New York · Nonprofit
BLACK ROCK FOREST CONSORTIUM INC
BLACK ROCK FOREST CONSORTIUM INC (New York) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,503,738 to it, the largest being GOLDEN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,600,773). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $5.5M
- Net assets
- $24M
What Black Rock Forest Consortium Inc does
Mission
Black rock forest consortium's mission is to advance scientific understanding of the natural world through programs in research, education, and conservation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Conservation: for fiscal year 2025, conservation work focused on restoration plantings and fencing in forests impacted by beech leaf disease. We also completed a stand inventory for all 3920 acres and a forest management plan to guide actions for the next decade. Storm recovery efforts continued and the shop building damaged by a structure fire was rebuilt. We welcomed over 20,000 hikers on our trails during the summer and hosted over 500 hours of volunteers.
$488,273 spent$82,937 earned by the program37% of program spendingEducation:black rock forest facilitated 7,628 student visits and 1,734 overnight visits in fiscal year 2025. This includes a diverse array of students of all ages - kindergarten to graduate students. During our summer science adventures, we once again partnered with local newburgh nonprofits and the newburgh district extended school year program (black rock stem) to provide programming for 909 student visits. Fifty-six teachers attended three professional development events hosted by black rock forest. This year, we engaged 115 students in hands-on conservation efforts such as planting trees and working in our native pollinator garden.
$361,187 spent27% of program spendingResearch:during fiscal year 2025 the research department focused efforts on standardizing protocols and long-term research efforts in 5 areas. We hosted the 14th hudson highlands research symposium that featured 28 presentations from scientists. The department also facilitated field research activities by external collaborators and provided funding to 4 new research projects through the david redden conservation science fund. Eight peer-reviewed journal articles were published by black rock forest staff or external researchers utilizing our data, facilities, and/or lands.
$488,273 spentof which $30,404 as grants37% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,337,733.
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 2019 to 2020, from $12M to $17M (+41%).
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 1% · 2019 3% · 2020 1% · 2021 14% · 2022 5% · 2023 3% · 2024 38% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
51% of BLACK ROCK FOREST CONSORTIUM 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. 3 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
Isabel Ashton
Executive director
Board chair
Hume R Steyer
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 16 funders, grant income fell $3.8M → $237k.
5 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $7k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Black Rock Forest Preserve Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money BLACK ROCK FOREST CONSORTIUM INC raised.
From the IRS filings of BLACK ROCK FOREST CONSORTIUM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 funders by total. 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
BLACK ROCK FOREST CONSORTIUM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 38% · 2019 42% · 2020 34% · 2021 26% · 2022 34% · 2023 27% — 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
38% of BLACK ROCK FOREST CONSORTIUM INC'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
BLACK ROCK FOREST CONSORTIUM INC draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $624k 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
BLACK ROCK FOREST CONSORTIUM INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BLACK ROCK FOREST CONSORTIUM INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $355k on record.
- National Science Foundation$318k
- Department of the Interior$37k
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 BLACK ROCK FOREST CONSORTIUM INC
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
49%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Black Rock Forest Preserveinc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BLACK ROCK FOREST CONSORTIUM INC?
- BLACK ROCK FOREST CONSORTIUM INC (New York) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,503,738 to it, the largest being GOLDEN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,600,773). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLACK ROCK FOREST CONSORTIUM INC have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $5,503,738 in grants to BLACK ROCK FOREST CONSORTIUM INC, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLACK ROCK FOREST CONSORTIUM INC?
- GOLDEN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,600,773 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLACK ROCK FOREST CONSORTIUM 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 34 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