California · Nonprofit
Smith River Alliance Inc
Smith River Alliance Inc (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,187,507 to it, the largest being RESOURCES LEGACY FUND ($410,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.2M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $5.5M
What Smith River Alliance Inc does
Mission
The mission of the Smith River Alliance is to provide for the long-term protection,restoration and stewardship of natural resources in the Smith River watershed.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Smith River Restoration Projects: SRA works with landowners on the Smith CoastalPlain, Elk Creek and East Fork Mill Creek to identify and advance opportunities toimprove and restore ecosystem function and habitat for the viability of the SmithRiver salmonids. SRA is implementing restoration plans supported by recent salmonidmonitoring data, historic and present-day aerial imagery, fish passage data,topographic information, and landowner and stakeholder engagement to identify andprioritize potential restoration projects. We have several projects that are ongoing.
$4,439,113 spent82% of program spendingSRNRA Protection and Stewardship: SRA is a leader in the campaign to expand permanent protections for the headwaters of the Smith in OR. The Smith River is one of the crown jewels of the National Wild and Scenic River System with over 300 miles of the Smith are included in the National Wild and Scenic River System, created to protect outstandingly remarkable scenic,recreational, geologic, fish and wildlife, historic, cultural or other similar values, for preservation in a free-flowing condition. Rock Creek Ranch is located on a sweeping bend of the South Fork of the Smith River, this is the home base of SRA where the seasons are felt and facilities are available to support SRA programs and visitors. The facility hosts visitors seasonally, including the Annual Adult Fish Count at the ranch. SRA operates a coastal clean-up program which attracts a significant number of volunteers dedicated to cleaning our beaches. SRA continued work with the Smith River NRA Collaborative, a joint venture between the Six Rivers National Forest, Elk Valley Rancheria, the Tolowa Dee-ni Nation, Del Norte County, Del Norte Fire Safe Council, local and regional groups. These partners advance forest and…
$791,799 spent15% of program spendingCoastal Programs: Phase III of the Pacific Shores Preacquisition Feasibility Study is underway which will acquire properties from willing sellers in the Pacific Shoressubdivision in Del Norte County. Pacific Shores is a 1,535-lot subdivision,undeveloped and sold in the 1960s. The subdivision lies adjacent to Lakes Earl andTolowa, four miles north of Crescent City, in the Smith River plain. In additionthe program works to provide public access to and clean-ups of the coast.
$178,433 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,409,345.
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 2023 to 2024, from $4.6M to $6.0M (+31%).
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 67% · 2018 31% · 2019 49% · 2020 57% · 2021 72% · 2022 71% · 2023 81% · 2024 96% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of Smith River Alliance 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. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $70k → $122k.
9 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 Smith River Alliance 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
Smith River Alliance Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
62% 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 Smith River Alliance Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 38% · 2019 79% · 2020 50% · 2021 31% · 2022 43% · 2023 25% — 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
47% of Smith River Alliance Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
77% of Smith River Alliance Inc's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $254k 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
Smith River Alliance Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,209 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Smith River Alliance Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.8M on record.
- Department of Commerce$5.5M
- Department of the Interior$1.1M
- Department of Agriculture$155k
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 Smith River Alliance 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 California
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
97%
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 Smith River Alliance 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 Smith River Alliance Inc?
- Smith River Alliance Inc (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,187,507 to it, the largest being RESOURCES LEGACY FUND ($410,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Smith River Alliance Inc have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $1,187,507 in grants to Smith River Alliance Inc, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Smith River Alliance Inc?
- RESOURCES LEGACY FUND is the largest funder on record, with $410,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Smith River Alliance Inc 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.
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 28 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing