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The Hart Island Project Inc

The Hart Island Project Inc (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $119,235 to it, the largest being NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$40k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$119k
Net assets
$90k
3/9 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What The Hart Island Project Inc does

Mission

To assist families and individuals with limited resources in accessing New York City public burial records, provide information concerning city burial procedures on Hart Island, advocate for ending mass burials in New York City and preserve Hart Island as the largest natural burial ground in the United States. We provide free access to an on-line database of mass burials with navigation, augmented reality grave marking, interpretive guide, landscape visualization as well as custom searches, personal assistance and support for creative projects about Hart Island.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. The Hart Island Project assisted families on gaining information about city and conducting gravesite visits.The Hart Island Project conducted a public webinars on Zoom throughout 2025 explaining the city's historic burial practice and a proof of concept for ending mass burials. The Hart Island Project hosted a table at Bronx Parks Speak-up and presented a landscape strategy for ending mass burials and preserving green burials in NYC. The Hart Island Project hosted a table at the City Island Environmental Festival and presented a landscape strategy for ending mass burials and preserving green burials in NYC. The Hart Island Project participated in a program titled Hart Island Stories at the NYC AIDS Memorial in Manhattan.The Hart Island Project was invited to testify at a public hearing on legislation requiring city agencies to conduct a study determining the future of City Cemetery on Hart Island with regard to sea level rise and climate change impacts on city burials.The Hart Island Project collaborated with the Mayor's Office of Faith-Based and Community Partnerships to communicate a strategy to end mass burials in New York City. The Hart Island Project worked with NYC Parks and…

    $28,627 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. Pro-bono legal fees to make freedom of information requests to NYC Department of Social Services for the Hart Island burial location data and burial ledgers, and worked with volunteers to update our online database. $45,065.The City College of New York provided two paid internships in the Humanities funded by the Mellon Foundation. Each intern, one spring semester and one fall semester, worked 150 hours and was paid $4,000 for a total $8,000 in-kind contribution through City College.Yale University provided one summer experience award to a Yale College student of $4,000.Total In-Kind Donations - Services = $57,065

    $57,065 spent
    199% of program spending
  3. Offset to in-kind pro-bono legal fees and internships, not reported as expenses in Form 990-EZ.

    $57,065 spent
    199% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $28,627. The per-program figures do not add up to the total the return states; both are shown as filed.

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 ($29k) Expenses 100 ($28k) Net assets 100 ($15k)2018 Revenue 101 ($29k) Expenses 120 ($34k) Net assets 69 ($10k)2019 Revenue 144 ($41k) Expenses 135 ($38k) Net assets 92 ($14k)2020 Revenue 346 ($99k) Expenses 128 ($36k) Net assets 508 ($78k)2021 Revenue 228 ($65k) Expenses 164 ($46k) Net assets 635 ($97k)2022 Revenue 284 ($82k) Expenses 266 ($75k) Net assets 681 ($104k)2023 Revenue 165 ($47k) Expenses 201 ($56k) Net assets 621 ($95k)2024 Revenue 180 ($52k) Expenses 184 ($51k) Net assets 623 ($95k)2025 Revenue 141 ($40k) Expenses 164 ($46k) Net assets 586 ($90k)
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Revenue (141)Expenses (164)Net assets (586)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 $14k to $79k (+464%).

$15k
$10k
$14k
$79k
$97k
$105k
$96k
$96k
$90k
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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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

97% of The Hart Island Project Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$688
’17
−$5k
’18
$4k
’19
$64k
’20
$19k
’21
$7k
’22
−$9k
’23
$225
’24
−$6k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $35k → $60k.

1 of 9 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 The Hart Island Project 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

The Hart Island Project Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

42% 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 Hart Island Project Inc.

42%
largest funder
75%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 57% · 2021 98% · 2022 99% · 2023 83% — 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

25% of The Hart Island Project Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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

57% of The Hart Island Project Inc's grant income comes from New York funders.

MI
NY
DC

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

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’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $185 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

The Hart Island Project Inc has grown faster than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−14% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Government funding The Hart Island Project Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.

Federal$10k
grants $10kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$10k

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

61%

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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Questions and answers

Who funds The Hart Island Project Inc?
The Hart Island Project Inc (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $119,235 to it, the largest being NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Hart Island Project Inc have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $119,235 in grants to The Hart Island Project Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Hart Island Project Inc?
NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Hart Island Project 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 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