New York · Nonprofit
THE OLANA PARTNERSHIP
THE OLANA PARTNERSHIP (New York) receives grants from 109 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,940,327 to it, the largest being THE JOAN W RHAME FOUNDATION ($1,555,000). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 109
- Grants received
- $6.9M
- Net assets
- $16M
What The Olana Partnership does
Mission
To inspire the public by preserving and interpreting olana, frederic church's artistic masterpiece.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education / public programming: The Olana Partnership's education and public programming staff develop and implement diverse programming for all audiences. Rooted in place-based education principals, core elements of our educational programs include: k-12 onsite, curriculum-based field trips; family programs designed for intergenerational audiences; community programming to make the site accessible to all; our workforce development internship program with columbia-greene community college; panorama art + nature summer youth program; webinars and lectures with scholars and artists, and workshops for lifelong learners. In 2025, The Olana Partnership expanded the reach of our onsite programming by 20% and offsite programs by 44%. A newly created staff position in the education team, the education assistant, helped meet the challenge of increased demand for onsite programs while continuing outreach through offsite initiatives and partnerships. In 2025, over 1,100 people were served offsite through educational engagements at regional farmers markets, community events, and regional school events. Growing the education team through this additional position has helped increase capacity,…
$583,488 spent$49,420 earned by the program22% of program spendingCollections / exhibitions: top's curatorial department continued work to implement an ambitious exhibition, publication, and a suite of national museum activations that will take place in 2026 in support of the church 200 initiative, the bicentennial of frederic church's birth. Led by dr. Elizabeth kornhauser, curator emerita of the american wing at the metropolitan museum of art, and senior consulting curator for The Olana Partnership, the initiative will feature over 50 institutions across the globe planning exhibitions and installations placing church's work and legacy in a new light. Art. The top team facilitated several loans from the olana collection to external exhibitions organized in recognition of church 200, including those at the metropolitan museum of art, the albany institute of history and art, and middlebury college museum of art. The exhibition frederic church: global artist, to open may 2026 at olana state historic site, is curated by dr. Kornhauser with co-curators dr. Timothy barringer, and dr. Jennifer raab, and is accompanied by a publication from yale university press, featuring contributions from 14 emerging and underrepresented voices in the field of…
$792,665 spent$684,261 earned by the program30% of program spendingVisitor services / engagement: top's visitor services (vs) team enjoyed a successful 2025, welcoming over 33,000 guests on public tours. Tour attendance has remained relatively consistent over the last three years, and 22% of park visitors at olana enjoyed a ticketed tour with top this year. Group tour bookings increased significantly, increasing revenue in this area by 46%. Top continues to expand free and discounted tour access through library passes, snap/ebt, and more, resulting in $55,000 in adult public ticket savings. Notably, top's library pass program continued to grow. Use of these passes increased 10% over the previous year, allowing an even greater number of local and regional community members access to free landscape and house tours. The two-hour combination tour (which includes a one-hour landscape tour) continued to be a visitor favorite, supporting top's efforts around whole-site interpretation. Over 4,000 guests participated in a walking landscape tour in 2025, an increase of 8% over the previous year. One of several significant milestones in 2025 was the launch of top's bloomberg connects app, a free digital app that allows visitors access to information, video,…
$971,755 spent37% of program spendingCapital development: top works collaboratively with oprhp on all capital development projects at olana state historic site. The two entities meet quarterly to review and prioritize projects. In 2025, top and oprhp agreed to prioritize the rehabilitation of the north road entrance adjacent to route 23, which serves as the entry for the hudson river skywalk pedestrian and bicycle path into olana. Top applied for and was a awarded a nys environmental protection fund historic preservation program grant of $360,000. Top will provide the required $120,000 in private matching funds and is working with oprhp to schedule the bidding and construction for this project, anticipated in later 2026. With the frederic church center for art & landscape (fcc) completed in 2024. Top closed out its capital campaign for the facility in 2025.
$30,287 spent1% of program spendingLandscape / viewshed: the organization works to restore and maintain olana state historic site's 250 acre historic landscape and its integral viewshed in collaboration with the nys oprhp. This is an ongoing project, and the organization's viewshed work involves collaboration with a broad range of statewide and regional non-profits, particularly scenic hudson, and government entities.
$45,773 spent2% of program spendingOlana shop: the organization operates the olana shop at olana state historic site with the goal of providing visitors with a full range of merchandise that enables them to further their learning about olana, frederic church and american art and landscape ass well as continue their connection with the site through th epurchase of souvenirs and decorative objects and clothing items. The olana shop also offers food and drink for purchase through its affiliation with the taste ny program of the nys department of agriculture, which promotes products made or distributed by new york state businesses.
$216,440 spent8% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,640,408.
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 2022 to 2023, from $11M to $14M (+29%).
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 3% · 2019 2% · 2020 1% · 2021 12% · 2022 12% · 2023 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of THE OLANA PARTNERSHIP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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 18 funders to 40 funders, grant income rose $93k → $688k.
14 of 109 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 OLANA PARTNERSHIP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 109 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 OLANA PARTNERSHIP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
45% 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 OLANA PARTNERSHIP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 20% · 2019 34% · 2020 44% · 2021 20% · 2022 22% · 2023 25% — broadly stable.
“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 OLANA PARTNERSHIP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
THE OLANA PARTNERSHIP draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 21 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M 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 OLANA PARTNERSHIP has grown faster than half of the 2,299 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,299 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
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 OLANA PARTNERSHIP?
- THE OLANA PARTNERSHIP (New York) receives grants from 109 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,940,327 to it, the largest being THE JOAN W RHAME FOUNDATION ($1,555,000). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE OLANA PARTNERSHIP have?
- IRS filings report 109 organizations giving $6,940,327 in grants to THE OLANA PARTNERSHIP, 50 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE OLANA PARTNERSHIP?
- THE JOAN W RHAME FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,555,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE OLANA PARTNERSHIP 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 109 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