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NEW YORK LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND
NEW YORK LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND (New York) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,847,994 to it, the largest being LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC ($550,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund does
Mission
See schedule onylcvef's mission is to educate, engage and empower new yorkers to be effective advocates on behalf of the environment from clean energy and funding for parks, to solid waste and green buildings. First, we educate new yorkers about environmental issues and the environmental decision making processes at the local, regional, state and federal government levels. Second, we engage all sector selected officials, policymakers, businesses, community groups and grassroots citizensin open, nonpartisan discussion about sustainability policies in order to achieve the environmental breakthroughs that new york needs.third, and perhaps most importantly, we empower new yorkers to make environmental change by engaging them in the civic process. That includes voter registration, helping residents make their voices heard on environmental issues, and connecting new yorkers with candidates, elected officials and policy makers.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Our vote is our power campaign took a big turn in 2024 as we creative evocative large- scale projections urging everyone to vote; we played a key leadership role in the wind works new york coalition of environmental, labor, clergy, and community groups dedicated to the development of offshore wind energy in new york; we educated through data, mapping nyc's lead service lines and nys' offshore wind industry supply chain; our robust programming in 2024 included candidate forums, panel discussions, our lunch and learn series, and tabling at dozens of community events across the state.
$1,498,867 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,498,867.
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 $970k to $2.0M (+101%).
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: 2021 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of NEW YORK LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% 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
Thomas Dewey
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $39k → $310k.
17 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
NEW YORK LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders 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 LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 55% · 2019 37% · 2020 47% · 2021 48% · 2022 28% · 2023 36% — growing more concentrated.
“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
62% of NEW YORK LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
NEW YORK LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,187 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,187 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like NEW YORK LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- New York League of Conservation Voters Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEW YORK LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND?
- NEW YORK LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND (New York) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,847,994 to it, the largest being LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC ($550,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW YORK LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $2,847,994 in grants to NEW YORK LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW YORK LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND?
- LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW YORK LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND 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 37 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