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FRIENDS OF THE COLD SPRING HARBOR FISH HATCHERY INCORPORATED

FRIENDS OF THE COLD SPRING HARBOR FISH HATCHERY INCORPORATED (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,093 to it, the largest being W F Whitman Family Foundation Inc ($11,541). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$527k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$23k
Net assets
$933k
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Friends of the Cold Spring Harbor Fish Hatchery Incorporated does

Mission

Focused on the aquatic ecosystem of new york state. In 2024 over 28,750 people including over 125 school groups visited the hatchery.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The primary program service of the hatchery is to serve as an education cultural public aquarium with the mission of educating the public on the aquatic ecosystems of new york state. In this regard over 28,550 people including over 125 school groups visited the hatchery in 2024.

    $340,712 spent$228,570 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $340,712.

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 ($389k) Expenses 100 ($460k) Net assets 100 ($238k)2018 Revenue 104 ($404k) Expenses 88 ($404k) Net assets 79 ($188k)2019 Revenue 109 ($425k) Expenses 82 ($378k) Net assets 99 ($235k)2020 Revenue 99 ($386k) Expenses 78 ($361k) Net assets 110 ($260k)2021 Revenue 130 ($504k) Expenses 87 ($398k) Net assets 154 ($367k)2022 Revenue 123 ($478k) Expenses 86 ($396k) Net assets 189 ($449k)2023 Revenue 129 ($501k) Expenses 96 ($440k) Net assets 362 ($861k)2024 Revenue 135 ($527k) Expenses 99 ($457k) Net assets 393 ($933k)
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Revenue (135)Expenses (99)Net assets (393)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 2022 to 2023, from $460k to $876k (+90%).

$321k
$207k
$250k
$276k
$385k
$460k
$876k
$952k
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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: 2017 9% · 2018 9% · 2019 8% · 2020 21% · 2021 15% · 2022 8% · 2023 10% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

29% of FRIENDS OF THE COLD SPRING HARBOR FISH HATCHERY INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,042 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$71k
’17
$615
’18
$47k
’19
$25k
’20
$106k
’21
$82k
’22
$61k
’23
$70k
’24
16
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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Listed1313131212121212
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0010000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $3k.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 FRIENDS OF THE COLD SPRING HARBOR FISH HATCHERY INCORPORATED’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 THE COLD SPRING HARBOR FISH HATCHERY INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

50% 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 THE COLD SPRING HARBOR FISH HATCHERY INCORPORATED.

50%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 88% · 2021 86% · 2022 92% · 2023 95% — 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

FRIENDS OF THE COLD SPRING HARBOR FISH HATCHERY INCORPORATED draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 2 states in all.

NY
DE

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

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’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FRIENDS OF THE COLD SPRING HARBOR FISH HATCHERY INCORPORATED holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin13% · above the median
Months of reserve16.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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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 19%Fundraising 7%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

78%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF THE COLD SPRING HARBOR FISH HATCHERY INCORPORATED?
FRIENDS OF THE COLD SPRING HARBOR FISH HATCHERY INCORPORATED (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,093 to it, the largest being W F Whitman Family Foundation Inc ($11,541). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE COLD SPRING HARBOR FISH HATCHERY INCORPORATED have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $23,093 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE COLD SPRING HARBOR FISH HATCHERY INCORPORATED, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE COLD SPRING HARBOR FISH HATCHERY INCORPORATED?
W F Whitman Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $11,541 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE COLD SPRING HARBOR FISH HATCHERY INCORPORATED 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 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