New York · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE NORTH COUNTRY INC
FRIENDS OF THE NORTH COUNTRY INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being GEORGE AND SHIRLEY MOORE FOUNDATION INC ($6,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $814k
What Friends of the North Country Inc does
Mission
Provide the means for the economically disadvantaged to achieve decent, safe housing.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
See schedule o:rural preservation: funds are used to research and develop applications to nys housing trust fund for home, nys affordable housing corporation (ahc), community development block grant (cdbg), access to home and the nys manufactured mobile home replacement program (mmhr) for funds to rehabilitate and replace housing for low-income homeowners. 3 hud cdbg (municipal) applications were submitted and 1 was awarded. Preservations funds are also used to support hazard mitigation planningactivities that enhance community stabilization and improvement goals consistent with strategic and comprehensive plans in the region. Funds are also utilized to support work with the clinton county housing coalition, a group dedicated to ending homelessness in the county. Rural preservation funds provide in part, for employee salaries and benefits, basic operational costs, and training and education of staff.
$66,488 spent$146,778 earned by the program2% of program spendingSee schedule o:housing assistance: staff counseled and/or assisted 192 consumers. This activity supports the delivery of a wide variety of housing counseling services to home buyers, homeowners,renters and the homeless. The primary objective of the program is to educate individuals and families to help them make informed decisions regarding the improvement of their housing status, to meet the responsibilities of homeownersihp and tenancy. Counselors help borrowers avoid high interestrate mortgages, unaffordable repayment terms,and other situations that can lead to loss of equity, increased debt, default, and foreclosure. Housing counselors distribute and provide a resource for fair housing and fair lending information. Counseling is provided through counselor-to-client assistance that addresses unique financial circumstances and housing issues, and focuses on overcoming specific obstacles to achieve housing goals such as repairing credit, addressing rental disputes, home purchase, down payment assistance, and raising awareness of critical housing, topics such as predatory lending practices, fair lending and fair housing requirements, finding units accessible for disabled…
$120,113 spent3% of program spendingSee schedule o:the owner-occupied housing rehabilitation and replacement program assisted 77 households. The emphasis of the program is to eliminate housing conditions that are detriminal to the health, safety, and public welfare through code enforcement, demolition of dilapidated units, housing rehabilitation and related activities, and to preserve local affordable housing stock. The program addresses energy efficiency of units both for savings as well as the environment. The program includes federal and state deferred payment loans (grants) to eligible property owners to provide safe, decent housing, a suitable living environment, and expanded economic opportunities primarily for low and moderate income persons in the surrounding communities. Loans through the owner occupied housing rehabilitation program are deferred payment, no-interest loans that only become due and payable upon sale, rental, refinance (some), or transfer of the property. The loan is forgiven if the owner resides in the property for the specified term of the loan (varies by program source and amount of funds). There are no monthly payments required with the loans which are secured in most programs, by a…
$3,788,428 spent95% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,975,029.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.1M to $1.7M (+58%).
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: 2017 82% · 2018 88% · 2019 94% · 2020 97% · 2021 98% · 2022 96% · 2023 97% · 2024 96% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of FRIENDS OF THE NORTH COUNTRY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% 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
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
Crystal Narducci
Executive director
Board chair
Bruce Garcia
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $1k.
From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF THE NORTH COUNTRY 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.
Where its funders are
100% of FRIENDS OF THE NORTH COUNTRY 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. 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
FRIENDS OF THE NORTH COUNTRY INC has grown faster than half of the 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE NORTH COUNTRY 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.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE NORTH COUNTRY INC?
- FRIENDS OF THE NORTH COUNTRY INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being GEORGE AND SHIRLEY MOORE FOUNDATION INC ($6,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE NORTH COUNTRY INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $6,000 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE NORTH COUNTRY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE NORTH COUNTRY INC?
- GEORGE AND SHIRLEY MOORE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE NORTH COUNTRY 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 1 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