2012-01-31T09:36:45-07:00 2011-09-30 990 2010-10-01 131656653 FRESH AIR FUND FRES 2128978900 633 Third Avenue 14th floor New York NY 10017 Jean Jeremie 2128978963 2011-12-22 2010 2016-02-24 21:20:13Z Jenny Morgenthau 633 Third Avenue 14th floor New York NY 10017 21216583 0 X www.freshair.org X 1877 NY THE FRESH AIR FUND, an independent not-for-profit agency, has provided free summer vacations to more than 1.7 million New York City children from low-income families since 1877. 29 28 736 5000 -156354 0 13765038 10419401 1303134 1317439 258548 5635634 0 0 15326720 17372474 0 0 0 0 7165572 7406391 461930 498096 3422809 7789519 8278551 15417021 16183038 -90301 1189436 128581323 122802382 1778582 2704763 126802741 120097619 To provide NYC children from low-income families with cultural, recreational, and educational experiences at its camps and with volunteer host families and through such other means which may become available. 0 0 7668932 0 1317439 Fresh Air Camping entails sending approximately 3,000 NYC underpriviledged children to its camps in Fishkill NY. Services include recreation and career training for 2 or more weeks. 4123026 0 0 The Friendly Town program consists of organizing and directing volunteer committees to recruit families to serve as hosts in local communities throughout 13 northeast States and Canada and coordinating visits by NYC underpriviledged children to the hosts families for 3 weeks or more during the summer. 0 0 0 11791958 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 29 0 736 0 1 1 1 BR CA CJ EI UK 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 X 29 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 AK AR AZ CA CO CT DC FL GA HI IL KS KY LA MA MD ME MI MN MS NC ND NH NJ NM NY OH OK OR PA RI SC TN UT VA WA WI WV X Jean Jeremie CPA 2128978963 633 Third Avenue 14th floor New York NY 10017 Tiki Barber 1 X 0 0 0 Jacqueline Albert Simon 1 X 0 0 0 Sidney Sutter 1 X 0 0 0 LizabethAnn R Eisen 1 X 0 0 0 Tom A Bernstein 1 X 0 0 0 Caroline Cummings Rafferty 1 X 0 0 0 Howard B Johnson 1 X 0 0 0 Joseph J Magliocco 1 X 0 0 0 John D McMahon 1 X 0 0 0 Katherine M Morris 1 X 0 0 0 Cynthia Sulzberger 1 X X 0 0 0 Winthrop Rutherfurd Jr 1 X X 0 0 0 Bradley Whitman 1 X 0 0 0 Brandon Reid 1 X 0 0 0 Gregory D Lee 1 X 0 0 0 William P Lauder 1 X X 0 0 0 John N Irwin III 1 X X 0 0 0 Mariah Carey 1 X 0 0 0 Ruth W Houghton 1 X 0 0 0 Barbaralee Diamonstein Spielvogel 1 X 0 0 0 Caryn Zucker 1 X 0 0 0 Betsy Shiverick 1 X 0 0 0 Mats G Carlston 1 X 0 0 0 Derrick Cephas 1 X X 0 0 0 Wendy R Flanagan 1 X X 0 0 0 Steve Wolf 1 X 0 0 0 Craig S Ivey 1 X 0 0 0 Daniel S Kaplan 1 X 0 0 0 Isabelle Krusen 1 X 0 0 0 Lisa Witten 1 X 0 0 0 Susan Newhouse 1 X 0 0 0 Jenny Morgenthau 35 X 333692 0 47726 Jean Jeremie 35 X 188271 0 43042 Thomas Karger 35 X 191269 0 30565 Lori Seader 35 X 188271 0 35391 George Morfessis 35 X 159404 0 39578 Elizabeth Clardy 35 X 132291 0 24044 Angela Pender-Fox 35 X 125830 0 31142 1319028 0 251488 7 0 1 0 Chesapeake Asset Management One Rockefeller Plaza Suite 2321 New York NY 10020 Investment advisors 278172 Thompson Habib Denison 80 Hayden Avenue Suite 300 Lexington MA 02421 Direct mail counsel 350994 Andrea Kotuk 112 East 23rd Street New York NY 10011 Public relations 108743 3 0 0 1472897 0 0 8946504 218331 10419401 USDA Camp Food 900099 275857 275857 0 0 Offseason camping 900099 1041582 1041582 0 0 0 0 0 0 1317439 101536 0 -156354 257890 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9378207 0 3844109 0 5534098 0 5534098 0 0 5534098 1472897 0 17372474 1317439 -156354 5791988 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1319028 635682 396456 286890 0 0 0 0 4456092 3931967 162396 361729 438145 263870 93084 81191 800660 640217 69932 90511 392466 300423 41565 50478 162000 90000 0 72000 0 0 0 0 52080 0 52080 0 0 0 0 0 498096 498096 0 0 0 0 128852 115427 426 12999 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 135888 113866 11945 10077 0 0 0 0 1137595 973427 82305 81863 698378 698357 0 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1482958 1386178 38094 58686 362632 357314 5318 0 Food 1122133 1118930 0 3203 Volunteer expenses 437069 431521 0 5548 Program supplies 502924 473740 9522 19662 Printing and Postage 2000515 211380 5054 1784081 Contracted services 55527 49659 94 5774 0 0 0 0 16183038 11791958 968271 3422809 1041237 2289805 3844131 192667 938812 718853 260423 316228 327115 309691 50446256 21174804 30417484 29271452 18283631 17013450 70883098 70248541 2585392 2441695 128581323 122802382 1778582 2704763 0 0 1778582 2704763 X 112379634 106105320 1561339 1036027 12861768 12956272 126802741 120097619 128581323 122802382 X 1189436 -7894558 X 0 1 1 X 0 X 12076995 10676167 11256138 14795793 11900994 60706087 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12076995 10676167 11256138 14795793 11900994 60706087 60706087 475498 385348 175291 255218 101536 1392891 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 62098978 0.97757 0.97401 