New York · Nonprofit
AUSABLE FRESHWATER CENTER INCORPORATED
AUSABLE FRESHWATER CENTER INCORPORATED (New York) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $861,639 to it, the largest being EVERGREEN FOUNDATION INC ($220,500). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $862k
- Net assets
- $536k
What Ausable Freshwater Center Incorporated does
Mission
Advancing science and stewardship of adirondack waters.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Ausable Freshwater Center Incorporated works broadly to advance science and stewardship of adirondack waters and to protect adirondack waters for their ecological value and their value to the human communities that care for and rely on their many benefits. Our program goals are to restore stream form and function, safeguard water quality, protect native habitats, empower stewardship through outreach, and advocate science-based management.
$976,076 spent$59,008 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $976,076.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2023 to 2024, from $486k to $766k (+57%).
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: 2017 55% · 2018 33% · 2019 50% · 2020 58% · 2021 33% · 2022 35% · 2023 70% · 2024 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of AUSABLE FRESHWATER CENTER INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Kelley Tucker
Executive director
Board chair
Christian Brammer
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $32k → $143k.
9 of 22 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 AUSABLE FRESHWATER CENTER INCORPORATED’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
AUSABLE FRESHWATER CENTER INCORPORATED has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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 AUSABLE FRESHWATER CENTER INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 39% · 2019 30% · 2020 36% · 2021 35% · 2022 25% · 2023 17% — 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
64% of AUSABLE FRESHWATER CENTER INCORPORATED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
AUSABLE FRESHWATER CENTER INCORPORATED draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $281k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
AUSABLE FRESHWATER CENTER INCORPORATED runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding AUSABLE FRESHWATER CENTER INCORPORATED receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.2M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$1.8M
- Department of the Interior$444k
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 AUSABLE FRESHWATER CENTER INCORPORATED
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
77% 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 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AUSABLE FRESHWATER CENTER INCORPORATED: 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 AUSABLE FRESHWATER CENTER INCORPORATED?
- AUSABLE FRESHWATER CENTER INCORPORATED (New York) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $861,639 to it, the largest being EVERGREEN FOUNDATION INC ($220,500). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AUSABLE FRESHWATER CENTER INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $861,639 in grants to AUSABLE FRESHWATER CENTER INCORPORATED, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AUSABLE FRESHWATER CENTER INCORPORATED?
- EVERGREEN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $220,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AUSABLE FRESHWATER CENTER INCORPORATED 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 22 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