Arizona · Nonprofit
Watershed Management Group Inc
Watershed Management Group Inc (Arizona) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,087,645 to it, the largest being JEFF & CONNIE WOODMAN FOUNDATION ($315,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $914k
What Watershed Management Group Inc does
Mission
Watershed Management Group (WMG) develops community-based solutions to ensure the long-term prosperity of people and health of the environment. We provide people with the knowledge, skills, and resources for sustainable livelihoods.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Watershed Management Group's Living Lab is a bilingual educational center for sustainable desert living in mid-town Tucson. It offers exhibits, classes, and tours in both English and Spanish, serves all ages from across the border region, and attracts national and global visitorsreaching about 3,000 people annually. At the Living Lab and Learning Center we organize a Docent program as well as an annual paid internship program for college students.The River Run Network, a program of WMG, is a group of people working to achieve our 50-year vision of restoring Tucson's heritage of flowing creeks and rivers and includes over 3,500 River Run Network members distributed throughout Southern AZ in the Santa Cruz Watershed. Through this program, Watershed Management Group offers creek walks, river restoration workshops, river clean-ups, and community science monitoring.Watershed Management Groups Water Harvesting Certification provides professionals, educators, and community organizers with comprehensive instruction in water harvesting systems design and construction, training about 40 people annually through two week-long courses. Hundreds of households participate annually in our Build…
$818,221 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $818,221.
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 2020 to 2021, from $750k to $1.1M (+44%).
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 8% · 2018 7% · 2019 19% · 2020 32% · 2021 14% · 2022 20% · 2023 18% · 2024 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of Watershed Management Group Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 12 funders, grant income fell $144k → $142k.
11 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 Watershed Management Group Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 funders by total. 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
Watershed Management Group Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
62% 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 Watershed Management Group Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 32% · 2019 46% · 2020 28% · 2021 32% · 2022 23% · 2023 25% — 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
44% of Watershed Management Group Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
Watershed Management Group Inc draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $346k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
Watershed Management Group Inc receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.1M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Watershed Management Group Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3M on record.
- Department of the Interior$888k
- Department of Commerce$270k
- Department of Agriculture$140k
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 Watershed Management Group 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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Watershed Management Group Inc?
- Watershed Management Group Inc (Arizona) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,087,645 to it, the largest being JEFF & CONNIE WOODMAN FOUNDATION ($315,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Watershed Management Group Inc have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $1,087,645 in grants to Watershed Management Group Inc, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Watershed Management Group Inc?
- JEFF & CONNIE WOODMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $315,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Watershed Management Group Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 31 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