· Public charity
American Rivers Inc
American rivers is championing a national effort to protect and restore all rivers, from remote mountain streams to urban waterways.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $562k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $920k
- $250k+8 grants · $5.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OREGON DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION | $1,223,328 |
| MOUNTAIN TRUE | $1,007,776 |
| NORTH CLACKAMAS URBAN WATERSHEDS COUNCIL | $734,174 |
| TERRA FUEGO RESOURCE FOUNDATION INC | $584,804 |
| US DEPT OF INTERIOR-YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK | $491,600 |
| HGS LLC | $451,894 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $279,920 |
| KEARNS & WEST INC | $263,370 |
| NATIONAL HYDROPOWER ASSOCIATION INC | $207,805 |
| AMERICAN WHITEWATER | $177,197 |
| CALIFORNIA SPORTFISHING PROTECTION ALLIANCE | $82,003 |
| KRIS BASS ENGINEERING PLLC | $73,000 |
| UNIQUE PLACES TO SAVE | $72,440 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $70,664 |
| RIDGES TO RIFFLES INDIGENOUS CONSERVATION GROUP | $68,574 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $250k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
90 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $216k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- AWAmerican Whitewater9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +44%
- NCNORTH CLACKAMAS URBAN WATERSHEDS COUNCIL2× · 2024–2025 · $829k · revenue +100% · 40% of their budget
- TUTROUT UNLIMITED INC7× · 2018–2025 · $629k · revenue +104%
Funded once
- YRYuba River Charter Schoolgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $330k · revenue +49%
- SCSKAGIT COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH DEPTone grant, 2024 · $154k
- YFYES FOR RESPONSIBLE MININGone grant, 2019 · $106k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
Wwt's mission is to protect and restore water in rivers and streams across washington state. washington water trust restores and protects water in rivers and streams and promotes sustainable freshwater management in washington, and, more…
Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…
Icl's mission is to create a conservation community and pragmatic, enduring solutions that protect and restore the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the land and wildlife you love.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
The California Wilderness Coalition protects the natural landscapes that make California unique, providing clean air and water, a home to wildlife, and a place for recreation and spiritual renewal.
At Yosemite Rivers Alliance, we unite conservation and community to protect and restore the three rivers that ?ow through the Yosemite Regionthe Tuolumne, Stanislaus, and Merced.
The Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is a local nonprofit organization that strives to enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife our community and for future generations. Our Board of Directors consists of seven members with…
To leverage education, technology, and innovative solutions to improve river health.
BWP leads reliable and intentional conservation initiatives that promote and provide clean, ample water for people and habitats by working with key partners and our communities
WaterWatch is a water conservation organization dedicated to protecting and restoring streamflows in Oregon rivers for fish, wildlife and the people who depend on healthy rivers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is River Partners and the most unlike its peers is California Sportfishing Protection Allia. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
133 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 133 of the 183 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MountainTrue ↗
- Who funds American Whitewater ↗
- Who funds NORTH CLACKAMAS URBAN WATERSHEDS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds TERRA FUEGO RESOURCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds California Sportfishing Protection Allia ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA TROUT INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL HYDROPOWER ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds APPLEGATE PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH YUBA RIVER CITIZENS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Yuba River Charter School ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE RIVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds IDAHO RIVERS UNITED ↗
- Who funds FAIR FUTURE MOVEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds University of Kentucky Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Hispanic Access Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN ASSOC OF FISH AND WILDLIFE AGENCIES INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE WATER COMMONS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIQUE PLACES TO SAVE ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLIER ↗
- Who funds Foothill Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds RESOURCES LEGACY FUND ↗
- Who funds THE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Resources Legacy Fund · Water Foundation · National Wildlife Federation · The Rose Foundation for Communities the Environment · Windward Fund · United States Energy Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · River Network · The Pew Charitable Trusts
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization American Rivers Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Bonneville Environmental Foundation — 100% of income from government
- Applegate Partnership Inc — 100% of income from government
- Partnership for the Delaware Estuary Inc — 69% of income from government
- Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc — 40% of income from government
- Johnson Creek Watershed Council — 23% of income from government
- Delaware Nature Society Inc — 13% of income from government
- Sustainable Northwest — 5% of income from government
- American Whitewater — 5% of income from government
- The Orion Society Inc — 2% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
- New Jersey Audubon Society — 1% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.