New York · Nonprofit
CONEY ISLAND USA
CONEY ISLAND USA (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $790,279 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($600,100). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $804k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $790k
- Net assets
- $5.6M
What Coney Island USA does
Mission
To operate a multi-arts center leading a cultural revival of a historic district. By combining performing/visual arts with imagination we bring to the community and artists to coney island. We seek to revitalize our community attracting international recognition and visitors while providing low-cost art to a mass, working class, nyc audience
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Sideshow by the seashore: americas last traditional stationary 10-in-1 side show includes endangered traditional sideshow acts such as sword swallowing contortionists bed of nails etc. This program preserves an important set of american traditional performance forms for the audience
$246,730 spentof which $50,000 as grants45% of program spendingMermaid parade: annual art parade that brings artists and creative individuals to the beach in the spirit of coney island's historic mardi gras parades. Over 1,500 individuals create their own floats and costumes and parade through the amusement areas in front of an audience of over 750,000 annually
$126,107 spentof which $50,000 as grants23% of program spendingMuseum: the coney island museum - the only museum in the united states dedicated to telling stories about the history of coney island. Also ciusa.'s visual art program. The museum collection contains artifacts and materials related to coney island's history and to the history of american popular culture. Exhibition brings visual artists to the collection and asks them to tell unique and exciting stories using the objects in the collection as a medium
$82,244 spent15% of program spendingPrograms such as burlesque at the beach, congress of curious people, film festival stuff yourself silly beard and mustache
$93,209 spent17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $548,290.
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 2018 to 2019, from $6.2M to $5.5M (−11%).
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 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 7% · 2021 65% · 2022 0% · 2023 1% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
24% of CONEY ISLAND USA’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
James Fitzsimmons
Executive Director
Board chair
Jeffery Birnbaum
Chairman of the Board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $3k → $112k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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: $94k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Alliance for Coney Island Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CONEY ISLAND USA raised.
From the IRS filings of CONEY ISLAND USA’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
CONEY ISLAND USA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 CONEY ISLAND USA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 96% · 2019 77% · 2020 70% · 2021 79% · 2022 81% · 2023 90% — 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
33% of CONEY ISLAND USA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 27% 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
97% of CONEY ISLAND USA'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 $20k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $770k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
CONEY ISLAND USA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CONEY ISLAND USA
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
75% 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 CONEY ISLAND USA: 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 CONEY ISLAND USA?
- CONEY ISLAND USA (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $790,279 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($600,100). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CONEY ISLAND USA have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $790,279 in grants to CONEY ISLAND USA, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONEY ISLAND USA?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $600,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONEY ISLAND USA 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 11 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