New York · Nonprofit
NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS
NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS (New York) receives grants from 102 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,821,287 to it, the largest being THE HABE FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 79 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.0M
- Funders on record
- 102
- Grants received
- $6.8M
- Net assets
- $36M
What Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks does
Mission
To ignite an enduring passion for nature that inspires action to ensure a thriving natural world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Education, exhibition and other public programs.
$4,972,706 spent$2,102,178 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,972,706.
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 $32M to $36M (+11%).
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 11% · 2018 12% · 2019 7% · 2020 25% · 2021 23% · 2022 21% · 2023 16% · 2024 19% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Karen Thomas
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 29 funders to 56 funders, grant income rose $705k → $791k.
15 of 102 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 102 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
NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 40% · 2019 27% · 2020 28% · 2021 15% · 2022 13% · 2023 13% — 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 NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
61% of NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS
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.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS?
- NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS (New York) receives grants from 102 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,821,287 to it, the largest being THE HABE FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 79 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS have?
- IRS filings report 102 organizations giving $6,821,287 in grants to NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS, 79 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS?
- THE HABE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS 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 102 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