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Family Services Inc | Poughkeepsie, NY | $75,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| North East Community Center Inc | Millerton, NY | $75,000 | 8 | 4 | 2024 |
| Dutchess Outreach Inc | Poughkeepsie, NY | $70,000 | 5 | 3 | 2023 |
| Catholic Charities Community Services of Dutchess | Poughkeepsie, NY | $60,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| NAMI Mid-Hudson Inc | Poughkeepsie, NY | $60,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Literacy Connections Hudson Valley Inc | Poughkeepsie, NY | $59,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Newburgh Inc | Newburgh, NY | $56,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Fearless Hudson Valley Inc | Newburgh, NY | $56,400 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Newburgh Armory Unity Center Inc | Newburgh, NY | $52,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Poughkeepsie Farm Project | Poughkeepsie, NY | $52,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Jewish Family Service of Orange County Inc | Middletown, NY | $42,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Art Effect of the Hudson Valley Inc | Poughkeepsie, NY | $41,300 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Grace Smith House Inc | Poughkeepsie, NY | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Land to Learn Inc | Newburgh, NY | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Community Resources & Service | Pawling, NY | $31,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Food for Kids Inc | Washingtonville, NY | $30,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Cooperative Extension Assoc in the State of New York | Millbrook, NY | $28,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Americas Charities | Chantilly, VA | $26,143 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Winnakee Land Trust Inc | Rhinebeck, NY | $17,772 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Vassar College | Poughkeepsie, NY | $17,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Catholic Charities of Orange Sullivan & Ulster | New York, NY | $16,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Warwick Community Bandwagon Inc | Warwick, NY | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| United Way of Ulster County Inc | Kingston, NY | $11,898 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Community Matters | Santa Rosa, CA | $10,600 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Exodus Transitional Community Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| R E a L Skills Network Inc | Poughkeepsie, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Lebanese Syrian Assoc Char Inc | Memphis, TN | $9,252 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Finish Strong Wellness Center | Poughkeepsie, NY | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Habitat for Humanity International Inc | Newburgh, NY | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Family of Woodstock Inc | Kingston, NY | $6,651 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cultureconnect Inc | Rhinebeck, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
30 of 38 (79%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 22 of 38 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 44 | $673,100 | $11,000 |
| 2022 | 42 | $639,624 | $10,950 |
| 2023 | 38 | $548,509 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 36 | $519,855 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
91% of its giving went to organizations in New York. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
Down to the city
Foundations that fund only organizations they pick gave to this one
7 private foundations that told the IRS they contribute only to organizations they select themselves reported 16 grants totalling $36,593 to United Way of the Dutchess-Orange. That is 21% of the 34 funders we can see giving to it. Those 7 foundations do not take unsolicited requests -- their own returns say so. The IRS classifies this organization as a federated giving programme.
6 of them gave in more than one tax year, which is the only durability signal the filings carry.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application here reaches that money. A grant from a closed foundation is often a designated gift or a donor-advised fund earmarked by whoever gave it, and has nothing to do with any open programme this organization runs. Neither tax return says which, so neither do we. The list below is who put money in. It is not a route to it.
| Foundation | State | Reported | Grants | Years | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Field Hall Foundation | New York | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Ulster Savings Charitable Foundation | New York | $8,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Mckesson Foundation Inc | Texas | $2,250 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Amazonsmile Foundation | Washington | $800 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Verizon Foundation | New Jersey | $253 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Jpmorgan Chase Foundation | New York | $240 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Pfizer Foundation Inc | New York | $50 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
Both the count and the total are floors. A foundation appears here only where its return named this organization clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows. There are more; we cannot name them.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from United Way of the Dutchess-Orange's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 34 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 75 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, NY, 12601.
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