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STEWARDS OF THE LOWER SUSQUEHANNA INC DBA LOWER SUSQUEHANNA RIVERKEEPER ASS

STEWARDS OF THE LOWER SUSQUEHANNA INC DBA LOWER SUSQUEHANNA RIVERKEEPER ASS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,114,612 to it, the largest being THE KEITH CAMPBELL FOUNDATION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC ($568,671). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$588k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
$226k
8/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 79%
01What it does

What Stewards of the Lower Susquehanna Inc Dba Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper Ass does

Mission

Environmental education and advocacy

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Policy meetings with general public and decision-makers on new research relative to the health of the susquehanna river and chesapeake bay

    $46,405 spent$69,722 earned by the program
    17% of program spending
  2. Conservation regarding cleanups and design and construction for improvements along the codorus flood control channel. Conservation regarding biological and physical environmental studies regarding hydro-dam relicensing. Benefits thousands of people.

    $182,891 spent$271,725 earned by the program
    67% of program spending
  3. Pollution patrol, monitoring and reporting environmental impacts. Pollution reduction from industrial, constructions, and agricultural impacts. Directly benefitted hundreds that contacted us to follow up on pollution issues.

    $43,676 spent$60,946 earned by the program
    16% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $272,972.

02The 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 ($71k) Expenses 100 ($88k) Net assets 100 ($49k)2018 Revenue 103 ($73k) Expenses 94 ($82k) Net assets 76 ($37k)2019 Revenue 173 ($123k) Expenses 93 ($82k) Net assets 160 ($79k)2020 Revenue 158 ($112k) Expenses 129 ($114k) Net assets 164 ($80k)2021 Revenue 299 ($212k) Expenses 171 ($150k) Net assets 290 ($142k)2022 Revenue 358 ($254k) Expenses 254 ($224k) Net assets 352 ($173k)2023 Revenue 567 ($402k) Expenses 409 ($360k) Net assets 438 ($214k)2024 Revenue 829 ($588k) Expenses 654 ($576k) Net assets 461 ($226k)
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Revenue (829)Expenses (654)Net assets (461)Peer revenue range

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 $82k to $144k (+75%).

$56k
$39k
$80k
$82k
$144k
$176k
$218k
$231k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 72%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of STEWARDS OF THE LOWER SUSQUEHANNA INC DBA LOWER SUSQUEHANNA RIVERKEEPER ASS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,629 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$17k
’17
−$9k
’18
$40k
’19
−$2k
’20
$62k
’21
$30k
’22
$42k
’23
$11k
’24
2.9
months of
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.

Board chair

Patricia Larish

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2021202220232024
Listed1111139
Joined·+4+6+0
No longer listed·444
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $97k → $166k.

3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 STEWARDS OF THE LOWER SUSQUEHANNA INC DBA LOWER SUSQUEHANNA RIVERKEEPER ASS’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

STEWARDS OF THE LOWER SUSQUEHANNA INC DBA LOWER SUSQUEHANNA RIVERKEEPER ASS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

51%
largest funder
81%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 53% · 2020 85% · 2021 64% · 2022 57% · 2023 62% — 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.

How long its funders stay

100% of STEWARDS OF THE LOWER SUSQUEHANNA INC DBA LOWER SUSQUEHANNA RIVERKEEPER ASS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

STEWARDS OF THE LOWER SUSQUEHANNA INC DBA LOWER SUSQUEHANNA RIVERKEEPER ASS draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 4 states in all.

MA
PA
VA
MD

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

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $120k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

STEWARDS OF THE LOWER SUSQUEHANNA INC DBA LOWER SUSQUEHANNA RIVERKEEPER ASS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve2.9mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)35% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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In Pennsylvania

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 18%Fundraising 7%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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 2 states

PA
MD

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Questions and answers

Who funds STEWARDS OF THE LOWER SUSQUEHANNA INC DBA LOWER SUSQUEHANNA RIVERKEEPER ASS?
STEWARDS OF THE LOWER SUSQUEHANNA INC DBA LOWER SUSQUEHANNA RIVERKEEPER ASS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,114,612 to it, the largest being THE KEITH CAMPBELL FOUNDATION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC ($568,671). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does STEWARDS OF THE LOWER SUSQUEHANNA INC DBA LOWER SUSQUEHANNA RIVERKEEPER ASS have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,114,612 in grants to STEWARDS OF THE LOWER SUSQUEHANNA INC DBA LOWER SUSQUEHANNA RIVERKEEPER ASS, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of STEWARDS OF THE LOWER SUSQUEHANNA INC DBA LOWER SUSQUEHANNA RIVERKEEPER ASS?
THE KEITH CAMPBELL FOUNDATION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $568,671 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like STEWARDS OF THE LOWER SUSQUEHANNA INC DBA LOWER SUSQUEHANNA RIVERKEEPER ASS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 13 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