Is it real?
Yes. Never revoked by the IRS. Latest filing on record: FY2024. IRS ruling in May 1943.
IRS Pub. 78 · IRS Auto-Revocation List · IRS Business Master File
Where the money goes
84 cents of each dollar spent went to programs.
Form 990 Part IX, line 25, columns B–D. Every line is in By the numbers.
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Who runs it and what they're paid
50 people listed on the 990; $7.6M paid to officers and key staff.
Edward Myers Hayes’s $700K as Previous President & CEO is at the 84th percentile of top reported officer pay among 249 $100M+ human services nonprofits. Peer set: organizations in the same NTEE major field of work and revenue-size band, compared on each org’s own highest-paid officer/key-employee, from Form 990 Part VII / 990-PF Part VIII. Descriptive placement, not a verdict on whether the pay is appropriate.
Compensation history total reportable pay by year · 8 named individuals · Part VII
| Name | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | FY2021 | FY2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edward Myers Hayes | $700,127 | $617,595 | $509,345 | $415,783 | $339,867 |
| Elizabeth Palin | $482,822 | $523,078 | $293,488 | $254,481 | $217,507 |
| Troy Brathwaite | $506,358 | $471,092 | $285,934 | $256,394 | $214,325 |
| Ann Sheedy | $422,266 | $440,712 | $279,852 | $239,098 | $192,042 |
| Heather McGowan | $428,622 | $296,563 | — | — | — |
| Lambert Lewis | $396,673 | — | — | — | — |
| Samuel Okechukwu Echezona | — | — | $382,553 | $367,410 | $357,929 |
| Lorraine Maciel Sanchez | $377,824 | $349,024 | $186,968 | $128,941 | — |
Total reportable compensation (Form 990 Part VII column D / Schedule J column E) by filing year, matched by name within this organization. The Schedule J base / bonus / deferred breakdown is not parsed into this dataset.
See Cayuga Home for Children executive salaries →Questions the 990 asks
The form asks each of these directly. These are the filed answers.
- Family or business ties among officersPt VI · Ln 2No
- Top official's pay set by an independent reviewPt VI · Ln 15aYes
Programs and updates
Provides counseling, housing, and support to help children, families, and individuals thrive.
Questions for Cayuga Home for Children
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The unaccompanied children's program is operated under contract with the federal office of refugee resettlement (orr). The program operated up to 400 and 500 transitional foster care beds for unaccompanied children who are in federal custody for the years ended june 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
The TFFC program places at-risk youth into homes with highly trained and motivated foster families. This is a cost effective alternative to group or residential treatment, incarceration, or hospitalization. This program is especially beneficial for adolescents who are particularly challenged by a group setting.
Home and community-based treatment and support interventions consist of home and community-based therapeutic interventions designed to prevent the need for counties to remove children and place them in out-of-home care.
Funders
Who pays for it.
From grant filings on record. Receipts are incomplete: individual donors are never listed.
Grants
Federal money
The auditor reported 110 findings: doubt the group can keep going, a material weakness in money controls, questioned costs.
The auditor reported no findings.
The auditor reported no findings.
The auditor reported no findings.
By the numbers
The FY2024 990, line by line.
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| Line | FY24 | FY23 |
|---|---|---|
| End of yearLn 1g | $55K | $30K |
| Line | Start FY24 | End FY24 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash and savingsLn 1–2 | $15.3M | $16.8M |
| InvestmentsLn 11–13 | $6.7M | $7.0M |
| Land, buildings, equipmentLn 10c | $3.1M | $3.3M |
| Total assetsLn 16 | $71.6M | $67.3M |
| LiabilitiesLn 26 | $54.7M | $74.9M |
| Net assetsLn 32 | $16.9M | −$7.6M |
| Line | Total | Programs | Management | Fundraising |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pay of current officers, directors and key staffLn 5 | $1.8M | $1.5M | $320K | |
| Other salaries and wagesLn 7 | $67.4M | $55.4M | $12.0M | |
| Pension plan contributionsLn 8 | $2.1M | $1.7M | $342K | |
| Other employee benefitsLn 9 | $8.4M | $7.0M | $1.4M | |
| Payroll taxesLn 10 | $5.2M | $4.3M | $899K | |
| Legal feesLn 11b | $446K | $56K | $390K | |
| Accounting feesLn 11c | $100K | $100K | ||
| Investment management feesLn 11f | $49K | $49K | ||
| Other fees for servicesLn 11g | $7.8M | $7.1M | $655K | |
| Advertising and promotionLn 12 | $217K | $167K | $49K | |
| Office expensesLn 13 | $2.1M | $1.5M | $607K | $743 |
| OccupancyLn 16 | $8.8M | $8.7M | $159K | |
| TravelLn 17 | $5.2M | $4.6M | $600K | |
| InterestLn 20 | $16K | $16K | ||
| Depreciation, depletion and amortizationLn 22 | $193K | $93K | $100K | |
| InsuranceLn 23 | $2.3M | $2.2M | $85K | |
| Other expenses (24a–d)Ln 24 | $28.8M | $24.2M | $4.5M | |
| All other expensesLn 24e | $4.1M | $3.3M | $732K | $69K |
| Total functional expensesLn 25 | $145.0M | $121.9M | $23.0M | $70K |
Filing history
| Year | Money in | Money out | In minus out | Net assets | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024 Latest ViewingFiled with the IRS Mar 15, 2026 | $120.3M | $145.0M | −$24.8M | −$7.6M | 990 PDF |
| FY2023Filed with the IRS Mar 25, 2024 | $144.8M | $148.6M | −$3.8M | $16.9M | 990 PDF |
| FY2022Filed with the IRS Feb 1, 2023 | $119.0M | $117.9M | $1.1M | $20.6M | 990 PDF |
| FY2021Filed with the IRS Dec 22, 2021 | $92.0M | $87.2M | $4.9M | $20.1M | 990 PDF |
| FY2020Filed with the IRS Jan 11, 2021 | $95.2M | $83.1M | $12.1M | $15.3M | 990 PDF |
Schedules filed Part IV
See the full FY2024 990 (6 parts)
Part I · Summary $120,293,535 revenue, 12 lines filed
Part VI · Governance 20 of 20 board members independent, no flags
Part VIII · Statement of revenue $120,293,535 across 8 lines filed
Part IX · Statement of functional expenses $145,045,063 across 18 lines filed
Part X · Balance sheet $67,257,787 assets, 16 lines filed
Part XI · Reconciliation of net assets −$7,608,138 net assets at year end
Form 990 e-file (XML) FY2024 from the IRS · Classification, formation year and address from the IRS Business Master File
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