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BACK RIVER RESTORATION COMMITTEE IN

BACK RIVER RESTORATION COMMITTEE IN (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,179 to it, the largest being VERIZON FOUNDATION ($3,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$592k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$7k
Net assets
$176k
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Back River Restoration Committee In does

Mission

Restoration of the back river watershed

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Restoration of the back river watershed

    $494,654 spent
    96% of program spending
  2. Restoration of the back river watershed

    $20,718 spent
    4% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $515,372.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($231k) Expenses 100 ($225k) Net assets 100 ($66k)2018 Revenue 110 ($254k) Expenses 120 ($270k) Net assets 73 ($48k)2019 Revenue 142 ($328k) Expenses 151 ($340k) Net assets 55 ($37k)2020 Revenue 83 ($191k) Expenses 79 ($178k) Net assets 75 ($50k)2021 Revenue 99 ($229k) Expenses 96 ($217k) Net assets 93 ($62k)2022 Revenue 89 ($206k) Expenses 76 ($170k) Net assets 147 ($98k)2023 Revenue 117 ($270k) Expenses 93 ($210k) Net assets 237 ($157k)2024 Revenue 106 ($244k) Expenses 121 ($273k) Net assets 193 ($128k)2025 Revenue 256 ($592k) Expenses 241 ($543k) Net assets 266 ($176k)
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Revenue (256)Expenses (241)Net assets (266)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $123k to $182k (+49%).

$91k
$73k
$62k
$75k
$87k
$123k
$182k
$153k
$201k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 48% · 2018 54% · 2019 36% · 2020 57% · 2021 54% · 2022 67% · 2023 49% · 2024 46% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

91% of BACK RIVER RESTORATION COMMITTEE IN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,629 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$6k
’17
−$16k
’18
−$12k
’19
$13k
’20
$12k
’21
$36k
’22
$60k
’23
−$29k
’24
$48k
’25
4.4
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

Mickey Tarburton

Chairman of

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+0+3+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·05000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $814 → $201.

Funder
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'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
2
2
3
1
1

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of BACK RIVER RESTORATION COMMITTEE IN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

BACK RIVER RESTORATION COMMITTEE IN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

52%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 92% · 2021 72% · 2022 69% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

BACK RIVER RESTORATION COMMITTEE IN draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 2 states in all.

NJ
MD

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $929 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BACK RIVER RESTORATION COMMITTEE IN has grown faster than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · below the median
Months of reserve4.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like BACK RIVER RESTORATION COMMITTEE IN

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Maryland

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
444%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MD

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Questions and answers

Who funds BACK RIVER RESTORATION COMMITTEE IN?
BACK RIVER RESTORATION COMMITTEE IN (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,179 to it, the largest being VERIZON FOUNDATION ($3,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BACK RIVER RESTORATION COMMITTEE IN have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $7,179 in grants to BACK RIVER RESTORATION COMMITTEE IN, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BACK RIVER RESTORATION COMMITTEE IN?
VERIZON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BACK RIVER RESTORATION COMMITTEE IN find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing