New York · Nonprofit
Canandaigua Lake Watershed Association
Canandaigua Lake Watershed Association (New York) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $381,291 to it, the largest being ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($103,250). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $334k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $381k
- Net assets
- $548k
What Canandaigua Lake Watershed Association does
Mission
To protect the water quality and overall environment of the Canandaigua Lake watershed for future generations by applying scientific research, advocating sound public policy, and offering educational programs to the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Since 2007, CLWA's Watershed Education Program has taught students about the Canandaigua Lake watershed and water-quality stewardship. Serving the Canandaigua, Marcus Whitman, and Naples districts, the program reaches 3,000+ participants annually through classroom and field lessons. Educators link human activity to watershed health, inspiring responsible citizenship. CLWA also conducts community workshops, presentations, hikes, and events that educate residents and businesses on lake-friendly practices and environmental issues. Populations Served: K-12 students and adults.(Continued on Schedule O)CLWA's supports trained stewards at the State Marine Park in Canandaigua and DEC Woodville launches from May to October. They inspect boats and educate 14,000-18,000 boaters on "Clean, Drain, Dry" practices to prevent aquatic invasive species (AIS). Terrestrial programs monitor hemlock woolly adelgid and other pests affecting forests and agriculture. AIS prevention protects lake health and avoids costly eradication efforts seen in neighboring Finger Lakes. Populations Served: Boaters and watershed residents.CLWA partners with academic and statewide researchers to study the causes of…
$162,607 spentof which $7,700 as grants$12,625 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $162,607.
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.
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 $232k to $399k (+72%).
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: 2020 1% · 2021 2% · 2022 2% · 2023 6% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Emily DeBolt
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $5k → $70k.
6 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 Canandaigua Lake Watershed Association’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
Canandaigua Lake Watershed Association has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
50% 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 Canandaigua Lake Watershed Association.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 55% · 2019 100% · 2020 53% · 2021 47% · 2022 23% · 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
50% of Canandaigua Lake Watershed Association's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
70% of Canandaigua Lake Watershed Association'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. $186k 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.
Organizations like Canandaigua Lake Watershed Association
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
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 Canandaigua Lake Watershed Association: 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 Canandaigua Lake Watershed Association?
- Canandaigua Lake Watershed Association (New York) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $381,291 to it, the largest being ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($103,250). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Canandaigua Lake Watershed Association have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $381,291 in grants to Canandaigua Lake Watershed Association, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Canandaigua Lake Watershed Association?
- ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $103,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Canandaigua Lake Watershed Association 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 17 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