Massachusetts · Nonprofit
NORTH & SOUTH RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC
NORTH & SOUTH RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,825,505 to it, the largest being FIDELITY FOUNDATION ($625,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What North & South Rivers Watershed Association Inc does
Mission
To preserve, restore and maintain and conserve the north and south rivers watershed.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Healthy rivers: to provide demonstration projects that show how we can restore our water to health.
$939,893 spent100% of program spendingTo engage: to proivde programs that deepen people's connection with water by being in nature or by taking action to help resolve environmental issues facing our water.
To educate: to provide programs that teach people about our waters and how to protect them.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $939,893.
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 $1.9M to $2.8M (+45%).
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 33% · 2018 17% · 2019 22% · 2020 23% · 2021 13% · 2022 34% · 2023 45% · 2024 62%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of NORTH & SOUTH RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $106k → $542k.
11 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 NORTH & SOUTH RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION 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
NORTH & SOUTH RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
58% 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 NORTH & SOUTH RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 27% · 2019 46% · 2020 31% · 2021 35% · 2022 28% · 2023 55% — growing more concentrated.
“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
55% of NORTH & SOUTH RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
57% of NORTH & SOUTH RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.2M that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
NORTH & SOUTH RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding NORTH & SOUTH RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $145k on record.
- Department of Commerce$95k
- Department of the Interior$50k
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 NORTH & SOUTH RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 NORTH & SOUTH RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC: 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 NORTH & SOUTH RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC?
- NORTH & SOUTH RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,825,505 to it, the largest being FIDELITY FOUNDATION ($625,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NORTH & SOUTH RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $2,825,505 in grants to NORTH & SOUTH RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH & SOUTH RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC?
- FIDELITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $625,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTH & SOUTH RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 29 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