GOWANUS CANAL CONSERVANCY INC

EIN 26-0681729 BROOKLYN, NY

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Revenue 2024: $1,232,059
Expenses 2024: $1,342,625

Program services were 52.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
NTEE code: C32
Classification: 1000
Street: 248 3RD ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Gowanus Canal Conservancy advocates and cares for ecologically sustainable parks and public spaces in the Gowanus lowlands while empowering a community of stewards. We envision a Gowanus Canal and surrounding urban environment that is clean, resilient, diverse and alive.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Environmental stewardship, education and advocacy

Through its environmental initiatives, the organizations service accomplishments include stewardship of streets trees, gardens, parks and other public spaces; volunteer engagement; youth job training; community outreach and education.

Expenses $706,377 · Revenue $126,713

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Andrea ParkerANDREA PARKER

Executive Dir.

Total calculated

$81,908

From this org

$81,908

From related orgs

$0

Other

$0

Hours/week

40
Steve JacobsSTEVE JACOBS

EMERITUS

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Marcos Diaz-GonzalezMARCOS DIAZ-GONZALEZ

VICE CHAIR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Andrew SimonsANDREW SIMONS

Chairman

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Lisa MelmedLISA MELMED

Secretary

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Ted WolffTED WOLFF

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Kate BlummKATE BLUMM

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Richard KampfRICHARD KAMPF

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Aya MacedaAYA MACEDA

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Winfield CliffordWINFIELD CLIFFORD

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Jessica TallmanJESSICA TALLMAN

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Allison ThrushALLISON THRUSH

Treasurer

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Gerald NichollsGERALD NICHOLLS

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Virginia McEnerneyVIRGINIA MCENERNEY

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Heidi DolnickHEIDI DOLNICK

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Abe NaperstakABE NAPERSTAK

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Bill DudineBILL DUDINE

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Richard Greene JrRICHARD GREENE JR

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Leila Mougoui BakhatiariLEILA MOUGOUI BAKHATIARI

VICE CHAIR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
John C MuirJOHN C MUIR

EMERITUS

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Jon KleinJON KLEIN

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Natasha FarquharsonNATASHA FARQUHARSON

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

2024

Revenue

$1,232,059

Expenses

$1,342,625

Contributions

$1,131,279

Grants paid

$0
2023

Revenue

$1,440,866

Expenses

$1,365,916

Contributions

$1,386,141

Grants paid

$0
2022

Revenue

$1,234,504

Expenses

$1,400,519

Contributions

$949,155

Grants paid

$0

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2024	$1,232,059	$1,342,625	$1,131,279	$0
2023	$1,440,866	$1,365,916	$1,386,141	$0
2022	$1,234,504	$1,400,519	$949,155	$0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

2021 · 990

Revenue

$1,432,249

Expenses

$1,377,065

Assets (EOY)

$486,978
2020 · 990

Revenue

$598,381

Expenses

$991,001

Assets (EOY)

$650,248
2019 · 990

Revenue

$1,261,702

Expenses

$932,479

Assets (EOY)

$893,101
2018 · 990

Revenue

$1,177,577

Expenses

$790,620

Assets (EOY)

$494,218
2017 · 990

Revenue

$676,493

Expenses

$762,059

Assets (EOY)

$227,294
2016 · 990

Revenue

$593,633

Expenses

$526,462

Assets (EOY)

$180,009
2015 · 990

Revenue

$326,690

Expenses

$377,055

Assets (EOY)

$90,611
2014 · 990

Revenue

$418,540

Expenses

$387,283

Assets (EOY)

$168,152
2013 · 990

Revenue

$478,804

Expenses

$462,705

Assets (EOY)

$229,737
2011 · 990-EZ

Revenue

$96,206

Expenses

$86,834

Assets (EOY)

$15,245

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$1,432,249	$1,377,065	$486,978
2020	990	$598,381	$991,001	$650,248
2019	990	$1,261,702	$932,479	$893,101
2018	990	$1,177,577	$790,620	$494,218
2017	990	$676,493	$762,059	$227,294
2016	990	$593,633	$526,462	$180,009
2015	990	$326,690	$377,055	$90,611
2014	990	$418,540	$387,283	$168,152
2013	990	$478,804	$462,705	$229,737
2011	990-EZ	$96,206	$86,834	$15,245

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC

$185,000

2022 MAINTAIN, PROGRAM AND ACTIVATE NYC OPEN SPACES
THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST

$115,000

2023 FOR PROGRAM SUPPORT.
CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC

$77,000

2024 MAINTAIN, PROGRAM AND ACTIVATE NYC OPEN SPACES
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$72,150

2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC

$37,000

2023 MAINTAIN, PROGRAM AND ACTIVATE NYC OPEN SPACES
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

$33,000

2023 ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$29,000

2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$25,430

2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

$19,619

2023 GENERAL SUPPORT
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

$13,241

2022 GENERAL SUPPORT

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.