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COOSA RIVERKEEPER INC

COOSA RIVERKEEPER INC (Alabama) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,451,733 to it, the largest being Mobile Baykeeper Inc ($237,458). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$881k
Funders on record
27
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
$250k
15/27 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 85%
01What it does

What Coosa Riverkeeper Inc does

Mission

Protect, promote, and restore the coosa river

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Riverkeeper program: monitor compliance status of permitted polluters in the coosa valley. Patrolled the river throughout the year. Responded to citizen complaints of pollution.

    $65,146 spent$546,169 earned by the program
    9% of program spending
  2. Swim guide: monitor popular recreation sites for e.coli and other water quality issues. Results presented to public via social media and free text message/email alet system.

    $41,853 spent$12,500 earned by the program
    5% of program spending
  3. Education: quarterly workshops, fishing clinics,and field trips to educate about organisms in the river, conservation and sustainability.

    $29,744 spent$50,487 earned by the program
    4% of program spending
  4. Outreach /advocacy and fish guide: distribution of printed informational material, radio ads,fish consumption adivsories regarding pcbs and methyl mercury. Educated fisherman regarding temperatures and contaminants.

    $628,638 spent$205,669 earned by the program
    82% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $765,381.

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 ($169k) Expenses 100 ($164k) Net assets 100 ($56k)2018 Revenue 111 ($187k) Expenses 125 ($204k) Net assets 70 ($39k)2019 Revenue 141 ($239k) Expenses 126 ($205k) Net assets 130 ($73k)2021 Revenue 168 ($285k) Expenses 106 ($173k) Net assets 281 ($158k)2022 Revenue 227 ($385k) Expenses 162 ($266k) Net assets 494 ($277k)2023 Revenue 237 ($401k) Expenses 238 ($390k) Net assets 514 ($289k)2024 Revenue 289 ($489k) Expenses 330 ($539k) Net assets 426 ($239k)2025 Revenue 460 ($779k) Expenses 485 ($793k) Net assets 401 ($225k)2026 Revenue 521 ($881k) Expenses 524 ($856k) Net assets 445 ($250k)
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Revenue (521)Expenses (524)Net assets (445)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 2025 to 2026, from $471k to $324k (−31%).

$58k
$42k
$81k
$292k
$396k
$380k
$477k
$471k
$324k
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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
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 5% · 2023 7% · 2025 1% · 2026 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

96% of COOSA 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. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$6k
’17
−$17k
’18
$34k
’19
$112k
’21
$119k
’22
$12k
’23
−$50k
’24
−$14k
’25
$25k
’26
4.4
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.

Chief executive

Kacey Hayes

Executive director

As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2025 and FY2026 filings.

2019202120222023202420252026
Listed14151413151413
Joined··+3+0+8+3+1
No longer listed··41642
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $115k → $154k.

7 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 COOSA 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

COOSA RIVERKEEPER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% 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

60% 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 COOSA RIVERKEEPER INC.

16%
largest funder
48%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 24% · 2019 23% · 2020 19% · 2021 23% · 2022 32% · 2023 36% — 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

77% of COOSA RIVERKEEPER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

71% of COOSA RIVERKEEPER INC's grant income comes from Alabama funders.

AK
NY
PA
CA
MO
VA
TN
AL

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

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Alabama out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $594k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

COOSA RIVERKEEPER INC has grown faster than half of the 51 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve4.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)20% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 51 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026

Organizations like COOSA RIVERKEEPER INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 6%Fundraising 5%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

97%

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 COOSA RIVERKEEPER INC?
COOSA RIVERKEEPER INC (Alabama) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,451,733 to it, the largest being Mobile Baykeeper Inc ($237,458). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COOSA RIVERKEEPER INC have?
IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $1,451,733 in grants to COOSA RIVERKEEPER INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COOSA RIVERKEEPER INC?
Mobile Baykeeper Inc is the largest funder on record, with $237,458 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COOSA 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 27 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