Utah · Nonprofit
LIVING RIVERS
LIVING RIVERS (Utah) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $532,592 to it, the largest being PALLADIUM FOUNDATION ($290,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $207k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $533k
- Net assets
- $146k
What Living Rivers does
Mission
Living Rivers promotes river restoration through mobilization by articulating conservation and alternative management strategies to the public. Seeking to revive the natural habitat and spirit of rivers by undoing the extensive damage done by dams, diversions and pollution on the colorado plateau.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Canyons of the colorado; undertaking education and outreach to restore the colorado river through glen and grand canyons and protecting water resources from proposed tar sands and oil shale strip mining in eastern utah
$221,144 spentof which $3,370 as grants100% of program spendingProtecting water sources for the colorado river basin from pollution
Protecting water resources from mining and milling of uranium in the four corners region.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $221,144.
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 $343k to $207k (−40%).
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.
92% of LIVING RIVERS’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. 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $21k → $93k.
6 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 LIVING RIVERS’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
LIVING RIVERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
30% 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 LIVING RIVERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 70% · 2020 100% · 2021 56% · 2022 59% · 2023 70% — 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
25% of LIVING RIVERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
78% of LIVING RIVERS's grant income comes from Utah funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $144k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
LIVING RIVERS's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LIVING RIVERS
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 Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
45%
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 LIVING RIVERS: 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 LIVING RIVERS?
- LIVING RIVERS (Utah) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $532,592 to it, the largest being PALLADIUM FOUNDATION ($290,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIVING RIVERS have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $532,592 in grants to LIVING RIVERS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIVING RIVERS?
- PALLADIUM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $290,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIVING RIVERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 14 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