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 94769500 2530906 -696080 0 6868604 0 89735722 83538027 5364927 11136366 0 5269820 0 94769500 82092603 2327504 5008581 0 5890661 0 83538027 0.856 0.144 0 1 0 0 2747632 2747632 0 44874508 19173163 25701345 0 0 0 0 0 2824116 2001641 822475 0 0 0 0 29271452 Limited partnerships 70248541 F 70248541 0 0 17372474 16183038 1189436 -6331714 0 0 0 -1562844 -7894558 -6705122 11048916 -6331714 8156 0 0 -6323558 17372474 0 0 0 17372474 16191194 8156 0 0 0 8156 16183038 0 0 0 16183038 SchD_P05_S00_L04 Schedule D, Part V, Line 4 Earnings from the endowment funds are used to subsidize the costs of sending underpriviledged NYC children to vacations in the country. SchD_P10_S00_L02 Schedule D, Part X, Line 2 Effective October 1, 2009, the Fund adopted the provisions of FASB Interpretation 48 ("FIN 48"), now incorporated in Accounting Standards Codification ("ASC") Topic 740, "Income Taxes", which provides standards for establishing and classifying any tax provisions for uncertain tax positions. The adoption of FIN 48 did not have an effect on the Fund's financial position as of September 30, 2010 or the Fund's results of operations and cash flows for the year ended September 30, 2011. SchD_P11_S00_L08 Schedule D, Part XI, Line 8 Pension changes other than net periodic costs. X X X X X 1 THD 80 Hayden Avenue Suite 300 Lexington MA 02421 Direct mail counsel 0 4785620 350994 4434626 JC Geever 32 Broadway Suite 301 New York NY 10004 Foundation grant writing 0 431410 99102 332308 Shaykin & Boreyko Consulting 60 Madison Avenue New York NY 10111 Major donor research and cultivation 0 479345 48000 431345 5696375 498096 5198279 AK AR AZ CA CO CT DC DE FL GA HI IL KS KY LA MA MD ME MI MN MS NC ND NH NJ NM NY OH OK OR PA RI SC TN UT VA VT WA WI WV Spring Benefits 1365379 1005640 359739 0 0 0 0 0 359739 Fall Benefit 703455 421927 281528 0 0 0 0 0 281528 2 76090 45330 30760 0 0 0 0 0 30760 2144924 1472897 672027 0 0 0 0 0 672027 672027 0 X X X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Jenny Morgenthau 333692 0 0 0 0 0 40043 0 7683 0 381418 0 250269 0 Jean Jeremie 188271 0 0 0 0 0 22593 0 20449 0 231313 0 141203 0 Thomas Karger 191269 0 0 0 0 0 22952 0 7612 0 221833 0 143452 0 Lori Seader 188271 0 0 0 0 0 22593 0 12798 0 223662 0 141203 0 George Morfessis 159404 0 0 0 0 0 19129 0 20449 0 198982 0 119553 0 Elizabeth Clardy 132291 0 0 0 0 0 15875 0 8169 0 156335 0 99218 0 Angela Pender-Fox 125830 0 0 0 0 0 15875 0 15267 0 156972 0 99218 0 Tom Bernstein Board member 304209 Special events site rental 0 SchL_P04_S00_L00 Schedule L, Part IV The Fresh Air Fund rents a catering facility for its special events operated by Pier Sixty, LLC, which is located at Chelsea Piers. Pier Sixty, LLC is a joint venture between AK Pier Sixty, LLC, a catering company, and Chelsea Piers LP. Chelsea Piers Management Inc. is the managing partner of Chelsea Piers, LP. A board member of the Fund, Tom Bernstein, is the President of Chelsea Piers Management, Inc. X 17 218331 Fair Market Value avg. price 0 1 0 F990_P06_S0B_L11a Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11a Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11 - The information to prepare Form 990 is collected by various members of the organization's Finance office. The Form 990 is prepared by the organization's CFO, reviewed by the Executive Director and presented to the Audit Committee for approval. Upon approval, the Form 990 is provided to the full governing board. F990_P06_S0B_L12c Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c At the organization's annual board meeting, a reaffirmation of the conflict of interest policy is distributed and members are requested to individually sign-off that they are aware of and will report any conflicts that exist. Follow-up efforts are conducted for anyone not submitting a form at the annual meeting. The sign-off forms are collected by the organization and kept on file. F990_P06_S0B_L15 Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 - The organization's CFO prepares annually a salary survey of the key management positions in the organization, including the Executive Director. Such salary data are collected from various well-known and publicly available sources. Comparative metrics of peer groups by budget and asset size, nature and scope of services, and geographic proximity are developed and presented to the organization's Executive Committee for discussion. Within executive session of the Executive Committee meeting, the compensation level of all staff are approved as recommended by management or revised by the committee at its discretion. F990_P06_S0C_L19 Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 - All documents which must be made available to the public can be obtained electronically upon request or on our website. F990_P11_S00_L05 Form 990, Part XI, Line 5 Unrealized loss on investments and pension changes other than net periodic costs.