California · Nonprofit
UPPER MERCED RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL
UPPER MERCED RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,628 to it, the largest being RIVER NETWORK ($15,560). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $154k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $16k
- Net assets
- $31k
What Upper Merced River Watershed Council does
Mission
The mission of the Upper Merced River Watershed Council is to protect and enhance the Upper Merced River Watershed through education stewardship and community based projects To accomplish our mission we strive to preserve the natural economic and cultural resources of the Upper Merced River Watershed We will work cooperatively with all individuals and organizations to keep the Watershed healthy through education community based projects responsible planning and stewardship
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Produce training guide for water quality monitoring volunteers procure monitoring equipment and supplies establish outreach materials collected 1260 pounds of trash from the river and watershed
$122,800 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $122,800.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Stephen Smallcombe
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $16 → $16k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 UPPER MERCED RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL’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
UPPER MERCED RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 UPPER MERCED RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
UPPER MERCED RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $68 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
UPPER MERCED RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding UPPER MERCED RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $395k on record.
- Department of the Interior$395k
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 UPPER MERCED RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UPPER MERCED RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL: 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 UPPER MERCED RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL?
- UPPER MERCED RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,628 to it, the largest being RIVER NETWORK ($15,560). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UPPER MERCED RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $15,628 in grants to UPPER MERCED RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UPPER MERCED RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL?
- RIVER NETWORK is the largest funder on record, with $15,560 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UPPER MERCED RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL 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 FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 2 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