New York · Nonprofit
GUNKS CLIMBERS COALITION
GUNKS CLIMBERS COALITION (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,668 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($23,472). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $45k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $69k
- Net assets
- $189k
What Gunks Climbers Coalition does
Mission
The Gunks Climbers' Coalition is an advocacy group dedicated to creating and maintaining sustainable opportunities for responsible climbing along the Shawangunk Ridge and surrounding areas.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
We hosted 2 climbing festivals focused on climbing education and community building. The winter event was a 1-day event at a climbing gym. The fall event was a two-day event at an outdoor climbing crag.
$15,864 spent59% of program spendingIn previous years, a GCC survey identified over 1500 infested hemlock trees on 218 acres, including .75 miles of cliff line habitat. In 2025, we continued treating the impacted trees.
$7,773 spent29% of program spendingWe began a climbing stewards program in Minnewaska State Park at the Peter's Kill climbing area in 2024. The climber stewards play an important role in helping Minnewaska manage climbing with trailhead tabling and crag-side chats. Stewards educate climbers on best land use practices and environmental concerns that are unique to the area. They also help direct climbers to different areas of the crag to help prevent overcrowding. We continued this program in 2025.
$3,161 spent12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $26,798.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $151k to $169k (+12%).
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.
27% of GUNKS CLIMBERS COALITION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Peter Cody
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $4k → $2k.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 GUNKS CLIMBERS COALITION’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
GUNKS CLIMBERS COALITION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
87% 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 GUNKS CLIMBERS COALITION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 55% · 2021 98% · 2022 54% · 2023 83% — 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
20% of GUNKS CLIMBERS COALITION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
63% of GUNKS CLIMBERS COALITION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $26k that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
GUNKS CLIMBERS COALITION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,195 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like GUNKS CLIMBERS COALITION
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.
Public support
96%
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 GUNKS CLIMBERS COALITION?
- GUNKS CLIMBERS COALITION (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,668 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($23,472). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GUNKS CLIMBERS COALITION have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $68,668 in grants to GUNKS CLIMBERS COALITION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GUNKS CLIMBERS COALITION?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $23,472 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GUNKS CLIMBERS COALITION 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 11 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