Michigan · Nonprofit
SUPERIOR WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP
SUPERIOR WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP (Michigan) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,767,308 to it, the largest being AMERICAN SONGBIRD MANAGEMENT AND RECOVERY ($2,785,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.1M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $7.8M
- Net assets
- $9.0M
What Superior Watershed Partnership does
Mission
The Superior Watershed Partnership will lead the way in watershed proection, restoration, and education in the great lakes and beyond.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Michigan energy assistance program - provides payment assistance for low- income household heating and electric, as well as self-sufficiency education on energy efficiency and provides home energy assessments and improvements.
$2,427,000 spentof which $1,465,838 as grants44% of program spendingNational fish and wildlife foundation u.s. Department of commerce office for costal management
$1,056,099 spent19% of program spendingMi impact funding through the department of labor and economic opportunity (leo) allows the swp to expand utility crisi services into another critically underserved income segment: asset limited, income contrained, and employed (alice) households.
$779,015 spentof which $658,102 as grants14% of program spendingOther programs include habitiat protection and resotration, pollution prevention, climate change adaption planning and implementation, invasive species removal and prevention, land protection, native plant restoration, stormwater management, water quality, youth programs, public education, and alternative energy and energy conservation.
$1,296,542 spentof which $78,581 as grants23% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,558,656.
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 2021 to 2022, from $4.3M to $7.3M (+69%).
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 86% · 2018 75% · 2019 76% · 2020 89% · 2021 85% · 2022 51% · 2023 63% · 2024 72%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of SUPERIOR WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP’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.
Board chair
Maura Davenport
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $399k → $513k.
4 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP’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 WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 64% · 2019 83% · 2020 64% · 2021 58% · 2022 78% · 2023 58% — broadly stable.
“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
55% of SUPERIOR WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
57% of SUPERIOR WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,187 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,187 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding SUPERIOR WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.8M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$5.8M
- Department of the Interior$628k
- Environmental Protection Agency$289k
- Department of Commerce$122k
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 WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 SUPERIOR WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP: 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 SUPERIOR WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP?
- SUPERIOR WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP (Michigan) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,767,308 to it, the largest being AMERICAN SONGBIRD MANAGEMENT AND RECOVERY ($2,785,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SUPERIOR WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $7,767,308 in grants to SUPERIOR WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUPERIOR WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP?
- AMERICAN SONGBIRD MANAGEMENT AND RECOVERY is the largest funder on record, with $2,785,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUPERIOR WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 20 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