California · Nonprofit
Next River
Next River (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,659,700 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($375,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Next River does
Mission
Next River is an institute for practicing the future. We cultivate the research, narratives, practices, and connections that transform our cultural landscape toward collective liberation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
America is steeped in an idea of freedom that celebrates toxic individualism, independence, and the absence of responsibility for others. Our connectivity becomes hidden behind capitalist structures that separate us from our humanity and each other. Next River recognizes that true freedom can only be fulfilled in a connected, caring, and accountable community. Freedom?s Revival will map a long-term plan that will show us how to get there through research, collaborations with culture change experts, movement building, and meaning-making. In 2023, Next River completed a major research project and released a field guide called "Freedom's Revival: Research From the Headwaters of Liberation". We interviewed more than 40 people for our research, which also included more than 100 desktop and scholarly sources. We held several experiential events to share and promote the research. Over 150 people attended these events. The 50 copies of the field guide that we printed have been distributed, and the PDF has been downloaded dozens of times.
$554,633 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $554,633.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $884k to $2.7M (+205%).
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 Next River’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
7 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 Next River’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
Next River has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
33% 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 Next River.
“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
Next River draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $787k 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
Next River runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 174 social science nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 174 social science nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Next River
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 Next River: 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 Next River?
- Next River (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,659,700 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($375,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Next River have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $2,659,700 in grants to Next River, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Next River?
- THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $375,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Next River 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 19 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