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DOMINICAN RETREAT HOUSE NISKAYUNA

DOMINICAN RETREAT HOUSE NISKAYUNA (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $432,303 to it, the largest being MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ($406,503). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$482k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$432k
Net assets
$820k
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 24%
01What it does

What Dominican Retreat House Niskayuna does

Mission

The retreat house responds to others through the ministry of retreats by making available a sacred space of beauty, silence, worship and community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The retreat house responds to others through the ministry of retreats by making available a sacred space of beauty, silence, worship and community.

    $391,987 spent$151,255 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $391,987.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($417k) Expenses 100 ($499k) Net assets 100 ($903k)2025 Revenue 116 ($482k) Expenses 105 ($525k) Net assets 91 ($820k)
20232025
Revenue (116)Expenses (105)Net assets (91)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars.

$939k
$867k
20232025
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.

2023
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

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

−$82k
’23
−$43k
’25
3.1
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.

Board chair

Deacon Richard Thiesen

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20232025
Listed69
Joined··
No longer listed··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $700 → $100k.

From the IRS filings of DOMINICAN RETREAT HOUSE NISKAYUNA’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

DOMINICAN RETREAT HOUSE NISKAYUNA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

94%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2022 80% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

100% of DOMINICAN RETREAT HOUSE NISKAYUNA's grant income comes from New York funders.

WI
NY

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

’18
’19
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 23%Fundraising 2%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Domincan Sisters of Peace · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds DOMINICAN RETREAT HOUSE NISKAYUNA?
DOMINICAN RETREAT HOUSE NISKAYUNA (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $432,303 to it, the largest being MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ($406,503). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DOMINICAN RETREAT HOUSE NISKAYUNA have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $432,303 in grants to DOMINICAN RETREAT HOUSE NISKAYUNA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DOMINICAN RETREAT HOUSE NISKAYUNA?
MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $406,503 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DOMINICAN RETREAT HOUSE NISKAYUNA 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 4 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