Connecticut · Nonprofit
New Canaan Preservation Alliance
New Canaan Preservation Alliance (Connecticut) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,750 to it, the largest being THE MORRIS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,400). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $42k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $34k
What New Canaan Preservation Alliance does
Mission
New Canaan Preservation Alliance inc is a non-profit organization, which responds to rising concerns over the rapid disappearance of new canaan's historic built, and natural environments. Ncpa uses revenue collected from its members, as well as grant, and fundraising revenues to carry out its mission of establishing as a community priority the conservation of the town's character-defining historic architectural and natural environments. Through a variety of lectures, programs, and historic architectural surveys, ncpa strives to establish alliances that help protect the irreplaceable characteristics of new canaan, connecticut.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Submitted a New Historic District Application to the State who submitted to the National Park Service
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
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 2024 to 2025, from $19k to $34k (+75%).
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 New Canaan Preservation Alliance’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $250.
From the IRS filings of New Canaan Preservation Alliance’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
New Canaan Preservation Alliance leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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: 2017 100% · 2020 67% · 2021 100% · 2022 50% · 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
New Canaan Preservation Alliance draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, 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
New Canaan Preservation Alliance runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like New Canaan Preservation Alliance
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for New Canaan Preservation Alliance: 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 New Canaan Preservation Alliance?
- New Canaan Preservation Alliance (Connecticut) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,750 to it, the largest being THE MORRIS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,400). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does New Canaan Preservation Alliance have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $2,750 in grants to New Canaan Preservation Alliance, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of New Canaan Preservation Alliance?
- THE MORRIS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like New Canaan Preservation Alliance find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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