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NEW YORK FUND FOR CONSERVATION INC CO The Nature Conservancy New York

NEW YORK FUND FOR CONSERVATION INC CO The Nature Conservancy New York (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,987,000 to it, the largest being THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ($1,210,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.1M
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$2.0M
Net assets
$59k
2/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 73%
01What it does

What NEW YORK FUND FOR CONSERVATION INC CO The Nature Conservancy New York does

Mission

To promote social welfare and civic betterment by advancing environmental conservation and conservation efforts.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Promotion of social welfare and civic betterment by advancing environmental conservation and conservation efforts.

    $1,050,278 spent$1,067,234 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,050,278.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($413k) Expenses 100 ($343k) Net assets 100 ($70k)2020 Revenue 16 ($65k) Expenses 15 ($50k) Net assets 100 ($70k)2021 Revenue 4 ($15k) Expenses 14 ($47k) Net assets 54 ($37k)2022 Revenue 267 ($1.1M) Expenses 52 ($177k) Net assets 1378 ($961k)2023 Revenue 690 ($2.8M) Expenses 1092 ($3.7M) Net assets 92 ($64k)2025 Revenue 259 ($1.1M) Expenses 311 ($1.1M) Net assets 85 ($59k)
201720202021202220232025
Revenue (259)Expenses (311)Net assets (85)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 2021 to 2022, from $37k to $961k (+2462%).

$70k
$70k
$37k
$961k
$64k
$59k
201720202021202220232025
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.

2017
2020
2021
2022
2023
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of NEW YORK FUND FOR CONSERVATION INC CO The Nature Conservancy New York’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,293 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$70k
’17
$15k
’20
−$32k
’21
$923k
’22
−$897k
’23
$61
’25
0.7
months of
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.

2017202220232025
Listed4443
Joined··+0·
No longer listed··0·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $40k → $917k.

1 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 NEW YORK FUND FOR CONSERVATION INC CO The Nature Conservancy New York’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 YORK FUND FOR CONSERVATION INC CO The Nature Conservancy New York leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% 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

99% 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 NEW YORK FUND FOR CONSERVATION INC CO The Nature Conservancy New York.

61%
largest funder
96%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 63% · 2022 62% · 2023 55% — 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.

Where its funders are

61% of NEW YORK FUND FOR CONSERVATION INC CO The Nature Conservancy New York'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 $777k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from New York funders.

NY
CA
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M 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

NEW YORK FUND FOR CONSERVATION INC CO The Nature Conservancy New York has grown faster than half of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin0% · below the median
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like NEW YORK FUND FOR CONSERVATION INC CO The Nature Conservancy New York

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds NEW YORK FUND FOR CONSERVATION INC CO The Nature Conservancy New York?
NEW YORK FUND FOR CONSERVATION INC CO The Nature Conservancy New York (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,987,000 to it, the largest being THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ($1,210,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does NEW YORK FUND FOR CONSERVATION INC CO The Nature Conservancy New York have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,987,000 in grants to NEW YORK FUND FOR CONSERVATION INC CO The Nature Conservancy New York, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NEW YORK FUND FOR CONSERVATION INC CO The Nature Conservancy New York?
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY is the largest funder on record, with $1,210,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NEW YORK FUND FOR CONSERVATION INC CO The Nature Conservancy New York 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 9 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