Oregon · Nonprofit
MARYS RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL
MARYS RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL (Oregon) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $493,888 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($152,300). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $494k
- Net assets
- $821k
What Marys River Watershed Council does
Mission
Marys River Watershed Council works with public and private landowners to improve water quality and fish and wildlife habitat throughout the watershed and engages community members through environmental education and outreach activities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Working with public and private landowners, Marys River Watershed Council (mrwc) helps plan and implement projects to improve water quality, fish and wildlife habitat, and ecosystem function across the marys river watershed. Projects during this fiscal year included removing fish passage barriers, enhancing habitat for aquatic organisms, reconnecting stream channels to their historic floodplains, creating conditions for beavers and human to co-exist, removing invasive species, planting native species, and maintaining habitat for the esa-listed fender's blue butterly. Mrwc also developed classroom curriculum about watershed stewardship for elementary school students and conducted outdoor education with high school students and the general public at sites across the watershed.
$1,080,328 spentof which $747,308 as grants$23,734 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,080,328.
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 2021 to 2022, from $292k to $684k (+134%).
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: 2017 65% · 2019 74% · 2020 54% · 2021 50% · 2022 35% · 2023 85% · 2024 80% · 2025 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of MARYS RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Holly Purpura
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $19k → $43k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 MARYS RIVER WATERSHED 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
MARYS RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 MARYS RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 90% · 2019 86% · 2020 38% · 2021 79% · 2022 45% · 2023 47% — 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
44% of MARYS RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
97% of MARYS RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $154k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
MARYS RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL is better cushioned than half of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MARYS RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.3M on record — $9.3M federal, $1.0M state.
- Department of Commerce$8.7M
- Department of the Interior$578k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$966k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$45k
- AGENCY PROGRAM RELATED SUPPLIES$2k
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 MARYS RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 MARYS RIVER WATERSHED 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 MARYS RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL?
- MARYS RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL (Oregon) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $493,888 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($152,300). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARYS RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $493,888 in grants to MARYS RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARYS RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL?
- MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $152,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARYS RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 12 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