Michigan · Nonprofit
RIVER RAISIN WATERSHED COUNCIL
RIVER RAISIN WATERSHED COUNCIL (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $218,516 to it, the largest being THE FRED & BARBARA ERB FAMILY FOUNDATION ($217,600). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $355k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $219k
- Net assets
- $35k
What River Raisin Watershed Council does
Mission
Water studies and education
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Water studies and education
$331,547 spent63% of program spendingExpenses
$193,288 spent37% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $524,835.
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 2021 to 2022, from $53k to $230k (+336%).
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: 2022 94% · 2023 93% · 2024 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of RIVER RAISIN WATERSHED COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (79% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Harry Sheehan
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $82k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 RAISIN WATERSHED COUNCIL’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 RAISIN WATERSHED COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 96% · 2022 98% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of RIVER RAISIN WATERSHED COUNCIL's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26 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
RIVER RAISIN WATERSHED COUNCIL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 793 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 science & tech nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding RIVER RAISIN WATERSHED COUNCIL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $855k on record.
- Department of the Interior$855k
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 RIVER RAISIN WATERSHED COUNCIL
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 RAISIN WATERSHED COUNCIL: 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 RAISIN WATERSHED COUNCIL?
- RIVER RAISIN WATERSHED COUNCIL (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $218,516 to it, the largest being THE FRED & BARBARA ERB FAMILY FOUNDATION ($217,600). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RIVER RAISIN WATERSHED COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $218,516 in grants to RIVER RAISIN WATERSHED COUNCIL, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RIVER RAISIN WATERSHED COUNCIL?
- THE FRED & BARBARA ERB FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $217,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RIVER RAISIN WATERSHED COUNCIL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 4 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