New York · Nonprofit
THE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION
THE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION (New York) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,604,116 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,947,000). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.9M
- Funders on record
- 79
- Grants received
- $5.6M
- Net assets
- $28M
What The Fort Ticonderoga Association does
Mission
See schedule oThe Fort Ticonderoga Association's mission is to preserve, educate, and provoke an active discussion about the past and its importantance to present and future generations. We foster an on-going dialogue surrounding citizens, soldiers and nations through america's military heritage.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Preserve, educate and provoke an active discussion of the past and its importance to present and future generations. Areas of focus include america's military heritage, specifically colonial and revolutionary war history. Program areas include public history, education, exhibitions, collections research and horticulture. Programs integrate all fort ticonderoga facilities including the museum located in the fort, archival and object collections, 27 historic structures, and 2,000 surrounding historic acres including carillon battlefield, mount defiance, mount hope and mount independence. Programs reach an international audience of more than 70,000 annually, more than 3,000 k-12 affiliate schools in all fifty states and 200 universities across the nation and globally. The digital reach was more than 46 million impressions in 2025 through social media channels, youtube videos and access to digital offerings.
$5,363,079 spent$1,569,126 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,363,079.
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 2019 to 2020, from $17M to $24M (+40%).
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: 2017 8% · 2018 8% · 2019 31% · 2020 20% · 2021 16% · 2022 9% · 2023 10% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of THE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Beth Hill
President & CEO
Board chair
Roy Davis
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $245k → $639k.
11 of 79 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 79 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 FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
77% 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 FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 71% · 2019 66% · 2020 41% · 2021 41% · 2022 19% · 2023 23% — 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
54% of THE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
73% of THE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION'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 $1.5M that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 21 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin 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
Government funding THE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.0M on record.
- Department of the Interior$2.0M
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$1.3M
- National Endowment for the Humanities$740k
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 THE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Fta Pavilion Mm · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION: 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 THE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION?
- THE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION (New York) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,604,116 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,947,000). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 79 organizations giving $5,604,116 in grants to THE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION?
- GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,947,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION 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 79 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