New York · Nonprofit
FLYING DEER NATURE CENTER
FLYING DEER NATURE CENTER (New York) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $488,622 to it, the largest being NOVO FOUNDATION ($100,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $489k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Flying Deer Nature Center does
Mission
To mentor children, youth, adults and families in deep connection to nature, self, and others.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
School year programs: include "homeschool, "kindergarten, and "vacation camps." "homeschool" is a program that runs 10-12 weeks each fall and spring, and 4 weeks each winter, serving ages 7-17. "kindergarten" is a program that runs for 12 weeks each fall and spring, and 4 weeks each winter, serving ages 4-6. "vacation camps" is a 4 day long program that runs twice a year, once in december and once in february, serving ages 4-12.
$344,048 spent$264,366 earned by the program52% of program spendingSummer camp: include day camps that last for one week during the summer and are geared to children ages 4-17.
$214,123 spent$272,677 earned by the program32% of program spendingRites of passage: a three year program that meets monthly throughout the year and includes overnight components during the summer.
$49,531 spent$80,599 earned by the program8% of program spendingContract programs: include after school programming, field trips, or guest instructing for a day at a partner organization.
$41,147 spent$38,830 earned by the program6% of program spendingAdult programs: include "awakening wild and tracking and other one-time programs. These programs typically meet oncec a month or once a year.
$11,414 spent$12,245 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $660,263.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.9M to $2.3M (+20%).
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: 2020 2% · 2021 6% · 2022 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of FLYING DEER NATURE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Jaclyn Sinay
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $6k → $76k.
8 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 FLYING DEER NATURE CENTER’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
FLYING DEER NATURE CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
42% 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 FLYING DEER NATURE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 83% · 2019 69% · 2020 51% · 2021 60% · 2022 38% · 2023 28% — 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
38% of FLYING DEER NATURE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
FLYING DEER NATURE CENTER draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $206k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
FLYING DEER NATURE CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FLYING DEER NATURE CENTER
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 FLYING DEER NATURE CENTER: 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 FLYING DEER NATURE CENTER?
- FLYING DEER NATURE CENTER (New York) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $488,622 to it, the largest being NOVO FOUNDATION ($100,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FLYING DEER NATURE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $488,622 in grants to FLYING DEER NATURE CENTER, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FLYING DEER NATURE CENTER?
- NOVO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FLYING DEER NATURE CENTER 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 18 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