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DUNKIRK HISTORICAL LIGHTHOUSE VETERAND PARK MUSEUM

DUNKIRK HISTORICAL LIGHTHOUSE VETERAND PARK MUSEUM (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $257 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($191). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$66k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$257
Net assets
$349k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Dunkirk Historical Lighthouse Veterand Park Museum does

Mission

Preservation of lighthouse and educational information

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Preservation of lighthouse and educational information

    $41,571 spentof which $6,100 as grants$72,776 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $41,571.

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 ($58k) Expenses 100 ($43k) Net assets 100 ($199k)2018 Revenue 85 ($50k) Expenses 113 ($49k) Net assets 100 ($200k)2019 Revenue 86 ($50k) Expenses 108 ($47k) Net assets 102 ($203k)2020 Revenue 68 ($39k) Expenses 82 ($35k) Net assets 104 ($207k)2021 Revenue 128 ($74k) Expenses 85 ($36k) Net assets 123 ($245k)2022 Revenue 228 ($133k) Expenses 99 ($43k) Net assets 168 ($335k)2023 Revenue 122 ($71k) Expenses 139 ($60k) Net assets 174 ($346k)2024 Revenue 114 ($66k) Expenses 147 ($63k) Net assets 175 ($349k)
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Revenue (114)Expenses (147)Net assets (175)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 $245k to $335k (+37%).

$199k
$200k
$203k
$207k
$245k
$335k
$346k
$349k
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

39% of DUNKIRK HISTORICAL LIGHTHOUSE VETERAND PARK MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,273 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$15k
’17
$949
’18
$3k
’19
$4k
’20
$38k
’21
$90k
’22
$11k
’23
$3k
’24
19
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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Listed1818191618202021
Joined·+0+2+0+2+3+0+2
No longer listed·0130101
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $109 → $40.

Funder
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'21
'22
'23
total
funders
2
1
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 DUNKIRK HISTORICAL LIGHTHOUSE VETERAND PARK MUSEUM’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

DUNKIRK HISTORICAL LIGHTHOUSE VETERAND PARK MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% 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

74% 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 DUNKIRK HISTORICAL LIGHTHOUSE VETERAND PARK MUSEUM.

74%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 61% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

74% of DUNKIRK HISTORICAL LIGHTHOUSE VETERAND PARK MUSEUM'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 $66 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 1 state.

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Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $191 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

DUNKIRK HISTORICAL LIGHTHOUSE VETERAND PARK MUSEUM runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,043 unclassified nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · above the median
Months of reserve19.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,043 unclassified nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like DUNKIRK HISTORICAL LIGHTHOUSE VETERAND PARK MUSEUM

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In New York

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 23%Fundraising 0%

Governance

19
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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds DUNKIRK HISTORICAL LIGHTHOUSE VETERAND PARK MUSEUM?
DUNKIRK HISTORICAL LIGHTHOUSE VETERAND PARK MUSEUM (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $257 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($191). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does DUNKIRK HISTORICAL LIGHTHOUSE VETERAND PARK MUSEUM have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $257 in grants to DUNKIRK HISTORICAL LIGHTHOUSE VETERAND PARK MUSEUM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DUNKIRK HISTORICAL LIGHTHOUSE VETERAND PARK MUSEUM?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $191 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DUNKIRK HISTORICAL LIGHTHOUSE VETERAND PARK MUSEUM 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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