California · Nonprofit
MOUNTAIN COUNTIES WATER RESOURCES ASSOCIATION
MOUNTAIN COUNTIES WATER RESOURCES ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $178,971 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($178,971). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $243k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $179k
- Net assets
- $41k
What Mountain Counties Water Resources Association does
Mission
To unite agencies, groups and individuals whose interests include protecting and enhancing Mountain County water resources throughout the foreseeable future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Advocacy - Water interests of its members in all or a portion of 12 of the 58 counties in California, focused on the critical water issues as a visible activist organization to ensure regional certainty for a reliable and suatainable water supply for our own economic and environmental well-being for future generations.
Outreach - News Releases - Targeted Stories - Several State and Local Newspapers.Public forums - Host symposiums and assemble top water leaders from all across California to discuss and provide views on water supply, water quality, climate, ecosystems, water reliability, and forest health. Videotaped and on the internet.
Education - MCWRA Website (Information / Education)
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $109k to $28k (−74%).
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: 2020 21% · 2021 38% · 2022 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of MOUNTAIN COUNTIES WATER RESOURCES ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $84k → $19k.
From the IRS filings of MOUNTAIN COUNTIES WATER RESOURCES 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.
Where its funders are
MOUNTAIN COUNTIES WATER RESOURCES ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
MOUNTAIN COUNTIES WATER RESOURCES ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MOUNTAIN COUNTIES WATER RESOURCES ASSOCIATION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MOUNTAIN COUNTIES WATER RESOURCES 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds MOUNTAIN COUNTIES WATER RESOURCES ASSOCIATION?
- MOUNTAIN COUNTIES WATER RESOURCES ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $178,971 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($178,971). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MOUNTAIN COUNTIES WATER RESOURCES ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $178,971 in grants to MOUNTAIN COUNTIES WATER RESOURCES ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOUNTAIN COUNTIES WATER RESOURCES ASSOCIATION?
- NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $178,971 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOUNTAIN COUNTIES WATER RESOURCES ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 1 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