New York · Nonprofit
NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY (New York) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,479,421 to it, the largest being Peck Stacpoole Foundation ($602,750). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $18M
What New York Genealogical and Biographical Society does
Mission
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society (nyg&b) preserves, documents, and shares the stories of families across the state of new york. We engage with genealogists, biographers, historians, and organizations to establish the broader contexts of new york's past. The nyg&b actively fosters connections between new york's past and the present.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The nyg&b offers personalized research tours to repositories. Annual tours include visits to albany, new york city, and elsewhere. In addition to free monthly online programming, the nyg&b offers guidedheritage tours to international destinations and hands-on workshops covering a multitude of topics to new york family history and genealogy. In addition, the nyg&b offers the new york state family history conference, new york's only statewide family history event.
$337,298 spent$220,815 earned by the program19% of program spendingThe nyg&b welcomes members from across the united states who are interested in discovering and preserving new york stories. Our website, newyorkfamilyhistory.org, provides access to extensive new york records, an in-depth knowledge base of articles and research aids, and guides to each of new york's 62 counties. The nyg&b also offers personalized consultations and research services for individuals and organizations.
$1,044,061 spent$398,148 earned by the program59% of program spendingThe nyg&b publishes the new york genealogical and biographical record, a renowned peer reviewed quarterly that documents new york families and the new york researcher, a quarterly magazine devoted to sharing research articles and other timely information relating to new york family history. Significant publications also include the new york family history research guide and gazetter, tracing immigrants to new york, new york city municipal archives: an authorized guide, and a forthcoming guide to the holdings of the new york state archives for geneologists and local historians. In addition, the nyg&b publishes millions of records online at newyorkfamilyhistory.org.
$264,313 spent$-9,466 earned by the program15% of program spendingThe nyg&b actively engages in preserving and digitizing new york records, making materials accessible through its website newyorkfamilyhistory.org. In addition, the nyg&b offers individual consultations and conducts research projects on an ad-hoc basis.
$126,160 spent$35,128 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,771,832.
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 2021 to 2022, from $20M to $17M (−15%).
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.
22% of NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
William C Hallett
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $71k → $204k.
7 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY’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 GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 41% · 2019 54% · 2020 33% · 2021 48% · 2022 35% · 2023 42% — 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.
How long its funders stay
58% of NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
76% of NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY'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. $267k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,761 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,761 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$10k
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 NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
55%
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 NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY?
- NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY (New York) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,479,421 to it, the largest being Peck Stacpoole Foundation ($602,750). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,479,421 in grants to NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY?
- Peck Stacpoole Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $602,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 25 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