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PREVENTION WORKS INC

EIN 16-1037314 FALCONER, NY

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Revenue 2025
$1,824,883
Expenses 2025
$1,807,580

Program services were 92.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
F20Z
Classification
1000
Street
1 E MAIN ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

To build a safe and healthy environment by effectively educating the community on positive life choices.

  • Prevention Works - deals with the treatment of alcoholism through information referral and preventative intervention

    Expenses $870,408 · Revenue $927,175

  • Community Prevention and Intervention Project (CPIP) - focuses on developing localized, coordinated, culturally responsive, and comprehensive prevention services to reduce behavioral health disparities such as access to prevention in specific geographic areas in our state that are currently underserved.

    Expenses $272,617 · Grants $73,737 · Revenue $291,932

  • Other Activities, including Social Network, Kids and Sibs, Opoid Settlement, Hope and Healing, Youth Bureau, and CYPEP (Complete Youth Prevention Education Project)

    Expenses $222,845 · Revenue $259,746

  • Community coalition - includes a variety of programs and initiatives to address the alcohol and drug issues in the county

    Expenses $182,097 · Revenue $200,000

  • Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program - established to mobilize communities to prevent youth substance use and strengthen local prevention infrastructure. The program funds community-based coalitions that engage multiple sectors of the community to address local substance use problems among youth.

    Expenses $108,354 · Revenue $119,567

  • SOR (State Opiod Response) - a program that aims to help reduce unmet treatment needs and opioid-related overdose deaths across America.

    Expenses $23,659 · Revenue $26,563

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Melanie Witkowski

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $94,650
    From this org
    $94,650
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    35
  • Shirley Forbes

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michelle Starwalt-Woods

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michelle Shnars

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dayle Loutzenhiser

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Billie Jean Hubert

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • C Berkeley Adams

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mary Carney

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Rebecca Haines

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Fran Wilson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bella Liscindro

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Carol Greco

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,824,883
    Expenses
    $1,807,580
    Contributions
    $1,199,949
    Grants paid
    $73,737
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,781,230
    Expenses
    $1,792,198
    Contributions
    $1,281,407
    Grants paid
    $76,600
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,500,442
    Expenses
    $1,490,021
    Contributions
    $935,868
    Grants paid
    $16,827
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,213,294
    Expenses
    $1,197,174
    Contributions
    $829,078
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,021,572
    Expenses
    $1,017,374
    Assets (EOY)
    $218,644
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,079,259
    Expenses
    $1,069,190
    Assets (EOY)
    $229,597
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $918,502
    Expenses
    $917,909
    Assets (EOY)
    $205,534
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $918,502
    Expenses
    $917,909
    Assets (EOY)
    $205,534
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $726,323
    Expenses
    $707,145
    Assets (EOY)
    $218,292
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $639,967
    Expenses
    $644,607
    Assets (EOY)
    $191,625
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $673,709
    Expenses
    $669,456
    Assets (EOY)
    $196,113
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $587,036
    Expenses
    $555,907
    Assets (EOY)
    $193,247
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $574,803
    Expenses
    $576,581
    Assets (EOY)
    $170,348
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $576,404
    Assets (EOY)
    $167,137

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.