Wisconsin · Nonprofit
SUPERIOR RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC
SUPERIOR RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $194,614 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($140,364). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $120k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $195k
- Net assets
- $21k
What Superior Rivers Watershed Association Inc does
Mission
The mission of the superior rivers watershed association is to promote and protect clean water resources in wisconsin's lake superior basin.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Water quality monitoring: our 29 chemistry and 40 macroinvertebrate volunteers monitored 26 sites across our service area. We added 6 new sites and enhanced the volunteer program to provide a better experience for our dedicated volunteers.
$19,332 spent27% of program spendingWatershed management: superior rivers began the intial planning stages of a 4-year project wiht dozens of local parnters to assess flood risks in th e fish creek, montreal, white river, and nemadji river watersheds and help bring this information to local decision-makers.
$1,641 spent2% of program spendingEducation and outreach: in partnership with the lake superior reserve, we provided professional development to 7 local teachers in the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 school years through the rivers2lake program and developed a network for alumni of the program. We launched science on tap, implemented increased field trips and workshops, and began a three-year project to engage the community with restoration in the fish creek slough.
$50,676 spent70% of program spendingWatershed restoration: staff monitored existing restoration sites for rain and flood damage and helped implement natural flood resistance measures with ashland county at tody creek. We began a three-year project to remove invasive cattail in fish creek slough.
$423 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $72,072.
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 2018 to 2019, from $21k to $33k (+56%).
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 67% · 2019 74% · 2020 62% · 2021 54% · 2022 64% · 2023 6% · 2024 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of SUPERIOR RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $62k → $11k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 SUPERIOR RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION 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
SUPERIOR RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% 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
93% 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 SUPERIOR RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 92% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 67% · 2023 90% — 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
50% of SUPERIOR RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
SUPERIOR RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k 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.
Against its field
SUPERIOR RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC's revenue fell 40% between 2018 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding SUPERIOR RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $538k on record.
- Department of the Interior$339k
- Department of Agriculture$199k
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 SUPERIOR RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION 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
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SUPERIOR RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC?
- SUPERIOR RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $194,614 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($140,364). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SUPERIOR RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $194,614 in grants to SUPERIOR RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUPERIOR RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC?
- NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $140,364 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUPERIOR RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 9 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