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RIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC

RIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,113,635 to it, the largest being WEST BEND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($427,593). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$2.7M
Revenue FY2025
68
Funders on record
$3.1M
Grants received
$11M
Net assets
40/68 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 36%

Against its field

RIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 881 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin20% · above the median
Months of reserve3.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 881 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.5M) Expenses 100 ($1.8M) Net assets 100 ($7.2M)2018 Revenue 172 ($2.5M) Expenses 107 ($1.9M) Net assets 106 ($7.6M)2019 Revenue 176 ($2.6M) Expenses 112 ($2.0M) Net assets 115 ($8.3M)2020 Revenue 140 ($2.0M) Expenses 111 ($2.0M) Net assets 117 ($8.4M)2021 Revenue 202 ($3.0M) Expenses 104 ($1.8M) Net assets 144 ($10M)2022 Revenue 188 ($2.7M) Expenses 116 ($2.0M) Net assets 142 ($10M)2023 Revenue 187 ($2.7M) Expenses 138 ($2.4M) Net assets 148 ($11M)2024 Revenue 143 ($2.1M) Expenses 134 ($2.4M) Net assets 148 ($11M)2025 Revenue 187 ($2.7M) Expenses 124 ($2.2M) Net assets 159 ($11M)
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Revenue (187)Expenses (124)Net assets (159)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 2% · 2024 12% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

71% of RIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,285 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$300k
17
$639k
18
$608k
19
$87k
20
$1.1M
21
$705k
22
$314k
23
$274k
24
$548k
25
3.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $88k → $279k.

9 of 68 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)39% 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 RIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 68 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

RIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

48% 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 RIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC.

14%
largest funder
34%
top three
~15
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 35% · 2019 21% · 2020 36% · 2021 17% · 2022 21% · 2023 18%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 RIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

76% of RIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

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CA
MO
MD
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GA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 68 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding RIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $475k on record.

Federal$475k
grants $475kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Institute of Museum and Library Services$270k
  • Department of Commerce$205k

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 RIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Wisconsin

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 10%Fundraising 9%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

74%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds RIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC?
RIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,113,635 to it, the largest being WEST BEND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($427,593). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 68 organizations giving $3,113,635 in grants to RIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC?
WEST BEND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $427,593 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 68funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing