California · Nonprofit
EEL RIVER RECOVERY PROJECT INC
EEL RIVER RECOVERY PROJECT INC (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,250 to it, the largest being DONALD BRIAN MISELIS FOUNDATION ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $90k
- Net assets
- $233k
What Eel River Recovery Project Inc does
Mission
To empower communities to collaborate in monitoring the ecological conditions of the Eel River. To share information about the health of the watershed and to work together to formulate a restoration strategy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Eel River Recovery Project won a CALFIRE Climate Change Initiative grant, the Tenmile Creek Watershed Forest Health Project, which is to thin 975 acres of forest in northern Mendocino County near the community of Laytonville, California. Hand thinning the forest and creating piles for burning or using lop and scatter methods for broadcast burning, with a total of 925 ares planned for prescribed fire. Services are being provided to private landowners and the Cahto Tribe, with forests on the Cahto Rancheria being thinned. The project is creating local jobs, reducing the risk of catastrophic fire, restoring oak woodlands, and improving biodiversity and is expected to also improve stream base flows, as tree evapotransperation is decreased. Outreach and education are also included in this project.
$2,424,429 spent$1,953,396 earned by the program81% of program spendingThe State Water Resources Control Board awarded ERRP a 319h grant funded with use of US EPA money to abate non-point source pollution. The Tenmile Creek Erosion Control and riparian Restoration Project will repair 620 feet of eroding stream bank, restore the riparian area using living willow and create improved fish habitat for ESA-listed Pacific salmon species.
$564,278 spent$564,278 earned by the program19% of program spendingThis grant from the Mendocino County Community Foundation was from their Community Enrichment fund and was for the purpose of getting students from Laytonville and Leggett schools in northern Mendocino County involved in outdoor education, including hands-on science experience monitoring water temperature and riparian air temperature.
$3,793 spent$6,500 earned by the program0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,992,500.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $21k to $675k (+3174%).
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.
1% of EEL RIVER RECOVERY PROJECT 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. 4 of the last 6 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
Patrick Higgins
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $8k → $12k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 EEL RIVER RECOVERY PROJECT 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
EEL RIVER RECOVERY PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% 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 EEL RIVER RECOVERY PROJECT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 89% · 2022 38% · 2023 83% — 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
EEL RIVER RECOVERY PROJECT INC draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k 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
EEL RIVER RECOVERY PROJECT INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like EEL RIVER RECOVERY PROJECT 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% 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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EEL RIVER RECOVERY PROJECT 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 EEL RIVER RECOVERY PROJECT INC?
- EEL RIVER RECOVERY PROJECT INC (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,250 to it, the largest being DONALD BRIAN MISELIS FOUNDATION ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EEL RIVER RECOVERY PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $90,250 in grants to EEL RIVER RECOVERY PROJECT INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EEL RIVER RECOVERY PROJECT INC?
- DONALD BRIAN MISELIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EEL RIVER RECOVERY PROJECT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 7 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