New York · Nonprofit
ADIRONDACK CENTER FOR LOON CONSERVATION
ADIRONDACK CENTER FOR LOON CONSERVATION (New York) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $673,773 to it, the largest being THE FREED FOUNDATION ($210,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $668k
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $674k
- Net assets
- $119k
What Adirondack Center for Loon Conservation does
Mission
The mission of the Adirondack Center for Loon Conservation is to inspire passion for and promote the conservation of adirondack loons as an environmental sentinel.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Conduct scientific research and environmental outreach.
$151,946 spent48% of program spendingFurther the conservation and protection of wildlife and their habitats, using the common loon (gavia immer)as a sentinel species.
$90,108 spent29% of program spendingProvide public and scientific awareness to enhance the understanding of wildlife and environmental conservation.
$71,361 spent23% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $313,415.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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 $213k to $765k (+260%).
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: 2018 12% · 2019 26% · 2020 12% · 2021 34% · 2022 29% · 2023 33% · 2024 33% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of ADIRONDACK CENTER FOR LOON CONSERVATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Susan Semegram
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $76k → $128k.
7 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 ADIRONDACK CENTER FOR LOON CONSERVATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
ADIRONDACK CENTER FOR LOON CONSERVATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
52% 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 ADIRONDACK CENTER FOR LOON CONSERVATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 100% · 2019 93% · 2020 48% · 2021 47% · 2022 37% · 2023 23% — 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
67% of ADIRONDACK CENTER FOR LOON CONSERVATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
ADIRONDACK CENTER FOR LOON CONSERVATION draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $334k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Against its field
ADIRONDACK CENTER FOR LOON CONSERVATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding ADIRONDACK CENTER FOR LOON CONSERVATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $796k on record.
- Department of the Interior$796k
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 ADIRONDACK CENTER FOR LOON CONSERVATION
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
53% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 38 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ADIRONDACK CENTER FOR LOON CONSERVATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ADIRONDACK CENTER FOR LOON CONSERVATION?
- ADIRONDACK CENTER FOR LOON CONSERVATION (New York) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $673,773 to it, the largest being THE FREED FOUNDATION ($210,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADIRONDACK CENTER FOR LOON CONSERVATION have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $673,773 in grants to ADIRONDACK CENTER FOR LOON CONSERVATION, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADIRONDACK CENTER FOR LOON CONSERVATION?
- THE FREED FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $210,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADIRONDACK CENTER FOR LOON CONSERVATION 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 26 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