New Hampshire · Nonprofit
Lake Winnipesaukee Association
Lake Winnipesaukee Association (New Hampshire) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $842,282 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($212,020). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $969k
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $842k
- Net assets
- $834k
What Lake Winnipesaukee Association does
Mission
The Lake Winnipesaukee Alliance (LWA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the water quality and natural resources of Lake Winnipesaukee and its watershed now and for the future.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Science and solutions: focuses on advancing science-based projects, monitoring, and efforts that protect and improve the long-term health of lake winnipesaukee and its watershed. This includes watershed management planning, water quality monitoring, data collection and analysis, cyanobacteria monitoring, and the completion of restoration and mitigation projects. This includes projects such as the melvin wharf bmp project, resort on the bay stormwater improvements, the sandy cove road stormwater project, watershed management plans, ongoing lake and tributary water quality monitoring, and development of the state of the lake initiative to better understand current conditions, trends, and future risks facing the watershed. These efforts are designed to move from science to actionable solutions that reduce nutrient loading, sedimentation, chloride impacts, and other threats to water quality.
$677,422 spent95% of program spendingCommunity outreach and education: includes programs and initiatives focused on engaging residents, visitors, municipalities, businesses, and watershed stakeholders in protecting lake winnipesaukee through science-based education, communication, and stewardship. This includes programs such as lakesmart through nh lakes, educational talks at hoa annual meetings and community events, participation in local committees and partnerships, public workshops and presentations, water quality and cyanobacteria outreach, social media and digital communications and volunteer engagement. These efforts help translate complex lake science into clear, actionable information while promoting best management practices related to stormwater runoff, septic systems, road salt, invasive species, and watershed protection.
$36,900 spent$1,502 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $714,322.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $305k to $837k (+174%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 4% · 2022 0% · 2023 19% · 2024 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Eric Siy
Executive director
Board chair
Mark Ishkanian
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 14 funders, grant income rose $7k → $73k.
9 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 Winnipesaukee Association’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 funders by total. 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 Winnipesaukee Association has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
75% 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 Winnipesaukee Association.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 97% · 2019 64% · 2020 50% · 2021 54% · 2022 30% · 2023 31% — 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
58% of Lake Winnipesaukee Association's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
72% of Lake Winnipesaukee Association'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 $234k that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from New Hampshire funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $608k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Government funding Lake Winnipesaukee Association receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $500k on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$500k
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 Lake Winnipesaukee Association
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 Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Lake Winnipesaukee Association: 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 Winnipesaukee Association?
- Lake Winnipesaukee Association (New Hampshire) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $842,282 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($212,020). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Lake Winnipesaukee Association have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $842,282 in grants to Lake Winnipesaukee Association, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lake Winnipesaukee Association?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $212,020 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lake Winnipesaukee Association find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 35 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