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FRIENDS OF ABANDONED CEMETERIES

FRIENDS OF ABANDONED CEMETERIES (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,000 to it, the largest being CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$90k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$11k
Net assets
$35k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Friends of Abandoned Cemeteries does

Mission

To promote and assist in the beautification, rehabilitation and cleanup of neglected or abandoned cemeteries, graveyards, buring grounds and churchyards; and to attempt to restore and maintain gravestones/markers and history of such final resting places.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Rehabilitation and cleanup of neglected or abandoned cemeteries, graveyards, burying grounds and churchyards. Restoration and maintenance of gravestones/markers.

    $16,179 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. To promote the beautification, rehabilitation and cleanup of neglected or abandoned cemeteries, graveyards, buring grounds and churchyards; .

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $16,179.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($62k) Expenses 100 ($63k) Net assets 100 ($668)2018 Revenue 201 ($125k) Expenses 192 ($122k) Net assets 567 ($4k)2019 Revenue 236 ($147k) Expenses 216 ($137k) Net assets 1999 ($13k)2020 Revenue 237 ($148k) Expenses 193 ($122k) Net assets 5848 ($39k)2021 Revenue 68 ($42k) Expenses 124 ($79k) Net assets 408 ($3k)2022 Revenue 189 ($118k) Expenses 157 ($99k) Net assets 3164 ($21k)2023 Revenue 143 ($89k) Expenses 168 ($106k) Net assets 576 ($4k)2024 Revenue 177 ($110k) Expenses 133 ($84k) Net assets 4523 ($30k)2025 Revenue 145 ($90k) Expenses 135 ($86k) Net assets 5240 ($35k)
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Revenue (145)Expenses (135)Net assets (5240)

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $39k to $3k (−93%).

$668
$4k
$13k
$39k
$3k
$21k
$4k
$30k
$35k
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Total assets

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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$1k
’17
$3k
’18
$10k
’19
$26k
’20
−$36k
’21
$18k
’22
−$17k
’23
$26k
’24
$5k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $1k.

Funder
'20
'23
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF ABANDONED CEMETERIES’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

FRIENDS OF ABANDONED CEMETERIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% 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

91% 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 FRIENDS OF ABANDONED CEMETERIES.

91%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 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 FRIENDS OF ABANDONED CEMETERIES's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY

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

’20
’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

Organizations like FRIENDS OF ABANDONED CEMETERIES

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

05Profile & governance

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

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 FRIENDS OF ABANDONED CEMETERIES?
FRIENDS OF ABANDONED CEMETERIES (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,000 to it, the largest being CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF ABANDONED CEMETERIES have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $11,000 in grants to FRIENDS OF ABANDONED CEMETERIES.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF ABANDONED CEMETERIES?
CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF ABANDONED CEMETERIES 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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing