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Songs at Mirror Lake Inc

Songs at Mirror Lake Inc (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,750 to it, the largest being HENRY UIHLEIN II AND MILDRED A UIHLEIN FOUNDATION ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$67k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$35k
Net assets
$65k
3/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 21%
01What it does

What Songs at Mirror Lake Inc does

Mission

A non profit, volunteer, community group effort with the goal of introducing Lake Placid, NY residents and tourists to a diverse range of musical genres and to provide local/regional emerging artists the opportunity for exposure and experience.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Produced a free seven week summer concert series in Lake Placid, New York that included local, regional and national acts

    $56,034 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $56,034.

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 ($58k) Expenses 100 ($45k) Net assets 100 ($47k)2019 Revenue 106 ($62k) Expenses 149 ($67k) Net assets 99 ($47k)2020 Revenue 48 ($28k) Expenses 5 ($2k) Net assets 155 ($73k)2021 Revenue 78 ($46k) Expenses 134 ($61k) Net assets 123 ($58k)2022 Revenue 139 ($81k) Expenses 156 ($71k) Net assets 146 ($69k)2023 Revenue 122 ($71k) Expenses 127 ($57k) Net assets 175 ($83k)2024 Revenue 114 ($67k) Expenses 187 ($85k) Net assets 137 ($65k)
2017201920202021202220232024
Revenue (114)Expenses (187)Net assets (137)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 2019 to 2020, from $47k to $73k (+56%).

$47k
$47k
$73k
$58k
$69k
$83k
$65k
2017201920202021202220232024
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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

35% of Songs at Mirror Lake Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$13k
’17
−$5k
’19
$26k
’20
−$15k
’21
$11k
’22
$14k
’23
−$18k
’24

Leadership and staff

Board chair

Bill Billerman

Chair

As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $6k → $7k.

From the IRS filings of Songs at Mirror Lake 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

Songs at Mirror Lake Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

86%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 86% · 2022 92% · 2023 83% — 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

100% of Songs at Mirror Lake Inc's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY

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

’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Songs at Mirror Lake Inc has grown faster than half of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−27% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like Songs at Mirror Lake Inc

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.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Songs at Mirror Lake 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Songs at Mirror Lake Inc?
Songs at Mirror Lake Inc (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,750 to it, the largest being HENRY UIHLEIN II AND MILDRED A UIHLEIN FOUNDATION ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Songs at Mirror Lake Inc have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $34,750 in grants to Songs at Mirror Lake Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Songs at Mirror Lake Inc?
HENRY UIHLEIN II AND MILDRED A UIHLEIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Songs at Mirror Lake 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.

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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 3 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