Maryland · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR WATERSHED PROTECTION INC
CENTER FOR WATERSHED PROTECTION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,923,562 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($1,084,691). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Center for Watershed Protection Inc does
Mission
To protect, restore and enhance our streams, rivers, lakes, wetlands and bays.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Stormwater and watershed services encompasses technical assistance to states, local governments, watershed organizations and others to conduct field assessments, develop implementation plans, conduct retrofit inventories, or other related work. Program; york county bank assessment for non-point source consequences of sediment; and development of an offsite mitigation guidance document for regulated massachusetts municipal separate storm sewer systems.
$2,753,651 spent$2,949,575 earned by the program82% of program spendingTraining includes conferences, webcasts, focused training through client requests, usually on subjects about various watershed and stormwater subjects.
$398,569 spent$469,124 earned by the program12% of program spendingWatershed research is the program that develops or adapts new tools for watershed protection and restoration, and includes manuals and products related to small watershed restoration, forestry, wetlands, watershed planning, state-wide stormwater manuals, post-construction stormwater guidance, etc. The primary funders include states, federal agencies and foundations.
$105,129 spent$109,485 earned by the program3% of program spendingMembership is our association program for practicioners and is funded by membership dues. Members consist of individuals, local governments, non-profits, universities, libraries, and corporations.
$101,333 spent$59,966 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,358,682.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $1.2M to $1.6M (+39%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 16% · 2019 9% · 2020 12% · 2021 25% · 2022 20% · 2023 12% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
25% of CENTER FOR WATERSHED PROTECTION INC’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. 1 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
Hye Yeong Kwon
Executive director/CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $181k → $441k.
2 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 CENTER FOR WATERSHED PROTECTION 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
CENTER FOR WATERSHED PROTECTION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
44% 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 CENTER FOR WATERSHED PROTECTION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 100% · 2019 40% · 2020 48% · 2021 38% · 2022 56% · 2023 52% — broadly stable.
“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
50% of CENTER FOR WATERSHED PROTECTION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
CENTER FOR WATERSHED PROTECTION INC draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
CENTER FOR WATERSHED PROTECTION INC's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding CENTER FOR WATERSHED PROTECTION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.8M on record — $3.8M federal, $7.0M state.
- Environmental Protection Agency$3.4M
- Department of the Interior$300k
- Department of Transportation$25k
- Department of Agriculture$15k
- MD$7.0M
- DE$11k
- FL$1k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CENTER FOR WATERSHED PROTECTION INC
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 7 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR WATERSHED PROTECTION INC: 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 CENTER FOR WATERSHED PROTECTION INC?
- CENTER FOR WATERSHED PROTECTION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,923,562 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($1,084,691). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR WATERSHED PROTECTION INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $2,923,562 in grants to CENTER FOR WATERSHED PROTECTION INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR WATERSHED PROTECTION INC?
- NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,084,691 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR WATERSHED PROTECTION INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 14 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