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Greenpoint Monitor Museum

Greenpoint Monitor Museum (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $123,160 to it, the largest being CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC ($113,160). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2023
$29k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$123k
Net assets
$1.5M
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 69%
01What it does

What Greenpoint Monitor Museum does

Mission

Education involving the USS Monitor Civil War history and local Greenpoint (Brooklyn) history where the USS Monitor was constructed and launched. Prepare historic donated land for future museum and public access.

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.

Program

On its FY2021 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.

  1. No road show school classes due to covid this also impacted outdoor events on the museums land maintenance of site continued including mowing of grass and weeds included in 2021 wages for george j weimann

The program described on its FY2021 Form 990.

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 ($412k) Expenses 100 ($25k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2018 Revenue 28 ($117k) Expenses 130 ($32k) Net assets 107 ($1.4M)2019 Revenue 40 ($164k) Expenses 484 ($119k) Net assets 111 ($1.4M)2020 Revenue 3 ($12k) Expenses 63 ($15k) Net assets 120 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 2 ($6k) Expenses 53 ($13k) Net assets 118 ($1.5M)2022 Revenue 2 ($7k) Expenses 67 ($16k) Net assets 112 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 7 ($29k) Expenses 66 ($16k) Net assets 117 ($1.5M)
2017201820192020202120222023
Revenue (7)Expenses (66)Net assets (117)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 2019 to 2020, from $1.7M to $1.8M (+7%).

$1.5M
$1.6M
$1.7M
$1.8M
$1.8M
$1.7M
$1.8M
2017201820192020202120222023
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2018 10% · 2020 86% · 2021 77% · 2022 69% · 2023 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of Greenpoint Monitor Museum’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$388k
’17
$85k
’18
$45k
’19
−$4k
’20
−$7k
’21
−$9k
’22
$12k
’23
11
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.

2017201820192020202120222023
Listed7777777
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $113k.

From the IRS filings of Greenpoint Monitor Museum’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

Greenpoint Monitor Museum leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% 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

100% 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 Greenpoint Monitor Museum.

92%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 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 Greenpoint Monitor Museum's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY

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

’17
’19
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

Against its field

Greenpoint Monitor Museum runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,279 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin43% · top quartile
Months of reserve10.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−36% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,279 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2023

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
71%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds Greenpoint Monitor Museum?
Greenpoint Monitor Museum (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $123,160 to it, the largest being CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC ($113,160). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Greenpoint Monitor Museum have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $123,160 in grants to Greenpoint Monitor Museum.
Who is the largest funder of Greenpoint Monitor Museum?
CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $113,160 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Greenpoint Monitor Museum find more funders?
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing