New York · Nonprofit
OWASCO LAKE WATERSHED MANAGEMENT COUNCIL INC
OWASCO LAKE WATERSHED MANAGEMENT COUNCIL INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,279 to it, the largest being FRED L EMERSON FOUNDATION INC ($34,817). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
OWASCO LAKE WATERSHED MANAGEMENT COUNCIL INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,156 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,156 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Land Trust Alliance Incshared fundersportfolio match
- De French Foundation Incshared funderslocal
- Watersheds United Vermont Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
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: 2018 100% · 2019 95% · 2020 98% · 2021 98% · 2022 107% · 2023 100% · 2024 93% · 2025 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of OWASCO LAKE WATERSHED MANAGEMENT COUNCIL INC’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. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $8k → $28k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 OWASCO LAKE WATERSHED MANAGEMENT COUNCIL INC’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
OWASCO LAKE WATERSHED MANAGEMENT COUNCIL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
38% 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 OWASCO LAKE WATERSHED MANAGEMENT COUNCIL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 53% — 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
82% of OWASCO LAKE WATERSHED MANAGEMENT COUNCIL INC'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. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Land Trust Alliance Incshared fundersportfolio matchDC · backs 29 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- De French Foundation Incshared funderslocalNY · backs 38 organizations that share your funders · funds 34 organizations near you
- Watersheds United Vermont Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Waterkeeper Alliance Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Natural Resources Foundation Ofportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Open Space Institute Land Trust Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John C Bock Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wild Salmon Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bonneville Environmental Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rosso Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Great Lakes Fishery Trust Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like OWASCO LAKE WATERSHED MANAGEMENT COUNCIL INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
99%
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 OWASCO LAKE WATERSHED MANAGEMENT COUNCIL INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds OWASCO LAKE WATERSHED MANAGEMENT COUNCIL INC?
- OWASCO LAKE WATERSHED MANAGEMENT COUNCIL INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,279 to it, the largest being FRED L EMERSON FOUNDATION INC ($34,817). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OWASCO LAKE WATERSHED MANAGEMENT COUNCIL INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $62,279 in grants to OWASCO LAKE WATERSHED MANAGEMENT COUNCIL INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OWASCO LAKE WATERSHED MANAGEMENT COUNCIL INC?
- FRED L EMERSON FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $34,817 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OWASCO LAKE WATERSHED MANAGEMENT COUNCIL INC 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing