Missouri · Nonprofit
GREAT RIVERS HABITAT ALLIANCE
GREAT RIVERS HABITAT ALLIANCE (Missouri) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,826,827 to it, the largest being JAY HENGES CHARITABLE TRUST ($2,853,500). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $416k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $557k
What Great Rivers Habitat Alliance does
Mission
Great Rivers Habitat Alliance (grha) was founded in 2000 in order to directly combat the growing consumption of the 100-year confluence floodplain through commercial development. Primarily comprised of st. Charles county floodplain land owners, grha tackles the policies permitting wholesale floodplain development and encourages thoughtful alternatives.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
Great Rivers Habitat Alliance implements a number of initiatives dedicated to preserving the natural resources of the floodplain. We strive to educate the public on the importance of limiting big river flood plain development. Our commitment to habitat preservation is an attempt to maintain the rich biodiversity that resides in the floodplain. Hundreds of species reside in the mississippi river. Preservation of their habitat is essential for their survival. If most of the floodable land in the confluence were to be encased by levees, where would the water go? It would most likely flow behind other existing levees protecting urban and business districts in st. Louis. Great Rivers Habitat Alliance proposes to create the confluence flood plain joint venture partnership . This loose partnership of public agencies and private organizations will develop and initiate the goal of preserving, restoring and maintaining the confluence flood plain for its agricultural heritage, wildlife habitat, and water storage capacity. Land preservation will be conducted on a landscape level though a series of land and conservation easement acquisitions/donations on a willing seller/donor basis.
$207,614 spent$7,425 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $207,614.
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 $358k to $563k (+57%).
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: 2020 5% · 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of GREAT RIVERS HABITAT ALLIANCE’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. 1 of the last 7 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
Andy Spann
Chairman
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $30k → $162k.
6 of 23 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 GREAT RIVERS HABITAT ALLIANCE’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
GREAT RIVERS HABITAT ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 74% · 2019 74% · 2020 29% · 2021 42% · 2022 31% · 2023 34% — 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
50% of GREAT RIVERS HABITAT ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
98% of GREAT RIVERS HABITAT ALLIANCE's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $539k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
GREAT RIVERS HABITAT ALLIANCE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,135 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,135 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like GREAT RIVERS HABITAT ALLIANCE
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREAT RIVERS HABITAT ALLIANCE?
- GREAT RIVERS HABITAT ALLIANCE (Missouri) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,826,827 to it, the largest being JAY HENGES CHARITABLE TRUST ($2,853,500). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREAT RIVERS HABITAT ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $3,826,827 in grants to GREAT RIVERS HABITAT ALLIANCE, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREAT RIVERS HABITAT ALLIANCE?
- JAY HENGES CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $2,853,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREAT RIVERS HABITAT ALLIANCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 23 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