North Dakota · Nonprofit
River Keepers
River Keepers (North Dakota) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $104,773 to it, the largest being XCEL ENERGY FOUNDATION ($26,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $249k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $105k
- Net assets
- $426k
What River Keepers does
Mission
Mission: We are dedicated to connecting our community safely to Red River of the North through education, stewardship, and engagement.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
We engage the community in opportunities to learn about the Red River, helps sustain it, and safely enjoy it. Our work is broad in scope as it includes many river and watershed related activities. Such as: 1. Engaging the community in guided hikes, paddling excursions, and snowshoe outings. 2. Providing educational activities at community events, 3. Providing canoe and kayak rentals, 4. Coordinating events such as the Red River Water Festival, Reforest the Red, Race the Red Canoe and Kayak Races, Lil Anglers Clinic and Derby, Story Strolls, and a Winter Solstice Walk. 5. Leading resilient yard workshops, such as, Make Your Own Rain Barrel and Make Your Own Compost Tumbler, 6. Recruiting volunteers to pick up trash in and along the Red River, mark storm drains with Drains to River stickers, create Tshirt totes, 7. and working with local governments on river access and safety.
$188,033 spent$29,044 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $188,033.
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 $346k to $397k (+15%).
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 63% · 2018 50% · 2019 55% · 2020 68% · 2021 61% · 2022 52% · 2023 51% · 2024 60%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of River Keepers’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.
Chief executive
Christine Holland
Exec. Dir.
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $19k → $37k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 River Keepers’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
River Keepers has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 62% · 2020 50% · 2021 52% · 2022 49% · 2023 40% — 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
57% of River Keepers'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
River Keepers draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside North Dakota, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
River Keepers holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like River Keepers
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 North Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for River Keepers: 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 River Keepers?
- River Keepers (North Dakota) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $104,773 to it, the largest being XCEL ENERGY FOUNDATION ($26,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does River Keepers have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $104,773 in grants to River Keepers, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of River Keepers?
- XCEL ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $26,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like River Keepers find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Dakota. 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 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