New York · Nonprofit
THE WATERFRONT MUSEUM
THE WATERFRONT MUSEUM (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $182,356 to it, the largest being Fund for the City of New York Inc ($75,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE WATERFRONT MUSEUM runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture 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.
- Henry and Lucy Moses Fund Incshared funders
- The Coby Foundation Ltdportfolio match
- Catskill Watershed Corporationportfolio match
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.
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 13% · 2018 10% · 2019 18% · 2020 37% · 2021 29% · 2022 45% · 2023 39% · 2024 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of THE WATERFRONT MUSEUM’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. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $25k → $22k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 MUSEUM’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 WATERFRONT MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 88% · 2019 92% · 2020 91% · 2021 95% · 2022 48% · 2023 53% — 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.
Where its funders are
98% of THE WATERFRONT MUSEUM'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. $13k 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. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Henry and Lucy Moses Fund Incshared fundersNY · backs 24 organizations that share your funders
- The Coby Foundation Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Catskill Watershed Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Hudson Heritage Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Easton Family Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wyeth Foundation for American Artportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Peter Marino Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Studio in a School Association Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mr and Mrs Raymond J Horowitz Foundation for the Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Connecticut Humanities Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Artswestchester Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lily Auchincloss Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 68 organizations that share your funders
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 MUSEUM
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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE WATERFRONT MUSEUM: 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 MUSEUM?
- THE WATERFRONT MUSEUM (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $182,356 to it, the largest being Fund for the City of New York Inc ($75,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE WATERFRONT MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $182,356 in grants to THE WATERFRONT MUSEUM, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE WATERFRONT MUSEUM?
- Fund for the City of New York Inc is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE WATERFRONT MUSEUM 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 7funders 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