New York · Nonprofit
WATKINS GLEN MOTOR RACING RESEARCH COUNCIL INC
WATKINS GLEN MOTOR RACING RESEARCH COUNCIL INC (New York) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $242,236 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($76,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $242k
- Net assets
- $5.2M
What Watkins Glen Motor Racing Research Council Inc does
Mission
The international motor racing research center collects, shares and preserves the history of motorsports. Spanning continents, eras and race series, the center's collection embodies the speed, drama and camaraderie of amateur and professional motor racing throughout the world. The center welcomes serious researchers and the casual fans alike to share stories of race drivers, race series, and race cars captured on our shelves and walls, and brought to life through a regular calendar of public lectures and special events. The center's collection documents the history of racing in the more than 4000 books or 250 different motorsports magazines and newspapers titles; club and sanctioning body records; race results, programs and posters; papers of motorsports journalists and scholars; correspondence of race organizers; and still and moving images housed onsite and in our expanding offsite collections storage facilities. Its knowledgeable research and archives staff assists hundre
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
A valuable collection of research and archival materials documenting the history of motorsports are acquired through donation and maintained as a resource for the racing community and the general public. The center serves as the custodian of the archives of the sports car club of america, the largest club for automobile racing in the united states. It shares its historical collections through an active research and reference services program, public events, and exhibitions as well as online utilizing its website, social media platforms, and electronic publications.
$265,635 spent$24,738 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $265,635.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $4.9M to $5.5M (+13%).
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: 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of WATKINS GLEN MOTOR RACING RESEARCH COUNCIL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
John R Saunders
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $20k → $68k.
5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 WATKINS GLEN MOTOR RACING RESEARCH 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
WATKINS GLEN MOTOR RACING RESEARCH COUNCIL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
59% 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 WATKINS GLEN MOTOR RACING RESEARCH COUNCIL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 95% · 2019 53% · 2020 71% · 2021 70% · 2022 56% · 2023 73% — 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
38% of WATKINS GLEN MOTOR RACING RESEARCH COUNCIL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
56% of WATKINS GLEN MOTOR RACING RESEARCH 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. $104k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
WATKINS GLEN MOTOR RACING RESEARCH COUNCIL INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like WATKINS GLEN MOTOR RACING RESEARCH COUNCIL INC
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
25% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WATKINS GLEN MOTOR RACING RESEARCH COUNCIL INC?
- WATKINS GLEN MOTOR RACING RESEARCH COUNCIL INC (New York) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $242,236 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($76,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WATKINS GLEN MOTOR RACING RESEARCH COUNCIL INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $242,236 in grants to WATKINS GLEN MOTOR RACING RESEARCH COUNCIL INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WATKINS GLEN MOTOR RACING RESEARCH COUNCIL INC?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $76,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WATKINS GLEN MOTOR RACING RESEARCH 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 17 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