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WATERFALL KEEPERS OF NORTH CAROLINA

WATERFALL KEEPERS OF NORTH CAROLINA (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $733 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($733). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$20k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$733
Net assets
$33k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Waterfall Keepers of North Carolina does

Mission

To promote and advance the cultural, economic, ecological, and historical significance of north carolina waterfalls; to serve as an educator and advocate; and to facilitate the enjoyment of waterfalls in perpetuity.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. To teach the cultural, economic, ecological, and historical significance of north carolina waterfalls; to serve as an educator and advocate; to maintain the waterfalls in a pristine state; and to facilitate the enjoyment of waterfalls in perpetuity.

    $11,032 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $11,032.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($16k) Expenses 100 ($12k) Net assets 100 ($4k)2021 Revenue 226 ($35k) Expenses 174 ($21k) Net assets 494 ($18k)2022 Revenue 312 ($49k) Expenses 265 ($31k) Net assets 955 ($36k)2023 Revenue 190 ($30k) Expenses 222 ($26k) Net assets 1043 ($39k)2024 Revenue 136 ($21k) Expenses 246 ($29k) Net assets 832 ($31k)2025 Revenue 127 ($20k) Expenses 152 ($18k) Net assets 881 ($33k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (127)Expenses (152)Net assets (881)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 2021 to 2022, from $21k to $36k (+69%).

$13k
$21k
$36k
$40k
$32k
$33k
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of WATERFALL KEEPERS OF NORTH CAROLINA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,994 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$4k
’20
$15k
’21
$17k
’22
$3k
’23
−$8k
’24
$2k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $135 → $178.

Funder
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 WATERFALL KEEPERS OF NORTH CAROLINA’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.

Where its funders are

100% of WATERFALL KEEPERS OF NORTH CAROLINA's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $733 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WATERFALL KEEPERS OF NORTH CAROLINA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,290 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,290 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like WATERFALL KEEPERS OF NORTH CAROLINA

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 North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NC

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WATERFALL KEEPERS OF NORTH CAROLINA: 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 WATERFALL KEEPERS OF NORTH CAROLINA?
WATERFALL KEEPERS OF NORTH CAROLINA (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $733 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($733). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does WATERFALL KEEPERS OF NORTH CAROLINA have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $733 in grants to WATERFALL KEEPERS OF NORTH CAROLINA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WATERFALL KEEPERS OF NORTH CAROLINA?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $733 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WATERFALL KEEPERS OF NORTH CAROLINA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 1 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