How much did WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC grant in FY2023?

WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC reported 13 grants totaling $1,386,465 in its FY2023 IRS filing.

Where is WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC based?

WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC is based in NY.

WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC

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· Public charity

WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC

To protect our right to clean water in communities around the world.

$1.4M

Granted FY2023

Grants

Communities

$37k

Largest

01What you fund

0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2023.

Environment$2.5MEducation$164kAnimals$59kPhilanthropy$5kOther$318k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

stewardshipjames riverboulderscholarshiplegalgrassrootsbenefit

2020

scholarshipspokane rivermiamisolutionsnaturesurroundingecosystems

2021

spokane riverchesapeakeriver watershedpollutionriver basinbasin educationeducation advocacy

2022

planetgovernmentresourcecollaborativelyengagedroleover

2023

pure farmsfarms purepure watersorganizingmiamisolutionschallenges

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k2 grants · $15k
$10k–50k11 grants · $197k

$14,810

Median grant

States reached

$9.1M

Total assets

Largest grants

LOS ANGELES WATERKEEPER$36,703
RIVERKEEPER INC$29,500
MIAMI WATERKEEPER$25,000
WINYAH RIVERS ALLIANCE$15,706
SAN FRANCISCO BAYKEEPER$15,000
COASTAL CAROLINA RIVERWATCH$14,856
MOUNTAINTRUE$14,810
PATUXENT RIVERKEEPER$12,628
WHITE OAK-NEW RIVERKEEPER ALLIANCE$12,208
YADKIN RIVERKEEPER$10,723
CATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION INC$10,365
CAPE FEAR RIVER WATCH$7,644
SOUND RIVERS$7,348

02The need

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 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 81% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.8M · 23 repeat orgs$319k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2023, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.8M

$319k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%

+32%

Still filing today

96%

90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentEducationAnimalsPhilanthropyOther

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

SOUND RIVERS
6× · 2018–2023 · $492k · revenue +96%
RI
RIVERKEEPER INC
6× · 2018–2023 · $318k · revenue +34%
M
MOUNTAINTRUE
6× · 2018–2023 · $174k · revenue +258%

Funded once

OW
O'AHU WATERKEEPER
one grant, 2018 · $83k · revenue -72% · 66% of their budget
CP
CAPTAIN PLANET FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $38k · revenue 0%
TI
THE IZAAK WALTON LEAGUE OF AMERICA
one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +16%

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.

New York Water Environment

To serve the best interests of the public by promoting sustainable clean water quality management through science, education, and training.

Environment

Hackensack Riverkeeper Inc

Hackensack riverkeeper defends the public trust resources of the hackensack river watershed through environmental action, advocacy, education and litigation. as citizen stewards for the watershed, hackensack riverkeeper promotes…

Environment

Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council

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…

Environment

Blue Water Allies

To create a safe, supportive and empowering home for the lgbtqia+ community.

Human Services

Milwaukee Riverkeeper Inc

Our mission is to protect water quality and wildlife habitat in the river corridors and to advocate for sound land use in the Milwaukee, Menomonee, and Kinnickinnic River Watersheds.

Environment

Northwest Environmental Advocates

Work through advocacy and education to use federal environmental laws such as the Clean Water Act to protect and restore water quality and habit in the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.

Environment

Raritan Baykeeper Inc

The baykeeper's mission is to protect, preserve, and restore the ecological integrity and productivity of the hudson-raritan estuary - one of the most urban estuaries on the planet. since 1989, the organization has served as a citizen…

Environment

Savannah Riverkeeper Inc

The savannah riverkeeper's (srk) mission is to protect the water quality of the savannah river, the integrity of its watershed and to promote an enlightened stewardship of this unique heritage.

Environment

Columbia Riverkeeper

Columbia riverkeepers mission is to protect and restore the water quality of the columbia river and all life connected to it, from the headwaters to the pacific ocean.

Environment

EarthViews Conservation Society

Waterway conservation. Protecting waterways.

Environment

Black River Environmental Improvement

To conserve, maintain, and enhance the scenic, historical, wilderness wildlife, open space, and outdoor recreation values of the adirondack and tug hill areas.

Philanthropy

Waterkeeper Alliance Inc

To protect our right to clean water in communities around the world.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chattahoochee Riverkeeper Inc and the most unlike its peers is Community Foundation Boulder County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/43

the rest of the field

13%

6,816/53,137

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.

05the grantee network

41 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

40/41

Grantees still filing

31/41

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Environment$2,549,863Other$318,082Education$163,687Animals$59,206Philanthropy$5,000

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.

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.

PatagoniaorgCA39.7× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · The Keith Campbell Foundation · The Waterwheel Foundation · The Rose Foundation for Communities · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Foundation for Pennsylvania · Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation · River Network · Resources Legacy Fund · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Annenberg 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 organisation WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: O'AHU WATERKEEPER.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 823117183 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on O'AHU WATERKEEPER, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 66% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Waterkeeper Alliance Inc?

Find your warmest path to Waterkeeper Alliance Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

41 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Waterkeeper Alliance Inc?

More from the funding graph

WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

41 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Waterkeeper Alliance Inc?

More from the funding graph