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The Watershed Institute Inc

Keeping water clean, safe and healthy is the heart of our mission.

$502k
Granted FY2023
7
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$358k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182023.

Housing & Shelter$1.9MEnvironment$725kRecreation & Sports$50kOther$0
02FY2023 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $81k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $358k
$19,566
Median grant
2
States reached
$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUNICIPALITY OF PRINCETON$358,333
FREINDS OF HOPEWELL QUARRY$50,000
DELAWARE RIVER KEEPER NETWORK$28,142
ASSOC OF NJ ENVIRONMENTAL COM$19,566
AMERICAN LITTORAL SOCIETY$18,779
PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE$14,549
Individual grant recipient$9,750
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 91% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%DELAWARE RIVER KEEPER NETWORK: $32k → 6%NATURAL RESOURCE DEFENSE COUN: $25k → 17%MUSCONETCONG WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: $8k → 4%ASSOC OF NJ ENVIRONMENTAL COM: $24k → 4%WATERSPIRIT: $8k → 6%PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIAN: $28k → 7%SOUTH JERSEY LAND AND WATER TRUST: $7k → 8%LOWER RARITAN WATERSHED PARTN: $9k → 8%FREINDS OF HOPEWELL QUARRY: $50k → 11%TROUT UNLIMITED INC: $10k → 7%DELAWARE RIVER KEEPER NETWORK: $28k → 6%NATURAL RESOURCE DEFENSE COUN: $13k → 17%MUSCONETCONG WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: $7k → 4%ASSOC OF NJ ENVIRONMENTAL COM: $20k → 4%AMERICAN LITTORAL SOCIETY: $24k → 6%PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE: $15k → 7%LOWER RARITAN WATERSHED PARTN: $9k → 8%SOURLAND CONSERVANCY: $23k → 11%DELAWARE RIVER KEEPER NETWORK: $19k → 6%ASSOC OF NJ ENVIRONMENTAL COM: $20k → 4%AMERICAN LITTORAL SOCIETY: $20k → 6%PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIAN: $15k → 7%SOWSIAN'S LANDSCAPES: $10k → 11%DELAWARE RIVER KEEPER NETWORK: $16k → 6%ASSOC OF NJ ENVIRONMENTAL COM: $20k → 4%AMERICAN LITTORAL SOCIETY: $19k → 6%PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE: $15k → 7%SOURLAND CONSERVANCY: $8k → 11%DELAWARE RIVER KEEPER NETWORK: $9k → 6%ASSOC OF NJ ENVIRONMENTAL COM: $12k → 4%AMERICAN LITTORAL SOCIETY: $19k → 6%PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIAN: $9k → 7%GREAT SWAMP WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: $11k → 4%AMERICAN LITTORAL SOCIETY: $16k → 6%MUNICIPALITY OF PRINCETON: $893k → 11%great swamp watershed assoc: $9k → 4%AMERICAN LITTORAL SOCIETY: $12k → 6%MUNICIPALITY OF PRINCETON: $600k → 11%great swamp watershed assoc: $7k → 4%MUNICIPALITY OF PRINCETON: $358k → 11%D&R GREENWAY LAND TRUST: $8k → 11%D&R GREENWAY LAND TRUST: $8k → 11%VARIOUS GRANTS UNDER 5000: $31k → 11%VARIOUS GRANTS UNDER 5000: $30k → 11%MERCER COUNTY PARK COMMISSION: $19k → 11%MERCER COUNTY PARK COMMISSION: $8k → 11%MERCER COUNTY PARK COMMISSION: $7k → 11%URBAN PROMISE: $9k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.6M · 15 repeat orgs$116k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2023, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
7

Total granted

$2.6M
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+133%

Still filing today

80%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • AL
    AMERICAN LITTORAL SOCIETY
    5× · 2019–2023 · $110k · revenue +129%
  • DR
    DELAWARE RIVER CITY CORPORATION
    5× · 2019–2023 · $104k · revenue +31%
  • AO
    ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSIONS
    5× · 2019–2023 · $94k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • MC
    MORRIS COUNTY PARK COMMISSION
    one grant, 2019 · $12k
  • TU
    TROUT UNLIMITED INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +133%
  • UP
    URBAN PROMISE
    one grant, 2022 · $9k

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

04Your field

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.

