New York · Nonprofit
BALTIMORE WOODS NATURE CENTER INC
BALTIMORE WOODS NATURE CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $610,893 to it, the largest being CENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($232,279). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $858k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $611k
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Baltimore Woods Nature Center Inc does
Mission
Connecting communities and nature in wisdom and wonder
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Baltimore woods nature center is a leader in facilitating opportunities for people to build personal connections to nature. Through engaging experiences and place-based exploration, we envision communities united in stewardship and love of the natural world.
$645,489 spent91% of program spendingSchool programs (nature in the city and on-site) these programs provide curriculum based science education to grades k-5. Nature in the city introduces students to nature-based science in their neighborhoods through classroom and greenspace lessons. Based in syracuse, ny, the program provides students opportunities to: 1) build scientific literacy throough hands-on/minds-on activities that link state standards to their surroundings, 2) make or strengthen their connections to the natural world, 3)develop sensible stewardship for neighborhood green spaces. Nature in the city has received the 2004 es environmental protection agency's environmental quality award, the highest recognition they bestow on any organization. Third accomplishment school programs offered on the baltimore woods site include curriculum-based learning opportunities that include science as well as social studies-themed programs.
Day camps our camp programs are offered on-site during the summer and school vacations. With a strong emphasis on education through hands on interaction (nature play), we provide science based nature education while spending time in the outdoors. Ecosystems are studied, plant and wildlife are made familiar and children are given the opportunity to become comfortable and safe while in the outdoors. Programming offers developmentally appropriate opportunities for children to learn about the natural environment and their role in supporting and sustaining it.
Connecting communities and nature in wisdom and wonder.
$61,448 spent9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $706,937.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.0M to $2.4M (+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: 2017 8% · 2018 10% · 2019 6% · 2020 8% · 2021 3% · 2022 14% · 2023 14% · 2024 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
32% of BALTIMORE WOODS NATURE CENTER INC’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. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $49k → $60k.
5 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 BALTIMORE WOODS NATURE CENTER INC’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
BALTIMORE WOODS NATURE CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
74% 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 BALTIMORE WOODS NATURE CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 32% · 2019 36% · 2020 31% · 2021 48% · 2022 43% · 2023 44% — 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
63% of BALTIMORE WOODS NATURE CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
77% of BALTIMORE WOODS NATURE CENTER INC'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. $279k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
BALTIMORE WOODS NATURE CENTER INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BALTIMORE WOODS NATURE CENTER INC?
- BALTIMORE WOODS NATURE CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $610,893 to it, the largest being CENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($232,279). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BALTIMORE WOODS NATURE CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $610,893 in grants to BALTIMORE WOODS NATURE CENTER INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BALTIMORE WOODS NATURE CENTER INC?
- CENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $232,279 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BALTIMORE WOODS NATURE CENTER INC 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 18 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