New York · Nonprofit
ECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF SARANAC LAKE INC
ECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF SARANAC LAKE INC (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,925 to it, the largest being ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION ($82,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $130k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $176k
- Net assets
- $301k
What Ecumenical Council of Saranac Lake Inc does
Mission
The Ecumenical Council of Saranac Lake is an organization of participating churches that work together to accomplish community objectives that would be difficult or impossible for each individual church on its own. By working together, we foster unity in the church community, demonstrate the oneness of Jesus Christ, pursue peace and justice through community service and provide opportunity for inter-denominational dialogue.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Samaritan House provided transitional housing to approximately 60 homeless clients.
$110,038 spent49% of program spendingThe Emergency Assistance Fund helps on average 50 to 60 families and individuals per year to cover heating bills, rent, phone bills, electric bills and others.
$20,527 spent9% of program spendingGrace Pantry provided household and personal care items that are unavailable for SNAP funding to approximately 350 individuals and families.
$27,352 spent12% of program spendingHope Fund
$56,203 spent25% of program spendingChildrens Fund
$8,496 spent4% of program spendingChristmas Box Program
$3,485 spent2% of program spendingRefugee Fund
$88 spent0% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $226,189.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $208k to $400k (+93%).
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.
93% of ECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF SARANAC LAKE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $7k → $20k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 ECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF SARANAC LAKE 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
ECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF SARANAC LAKE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
47% 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 ECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF SARANAC LAKE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 76% · 2019 100% · 2020 55% · 2021 43% · 2022 35% · 2023 49% — 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
100% of ECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF SARANAC LAKE INC'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. $83k 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.
Against its field
ECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF SARANAC LAKE INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF SARANAC LAKE 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
98%
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 ECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF SARANAC LAKE INC: 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 ECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF SARANAC LAKE INC?
- ECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF SARANAC LAKE INC (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,925 to it, the largest being ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION ($82,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF SARANAC LAKE INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $175,925 in grants to ECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF SARANAC LAKE INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF SARANAC LAKE INC?
- ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $82,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF SARANAC LAKE 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 6 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