Puerto Rico · Nonprofit
PROTECTORES DE CUENCAS INC
PROTECTORES DE CUENCAS INC (Puerto Rico) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,934,869 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($965,878). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Protectores de Cuencas Inc does
Mission
Care of water resource, environmental restoration, community education and scientific environmental research
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Environmental protection and improvement
$3,901,868 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,901,868.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $357k to $3.5M (+868%).
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: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% · 2024 60% · 2025 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of PROTECTORES DE CUENCAS 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. 0 of the last 6 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
Robert Viqueira Rios
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $390k → $306k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 PROTECTORES DE CUENCAS 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
PROTECTORES DE CUENCAS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 PROTECTORES DE CUENCAS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 59% · 2019 100% · 2020 43% · 2021 53% · 2022 72% · 2023 64% — 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
29% of PROTECTORES DE CUENCAS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
PROTECTORES DE CUENCAS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Puerto Rico, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $101k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
PROTECTORES DE CUENCAS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding PROTECTORES DE CUENCAS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20.2M on record.
- Department of Commerce$10.5M
- Department of the Interior$6.3M
- Department of Agriculture$3.4M
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 PROTECTORES DE CUENCAS 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 Puerto Rico
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PROTECTORES DE CUENCAS INC?
- PROTECTORES DE CUENCAS INC (Puerto Rico) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,934,869 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($965,878). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROTECTORES DE CUENCAS INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,934,869 in grants to PROTECTORES DE CUENCAS INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROTECTORES DE CUENCAS INC?
- NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $965,878 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROTECTORES DE CUENCAS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Puerto Rico. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 11 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