How much does Waterkeeper Alliance Inc give?

Waterkeeper Alliance Inc reported 8 itemized grants totaling $172,441, out of $1,076,610 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Waterkeeper Alliance Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (99%), Youth Development (1%), Philanthropy (0%).

Who are Waterkeeper Alliance Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Sound Rivers Inc ($492k), Riverkeeper Inc ($390k), Cape Fear River Watch ($341k).

Does Waterkeeper Alliance Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Waterkeeper Alliance Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc, Sound Rivers Inc.

Where is Waterkeeper Alliance Inc based?

Waterkeeper Alliance Inc is based in NY.

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New York · Public charity

Waterkeeper Alliance Inc

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

$1.1M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 8
Itemized grants FY2025: 13
Organizations funded FY2024: 15%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $172k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $15,139
Largest grant, FY2025: $42,000
Organizations funded a year: 13 to 29; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 5
Total assets, FY2025: $7.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Waterkeeper Alliance Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentEducationOther

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	8	$172k	0%
FY2024	13	$328k	15%
FY2023	13	$212k	0%
FY2022	21	$537k	19%
FY2021	15	$445k	20%
FY2020	16	$515k	13%
FY2019	22	$664k	18%
FY2018	29	$717k	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, FY2018 to 2025.

Environment$3.6MYouth Development$38kPhilanthropy$5k

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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Sound Rivers Inc	$492,038	6	17%
Riverkeeper Inc	$390,288	8	2%
Cape Fear River Watch	$341,214	7	13%
Winyah Rivers Foundation Inc	$266,161	7	21%
MountainTrue	$180,884	7	2%
Yadkin Riverkeeper Inc	$167,787	7	12%
White Oak-New Riverkeeper Alliance	$163,516	6	n/a
Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation Inc	$149,426	7	7%
Baykeeper	$140,750	7	2%
Haw River Assembly Inc	$135,268	5	20%

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All grantees of Waterkeeper Alliance Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Sound Rivers Inc	$492,038	6	17%
Riverkeeper Inc	$390,288	8	2%
Cape Fear River Watch	$341,214	7	13%
Winyah Rivers Foundation Inc	$266,161	7	21%
MountainTrue	$180,884	7	2%
Yadkin Riverkeeper Inc	$167,787	7	12%
White Oak-New Riverkeeper Alliance	$163,516	6	n/a
Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation Inc	$149,426	7	7%
Baykeeper	$140,750	7	2%
Haw River Assembly Inc	$135,268	5	20%
Los Angeles Waterkeeper	$103,275	5	1%
Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper Inc	$102,000	5	1%
Coastal Carolina Riverwatch Inc	$97,326	5	10%
Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc	$94,658	6	2%
Earthreports Inc	$85,595	7	11%
Oahu Waterkeeper	$83,066	1	66%
Cook Inletkeeper	$75,000	1	8%
Good Stewards of Rockingham	$51,367	4	13%
Coalition for Susitna Dam Alternatives	$50,000	1	15%
Potomac Riverkeeper Network	$49,750	5	1%
Captain Planet Foundation Inc	$37,500	1	5%
Lake Erie Waterkeeper Inc	$31,500	2	27%
Spokane Riverkeeper	$29,450	2	10%
Waterkeepers Chesapeake Inc	$26,000	2	3%
Suncoast Waterkeeper Inc	$25,000	2	5%
The Izaak Walton League of America	$25,000	1	1%
Tennessee Riverkeeper	$18,246	1	8%
Grand Traverse Bay Watershed Initiative Inc	$18,000	1	1%
Charleston Waterkeeper	$15,000	2	5%
Middle Susquehanna Riverkeeper Association Inc	$14,000	2	8%
Orange County Coastkeeper	$13,000	1	1%
Bayou City Waterkeeper Inc	$11,000	1	5%
Satilla Riverwatch Alliance Inc	$10,400	1	10%
Save the Bay Inc	$10,300	1	n/a
Puget Soundkeeper Alliance	$10,275	1	1%
Three Rivers Waterkeeper	$10,000	1	42%
Tualatin Riverkeepers Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
James River Association	$10,000	1	0%
Save the Poudre Poudre Waterkeeper	$10,000	1	9%
Lake Worth Waterkeeper Inc	$9,000	1	n/a
Chattahoochee Riverkeeper Inc	$8,000	1	0%
Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center	$8,000	1	1%
Upper Missouri Waterkeeper Inc	$6,500	1	2%
Buzzards Bay Coalition	$6,000	1	n/a

Waterkeeper Alliance Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 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 39.

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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.

PatagoniaorgCA47.7× affinity23 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 · Sound Rivers Inc · The Waterwheel Foundation · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation · River Network · The Rose Foundation for Communities the Environment · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds · Resources Legacy Fund

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 Waterkeeper Alliance Inc

How much does Waterkeeper Alliance Inc give?: Waterkeeper Alliance Inc reported 8 itemized grants totaling $172,441, out of $1,076,610 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Waterkeeper Alliance Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (99%), Youth Development (1%), Philanthropy (0%).
Who are Waterkeeper Alliance Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Sound Rivers Inc ($492k), Riverkeeper Inc ($390k), Cape Fear River Watch ($341k).
Does Waterkeeper Alliance Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Waterkeeper Alliance Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc, Sound Rivers Inc.
Where is Waterkeeper Alliance Inc based?: Waterkeeper Alliance Inc is based in NY.