Idaho · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE CLEARWATER INC
FRIENDS OF THE CLEARWATER INC (Idaho) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $373,752 to it, the largest being THE NEW-LAND FOUNDATION INC ($120,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $156k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $374k
- Net assets
- $83k
What Friends of the Clearwater Inc does
Mission
Public land conservation, education and participation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Wild Clearwater program is a multifaceted and integrated conservation education and participation effort. Its two main parts are Outreach/Education and Ecosystem Defense. FOC sponsored several different events and educational opportunities. These included field monitoring with volunteers, educational research projects, presentations at universities and colleges, and our annual potluck. These events reached hundreds of people. The Wild Clearwater program also provides newsletters and information about current public land, water and wildlife issues in the Clearwater Basin to a list of about 900 in paper form and some 3000 in email form, and a few thousand followers on Facebook and Twitter. The Ecosystem Defense component of the Wild Clearwater program of Friends of the Clearwater is heavily involved in the input processes on public lands. Friends of the Clearwater staff members and volunteers prepare and provide detailed and substantive input on issues that affect the national forests in the Clearwater Basin. Last year we commented on dozens of separate projects and prepared detailed reports on current issues. In certain circumstances, we may also exercise our constitutional…
$135,544 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $135,544.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $85k to $69k (−19%).
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.
100% of FRIENDS OF THE CLEARWATER 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. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $36k → $77k.
4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 FRIENDS OF THE CLEARWATER 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
FRIENDS OF THE CLEARWATER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 27% · 2019 37% · 2020 48% · 2021 38% · 2022 59% · 2023 52% — 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.
How long its funders stay
58% of FRIENDS OF THE CLEARWATER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
FRIENDS OF THE CLEARWATER INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Idaho, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $54k 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
FRIENDS OF THE CLEARWATER 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 FRIENDS OF THE CLEARWATER 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 Idaho
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF THE CLEARWATER 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CLEARWATER INC?
- FRIENDS OF THE CLEARWATER INC (Idaho) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $373,752 to it, the largest being THE NEW-LAND FOUNDATION INC ($120,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE CLEARWATER INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $373,752 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE CLEARWATER INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE CLEARWATER INC?
- THE NEW-LAND FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $120,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE CLEARWATER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Idaho. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Friends of the Clearwater →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 16 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