New York · Nonprofit
Newtown Creek Alliance Incorporated
Newtown Creek Alliance Incorporated (New York) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $739,394 to it, the largest being BILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC ($188,200). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $659k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $739k
- Net assets
- $670k
What Newtown Creek Alliance Incorporated does
Mission
The Newtown Creek Alliance is a community-based organization dedicated to restoring, revealing and revitalizing Newtown Creek.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Education: The Newtown Creek Alliance (NCA) conducts tours and field trips of Newtown Creek that educate the public about the history of the waterway, the local ecology, pollution issues and paths towards recovery. NCA partners with educational institutions to teach Newtown Creek-based curricula. - Advocacy NCA works to protect human and ecological health on Newtown Creek and within the surrounding neighborhoods through the cleanup of historically contaminated sites, elimination of ongoing pollution sources and responsible brownfield redevelopment. NCA informs the public of the pollution hazards present and benefits of remediation. - Restoration NCA facilitates the implementation of green infrastructure in the Newtown Creek watershed by informing the public of the quality of life benefits resulting from the implementation of green infrastructure and educating the public about potential sites for new green infrastructure. NCA works to nurture and expand open spaces along Newtown Creek by informing the public of ongoing open space activities and educating the public about potential sites for new open spaces. NCA works to restore wildlife habitat in and along Newtown Creek by…
$472,605 spent$21,277 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $472,605.
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 2022 to 2023, from $402k to $584k (+45%).
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: 2019 27% · 2020 20% · 2021 26% · 2022 21% · 2023 26% · 2024 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of Newtown Creek Alliance Incorporated’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Willis Elkins
Executive Director
Board chair
Natalie Vichnevsky
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $51k → $127k.
5 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 Newtown Creek Alliance Incorporated’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
Newtown Creek Alliance Incorporated has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
62% 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 Newtown Creek Alliance Incorporated.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 100% · 2019 84% · 2020 34% · 2021 57% · 2022 38% · 2023 39% — 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
33% of Newtown Creek Alliance Incorporated's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
55% of Newtown Creek Alliance Incorporated'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. $81k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Newtown Creek Alliance Incorporated has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding Newtown Creek Alliance Incorporated receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$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 Newtown Creek Alliance Incorporated
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Newtown Creek Alliance Incorporated: 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 Newtown Creek Alliance Incorporated?
- Newtown Creek Alliance Incorporated (New York) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $739,394 to it, the largest being BILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC ($188,200). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Newtown Creek Alliance Incorporated have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $739,394 in grants to Newtown Creek Alliance Incorporated, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Newtown Creek Alliance Incorporated?
- BILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC is the largest funder on record, with $188,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Newtown Creek Alliance Incorporated 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 22 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