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COMMUNITY SCIENCE INSTITUTE INC

COMMUNITY SCIENCE INSTITUTE INC (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $188,417 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TOMPKINS COUNTY INC ($84,772). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$562k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$188k
Net assets
$177k
4/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%
01What it does

What Community Science Institute Inc does

Mission

To inspire and empower communities to safeguard water resources by cultivating scientific literacy through volunteer water quality monitoring, certified laboratory analyses, and education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $440,949 spent$297,796 earned by the program
    99% of program spending
  2. See above

    $2,591 spent
    1% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $443,540.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($268k) Expenses 100 ($274k) Net assets 100 ($62k)2018 Revenue 116 ($312k) Expenses 118 ($323k) Net assets 82 ($51k)2019 Revenue 129 ($345k) Expenses 119 ($325k) Net assets 114 ($70k)2020 Revenue 125 ($336k) Expenses 121 ($331k) Net assets 123 ($76k)2021 Revenue 138 ($370k) Expenses 126 ($345k) Net assets 162 ($100k)2022 Revenue 169 ($453k) Expenses 149 ($409k) Net assets 235 ($145k)2023 Revenue 173 ($463k) Expenses 161 ($441k) Net assets 271 ($167k)2024 Revenue 188 ($504k) Expenses 183 ($502k) Net assets 274 ($169k)2025 Revenue 209 ($562k) Expenses 202 ($554k) Net assets 287 ($177k)
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Revenue (209)Expenses (202)Net assets (287)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $100k to $145k (+45%).

$62k
$51k
$71k
$76k
$100k
$145k
$167k
$169k
$177k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 32% · 2018 30% · 2019 35% · 2020 48% · 2021 35% · 2022 35% · 2023 35% · 2024 32% · 2025 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

46% of COMMUNITY SCIENCE INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,629 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$6k
’17
−$11k
’18
$20k
’19
$5k
’20
$25k
’21
$45k
’22
$22k
’23
$2k
’24
$8k
’25
2.6
months of
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.

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Listed47888871011
Joined·+4+3+0+1+0+0+4+2
No longer listed·12010111
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $28k.

2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 COMMUNITY SCIENCE INSTITUTE 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

COMMUNITY SCIENCE INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

52% 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 COMMUNITY SCIENCE INSTITUTE INC.

45%
largest funder
84%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 84% · 2021 89% · 2022 81% · 2023 51% — 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.

Where its funders are

52% of COMMUNITY SCIENCE INSTITUTE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $90k that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from New York funders.

NY
OH
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $98k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

COMMUNITY SCIENCE INSTITUTE INC has grown faster than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve2.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like COMMUNITY SCIENCE INSTITUTE 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 18%Fundraising 2%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds COMMUNITY SCIENCE INSTITUTE INC?
COMMUNITY SCIENCE INSTITUTE INC (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $188,417 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TOMPKINS COUNTY INC ($84,772). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does COMMUNITY SCIENCE INSTITUTE INC have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $188,417 in grants to COMMUNITY SCIENCE INSTITUTE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY SCIENCE INSTITUTE INC?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TOMPKINS COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $84,772 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMMUNITY SCIENCE INSTITUTE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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