Wyoming · Nonprofit
PROTECT OUR WATER JACKSON HOLE INC
PROTECT OUR WATER JACKSON HOLE INC (Wyoming) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,969,584 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ($1,472,554). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Protect Our Water Jackson Hole Inc does
Mission
To serve as a powerful advocate for protecting and restoring the surface waters and groundwater in teton county, wyoming.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education and outreachpowjh provided water oriented science education focused on our unique location at the headwaters of the snake river to over 250 5th and 6th grade students. We operated a community outreach and education program titles "tap into science. We hosted two education and fundraising events for the general public and hosted a number of conversations to investigate alternatives for managing water resources in teton county.
$450,462 spent58% of program spendingCollaborative solutionsusing the teton water quality management plan as our guide, weworked closely with the county and the teton conservation district to advocate for the expansion of our sewer infrastructure and improvements to the county's wastewater treatment plant. We also worked closely with the county on the water-based regulations in sensitive natural resource zones. We continue to be a major contributor to the snake river headwaters watershed group.
$173,896 spent22% of program spendingResearch and monitoringpowjh participated in establishing and maintaining continuous, weekly, and monthly sampling for water quality data on the snake river, fish creek, and flat creek. This work was carried out in partnership with the united states geological survey, the snake river fund and the teton conservation district.
$149,629 spent19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $773,987.
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 2020 to 2021, from $380k to $738k (+94%).
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.
100% of PROTECT OUR WATER JACKSON HOLE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Phil Powers
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $60k → $1.1M.
8 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 PROTECT OUR WATER JACKSON HOLE 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
PROTECT OUR WATER JACKSON HOLE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
53% 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 PROTECT OUR WATER JACKSON HOLE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 83% · 2019 95% · 2020 56% · 2021 44% · 2022 54% · 2023 44% — 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
56% of PROTECT OUR WATER JACKSON HOLE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
51% of PROTECT OUR WATER JACKSON HOLE 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 $1.9M that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from funders outside Wyoming, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
PROTECT OUR WATER JACKSON HOLE INC holds deeper cash reserves 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 PROTECT OUR WATER JACKSON HOLE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $176k on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$176k
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 PROTECT OUR WATER JACKSON HOLE 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 Wyoming
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PROTECT OUR WATER JACKSON HOLE INC?
- PROTECT OUR WATER JACKSON HOLE INC (Wyoming) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,969,584 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ($1,472,554). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PROTECT OUR WATER JACKSON HOLE INC have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $3,969,584 in grants to PROTECT OUR WATER JACKSON HOLE INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROTECT OUR WATER JACKSON HOLE INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE is the largest funder on record, with $1,472,554 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROTECT OUR WATER JACKSON HOLE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wyoming. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 30 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