New Jersey · Nonprofit
LAKE HOPATCONG FOUNDATION
LAKE HOPATCONG FOUNDATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,223,298 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($498,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $685k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Lake Hopatcong Foundation does
Mission
Focusing on enhancing the lake hopatcong environment and experience, with efforts that include water quality, public safety, lake education, community cohesiveness, historical preservation, environmental protection, public information, and arts and culture.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Educational outreach/public information services - implement outreach programs on aquatic invasive species protection and lake ecology, environmental education field trips and public education cruises, public safety, and b-safe dock number programs.community - build a sense of lake community and support local businesses that surround it through the annual lake hopatcong block party. Improve and enhance recreational opportunities by offering guided hiking and paddle trips and maintain 11 miles of the lake hopatcong trail and working to expand the trail to be 40 miles around lake hopatcong. Environmental and cultural center - restore and re purpose the historical lake hopatcong train station in landing for use as the lake hopatcong cultural environmental center offering community programing and to serve as the office for the Lake Hopatcong Foundation.
$522,445 spent$116,450 earned by the program99% of program spendingWater quality- the Lake Hopatcong Foundation works to maintain and improve the lake environment as the health of the lake affects all facets of the lake hopatcong experience. The foundation partners with other stakeholder groups around the lake to implement water quality improvement projects and projects to mitigate the impacts of harmful algal blooms (habs) throughout the watershed. The foundation oversees hab volunteer monitoring and reporting program, prevents the introduction and limits the spread of new aquatic invasive species, through public outreach and volunteer efforts, and conducts roadside and lake-wide debris cleanups.
$3,012 spent1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $525,457.
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 2017 to 2018, from $2.0M to $2.6M (+28%).
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 38% · 2018 42% · 2019 28% · 2020 20% · 2021 21% · 2022 28% · 2023 7% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of LAKE HOPATCONG FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Kyle Richter
Executive director
Board chair
Martin Kane
Chairman & trustee
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $32k → $245k.
5 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 LAKE HOPATCONG FOUNDATION’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
LAKE HOPATCONG FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 LAKE HOPATCONG FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 36% · 2019 43% · 2020 75% · 2021 58% · 2022 41% · 2023 41% — 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
67% of LAKE HOPATCONG FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
53% of LAKE HOPATCONG FOUNDATION'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 $571k that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from funders outside New Jersey, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $652k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
LAKE HOPATCONG FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 15,537 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,537 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like LAKE HOPATCONG FOUNDATION
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 Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LAKE HOPATCONG FOUNDATION: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LAKE HOPATCONG FOUNDATION?
- LAKE HOPATCONG FOUNDATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,223,298 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($498,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LAKE HOPATCONG FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,223,298 in grants to LAKE HOPATCONG FOUNDATION, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAKE HOPATCONG FOUNDATION?
- THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $498,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAKE HOPATCONG FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 22 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing