West Virginia · Nonprofit
COAL RIVER MOUNTAIN WATCH INC
COAL RIVER MOUNTAIN WATCH INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $675,843 to it, the largest being PATAGONIAORG ($103,500). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $259k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $676k
- Net assets
- $130k
What Coal River Mountain Watch Inc does
Mission
The mission of coal river mtn. Watch is to stop the destruction of our communities and environment by mountain top removal mining, to improve the quality of life in our area and to help rebuild sustainable communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Judy bonds center for appalachian preservation: coal river mountain watch's community center, office, volunteer housing, and sustainable economic demonstration site in naoma, wv. We host community meetings, cultural events, workshops, the county bookmobile, parties, and more.
$38,551 spent22% of program spendingCitizens enforcement project monitor coal operations for violations and public hazards, oppose new mountaintop removal permits, and assist residents to do the same.
$66,845 spent38% of program spendingShow and tell energy education and policy project (steep) steep educates about the negative impacts of coal, works to improve energy policy, and demonstrates positive alternatives such as our solar power system. Steep hosts visiting student gropus and journalists and speaks at college and other opportunities.
$30,744 spent18% of program spendingTadpole project: a project to restore the marsh fork of the big coal river and to foster community pride in the river. Appalachian community health emergency (ache) campaign: seeks to place a moratorium on the issuance and renewal of certain federal authorizations for mountain top removal coal mining until a health study is conducted
$39,059 spent22% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $175,199.
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 2022 to 2023, from $171k to $114k (−34%).
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 3% · 2018 3% · 2019 4% · 2020 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of COAL RIVER MOUNTAIN WATCH INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 4 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 7 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $27k → $91k.
5 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 COAL RIVER MOUNTAIN WATCH 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
COAL RIVER MOUNTAIN WATCH INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% 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
53% 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 COAL RIVER MOUNTAIN WATCH INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 40% · 2019 76% · 2020 30% · 2021 23% · 2022 56% · 2023 44% — 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
46% of COAL RIVER MOUNTAIN WATCH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
COAL RIVER MOUNTAIN WATCH INC draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside West Virginia, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $199k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
COAL RIVER MOUNTAIN WATCH INC runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 COAL RIVER MOUNTAIN WATCH 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 West Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COAL RIVER MOUNTAIN WATCH INC?
- COAL RIVER MOUNTAIN WATCH INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $675,843 to it, the largest being PATAGONIAORG ($103,500). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COAL RIVER MOUNTAIN WATCH INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $675,843 in grants to COAL RIVER MOUNTAIN WATCH INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COAL RIVER MOUNTAIN WATCH INC?
- PATAGONIAORG is the largest funder on record, with $103,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COAL RIVER MOUNTAIN WATCH INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in West Virginia. 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing