Connecticut · Nonprofit
NORWALK RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC
NORWALK RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $126,198 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($47,350). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $222k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $126k
- Net assets
- $783k
What Norwalk River Watershed Association Inc does
Mission
To protect water quality and wildlife habitat in the seven-town Norwalk River Watershed
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education and Outreach: In 2025, NRWA conducted 26 talks/presentations engaging over 1000 people; 6 radio interviews; 10 nature walks engaging almost 200 people; tabled at 4 large environmental events; held 13 habitat restoration events with adults and 6 with students engaging a total of 468 volunteers giving over 1000 hours. 15 core volunteers contributed 100 regular maintenance days to our on-going restoration projects adding another 1000 hours of donated time.
$29,953 spent16% of program spendingHabitat Restoration: 12 acres managed in on-going restoration projects at 8 management sites, invasive plants removed and areas re-planted with native plantings including 440 trees, 625 shrubs, and over 2,000 wildflowers. A stand-out project for 2025 was the addition of a Miyawaki microforest in South Norwalk, CT
$142,674 spent76% of program spendingWater Quality Testing and River Cleanups: Two cleanups engaged 35 volunteers and removed 400 pounds of trash from the Norwalk River. NRWA worked with a University of Connecticut lab to test water quality in rivers across Fairfield County and summarized the results in 2025 report available at NorwalkRiver.org. NRWA continues to serve as the lead organizer of the CT Pesticide Reform coalition, a group of over 40 conservation organizations working to advocate for updating state pesticide policy and restricting the highest harm, lowest benefit pesticides that testing shows are present in Connecticut rivers.
$15,180 spent8% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $187,807.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $116k to $710k (+511%).
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: 2023 15% · 2025 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of NORWALK RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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 5 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
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $725 → $47k.
4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 NORWALK RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 16 funders by total. 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
NORWALK RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
45% 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 NORWALK RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 34% · 2020 86% · 2021 46% · 2022 68% · 2023 42% — 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
67% of NORWALK RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
81% of NORWALK RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57k 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
NORWALK RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding NORWALK RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $122k on record.
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$122k
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 NORWALK RIVER 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORWALK RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC?
- NORWALK RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $126,198 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($47,350). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORWALK RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $126,198 in grants to NORWALK RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORWALK RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $47,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORWALK RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 16 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