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CEMETERY OF THE HIGHLANDS INC
HIGHLAND MILLS, NY · EIN 140554530 · Form 990 · FY2024 · Small ($100K-$1M) · cemeteryofthehighlands.com
revenue
$257K
expenses
$200K
net assets
$3.5M
employees
1
volunteers
8
program ratio
94%
mission · from form 990

Maintain & Preserve Burial Ground

profile · synthesized from sources

Cemetery of the Highlands Inc is a non-sectarian cemetery located in Highland Mills, NY, serving families of all faiths. It provides burial and cremation services, maintains grounds in perpetuity, and offers interment rights in individual graves, estate plots, and columbarium niches. The organization has operated for over 175 years, ensuring dignified memorialization and long-term care of burial sites.

irs program accomplishments · form 990 part iii · fy2024

What they reported doing

  1. #1 primary $142K
    ADMINISTER BURIAL OF DECEASED INDIVIDUALS BY PROVIDING GRAVE OPENING AND FOUNDATION SERVICES
named programs · 5 · from sources

What they call their work

Chapel and Funeral Services
Provides chapel use and celebrant services for funeral and memorial ceremonies, supporting traditional and personalized services
Columbarium and Cremation Options
Offers niches for cremated remains in community and family estate columbaria, with options for memorialization
Disinterment and Reinterment
Conducts disinterment and transfer of remains within or from the cemetery, requiring consent and compliance with state regulations
Interment Services
Provides burial services for adults, children, and infants, including casket and cremated remains interment in individual graves, family plots, and designated meadows
Memorialization Services
Manages installation of headstones, monuments, and markers, including approval processes and foundation work
activities · 2 groups

What they do

  • Cemetery and Cremation Services 7 activities
    • Charge seasonal and service-related fees
      Imposes a winter maintenance fee from December 1st through March 31st. Charges per linear inch for foundation work with a minimum of 24 linear inches ($396.00), and fees for lettering permits.
    • Conduct funeral and memorial services
      Provides funeral and memorial services, including traditional and personalized options, with chapel use available for up to one hour. Offers celebrant services and memorialization without interment. Services are available on Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays, with departures before or after 12:00 p.m.
    • Offer monument and memorialization options
      Provides monument cleaning services for monuments up to 5 feet in height. Offers small and large pavers for the Veterans Memorial Walkway. Issues permits for lettering and provides bronze plaques for columbarium niches.
    • Operate and maintain a non-sectarian cemetery
      Operates a historic, not-for-profit cemetery in Highland Mills, New York, providing burial and interment services for individuals of all faiths in accordance with New York State law. Maintains grounds to ensure a peaceful and beautiful environment for visitors.
    • Provide burial and interment services
      Provides grave opening and foundation services for burial of deceased individuals. Offers interment services for adults, children, and infants, with or without vaults, and for cremated remains in graves or columbarium niches. Includes grave excavation, filling, re-grading, and seeding as part of service fees.
    • Provide disinterment and re-interment services
      Offers disinterment and re-interment services for caskets and cremated remains, with or without vaults, including removal from or within the cemetery.
    • Sell burial plots and interment spaces
      Offers for sale single graves, multiple grave lots, estate plots, Family Estate Columbaria, Community Columbarium, and cremation graves. Provides trench pour foundations for grave sites, including in designated sections such as Honey Locust Meadow.
  • Cemetery Preservation and Maintenance Funding 1 activity
    • Maintain permanent endowment for cemetery upkeep
      Allocates a percentage of grave site and columbarium niche purchase prices to a Permanent Maintenance Fund, a permanently protected fund established to ensure long-term operation, care, and maintenance of the cemetery grounds.
financials · form 990 · fy2024
revenue
Total revenue$257K
Contributions & grants$5000%
Program service revenue$105K41%
Investment income$151K59%
Other revenue$0
expenses
Total expenses$200K
Program expenses94%
Admin / overhead6%
Fundraising0%
Salaries & benefits$36K
Grants paid out$567
Largest expense lineFacilities
balance sheet
Total assets$3.51M
Cash$185K
Investments$2.99M
Liabilities$11K
Net assets$3.50M
Liquid reserves190.5 mo
4 years on record · 2020–2024 · YoY revenue +44.1%
leadership · form 990 part vii · fy2024

Who runs it

board members · 4
  • Carla Mancino — Trustee
  • Kevin Abrams — Trustee
  • Lisa Hintze — Trustee
  • Veronica Roccissano — Trustee
relationships · 1

Who they work with

  • Catholic Church Government — Operates under the religious authority and doctrine of the Catholic Church.
strategies · 2

How they approach the work

Named approaches extracted from this org’s sources. Where others share an approach, follow it to see the full set of orgs running it.

  • Endowed Care Model for Perpetual Maintenance
    methodology: endowed_care_model
    By establishing a permanent maintenance fund, the organization ensures long-term cemetery preservation and dignified care of burial grounds, because dedicated endowment financing provides sustainable operational stability.
  • Inclusive Non-Sectarian Burial Access
    methodology: non-sectarian_service_provision
    By operating as a non-sectarian cemetery, the organization increases access to burial services for individuals of all religious backgrounds, because inclusive policies remove faith-based barriers to interment.