New York · Nonprofit
AUDUBON COMMUNITY NATURE CENTER
AUDUBON COMMUNITY NATURE CENTER (New York) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,236,551 to it, the largest being REGINALD A & ELIZABETH S LENNA FDN INC DBA LENNA FOUNDATION ($280,120). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $842k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What Audubon Community Nature Center does
Mission
Audubon Community Nature Center connects people to nature and promotes environmentally responsbile practices through education at its center, sanctuary, and in the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Increasing the understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of the natural world, and practicing and encouraging good stewardship of the earth's resources. Serving 16,800 school children and 14,496 visitors a year.
$559,745 spent$249,941 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $559,745.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.7M to $3.3M (+20%).
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 8% · 2019 7% · 2020 17% · 2021 14% · 2022 6% · 2023 7% · 2024 7% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
47% of AUDUBON COMMUNITY NATURE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Tina Downey
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $29k → $200k.
5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 AUDUBON COMMUNITY NATURE CENTER’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
AUDUBON COMMUNITY NATURE CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
33% 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 AUDUBON COMMUNITY NATURE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 26% · 2019 44% · 2020 33% · 2021 41% · 2022 24% · 2023 30% — 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
70% of AUDUBON COMMUNITY NATURE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% 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
76% of AUDUBON COMMUNITY NATURE CENTER's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $408k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
AUDUBON COMMUNITY NATURE CENTER's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,606 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like AUDUBON COMMUNITY NATURE CENTER
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AUDUBON COMMUNITY NATURE CENTER: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds AUDUBON COMMUNITY NATURE CENTER?
- AUDUBON COMMUNITY NATURE CENTER (New York) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,236,551 to it, the largest being REGINALD A & ELIZABETH S LENNA FDN INC DBA LENNA FOUNDATION ($280,120). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AUDUBON COMMUNITY NATURE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,236,551 in grants to AUDUBON COMMUNITY NATURE CENTER, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AUDUBON COMMUNITY NATURE CENTER?
- REGINALD A & ELIZABETH S LENNA FDN INC DBA LENNA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $280,120 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AUDUBON COMMUNITY NATURE CENTER 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.
Play a game about who funds Audubon Community Nature Center →
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 14 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing