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THE EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY SOCIETY

THE EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY SOCIETY (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,302 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($66,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$126k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$82k
Net assets
$1.6M
4/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 47%
01What it does

What The Edna St Vincent Millay Society does

Mission

The organization's mission is to protect and preserve the property of edna st. Vincent millay for future generations and encourage education and interest in the works of millay and her family.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The society continues to maintain and preserve millay's historic homestead, steepletop and oversee millay's literary rights.

    $179,918 spent$13,846 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Literary - the society hosted a regional student poetry contest for schools in berkshire and columbia counties.

  3. Open to the public and centennial celebration- open days: society hosted five open days weekends with house tours and grounds open to the public. Centennial celebration: the society hoseted special programming during open days to celebrate steepletops' 100 anniversary.

  4. Preservation - millay house: millay's bedroom - repair to windows, washed walls and ceilings; patched/caulked, primed, and painted bedroom; replaced linens and curtins.

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $179,918.

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 ($98k) Expenses 100 ($227k) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 158 ($155k) Expenses 100 ($226k) Net assets 94 ($1.0M)2019 Revenue 100 ($99k) Expenses 77 ($175k) Net assets 87 ($956k)2020 Revenue 55 ($54k) Expenses 60 ($136k) Net assets 79 ($875k)2021 Revenue 79 ($77k) Expenses 65 ($146k) Net assets 73 ($805k)2022 Revenue 122 ($120k) Expenses 81 ($183k) Net assets 67 ($742k)2023 Revenue 467 ($459k) Expenses 74 ($167k) Net assets 95 ($1.0M)2024 Revenue 808 ($793k) Expenses 78 ($178k) Net assets 150 ($1.7M)2025 Revenue 129 ($126k) Expenses 101 ($229k) Net assets 141 ($1.6M)
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Revenue (129)Expenses (101)Net assets (141)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 2023 to 2024, from $1.0M to $1.7M (+59%).

$1.1M
$1.0M
$957k
$893k
$824k
$746k
$1.0M
$1.7M
$1.6M
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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
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

43% of THE EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$128k
’17
−$71k
’18
−$77k
’19
−$82k
’20
−$69k
’21
−$63k
’22
$292k
’23
$615k
’24
−$103k
’25
48
months of
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.

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Listed777777655
Joined·+1+3+1+0+0+1+0+1
No longer listed·13100211
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $2k → $10k.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 THE EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY SOCIETY’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

THE EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

93% 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 EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY SOCIETY.

80%
largest funder
96%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 50% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 84% · 2022 100% · 2023 97% — 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

25% of THE EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

93% of THE EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY SOCIETY'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 $5k that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 2 states.

NY
FL

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

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’18
’21
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $77k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY SOCIETY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−82% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve48.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 13%Fundraising 8%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

85%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY SOCIETY?
THE EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY SOCIETY (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,302 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($66,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THE EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY SOCIETY have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $82,302 in grants to THE EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY SOCIETY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY SOCIETY?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $66,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY SOCIETY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 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