Michigan · Nonprofit
CLINTON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL
CLINTON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL (Michigan) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,352,907 to it, the largest being THE FRED & BARBARA ERB FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,009,400). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $901k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $253k
What Clinton River Watershed Council does
Mission
To protect, enhance and celebrate the clinton river, its watershed, and lake st. Clair. Vision: individual and community actions protect and improve the health of the clinton river, assuring that its natural, economic, and recreational value enhances the quality of life of those who live, work, and play in the clinton river watershed and lake st. Clair.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Clinton River Watershed Council offers a variety of programs and services throughout the watershed. Activities include stream bank restoration, native plant installation, invasive species removal, rain garden installation, storm drain stenciling, clean up and stewardship activities, water quality monitoring programs, public stormwater education and much more. Events include river day, clinton clean-up, the annual meeting, nourished by nature, and volunteer appreciation events.
$14,453 spent2% of program spendingThe storm water education program is supported through municipal contracts. The Clinton River Watershed Council does activities in conjunction with cities, townships, schools, universities, and other organizations to educate the public about stormwater impacts and solutions. The purpose of the program is to provide the public education requirements for communities ms4 stormwater permits required by the state of michigan.
$126,299 spent$134,913 earned by the program18% of program spendingCrwc's programs include stream leaders, adopt-a-stream, and clinton river coldwater conservation project (crccp). Stream leaders works with middle and high school students to participate in water quality monitoring in their community. Crwc graduates over 2,000 students a year through this program. Adopt-a-stream has 360 volunteers covering 50 monitoring sites. This program is done twice a year. Crccp has over 100 volunteers who work on projects that promote restoration on the paint creek tributary to the clinton river.
$23,886 spent3% of program spendingTotal of remaining programs - crwc leads the public advisory council for the clinton river area of concern (aoc) including continued monitoring of 11 habitat projects annually within the aoc. Crwc led the removal of trout creek dam in the bald mountain recreation area, inventoried sites across the watershed for invasive red swamp crayfish, developed the rain smart rebate program to provide rain gardens, trees or rain barrels to residents living within the george w kuhn drainage area of oakland county, hosted participants on fungi walks, kayak trips, and birding expeditions through nourished by nature, and provided visioning for several communities to implement large scale green infrastructure projects through the watertowns program.
$522,902 spent76% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $687,540.
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 2017 to 2018, from $715k to $517k (−28%).
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: 2017 76% · 2018 75% · 2019 77% · 2020 87% · 2021 61% · 2022 67% · 2023 53% · 2024 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of CLINTON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $37k → $243k.
4 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 CLINTON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL’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
CLINTON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 37% · 2019 49% · 2020 45% · 2021 89% · 2022 81% · 2023 71% — 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.
How long its funders stay
40% of CLINTON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
100% of CLINTON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $133k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
CLINTON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,266 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding CLINTON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $13k on record.
- Department of the Interior$13k
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 CLINTON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CLINTON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL?
- CLINTON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL (Michigan) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,352,907 to it, the largest being THE FRED & BARBARA ERB FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,009,400). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CLINTON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,352,907 in grants to CLINTON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLINTON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL?
- THE FRED & BARBARA ERB FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,009,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLINTON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 19 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing