Michigan · Nonprofit
KALAMAZOO RIVER WATERSHED PUBLIC ADVISORY COUNCIL
KALAMAZOO RIVER WATERSHED PUBLIC ADVISORY COUNCIL (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,581 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($20,461). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $179k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $43k
- Net assets
- $89k
What Kalamazoo River Watershed Public Advisory Council does
Mission
Protect and restore local water resources and public education
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
PAC Grant: Carried out several key activities of the Kalamazoo River Watershed Public Advisory Council (PAC), including continuing monthly meetings, public communications, interactions with federal/state agencies involved in PCB remediation; maintaining and updating the PAC website, and coordinating and implementing a new KRWC membership base and annual meetings to keep the general public engaged and informed.
$92,763 spent67% of program spendingTMDL Administration: Provided Total Maximum Daily Load program services for signatories to a cooperative agreement with the State of Michigan to conduct activities related to the Lake Allegan/Kalamazoo River TMDL. Services included organizing and promoting cleanup and paddle events in the Kalamazoo River watershed, scheduling and implementing quarterly meetings, and producing a required annual report.
$14,221 spent10% of program spendingForest to MI Faucet: Carried out several key activities related to the Forest to Mi Faucet program in the Kalamazoo River watershed such as inspiring and empowering landowners to manage and conserve their woodlands to protect drinking water, educating people about connections between forests and their drinking water and helping municipal water utilities implement their source water protection plans.
$7,829 spent6% of program spendingOther grant funded programs and special event costs consistent with the organization's mission
$24,146 spent17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $138,959.
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 2023 to 2024, from $59k to $85k (+44%).
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: 2021 72% · 2022 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of KALAMAZOO RIVER WATERSHED PUBLIC ADVISORY COUNCIL’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. 3 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Douglas McLaughlin
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $7k → $15k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 KALAMAZOO RIVER WATERSHED PUBLIC ADVISORY COUNCIL’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
KALAMAZOO RIVER WATERSHED PUBLIC ADVISORY COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 KALAMAZOO RIVER WATERSHED PUBLIC ADVISORY COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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.
Where its funders are
64% of KALAMAZOO RIVER WATERSHED PUBLIC ADVISORY COUNCIL'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 $15k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Michigan funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k 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
KALAMAZOO RIVER WATERSHED PUBLIC ADVISORY COUNCIL's revenue grew 63% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
92%
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 KALAMAZOO RIVER WATERSHED PUBLIC ADVISORY COUNCIL: 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 KALAMAZOO RIVER WATERSHED PUBLIC ADVISORY COUNCIL?
- KALAMAZOO RIVER WATERSHED PUBLIC ADVISORY COUNCIL (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,581 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($20,461). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does KALAMAZOO RIVER WATERSHED PUBLIC ADVISORY COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $42,581 in grants to KALAMAZOO RIVER WATERSHED PUBLIC ADVISORY COUNCIL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KALAMAZOO RIVER WATERSHED PUBLIC ADVISORY COUNCIL?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,461 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KALAMAZOO RIVER WATERSHED PUBLIC ADVISORY COUNCIL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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