New York · Nonprofit
THE BATTERY CONSERVANCY INC
THE BATTERY CONSERVANCY INC (New York) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,839,907 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($450,485). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 67
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $15M
What The Battery Conservancy Inc does
Mission
The mission of the battery conservancy is to design, build, maintain, and enliven the battery and its major landmark, castle clinton national monument, inspired by their historical significance and consistent with the values of openness to all, environmental responsibility, historical authenticity, design excellence, and innovative education. Tbc raises private and advocates for public funds to realize this mission.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The battery conservancy partners with the city of new york's department of parks & recreation (nyc parks) to transform, maintain, operate, and program the battery, new york city's birthplace park at manhattan's southern tip. Tbc collects litter, maintains lawns, inspects and repairs park equipment, and performs specialized horticultural services for a park that annually serves 7 million visitors from throughout the world.
$2,738,972 spent$126,398 earned by the program87% of program spendingThe battery conservancy provides educational and recreational programs free to the public. This includes battery urban farm's educational programming, which ultimately serves approximately 7000 schoolchildren, as well as birdwalks and historical and horticultural tours. In 2024, approximately 3865 visitors enjoyed puppet shows and musical performances targeted to children 3-13 at the battery playscape's showbox theater.
$407,507 spent$187,416 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,146,479.
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 2017 to 2018, from $17M to $19M (+10%).
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: 2020 10% · 2021 18% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
104% of THE BATTERY CONSERVANCY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $191k → $452k.
16 of 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $154k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Communal Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money THE BATTERY CONSERVANCY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE BATTERY CONSERVANCY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 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
THE BATTERY CONSERVANCY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
58% 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 THE BATTERY CONSERVANCY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 14% · 2018 19% · 2019 24% · 2020 22% · 2021 28% · 2022 21% · 2023 22% — 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
37% of THE BATTERY CONSERVANCY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
58% of THE BATTERY CONSERVANCY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.2M that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 13 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
THE BATTERY CONSERVANCY INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THE BATTERY 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 York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE BATTERY CONSERVANCY INC?
- THE BATTERY CONSERVANCY INC (New York) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,839,907 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($450,485). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE BATTERY CONSERVANCY INC have?
- IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $2,839,907 in grants to THE BATTERY CONSERVANCY INC, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BATTERY CONSERVANCY INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $450,485 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BATTERY CONSERVANCY 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 67 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