New York · Nonprofit
THREE LAKES COUNCIL INC
THREE LAKES COUNCIL INC (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,485 to it, the largest being THE NETTER FOUNDATION INC ($15,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $90k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $46k
- Net assets
- $528k
What Three Lakes Council Inc does
Mission
The mission of the Three Lakes Council is to preserve and protect the waters and watershed of the three lakes through outreach, research, stewardship, and community action
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Outreach and Communications: Mailings, newsletters, social media, meetings, and website designed to inform residents about actions they can take to preserve and protect the quality of the watershed, wetlands and waters of the three lakes. Encourage shoreline native plantings and permeable surfaces. Inform community about lake ecology. Update residents about regulatory changes that affect lakes, shores and watershed. Share Town actions that affect lake community.
$6,319 spent29% of program spendingLake Studies and Research -- Assess the current state of the watershed and water bodies to identify trends and critical factors impacting the area. Studies done with NYS DEC CSLAP program, independent lake managers and certified laboratory. Communicate study findings and sampling results. Notify residents of any visible harmful algal blooms. Evaluate trends in plant growth and density over years. Assess lake management actions based on research data. Contribute data to statewide assessments.
$5,134 spent24% of program spendingInvasive Species Program - Lead efforts to detect and eradicate or control new invasive organisms in the watershed. Continue monitoring for aquatic invasives Egeria densa (found in 2008) and Trapas natans (2014). Long Pond preserve invasive control activities for phragmites and mile-a-minute vine.
$6,507 spent30% of program spendingWatershed Stewardship - Preserve undeveloped property in the watershed including ownership, operation, and maintenance of Long Pond Preserve, its wetland meadow, and its trail. Support the NYS DEC Trees for Tribs program at the Waccabuc Creek, maintaining plantings for storm water management, stream protection & habitat. Canada geese population stabilization actions. Boat sticker initiative informs users on clean boat protocols. Manage debris in channels to allow passage between the three lakes.
$3,633 spent17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $21,593.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $464k to $528k (+14%).
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.
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
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $10k → $6k.
1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 THREE LAKES COUNCIL 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
THREE LAKES COUNCIL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% 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
25% 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 THREE LAKES COUNCIL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 100% · 2019 83% · 2021 100% · 2022 50% · 2023 92% — 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.
How long its funders stay
14% of THREE LAKES COUNCIL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
50% of THREE LAKES COUNCIL INC'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. $12k 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.
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THREE LAKES COUNCIL INC: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THREE LAKES COUNCIL INC?
- THREE LAKES COUNCIL INC (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,485 to it, the largest being THE NETTER FOUNDATION INC ($15,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THREE LAKES COUNCIL INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $46,485 in grants to THREE LAKES COUNCIL INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THREE LAKES COUNCIL INC?
- THE NETTER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THREE LAKES COUNCIL 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 10 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