California · Nonprofit
SCOTT RIVER WATER TRUST
SCOTT RIVER WATER TRUST (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,153,297 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($628,102). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $290k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $64k
What Scott River Water Trust does
Mission
To improve stream flow in priority fish habitat reaches of the scott river and its tributaries through the development of voluntary long-term and permanent water dedications with agricultural producers.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
We obtain water leases with farmers and ranchers to help improve stream flows during the spring and summer for salmon and steelhead in the scott river and its tributaries. Monitoring of stream flow and fish use was also achieved, along with outreach to the community and beyond.
$429,483 spent$61,409 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $429,483.
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 $19k to $103k (+452%).
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.
93% of SCOTT RIVER WATER TRUST’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. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $68k → $72k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 SCOTT RIVER WATER TRUST’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
SCOTT RIVER WATER TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 SCOTT RIVER WATER TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 97% · 2019 40% · 2020 85% · 2021 73% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
SCOTT RIVER WATER TRUST draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $311k 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
SCOTT RIVER WATER TRUST has grown faster than half of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding SCOTT RIVER WATER TRUST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $83k on record.
- Department of the Interior$83k
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 SCOTT RIVER WATER TRUST
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% 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 SCOTT RIVER WATER TRUST: 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 SCOTT RIVER WATER TRUST?
- SCOTT RIVER WATER TRUST (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,153,297 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($628,102). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SCOTT RIVER WATER TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,153,297 in grants to SCOTT RIVER WATER TRUST, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCOTT RIVER WATER TRUST?
- NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $628,102 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCOTT RIVER WATER TRUST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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