How much does River Network give?

River Network reported 49 itemized grants totaling $3,170,479, out of $3,326,962 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 36 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does River Network fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (99%), Food & Nutrition (1%), Recreation & Sports (0%).

Who are River Network's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: City of Hermiston ($358k), City of Shoreline ($348k), Chesapeake Conservancy Inc ($275k).

Does River Network fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as River Network?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Patagoniaorg, The Nature Conservancy.

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Colorado · Public charity

River Network

RIVER NETWORK grows and strengthens a transformational national network of water, justice and river advocates.

$3.3M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 49
Itemized grants FY2025: 23
Organizations funded FY2024: 57%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $3.2M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $33,888
Largest grant, FY2025: $358,482
Organizations funded a year: 10 to 36; FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 24
Total assets, FY2025: $3.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 57% of the organizations River Network funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $139k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsPublic Safety & DisasterEducationPhilanthropyOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	49	$3.2M	67%
FY2024	23	$309k	57%
FY2023	28	$344k	54%
FY2022	36	$419k	64%
FY2021	34	$317k	59%
FY2020	33	$379k	82%
FY2018	10	$387k	40%
FY2017	15	$254k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Environment$2.4MFood & Nutrition$14kRecreation & Sports$7k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
City of Hermiston	$358,482	1	n/a
City of Shoreline	$348,221	1	n/a
Chesapeake Conservancy Inc	$274,575	2	6%
Groundwork USA Inc	$252,068	4	2%
Seattle Public Library	$248,299	1	n/a
Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation	$177,317	1	n/a
Kanu I Ka Pono Inc	$156,199	1	n/a
City and County of Honolulu	$154,242	1	n/a
Protectores de Cuencas Inc	$152,057	1	3%
Truckee River Foundation	$152,024	3	42%

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All grantees of River Network by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
City of Hermiston	$358,482	1	n/a
City of Shoreline	$348,221	1	n/a
Chesapeake Conservancy Inc	$274,575	2	6%
Groundwork USA Inc	$252,068	4	2%
Seattle Public Library	$248,299	1	n/a
Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation	$177,317	1	n/a
Kanu I Ka Pono Inc	$156,199	1	n/a
City and County of Honolulu	$154,242	1	n/a
Protectores de Cuencas Inc	$152,057	1	3%
Truckee River Foundation	$152,024	3	42%
Living Lands & Waters	$141,387	5	1%
Sovereign Earthworks	$138,768	1	n/a
Providence Neighborhood Planting Program	$130,601	1	n/a
City of Hillsboro	$115,455	1	n/a
Multiplier	$107,000	5	0%
The Huub Inc	$68,750	3	12%
Create yA	$68,478	1	n/a
Rock River Coalition Inc	$68,357	1	n/a
Perch Comer	$62,045	1	n/a
State of Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources	$61,046	1	n/a
Lower Ninth Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development	$60,825	3	7%
City of Port Townsend	$56,758	1	n/a
The Commons Inc	$49,075	2	3%
Community Agriculture Alliance Inc	$48,345	2	4%
Ecology Action of Texas	$47,737	1	n/a
Spokane Tribal Network	$47,153	1	n/a
Duwamish Tribal Services	$46,771	1	n/a
Anthropocene Alliance	$45,736	1	n/a
Mancos Conservation District	$44,419	2	n/a
Friends of the Los Angeles River	$43,858	4	2%
Flint River Watershed Coalition	$43,400	2	14%
Tumwater Parks and Recreation	$41,954	1	n/a
Tuolumne River Preservation Trust dba Yosemite Rivers Alliance	$41,443	4	0%
Leona Tate Foundation for Change Inc	$40,000	3	5%
The Izaak Walton League of America	$38,475	2	1%
Kingdom Pathways	$37,872	1	n/a
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc	$36,800	3	0%
Green Interchange Inc	$35,403	1	14%
Watershed Management Group Inc	$35,036	3	1%
Communities of Love in Action	$35,000	2	n/a
Coalition for the Poudre River Watershed	$34,000	3	1%
Urban Neighborhood Initiatives Inc	$33,888	1	n/a
Grassroots Impact Education Fund	$31,499	1	n/a
Waterkeeper Alliance Inc	$30,575	1	0%
West Atlanta Watershed Alliance	$30,200	3	2%
Bonneville Environmental Foundation	$30,000	1	1%
Amigos Bravos Inc	$28,450	3	2%
Passaic River Coalition Inc	$28,231	3	10%
Achieving Community Task Successfully	$25,000	1	15%
City Parks Foundation Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Kentucky Waterways Alliance Inc	$24,788	4	1%
Blackstone Watershed Collaborative Inc	$23,789	1	3%
Buffalo Bayou Partnership Inc	$23,616	3	0%
Wild Alabama Inc	$23,182	3	3%
St Johns Riverkeeper Inc	$22,755	2	2%
Butte Environmental Council	$22,280	1	8%
National Forest Foundation	$20,400	2	0%
Keep Georgia Beautiful Foundation Inc	$20,050	2	3%
Upper Arkansas Soil Conservation District	$20,000	2	n/a
Puget Soundkeeper Alliance	$20,000	2	1%
Cahaba River Society Inc	$20,000	2	2%
New Mexico Wilderness Alliance	$20,000	2	1%
Curry Watersheds Nonprofit	$19,605	2	2%
City of College Place	$19,190	1	n/a
Native Expeditions Corp	$19,000	2	n/a
Natureconnect Central Oregon	$19,000	2	2%
Onondaga Environmental Institute Inc	$18,500	2	2%
The Digdeep Right to Water Project	$18,000	1	0%
Calvin University	$18,000	2	0%
Salmon Valley Stewardship Inc	$17,500	2	3%
Discover Your Northwest	$17,500	2	0%
The John Bartram Association	$17,000	2	1%
Mancos Conservation District	$16,976	1	n/a
Itisoverdue	$16,920	1	n/a
Spanish Peaks-Purgatoire Conservation District	$16,500	2	n/a
Upper Merced River Watershed Council	$15,560	1	n/a
Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition - TAG	$15,332	2	3%
Not Orange	$15,000	1	n/a
Friends of the Lower Olentangy Watershed Flow	$14,520	2	8%
Friends of the Inyo	$14,300	2	1%
Community Initiatives	$14,000	2	0%
Musconetcong Watershed Association	$13,207	2	1%
Arizona State University	$13,000	2	n/a
Verde Inc	$12,500	2	0%
Corazon Latino Inc	$12,400	1	2%
Solano Resource Conservation District	$12,304	2	n/a
Kern River Conservancy	$12,285	2	6%
Girl Plus Environment Corporation	$12,000	1	3%
Commun Denver Inc	$12,000	1	n/a
Puerto Rico Science Technology and Research Trust	$12,000	1	0%
Central Oregon Trail Alliance	$12,000	1	n/a
Glacier Peak Institute	$11,304	1	3%
The San Diego River Park Foundation	$11,300	2	1%
White River Conservation District	$11,108	1	n/a
Trash Free Maryland Corporation	$11,000	2	6%
Evergreen Community Developement In	$10,835	1	1%
Conservation Nw	$10,500	1	0%
Southern Appalachian Wilderness Stewards	$10,500	1	1%
Selway-Bitterroot Foundation Inc	$10,500	1	1%
Tualatin Riverkeepers Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Neighborspace	$10,000	1	0%
Junction Coalition	$10,000	1	3%
Groundwork Rhode Island	$10,000	1	n/a
MountainTrue	$10,000	1	0%
Merrimack River Watershed Council Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Wisdom Institute	$10,000	1	n/a
Groundwork Denver Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Urbanpromise Ministries	$9,500	1	0%
Kenai Mountains-Turnagain Arm Nat'l Heritage Corridor Communities Assoc	$9,000	1	3%
Grand Valley Metro Council	$8,500	1	n/a
Healthy Community Resources and Advocacy Inc	$8,400	1	2%
Town of Superior	$8,400	1	n/a
San Juan Resource Conservation and Development Council Inc	$8,200	1	n/a
Water Wise Gulf South	$8,000	1	n/a
Coastal Watershed Council	$8,000	1	2%
Walnut Way Conservation Corporation	$7,500	1	0%
Pontchartrain Conservancy	$7,500	1	0%
Bend Visitor & Convention Bureau Dba Visit Bend	$7,500	1	0%
Earthcorps	$7,500	1	0%
Friends of the Metolius	$7,000	1	n/a
Sandy River Basin Watershed Council	$7,000	1	1%
Middle Fork Willamette Watershed Council	$7,000	1	1%
Friends of the Verde River	$7,000	1	0%
Waterkeepers Chesapeake Inc	$7,000	1	1%
Glen Canyon Conservancy	$6,800	1	1%
Ellerbee Creek Watershed Association	$6,750	1	1%
Groundwork Jacksonville Inc	$6,750	1	0%
Idaho Rivers United	$6,650	1	2%
Luckiamute Watershed Council	$6,500	1	1%
Heartland Conservation Alliance	$6,500	1	1%
Retail Arts Innovation & Livability Community Development Corporation	$6,500	1	n/a
Un Nuevo Amanecer Inc	$6,500	1	n/a
Ecolibrium3	$6,500	1	1%
Lower 9th Ward Homeownership Association	$6,500	1	3%
Nuestra Casa de East Palo Alto	$6,500	1	0%
White Clay Watershed Association	$6,500	1	2%
Blue Water Baltimore	$6,500	1	0%
Groundwork Somerville Inc	$6,500	1	2%
Port Arthur Community Action Network	$6,500	1	n/a
Comm In-Power & Development Assoc Inc	$6,500	1	n/a
West Street Recovery	$6,500	1	1%
Huron Pines Resource Conservation & Development Council Inc	$6,500	1	0%
Fulton Water & Sewerage	$6,000	1	n/a
Freshwater Society	$6,000	1	0%
Streets Run Watershed Association Dba Watersheds of South Pittsburgh	$6,000	1	4%
The River Alliance of Wisconsin Inc	$6,000	1	1%
Delaware Riverkeeper Network	$5,931	1	0%
CalWild	$5,789	1	1%
Community Water Center	$5,500	1	0%
Center for Neighborhood Technology	$5,400	1	0%

River Network supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 99 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 99.

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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.

National Fish and Wildlife FoundationDC47.8× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The Nature Conservancy · National Forest Foundation · The Rose Foundation for Communities the Environment · Resources Legacy Fund · Windward Fund · American Rivers Inc · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · National Wildlife Federation · Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated · United States Energy 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.

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About River Network

How much does River Network give?: River Network reported 49 itemized grants totaling $3,170,479, out of $3,326,962 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 36 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does River Network fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (99%), Food & Nutrition (1%), Recreation & Sports (0%).
Who are River Network's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: City of Hermiston ($358k), City of Shoreline ($348k), Chesapeake Conservancy Inc ($275k).
Does River Network fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as River Network?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Patagoniaorg, The Nature Conservancy.
Where is River Network based?: River Network is based in CO.