Utah · Nonprofit
BEAR LAKE WATCH
BEAR LAKE WATCH (Utah) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $341,005 to it, the largest being THEODORE & ELIZABETH SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($60,200). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $438k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $341k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Bear Lake Watch does
Mission
To understand, protect and restore the environment and waters of Bear Lake and to assure that the interests of the public at large are represented and served in the allocation and utilization thereof.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Represented the public's interest in bear lake by participating at all levels throughout the three state watershed.distributed relevant information to over 2000 members & interested parties; maintained website and other media outlets to inform and communicate with citizens about bear lake issues.worked to maintain the public and private partnerships supporting research and data collection on bear lake: including 7th year with deq-utah, deq-idaho and usgs water quality monitoring platforms on bear lake. Two additional research projects were completed with utah state university including: improving our understanding of high-dimensional lake state transitions in bear lake idaho-utah through machine learning and enhancing bear lake's environmental data accessibility and preservation to support future research and sustainable management.held a fundraising golf tournament to support and fund the research initiatives.worked with the lake-front landholders, state lands and the co-op weed management for the eradication of invasive aquatic plants such as phragmites eurasian waterfilfoil in utah & idaho.
$194,090 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $194,090.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.0M to $1.2M (+19%).
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.
38% of BEAR LAKE WATCH’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $7k → $44k.
6 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 BEAR LAKE WATCH’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
BEAR LAKE WATCH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 90% · 2019 77% · 2020 28% · 2021 19% · 2022 39% · 2023 20% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
100% of BEAR LAKE WATCH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
94% of BEAR LAKE WATCH's grant income comes from Utah funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $78k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states 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.
Against its field
BEAR LAKE WATCH runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BEAR LAKE WATCH
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 Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BEAR LAKE WATCH: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BEAR LAKE WATCH?
- BEAR LAKE WATCH (Utah) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $341,005 to it, the largest being THEODORE & ELIZABETH SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($60,200). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BEAR LAKE WATCH have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $341,005 in grants to BEAR LAKE WATCH, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BEAR LAKE WATCH?
- THEODORE & ELIZABETH SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $60,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BEAR LAKE WATCH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 17 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