New York · Nonprofit
Lake Placid Forum for the Arts & Humanities Inc
Lake Placid Forum for the Arts & Humanities Inc (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,177 to it, the largest being SINGING FIELD FOUNDATION INC ($17,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $705
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $31k
- Net assets
- $90k
What Lake Placid Forum for the Arts & Humanities Inc does
Mission
Promotion of the arts and humanities for purposes of cultural and economic advancement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Developed and sponsored series of meetings, lectures, seminars and workshops involving various artists, musicians, writers; published historical and cultural books; introduced area youth to poetry, photography, and video exhibition/competition opportunities
$2,388 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $2,388.
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 2020 to 2021, from $77k to $101k (+30%).
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.
100% of Lake Placid Forum for the Arts & Humanities Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Jon Donk
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $1k.
From the IRS filings of Lake Placid Forum for the Arts & Humanities 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
Lake Placid Forum for the Arts & Humanities Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 43% · 2021 63% · 2022 75% · 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.
Where its funders are
Lake Placid Forum for the Arts & Humanities Inc draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
Lake Placid Forum for the Arts & Humanities Inc's revenue fell 99% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Lake Placid Forum for the Arts & Humanities 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.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Lake Placid Forum for the Arts & Humanities 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Lake Placid Forum for the Arts & Humanities Inc?
- Lake Placid Forum for the Arts & Humanities Inc (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,177 to it, the largest being SINGING FIELD FOUNDATION INC ($17,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Lake Placid Forum for the Arts & Humanities Inc have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $31,177 in grants to Lake Placid Forum for the Arts & Humanities Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lake Placid Forum for the Arts & Humanities Inc?
- SINGING FIELD FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $17,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lake Placid Forum for the Arts & Humanities 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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