New Jersey · Nonprofit
TEANECK CREEK CONSERVANCY INC
TEANECK CREEK CONSERVANCY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $697,790 to it, the largest being THE PUFFIN FOUNDATION LTD (F/K/A PUFFIN NEW JERSEY INC) ($649,325). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $190k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $698k
- Net assets
- $110k
What Teaneck Creek Conservancy Inc does
Mission
The organization's purpose is to advance the cause of nature study, site specific interpretative art, restoration of wetlands and restoring the natural flora in and about teaneck, new jersey.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
To offer bergen county residents an opportunity to participate in and enjoy the environmental and cultural restoration of the non-degraded area; and that the park will uniquely make use of art and landscape design to synthesize the natural, historical and cultural history of this area; and teach children to take responsibility for preserving and enhancing the area. To manage and improve the premises as a natural and culturally passive sanctuary and interpretive center.to conduct programs of passive recreational, environmental and educational activity which shall be open to the public without discrimination as provided by law with special emphasis on school age children, and in accordance with the park rules and regulations adapted by the county and all applicable new jersey statutes.
$112,343 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $112,343.
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 $141k to $107k (−24%).
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.
98% of TEANECK CREEK CONSERVANCY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Kathleen Farley
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $68k → $94k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 TEANECK CREEK CONSERVANCY 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
TEANECK CREEK CONSERVANCY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 99% · 2019 92% · 2020 82% · 2021 76% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
94% of TEANECK CREEK CONSERVANCY INC's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $294 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
TEANECK CREEK CONSERVANCY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding TEANECK CREEK CONSERVANCY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $654k on record.
- TRUST FUND$647k
- GRANT IN AID$6k
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 TEANECK CREEK CONSERVANCY 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 Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
40%
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 TEANECK CREEK CONSERVANCY 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 TEANECK CREEK CONSERVANCY INC?
- TEANECK CREEK CONSERVANCY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $697,790 to it, the largest being THE PUFFIN FOUNDATION LTD (F/K/A PUFFIN NEW JERSEY INC) ($649,325). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TEANECK CREEK CONSERVANCY INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $697,790 in grants to TEANECK CREEK CONSERVANCY INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TEANECK CREEK CONSERVANCY INC?
- THE PUFFIN FOUNDATION LTD (F/K/A PUFFIN NEW JERSEY INC) is the largest funder on record, with $649,325 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TEANECK CREEK CONSERVANCY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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