Skip to content

New York · Nonprofit

Kopernik Society of Broome County Inc

Kopernik Society of Broome County Inc (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,565 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEW YORK INC ($34,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$493k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$106k
Net assets
$1.7M
4/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%
01What it does

What Kopernik Society of Broome County Inc does

Mission

Operate an astronomical observatory and science learning center, and promote Polish heritage.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Programs and events were conducted during the year.

    $184,605 spent$132,743 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $184,605.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($577k) Expenses 100 ($199k) Net assets 100 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 49 ($282k) Expenses 123 ($245k) Net assets 102 ($1.5M)2022 Revenue 57 ($330k) Expenses 158 ($316k) Net assets 103 ($1.5M)2023 Revenue 79 ($456k) Expenses 182 ($362k) Net assets 110 ($1.6M)2024 Revenue 85 ($493k) Expenses 208 ($414k) Net assets 115 ($1.7M)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (85)Expenses (208)Net assets (115)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 $1.5M to $1.7M (+10%).

$1.5M
$1.5M
$1.5M
$1.7M
$1.7M
20202021202220232024
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

67% of Kopernik Society of Broome County Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$378k
’20
$37k
’21
$14k
’22
$93k
’23
$79k
’24
8.5
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.

20202021202220232024
Listed1112121315
Joined·+1+3+2+2
No longer listed·0310
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $14k → $449.

4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 Kopernik Society of Broome County 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

Kopernik Society of Broome County Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

68% 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 Kopernik Society of Broome County Inc.

33%
largest funder
78%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 67% · 2020 94% · 2021 79% · 2022 93% · 2023 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.

How long its funders stay

20% of Kopernik Society of Broome County Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

55% of Kopernik Society of Broome County Inc'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 $47k that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 2 states.

AK
NY

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

’18
’19
’20
’21
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $58k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Kopernik Society of Broome County Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin16% · above the median
Months of reserve8.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding Kopernik Society of Broome County Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $24k on record.

Federal$24k
grants $24kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration$24k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like Kopernik Society of Broome County 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

45% of spending goes to programs.

Program 45%Management 55%Fundraising 1%

Governance

12
board members
83%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Kopernik Society of Broome County Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

A paid feature, included from the $75 plan up. Sign in to download.

Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds Kopernik Society of Broome County Inc?
Kopernik Society of Broome County Inc (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,565 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEW YORK INC ($34,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Kopernik Society of Broome County Inc have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $105,565 in grants to Kopernik Society of Broome County Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Kopernik Society of Broome County Inc?
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEW YORK INC is the largest funder on record, with $34,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Kopernik Society of Broome County 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.

Play a game about who funds Kopernik Society of Broome County →

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 8 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