· Public charity
Pennsylvania Organization for Watersheds and Rivers Inc
Pennsylvania organization for watersheds and rivers (powr) provides the tools, training, education and resources that empower community watershed organization leaders and volunteers to protect and restore rivers and streams, advocate for sound water resource management and policies, and facilitate stewardship and enjoyment of…
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of PENNSYLVANIA ORGANIZATION FOR WATERSHEDS AND RIVERS INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $308,363 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $349,482 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $41,119 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $289k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VERONA BOROUGH | $30,000 |
| COUNTY OF BUCKS | $30,000 |
| MANADA CONSERVANCY | $30,000 |
| LACKAWANNA HERTIAGE VALLEY | $30,000 |
| BRANDYWINE CONSERVANCY | $30,000 |
| VERONA BOROUGH | $30,000 |
| VENTURE OUTDOORS | $26,787 |
| BOROUGH OF UNION CITY | $20,000 |
| JOHN BARTRAM | $15,000 |
| JOHN BARTAM | $15,000 |
| LOWER ALLEN TOWNSHIP | $11,250 |
| LOWER ALLEN TOWNSHIP | $11,250 |
| THREE RIVERS WATER KEEPER - 2024 PA ROY | $10,000 |
| SCHUYLKILL RIVER GREEN | $6,700 |
| GREATER EASTON DEVELOPMENT | $6,188 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 76% of your 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.
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 +110% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $302k 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
- SRSCHUYLKILL RIVER GREENWAY ASSOCIATION4× · 2019–2024 · $24k · revenue +83%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE RIVERFRONT INC2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +110%
- UDUPPER DELAWARE PRESERVATION COALITION3× · 2019–2023 · $18k
Funded once
- VBVENANGO BOROUGHone grant, 2022 · $30k
- CACAMBRIA AND SOMERSET COUNTIES CONSERVANCYone grant, 2023 · $29k · revenue -23% · 53% of their budget
- SFSOUTH FAYETTE TOWNSHIP PARKS AND RECone grant, 2023 · $21k
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.
To serve as a steward for the natural and cultural communities in the upper Penns Creek Watershed. We seek to preserve and Honor the agricultural roots of Penns Valley by protecting and conserving its waters, farmland, forests and rural…
Clean up waterways in the western pa region increase habitat for specific native wildlife
Founded in 1995 to coordinate the completion of the great allegheny passage, a 150-mile non-motorized path connecting pittsburgh and cumberland, maryland, the great allegheny passage conservancy promotes the great allegheny passage and…
Preserving open space by acquisition, easement or deed restriction to protect wildlife habitat, natural and cultural resources, scenic views and quality of life; providing stewardship of watersheds in southwestern pennsylvania through…
Monitor and improve the flow of the Bushkill Creek in Northampton County PA.
To preserve, steward, and connect people to the land in northern chester county pennsylvania. see additional information on schedule o.french & pickering is recognized as a leader in regional land conservation, the organization is…
Preservation of essex county virginia's rural characteristics, its scenic lands, natural resources, and historic structures.
To conserve and restore the natural resources through land conservation, water resources stewardship and environmental outreach across central pennsylvania.
The mission of Central Pennsylvania Conservancy (CPC) is to acquire, preserve, and protect local land and natural resources in a five-county, South-Central PA region. Our vision is to create a local network of permanently protected and…
The organization is a citizen-based land and water conservation advocate dedicated to preservation of open space, plants, and animals, unique, scenic, natural, historical, and recreational sites and objects. these efforts are concentrated…
The mission of wildlands conservancy is to protect and restore critical natural areas and waterways, and educate the community to create a legacy of a healthy, sustainable environment for future generations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lackawanna River Conservation Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lions International Jamestown Lions Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 23 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 Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds MANADA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN BARTRAM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIA AND SOMERSET COUNTIES CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds VENTURE OUTDOORS INC ↗
- Who funds SCHUYLKILL RIVER GREENWAY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE RIVERFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds FRENCH CREEK VALLEY CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ENDLESS MOUNTAINS HERITAGE REGION ↗
- Who funds Greater Easton Development Partnership ↗
- Who funds LACKAWANNA RIVER CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THREE RIVERS WATERKEEPER ↗
- Who funds SHENANGO RIVER WATCHERS INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds LIONS INTERNATIONAL JAMESTOWN LIONS CLUB ↗
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: Pennsylvania Environmental Council Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Pennsylvania Organization for Watersheds and 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.
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.
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