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LOWER EAST SIDE CONSERVANCY LTD

LOWER EAST SIDE CONSERVANCY LTD (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $197 to it, the largest being S&P GLOBAL FOUNDATION FKA THE MCGRAW-HILL RESEARCH FOUNDATION ($100). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$259k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$197
Net assets
$240k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Lower East Side Conservancy Ltd does

Mission

The les jewish conservancys mission is to celebrate, preserve, and share the jewish heritage of nyc neighborhoods, starting with the iconic lower east side, the cradle of american jewish civilization.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.

The herz lower east side jewish ar/vr heritage trail will enable anyone to embark on an immersive journey through time, exploring synagogues, tenement buildings, and bustling streets, all while accessing archival photographs, film footage, oral histories, and 3d models. This new initiative will ensure preservation, promote awareness, engage new audiences, especially young people, and perpetuate jewish history, memory, and pride on the lower east side.

Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).

  1. Organizing educational tours, publications, and programs on nyc jewish history beginning with cradle of american jewish civilization on the lower east side.

    $47,197 spent$37,735 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $47,197.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($68k) Expenses 100 ($66k) Net assets 100 ($20k)2019 Revenue 100 ($68k) Expenses 84 ($56k) Net assets 163 ($33k)2020 Revenue 62 ($42k) Expenses 57 ($38k) Net assets 186 ($38k)2021 Revenue 82 ($56k) Expenses 73 ($48k) Net assets 225 ($46k)2022 Revenue 105 ($72k) Expenses 92 ($61k) Net assets 279 ($57k)2023 Revenue 110 ($75k) Expenses 107 ($71k) Net assets 299 ($61k)2024 Revenue 379 ($259k) Expenses 120 ($79k) Net assets 1180 ($240k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (379)Expenses (120)Net assets (1180)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 2023 to 2024, from $61k to $240k (+295%).

$20k
$33k
$38k
$46k
$57k
$61k
$240k
2018201920202021202220232024
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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

84% of LOWER EAST SIDE CONSERVANCY LTD’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,288 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$2k
’18
$13k
’19
$5k
’20
$8k
’21
$11k
’22
$4k
’23
$180k
’24
8.5
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $100 → $26.

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 LOWER EAST SIDE CONSERVANCY LTD’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

LOWER EAST SIDE CONSERVANCY LTD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

49% 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 LOWER EAST SIDE CONSERVANCY LTD.

51%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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

100% of LOWER EAST SIDE CONSERVANCY LTD's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $97 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

LOWER EAST SIDE CONSERVANCY LTD runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin69% · top quartile
Months of reserve8.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)25% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like LOWER EAST SIDE CONSERVANCY LTD

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

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

60% of spending goes to programs.

Program 60%Management 34%Fundraising 6%

Governance

0
board members
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

59%

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 LOWER EAST SIDE CONSERVANCY LTD: 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 LOWER EAST SIDE CONSERVANCY LTD?
LOWER EAST SIDE CONSERVANCY LTD (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $197 to it, the largest being S&P GLOBAL FOUNDATION FKA THE MCGRAW-HILL RESEARCH FOUNDATION ($100). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LOWER EAST SIDE CONSERVANCY LTD have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $197 in grants to LOWER EAST SIDE CONSERVANCY LTD, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LOWER EAST SIDE CONSERVANCY LTD?
S&P GLOBAL FOUNDATION FKA THE MCGRAW-HILL RESEARCH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LOWER EAST SIDE CONSERVANCY LTD find more funders?
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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 2018–2024), and the filings of 2 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