Oregon · Nonprofit
ROGUE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL
ROGUE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL (Oregon) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,006,482 to it, the largest being WILD SALMON CENTER ($678,763). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $429k
What Rogue River Watershed Council does
Mission
Enhance resilience in rogue river watersheds through ecological restoration and engagement with community partners.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Stream restoration: the council identifies conditions in and along streams that limit habitat quality for fish and wildlife, and water quality. The council engages with private and public landowners and land managers to discuss these limiting factors, develop approaches to reduce or eliminate the impact, and implement ecological restoration projects to address them. Restoration actions including large wood installment and side-channel reconnection help restore natural stream processes.additionally, aquatic animal passage and movement are improved through prioritized barrier removal and subsequent irrigation system conversion when necessary. Continued on schedule o. Streamside restoration, including riparian rehabilitation, uses integrated pest management practices to help recover native plant communities, primarily focused on excluding livestock and suppressing noxious weeds. Additional efforts to encourage native plant survival are included in future stewardship. When necessary, native plant species are planted to contribute shade to the stream and increase slope stability to help prevent erosion. More often than not, however, we allow native species to recruit naturally at our…
$2,377,122 spentof which $436,580 as grants90% of program spendingEngagement: the council uses a variety of strategies to communicate and engage with community members about stream processes, functioning watersheds, resilient communities, and council activities. Engagement strategies include active social media accounts, a regularly updated website, short video productions, and video library, as well as short newsletters (every other month) and lengthier newsletters (biannual). Engagement actions supplement and promote the council's restoration efforts.
$141,480 spent5% of program spendingWater quality improvement: the council works to address issues that pollute and warm up the streams in our region. The council has developed a collaborative water quality improvement program that will help achieve the goal of cleaner water. Specifically, the intent of the program is to address persistent water quality problems that include high temperature, low dissolved oxygen levels, sedimentation, bacteria presence, and nutrient loading. Continued on schedule o. Projects such as side-channel reconnection, streamside rehabilitation, converting from flood to sprinkler irrigation, and reducing stormwater runoff in urban areas provide water quality benefits including decreased stream bank erosion, increased shading, and decreased nutrient bacteria entering the stream.the council also works with drinking water providers to strategically locate ecological restoration practices and on farm agriculture improvements to benefit source water protection efforts.
$98,252 spent4% of program spendingMonitoring: the council uses monitoring information to assess actions, guide decisions, determine ecological limiting factors, and measure the success of the council's activities. Currently, the council monitors water quality parameters in bear, little butte, and elk creeks as they relate to wildfire, the upper rogue coho strategic action plan, and a large-scale irrigation system improvement.
$24,157 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,641,011.
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 $281k to $573k (+104%).
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 58% · 2018 92% · 2019 89% · 2020 87% · 2021 75% · 2022 85% · 2023 59% · 2024 75% · 2025 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of ROGUE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL’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. 2 of the last 9 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
Brian Barr
Executive director
Board chair
Keith Emerson
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $20k → $143k.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 ROGUE RIVER 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
ROGUE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 ROGUE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 94% · 2019 35% · 2020 56% · 2021 90% · 2022 58% · 2023 52% — 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
43% of ROGUE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
72% of ROGUE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
ROGUE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL 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 ROGUE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.4M on record — $2.5M federal, $3.9M state.
- Department of the Interior$2.1M
- Department of Agriculture$405k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$3.5M
- DISTRIBUTION TO OTHER GOVERNMENTS$286k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT>$75K$47k
- OTHER SERVICES$14k
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 ROGUE RIVER 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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ROGUE RIVER 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 ROGUE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL?
- ROGUE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL (Oregon) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,006,482 to it, the largest being WILD SALMON CENTER ($678,763). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ROGUE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,006,482 in grants to ROGUE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROGUE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL?
- WILD SALMON CENTER is the largest funder on record, with $678,763 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROGUE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 14 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