New York · Nonprofit
GUARDIANS OF FLUSHING BAY INC
GUARDIANS OF FLUSHING BAY INC (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $780,265 to it, the largest being CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC ($125,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $463k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $780k
- Net assets
- $433k
What Guardians of Flushing Bay Inc does
Mission
Guardians of Flushing Bay, Inc. ("GoFB") is a coalition of human-powered boaters, park users, and local residents advocating for healthy and equitably accessible Flushing Waterways. We accomplish our goals through family-friendly waterfront programming, community science and stewardship, and grassroots organizing.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Ecosystem repair: GoFB builds a network of stewards across our watershed to restore habitats, manage stormwater and collect environmental quality data.
$237,981 spent53% of program spendingGetting People to the Water: GoFB connects local residents to Flushing Waterways through boating tours, walking tours and artist workshops.
$145,198 spent32% of program spendingLand Use Equity: GoFB builds, sustains and supports grassroots coalitions advocating for equitable development and environmentally just land use in our watershed.
$67,226 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $450,405.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $487k to $744k (+53%).
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: 2022 14% · 2023 22% · 2024 34% · 2025 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of GUARDIANS OF FLUSHING BAY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Akila Simon
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $15k → $248k.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 GUARDIANS OF FLUSHING BAY 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.
How concentrated its funding is
GUARDIANS OF FLUSHING BAY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
65% 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 GUARDIANS OF FLUSHING BAY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 63% · 2021 63% · 2022 27% · 2023 24% — 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
75% of GUARDIANS OF FLUSHING BAY INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 53% 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
61% of GUARDIANS OF FLUSHING BAY 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. $149k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
GUARDIANS OF FLUSHING BAY INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GUARDIANS OF FLUSHING BAY 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
74% 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 GUARDIANS OF FLUSHING BAY INC?
- GUARDIANS OF FLUSHING BAY INC (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $780,265 to it, the largest being CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC ($125,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GUARDIANS OF FLUSHING BAY INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $780,265 in grants to GUARDIANS OF FLUSHING BAY INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GUARDIANS OF FLUSHING BAY INC?
- CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GUARDIANS OF FLUSHING BAY 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 15 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