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CAHABA RIVERKEEPER INC

CAHABA RIVERKEEPER INC (Alabama) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $897,217 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM ($228,553). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$379k
Funders on record
21
Grants received
$897k
Net assets
$802k
11/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 75%
01What it does

What Cahaba Riverkeeper Inc does

Mission

To defend the ecological integrity of the cahaba river, its tributaries and watershed

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Corporation continues to defend the ecological integrity of the cahaba river, its tributaries and its watershed.

    $238,450 spent$378,985 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $238,450.

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 ($101k) Expenses 100 ($65k) Net assets 100 ($126k)2018 Revenue 124 ($125k) Expenses 99 ($65k) Net assets 148 ($186k)2019 Revenue 111 ($112k) Expenses 191 ($125k) Net assets 138 ($173k)2020 Revenue 186 ($188k) Expenses 131 ($86k) Net assets 219 ($275k)2021 Revenue 215 ($217k) Expenses 233 ($152k) Net assets 249 ($313k)2022 Revenue 270 ($272k) Expenses 255 ($166k) Net assets 333 ($419k)2023 Revenue 449 ($452k) Expenses 321 ($210k) Net assets 525 ($661k)2024 Revenue 376 ($379k) Expenses 365 ($238k) Net assets 637 ($802k)
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Revenue (376)Expenses (365)Net assets (637)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 $492k to $732k (+49%).

$173k
$233k
$220k
$337k
$386k
$492k
$732k
$840k
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 93% · 2024 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of CAHABA RIVERKEEPER INC’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. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$35k
’17
$60k
’18
−$13k
’19
$102k
’20
$65k
’21
$105k
’22
$242k
’23
$141k
’24
12
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.

20202021202220232024
Listed44456
Joined·+0+1+1+1
No longer listed·0100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $29k → $301k.

5 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 CAHABA RIVERKEEPER INC’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

CAHABA RIVERKEEPER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

73% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CAHABA RIVERKEEPER INC.

25%
largest funder
59%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 30% · 2019 56% · 2020 26% · 2021 47% · 2022 59% · 2023 65% — 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

58% of CAHABA RIVERKEEPER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

CAHABA RIVERKEEPER INC draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 6 states in all.

VT
CA
MO
TN
DC
AL

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Alabama out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $401k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CAHABA RIVERKEEPER INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin37% · top quartile
Months of reserve11.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)21% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

AL

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Questions and answers

Who funds CAHABA RIVERKEEPER INC?
CAHABA RIVERKEEPER INC (Alabama) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $897,217 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM ($228,553). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CAHABA RIVERKEEPER INC have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $897,217 in grants to CAHABA RIVERKEEPER INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CAHABA RIVERKEEPER INC?
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM is the largest funder on record, with $228,553 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CAHABA RIVERKEEPER INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 21 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