New York · Nonprofit
THE JAY HERITAGE CENTER
THE JAY HERITAGE CENTER (New York) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,354,630 to it, the largest being SUE & EDGAR WACHENHEIM FOUNDATION ($2,500,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $875k
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $4.4M
- Net assets
- $11M
What The Jay Heritage Center does
Mission
Restore and preserve the 1838 peter augustus jay house, the 1907 carriage house and grounds for use as a center for public education with a focus on american history; arts and achitecture; landscape, and the legacy of john jay and the values fundamental to the continuing task of defining america.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Preservation/restoration, not including capitalized restoration and rehabilitation costs. The restoration is a significant program activity, however by capitalizing the costs of this program activity those costs are not reflected in the center's program expenses. In addition the value of volunteers who provide skilled labor in research of historical information and architectural styles and methods is not represented in program expense.
$266,849 spent$116,793 earned by the program57% of program spendingPublic programs: guided tours of jay house restoration-in-progress, tours of boston post road historical district, publication of district guide, slide presentations, lectures and exhibits on history, architecture, and landscape: museum theater program for schools and public (striving for freedom) school programs on history and architecture in classrooms and on site, children's architectural discovery tour, architecture summer camp; and writing and distribution of a newsletter.
$204,439 spent43% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $471,288.
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 $8.1M to $10.0M (+23%).
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 45% · 2022 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of THE JAY HERITAGE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $107k → $1.3M.
9 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 JAY HERITAGE CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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 JAY HERITAGE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 81%; 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: 2017 47% · 2018 24% · 2019 36% · 2020 53% · 2021 28% · 2022 85% · 2023 78% — 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
27% of THE JAY HERITAGE CENTER'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
94% of THE JAY HERITAGE CENTER's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $941k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 JAY HERITAGE CENTER holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like THE JAY HERITAGE CENTER
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
50%
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 JAY HERITAGE CENTER?
- THE JAY HERITAGE CENTER (New York) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,354,630 to it, the largest being SUE & EDGAR WACHENHEIM FOUNDATION ($2,500,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE JAY HERITAGE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $4,354,630 in grants to THE JAY HERITAGE CENTER, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE JAY HERITAGE CENTER?
- SUE & EDGAR WACHENHEIM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE JAY HERITAGE CENTER 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 33 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