Wisconsin · Nonprofit
ROOT-PIKE WATERSHED INITIATIVE NETWORK INC
ROOT-PIKE WATERSHED INITIATIVE NETWORK INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,157,677 to it, the largest being GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ($681,755). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $518k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Root-Pike Watershed Initiative Network Inc does
Mission
Working to restore, protect and sustain the root-pike basin watersheds through the funding and facilitation of a regional network of locally initiated projects.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Root-Pike Watershed Initiative Network (WIN), a 501(c)(3) for more than two decades, championed the EPAs Nine Key Element Watershed Restoration Planning process that we are now implementing to restore, protect and sustain the Root-Pike basin watersheds. Our strategy is to engage with landowners, communicate the watershed issues defined in our Plans, bring awareness and fundraising to the Plans restoration solutions, and then advance those solutions through the planning, design and implementation phases. The unique awareness and action we provide to the residents of the Root-Pike basin, through the Plans restoration projects, municipal educational programs, and public outreach, is bringing positive change to the water quality of the broken Lake Michigan rivers.
$385,624 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $385,624.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $547k to $1.4M (+151%).
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: 2018 38% · 2019 25% · 2020 23% · 2021 50% · 2022 38% · 2023 72% · 2024 23% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of ROOT-PIKE WATERSHED INITIATIVE NETWORK INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $68k → $224k.
7 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 ROOT-PIKE WATERSHED INITIATIVE NETWORK 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
ROOT-PIKE WATERSHED INITIATIVE NETWORK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 ROOT-PIKE WATERSHED INITIATIVE NETWORK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2019 100% · 2020 76% · 2021 65% · 2022 93% · 2023 68% — 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 ROOT-PIKE WATERSHED INITIATIVE NETWORK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
85% of ROOT-PIKE WATERSHED INITIATIVE NETWORK INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $175k that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from funders outside Wisconsin, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $982k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
ROOT-PIKE WATERSHED INITIATIVE NETWORK INC is better cushioned than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding ROOT-PIKE WATERSHED INITIATIVE NETWORK INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $479k on record.
- Department of the Interior$479k
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 ROOT-PIKE WATERSHED INITIATIVE NETWORK 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 ROOT-PIKE WATERSHED INITIATIVE NETWORK 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds ROOT-PIKE WATERSHED INITIATIVE NETWORK INC?
- ROOT-PIKE WATERSHED INITIATIVE NETWORK INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,157,677 to it, the largest being GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ($681,755). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ROOT-PIKE WATERSHED INITIATIVE NETWORK INC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,157,677 in grants to ROOT-PIKE WATERSHED INITIATIVE NETWORK INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROOT-PIKE WATERSHED INITIATIVE NETWORK INC?
- GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $681,755 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROOT-PIKE WATERSHED INITIATIVE NETWORK 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.
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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 2018–2025), and the filings of 18 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