New York · Nonprofit
THE WATERFRONT FOUNDATION
THE WATERFRONT FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $32 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($32). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
THE WATERFRONT FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,726 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,726 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Chautauqua Region Community Foundation Inclocalportfolio match
- United Way of Southern Chautauqua County Inclocalportfolio match
- Northern Chautauqua Community Foundlocalportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
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.
90% of THE WATERFRONT FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6 → $26.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 WATERFRONT FOUNDATION’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.
Where its funders are
100% of THE WATERFRONT FOUNDATION'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Chautauqua Region Community Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchNY · funds 155 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Southern Chautauqua County Inclocalportfolio matchNY · funds 32 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Northern Chautauqua Community Foundlocalportfolio matchNY · funds 61 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchNY · funds 82 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Reginald a & Elizabeth S Lenna Fdn Inc Dba Lenna Foundationlocalportfolio matchNY · funds 63 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Hultquist Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchNY · funds 31 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Holmberg Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchNY · funds 22 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Ttee Uw Jessie Smith Darrah-Charitalocalportfolio matchDE · funds 24 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Gebbie Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchNY · funds 13 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Watertown Area Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Western New York Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bonafiglia Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like THE WATERFRONT FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
33% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE WATERFRONT FOUNDATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE WATERFRONT FOUNDATION?
- THE WATERFRONT FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $32 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($32). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE WATERFRONT FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $32 in grants to THE WATERFRONT FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE WATERFRONT FOUNDATION?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $32 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE WATERFRONT FOUNDATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing