Ohio · Nonprofit
DOAN BROOK WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP
DOAN BROOK WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $230,481 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($176,631). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $719k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $230k
- Net assets
- $583k
What Doan Brook Watershed Partnership does
Mission
The mission of the Doan Brook Watershed Partnership (dbwp) is to lead conservation and restoration projects that champion environmental justice and foster a sustainable and resilient watershed and to serve as a collective voice for the doan brook and its constituencies through equitable engagement and by providing reliable, accessible watershed science. Dbwp maintains a small staff including executive director emily kao and watershed program manager, alex kirchner, and a watershed program coordinator. We also rely on interns and dbwp volunteers to serve many organization and event support functions. They help to plan and carry out program events, support in-office function, restore habitats, lead hikes, collect trash and lead digital education campaigns about stormwater, sustainability and ecological health.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Organizational management: dbwp hosts regular organizational governance and public engagement opportunities. Board meetings and project planning meetings were held in person and via zoom, with the exception of land management activities. We serve as fiscal sponsors for bluestone heights. Currently we have 17 regular and affiliate trustees serving the organization. The affiliate trustee positions are non-voting and represent dbwp volunteers, a citizen from the city of south euclid, and the northeast ohio regional sewer district.
$514,017 spent100% of program spendingPublic programs and stewardship: in 2025, dbwp continued to host existing educational outreach and habitat stewardship programs. We offered 48 in person events including family fishing day, 2 fishing workshops, take to the lake, stream cleanups, hikes, native habitat stewardship days at lower lake, the doan brook gorge, and at the grow not mow sites in shaker heights. In total, we had over 2000 attendees visit our events, and volunteers completed over 3481 hours of habitat stewardship.
Green infrastructure: in the spring of 2025, dbwp worked in collaboration with chagrin river watershed partners to install a rain garden at willson school, a cleveland metropolitan school district school that serves youth from underserved neighborhoods in cleveland. In addition, dbwp launched the brook & bloom program, a youth volunteer program empowering high school students to install and maintain green infrastructure throughout the doan brook watershed. This program is made possible through a 71,665 grant from the ohio lake erie commission.
Planning: dbwp hosted a committee of city, sewer district, volunteer and non-profit representatives to collectively work on shaker lakes parklands management. Dbwp continues to serve the central lake erie basin collaborative (cleb) steering committee, one of five organizations to serve the collaborative in this capacity. Executive director emily kao also serves on the restore rockefeller park, cuyahoga areas of concern, cleveland cultural gardens federation, and other committees. Dbwp spent many planning and education hours on a dam removal controversy in our watershed, which was initiated by neorsd and the cities of cleveland heights and shaker heights. Restoration: dbwp was awarded a healthy urban tree canopy grant from cuyahoga county for approximately 27,594.00 to maintain more than 60 historic trees in rockefeller park, and a 15,000 grant from the cleveland tree coalition to give away 200 native trees to cleveland residents. Dbwp received a neorsd watershed service agreement for 45,000, and many other program related grants to support events and outreach in the watershed. We also received a 100% cost-waiver from the usace through their planning assistance for states program…
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $514,017.
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 2021 to 2022, from $389k to $638k (+64%).
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 74% · 2018 68% · 2019 34% · 2020 17% · 2021 73% · 2022 89% · 2023 94% · 2024 90% · 2025 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of DOAN BROOK WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Darnell Brown
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $33k → $1k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 DOAN BROOK WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP’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
DOAN BROOK WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 DOAN BROOK WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 57% · 2021 100% · 2022 91% — 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.
Where its funders are
DOAN BROOK WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
DOAN BROOK WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,606 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,606 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DOAN BROOK WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP?
- DOAN BROOK WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $230,481 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($176,631). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DOAN BROOK WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $230,481 in grants to DOAN BROOK WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOAN BROOK WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP?
- NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $176,631 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOAN BROOK WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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