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GEORGIA RIVER NETWORK INC dba GEORGIA RIVERS

Georgia rivers works to protect and connect people with georgia's rivers.

$188k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$1.3MAnimals$195kScience & Tech$10k
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $177,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $187,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $10,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COOSA RIVER BASIN INITIATIVE$29,500
CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER$26,500
GEORGIA WILDLIFE FEDERATION$20,000
OGEECHEE RIVERKEEPER$11,500
SCIENCE FOR GEORGIA INC$10,000
ALTAMAHA RIVERKEEPER$10,000
GEORGIA INTERFAITH POWER$10,000
SAVANNAH RIVERKEEPER$10,000
ENVIRONMENT GEORGIA$10,000
SATILLA RIVERKEEPER$10,000
SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION$10,000
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW$10,000
FLINT RIVERKEEPER$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%GEORGIA WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $55k → 12%SATILLA RIVERKEEPER: $30k → 12%SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW: $40k → 13%THE GEORGIA SIERRA CLUB: $30k → 14%ONE HUNDRED MILES: $40k → 14%COOSA RIVER BASIN INITIATIVE: $35k → 15%SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%GEORGIA WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $55k → 12%SATILLA RIVERKEEPER: $20k → 12%SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW: $30k → 13%ENVIRONMENT GEORGIA: $30k → 14%ONE HUNDRED MILES: $30k → 14%COOSA RIVER BASIN INITIATIVE: $30k → 15%SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%GEORGIA WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $45k → 12%SATILLA RIVERKEEPER: $20k → 12%SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW: $30k → 13%ENVIRONMENT GEORGIA: $20k → 14%ONE HUNDRED MILES: $30k → 14%COOSA RIVER BASIN INITIATIVE: $25k → 15%SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%GEORGIA WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $20k → 12%SATILLA RIVERKEEPER: $10k → 12%SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW: $10k → 13%ENVIRONMENT GEORGIA: $20k → 14%ONE HUNDRED MILES: $5k → 14%COOSA RIVER BASIN INITIATIVE: $25k → 15%GEORGIA WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $20k → 12%SATILLA RIVERKEEPER: $10k → 12%SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW: $10k → 13%ENVIRONMENT GEORGIA: $13k → 14%COOSA RIVER BASIN INITIATIVE: $18k → 15%CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER: $65k → 13%ENVIRONMENT GEORGIA: $10k → 14%CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER: $55k → 13%CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER: $55k → 13%CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER: $27k → 13%CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER: $11k → 13%SCIENCE FOR GEORGIA INC: $10k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 12 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
2

Total granted

$1.5M
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+181%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentAnimalsPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CR
    CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $213k · revenue +35%
  • GW
    GEORGIA WILDLIFE FEDERATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $195k · revenue +260%
  • FR
    FLINT RIVERKEEPER INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $146k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • SF
    SCIENCE FOR GEORGIA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +181%
  • GI
    Georgia Interfaith Power & Light Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Georgia Mountain Trails Partnership Inc

A mission to create outdoor recreation opportunity, connect communities and trails, promote quality of life, and to protect our natural resources.

Recreation & Sports
2
Georgia Forestwatch Inc

Our mission is to enhance the health of over 867,000 acres of georgias national forest by protecting our forests and streams, advocating for natural processes, and identifying opportunities to improve forest management.

Environment
3
Savannah River Site Watch
Environment
4
Alabama Rivers Alliance Inc

Alabama Rivers Alliance is a statewide network of groups working to protect and restore all of Alabama's water resources through building partnerships, empowering citizens, and advocating for sound water policy and its enforcement.

Environment
5
Georgia River Network Inc dba Georgia Rivers

Georgia rivers works to protect and connect people with georgia's rivers.

Environment
6
Tennessee Riverkeeper

The mission of tennessee riverkeeper is to protect and restore clean water, biological life, recreational opportunities and aesthetic values of and to the tennessee and cumberland rivers and their tributaries.

Environment
7
Georgia Outdoor Stewardship Coalition Inc

Promote social welfare on matters relating to water conservation.

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8
Cahaba River Society Inc

Our mission to restore and protect the Cahaba River watershed and its rich diversity of life. The diverse lives depending on the river include the Cahaba's exceptional freshwater biodiversity and also the diverse residents of Birmingham,…

Community Improvement
9
Georgia Conservancy Inc

To protect georgia through ecological and economic solutions for stewardship, conservation, and sustainable use of the land and its resources.

Environment
10
Center for Sustainable Coast

Advocating responsible decisions that sustain the environment and qaulity of life in coastal Georgia. This includes supporting the enforcement of environmental regulations, conservation of natural resources, improved efficiency and…

Environment
11
Chattooga Conservancy

To protect and restore the ecological integrity of the chattooga river watershed; to ensure the viability of native species and a healthy human environment; to empower communities to practice good land stewardship.

Environment
12
Nuclear Watch South Inc

environmental education

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Flint Riverkeeper Inc; the most unlike its peers is Satilla Riverwatch Alliance Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC: $212,500 · EnvironmentCHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INCFLINT RIVERKEEPER INC: $146,000 · EnvironmentFLINT RIVERKEEPER INCCOOSA RIVER BASIN INITIATIVE INC: $132,500 · EnvironmentCOOSA RIVER BASIN INITIATIVE INCAltamaha Riverkeeper Inc: $111,500 · EnvironmentAltamaha Riverkeeper IncOne Hundred Miles Inc: $105,250 · EnvironmentOne Hundred Miles IncSAVANNAH RIVERKEEPER INC: $101,000 · EnvironmentSAVANNAH RIVERKEEPER INCOGEECHEE RIVERKEEPER INC: $95,000 · EnvironmentOGEECHEE RIVERKEEPER INCSatilla Riverwatch Alliance Inc: $90,000 · EnvironmentSatilla Riverwatch Alliance IncSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $90,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION+1 more: $10,000 · EnvironmentSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $120,000 · OtherSOUTHERN ENVIRO…ENVIRONMENT GEORGIA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER: $92,500 · OtherENVIRONMENT GEO…GEORGIA WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $195,000 · AnimalsGEORGIA WILDLI…SCIENCE FOR GEORGIA INC: $10,000 · Public Benefit
Environment$1,093,750Other$212,500Animals$195,000Public Benefit$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC: $212,500 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetGEORGIA WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $195,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetFLINT RIVERKEEPER INC: $146,000 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetCOOSA RIVER BASIN INITIATIVE INC: $132,500 over 5y, 29% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $120,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAltamaha Riverkeeper Inc: $111,500 over 6y, 20% of budgetOne Hundred Miles Inc: $105,250 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetSAVANNAH RIVERKEEPER INC: $101,000 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetOGEECHEE RIVERKEEPER INC: $95,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetENVIRONMENT GEORGIA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER: $92,500 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetSatilla Riverwatch Alliance Inc: $90,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSCIENCE FOR GEORGIA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetGeorgia Interfaith Power & Light Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Sapelo Foundation…PatagoniaorgThe Community Foundat…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Sapelo Foundation IncGA22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Sapelo Foundation Inc · Patagoniaorg · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization GEORGIA RIVER NETWORK INC dba GEORGIA RIVERS funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from GEORGIA RIVER NETWORK INC dba GEORGIA RIVERS. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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