Rhode Island · Nonprofit
NARROW RIVER PRESERVATION ASSOC INC
NARROW RIVER PRESERVATION ASSOC INC (Rhode Island) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $139,134 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($65,779). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $81k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $139k
- Net assets
- $368k
What Narrow River Preservation Assoc Inc does
Mission
Primary exempt purpose - to restore, protect and preserve the river. These are accomplished through the vital programs of education, water quality monitoring and general advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
None
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
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 2021 to 2022, from $254k to $311k (+22%).
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.
97% of NARROW RIVER PRESERVATION ASSOC 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 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $1k → $22k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 NARROW RIVER PRESERVATION ASSOC 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
NARROW RIVER PRESERVATION ASSOC INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
47% 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 NARROW RIVER PRESERVATION ASSOC INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 33% · 2019 71% · 2020 85% · 2021 83% · 2022 49% · 2023 46% — 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
43% of NARROW RIVER PRESERVATION ASSOC INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
NARROW RIVER PRESERVATION ASSOC INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $66k 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
NARROW RIVER PRESERVATION ASSOC INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,290 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,290 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like NARROW RIVER PRESERVATION ASSOC 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 Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
47%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NARROW RIVER PRESERVATION ASSOC INC?
- NARROW RIVER PRESERVATION ASSOC INC (Rhode Island) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $139,134 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($65,779). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NARROW RIVER PRESERVATION ASSOC INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $139,134 in grants to NARROW RIVER PRESERVATION ASSOC INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NARROW RIVER PRESERVATION ASSOC INC?
- THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $65,779 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NARROW RIVER PRESERVATION ASSOC INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 10 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing