The Department of Taxation and Finance annually produces a compilation of voluntary contributions made by taxpayers on their personal income tax returns. The dataset provides a history of these contributions beginning with fiscal year 1983. New Yorkers are currently allowed to check off on their state income tax forms to give voluntary contributions to ten different Funds: • Return a Gift to Wildlife (est. 1982); • Lake Placid Olympic Training Center Fund (est. 1995); • Breast Cancer Research and Education Fund (est. 1996); • Missing & Exploited Children Clearinghouse Fund (est. 1997); • Alzheimer's Disease Fund (est. 1999); • Prostate Cancer Research Fund (est. 2004); • World Trade Center Memorial Foundation Fund (est. 2005); • Volunteer Firefighting & EMS Recruitment and Retention Fund (est. 2009); • Teen Health Education Fund (est. 2013); • Veterans Remembrance & Cemetery Maintenance & Operation Fund (est. 2013); • Women's Cancer Education and Prevention Fund (est. 2015); • Homeless Veterans Assistance Fund (est. 2015); and • Mental Illness Anti-Stigma Fund (est. 2015) • Autism Fund (est. 2016) • Veterans Homes Fund (est. 2017) • Love Your Library Fund (est. 2018) • Lupus Education Contribution Fund (est. 2018) • Military Families Relief Fund (est. 2018) • CUNY Fund (est. 2018) Personal income taxpayers may increase their final remittances or reduce their overpayments by the amount of their contribution. Please see https://www.tax.ny.gov/pit/file/voluntary_contributions.htm for description of each fund.