Massachusetts · Nonprofit
HOUSATONIC RIVER INITIATIVE INC
HOUSATONIC RIVER INITIATIVE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $218,187 to it, the largest being POSSIBILITY LABS ($100,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $218k
- Net assets
- $146k
What Housatonic River Initiative Inc does
Mission
Environmental protection
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
the organization advocate to promote, preserve, and improve the Housatonic River.It conduct periodic sampling of the river to measure pollutant levels.
$22,653 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $22,653.
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 2024 to 2025, from $55k to $146k (+167%).
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 HOUSATONIC RIVER INITIATIVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Timothy Gray
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $15k → $21k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 HOUSATONIC RIVER INITIATIVE 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
HOUSATONIC RIVER INITIATIVE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
50% 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 HOUSATONIC RIVER INITIATIVE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 48% · 2021 75% · 2022 65% · 2023 73% — 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
HOUSATONIC RIVER INITIATIVE INC draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9k 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
HOUSATONIC RIVER INITIATIVE INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding HOUSATONIC RIVER INITIATIVE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$25k
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 HOUSATONIC RIVER INITIATIVE 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 HOUSATONIC RIVER INITIATIVE 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 HOUSATONIC RIVER INITIATIVE INC?
- HOUSATONIC RIVER INITIATIVE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $218,187 to it, the largest being POSSIBILITY LABS ($100,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOUSATONIC RIVER INITIATIVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $218,187 in grants to HOUSATONIC RIVER INITIATIVE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOUSATONIC RIVER INITIATIVE INC?
- POSSIBILITY LABS is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOUSATONIC RIVER INITIATIVE INC 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.
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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