1
New Jersey Conservation Foundation

Recognizing that a healthy environment is critical to the well-being and survival of all living things, new jersey conservation foundation is devoted to preserving land and protecting natural resources throughout new jersey's (continued on…

Environment
2
Canal Society of New Jersey
3
The Land Conservancy of New Jersey

The land conservancy of new jersey preserves land and water resources, conserves open space, and inspires and empowers individuals and communities to protect land and the environment.

Environment
4
Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey Inc

Conserve wildlife foundation of new jersey works to preserve rare and at-risk wildlife in new jersey through field science, habitat restoration, education, and public engagement.

Animals
5
New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance

New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance, Inc. Is an alliance of New Jersey Organizations and Individuals committed to creating healthy, sustainable and just communities by eliminating environmental injustices in low income and…

Environment
6
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
7
Ridge and Valley Conservancy Inc

Ridge and valley conservancy is an accredited land trust that, in cooperation with strategic partners, permanently protects and stewards land in northwestern new jersey for the benefit of natural communities.

Environment
8
The Native Plant Society of New Jersey Inc

The Native Plant Society of New Jersey is a statewide non-profit organization dedicated to the appreciation protection and study of the native flora of New Jersey.

Environment
9
New Jersey Corporate Wetlands Restoration Partnership

The New Jersey Corporate Wetlands Restoration Partnership Inc. NJCWRP facilitates public and private partnerships for the restoration and preservation of ecosystems in New Jersey and surrounding areas. The NJCWRP also educates the public…

Human Services
10
Clean Ocean Action Inc

Clean ocean action's goal is to improve and protect the waters off the new jersey/new york coast from pollution, plastics, industrialization and climate change with research, education and citizen action.

Environment
11
Pleasant River Wildlife Foundation

Pleasant river wildlife foundation's mission is to protect scarce, high value wildlife habitat in coastal washington county on the downeast coast of maine. our highest priority is the protection of intertidal and freshwater wetlands and…

Philanthropy
12
Norwalk River Watershed Association Inc

To protect water quality and wildlife habitat in the seven-town Norwalk River Watershed

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Great Swamp Watershed Association and the most unlike its peers is Trout Unlimited 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

16 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 24 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MUNICIPALITY OF PRINCETON — $1,851,107 · OtherMUNICIPALITY OF PRINCETON+8 more — $193,369 · Other+8 moreAMERICAN LITTORAL SOCIETY — $110,471 · EnvironmentAMERICAN LITTORAL SOCI…ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSIONS — $94,259 · EnvironmentASSOCIATION OF NEW JER…PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE — $79,801 · EnvironmentPINELANDS PRESERVATION…CLEAN WATER FUND — $74,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN WATER FUNDNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $38,629 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFE…SOURLAND CONSERVANCY — $36,563 · EnvironmentSOURLAND CONSERVANCYGreat Swamp Watershed Association — $26,350 · Environment+5 more — $67,634 · Environment+5 moreDELAWARE RIVER CITY CORPORATION — $103,782 · Community ImprovementTROUT UNLIMITED INC — $9,742 · AnimalsTEANECK CREEK CONSERVANCY INC — $5,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$2,044,476Environment$527,707Community Improvement$103,782Animals$9,742Recreation & Sports$5,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICAN LITTORAL SOCIETY — $110,471 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetDELAWARE RIVER CITY CORPORATION — $103,782 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSIONS — $94,259 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetPINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE — $79,801 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCLEAN WATER FUND — $74,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFriends of Hopewell Quarry — $50,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $38,629 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOURLAND CONSERVANCY — $36,563 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetGreat Swamp Watershed Association — $26,350 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetLOWER RARITAN WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP CORP — $17,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetD&R GREENWAY LAND TRUST INC — $16,273 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMUSCONETCONG WATERSHED ASSOCIATION — $15,372 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCAMDEN CITY GARDEN CLUB INC — $11,719 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSouth Jersey Land & Water Trust Inc — $7,270 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTEANECK CREEK CONSERVANCY INC — $5,500 over 1y, 4.2% of budget
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.

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.

The William Penn FoundationPA21.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William Penn Foundation · Pseg Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Environmental Endowment for New Jersey Inc · Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Duke Farms Foundation · New Jersey Conservation 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 The Watershed Institute 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 14%
  • Pinelands Preservation Alliance35% of income from government
  • Musconetcong Watershed Association14% of income from government
  • D&r Greenway Land Trust Inc9% of income from government
  • American Littoral Society1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get 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, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Watershed Institute Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Watershed Institute Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $608k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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