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HOOSIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION

HOOSIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $85,997 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($46,200). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$93k
Revenue FY2025
8
Funders on record
$86k
Grants received
$244k
Net assets
6/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 27%

Against its field

HOOSIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,054 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve29.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,054 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($74k) Expenses 100 ($54k) Net assets 100 ($176k)2021 Revenue 153 ($113k) Expenses 120 ($65k) Net assets 127 ($223k)2022 Revenue 112 ($83k) Expenses 124 ($67k) Net assets 132 ($232k)2023 Revenue 118 ($87k) Expenses 129 ($70k) Net assets 128 ($226k)2024 Revenue 130 ($95k) Expenses 160 ($87k) Net assets 131 ($230k)2025 Revenue 127 ($93k) Expenses 157 ($86k) Net assets 139 ($244k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (127)Expenses (157)Net assets (139)Peer revenue range

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.

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2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 19% · 2023 10% · 2024 11% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

94% of HOOSIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,973 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$19k
20
$47k
21
$15k
22
$17k
23
$8k
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$8k
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30
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $1k → $23k.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)67% 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 HOOSIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION’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

HOOSIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

67% 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 HOOSIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION.

54%
largest funder
83%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 91% · 2019 67% · 2020 40% · 2021 55% · 2022 85% · 2023 51%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

67% of HOOSIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

67% of HOOSIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $28k that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states.

VT
MA

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

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $58k 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding HOOSIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $23k on record.

State$23k
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By state
  • MA$22k
  • VT$1k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like HOOSIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Massachusetts

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 23%Fundraising 2%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

91%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOOSIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds HOOSIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION?
HOOSIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $85,997 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($46,200). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HOOSIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $85,997 in grants to HOOSIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HOOSIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $46,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HOOSIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 8funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing