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WATER MILL VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION INC

WATER MILL VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,150 to it, the largest being GWENDOLYN HALSEY-ALBERTSON FOUNDATION ($21,100). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$198k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$28k
Net assets
$386k
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Water Mill Village Improvement Association Inc does

Mission

To maintain, beautify and improve the surrounding community of the village of water mill, new york.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Beautification of the village of water mill, new york,including greens, flower and flagpole maintenance

    $23,876 spentof which $6,666 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $23,876.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($36k) Expenses 100 ($32k) Net assets 100 ($181k)2018 Revenue 101 ($37k) Expenses 87 ($27k) Net assets 105 ($190k)2019 Revenue 101 ($37k) Expenses 102 ($32k) Net assets 107 ($195k)2020 Revenue 107 ($39k) Expenses 102 ($32k) Net assets 111 ($201k)2021 Revenue 88 ($32k) Expenses 88 ($28k) Net assets 113 ($205k)2022 Revenue 97 ($35k) Expenses 72 ($23k) Net assets 120 ($217k)2023 Revenue 102 ($37k) Expenses 85 ($27k) Net assets 125 ($227k)2024 Revenue 95 ($35k) Expenses 153 ($48k) Net assets 118 ($214k)2025 Revenue 546 ($198k) Expenses 81 ($26k) Net assets 213 ($386k)
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Revenue (546)Expenses (81)Net assets (213)Peer revenue range

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 $214k to $386k (+81%).

$181k
$190k
$195k
$201k
$205k
$217k
$227k
$214k
$386k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2018
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2021
2022
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of WATER MILL VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,439 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$5k
’17
$9k
’18
$4k
’19
$7k
’20
$4k
’21
$12k
’22
$10k
’23
−$14k
’24
$172k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $625 → $875.

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 WATER MILL VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION 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

WATER MILL VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

75%
largest funder
99%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

99% of WATER MILL VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY
VA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WATER MILL VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin87% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)24% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WATER MILL VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION 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 WATER MILL VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION INC?
WATER MILL VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,150 to it, the largest being GWENDOLYN HALSEY-ALBERTSON FOUNDATION ($21,100). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WATER MILL VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $28,150 in grants to WATER MILL VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WATER MILL VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION INC?
GWENDOLYN HALSEY-ALBERTSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $21,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WATER MILL VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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