New York · Nonprofit
Waterfall Unity Alliance
Waterfall Unity Alliance (New York) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,293,804 to it, the largest being NOVO FOUNDATION ($650,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $435k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $643k
What Waterfall Unity Alliance does
Mission
To protect Skhare (the Schoharie Valley) and all Earth; build alliances across movements and cultures; and help create solutions to the existential challenges of our time
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Successfully facilitated the rematriation of ancestral Mohawk (Kanien'keh:ka) territory through the acquisition of the 60-acre Iotsi'tsson (Skywomans) Forever Farm. This project serves as a cornerstone for the return of Mohawk families to the Schoharie Valley, providing a permanent land base for cultural preservation, regenerative agriculture, and the establishment of a traditional community hub
$387,481 spentof which $55,000 as grants$280,152 earned by the program52% of program spendingAdvanced regional environmental health and social equity through the intersection of bioregional education and indigenous land rematriation. The organization supported the return of Mohawk lineage holders to their ancestral valley and transitioned secured acreage to regenerative, climate-resilient agricultural practices. To integrate the surrounding community into this ecological framework, the initiative hosted cross-cultural workshops, community listening sessions, and educational forums featuring outside expert speakers. These efforts successfully built local capacity for bioregional conservation while honoring traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and indigenous sovereignty.
$349,756 spent$82,977 earned by the program47% of program spendingFunded and sustained the Artist Support Initiative, a cultural empowerment program that recognizes artists as vital catalysts for community healing, intercultural unity, and land rematriation.
$1,978 spent$16,742 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $739,215.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $798k to $1.1M (+38%).
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.
0% of Waterfall Unity Alliance’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $10k → $336k.
8 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 Waterfall Unity Alliance’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
Waterfall Unity Alliance leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
31% 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 Waterfall Unity Alliance.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 46% · 2023 74% — 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
13% of Waterfall Unity Alliance's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 36% 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
82% of Waterfall Unity Alliance'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. $387k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Waterfall Unity Alliance has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Waterfall Unity Alliance
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 Waterfall Unity Alliance: 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 Waterfall Unity Alliance?
- Waterfall Unity Alliance (New York) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,293,804 to it, the largest being NOVO FOUNDATION ($650,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Waterfall Unity Alliance have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,293,804 in grants to Waterfall Unity Alliance, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Waterfall Unity Alliance?
- NOVO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $650,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Waterfall Unity Alliance 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 14 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