Rhode Island · Nonprofit
WOONASQUATUCKET RIVER WATERSHED
WOONASQUATUCKET RIVER WATERSHED (Rhode Island) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,487,135 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($408,277). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.9M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Woonasquatucket River Watershed does
Mission
The council creates positive environmental, social and economic change by revitalizing the woonasquatucket river, its greenway and its communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The council creates positive environmental, social and economic change by revitalizing the woonasquatucket river, its greenway and its communities.
$1,724,849 spent$157,232 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,724,849.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.8M to $2.5M (+39%).
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 90% · 2018 80% · 2019 94% · 2020 97% · 2021 89% · 2022 97% · 2023 82% · 2024 90%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of WOONASQUATUCKET RIVER WATERSHED’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.
Chief executive
Alicia Lehrer
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $47k → $521k.
8 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 WOONASQUATUCKET RIVER WATERSHED’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
WOONASQUATUCKET RIVER WATERSHED has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
74% 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 WOONASQUATUCKET RIVER WATERSHED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 38% · 2019 60% · 2020 34% · 2021 32% · 2022 26% · 2023 20% — 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
47% of WOONASQUATUCKET RIVER WATERSHED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
WOONASQUATUCKET RIVER WATERSHED draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
WOONASQUATUCKET RIVER WATERSHED has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding WOONASQUATUCKET RIVER WATERSHED receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.8M on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$2.0M
- Department of Agriculture$717k
- Department of the Interior$80k
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 WOONASQUATUCKET RIVER WATERSHED
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 Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WOONASQUATUCKET RIVER WATERSHED?
- WOONASQUATUCKET RIVER WATERSHED (Rhode Island) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,487,135 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($408,277). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOONASQUATUCKET RIVER WATERSHED have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $2,487,135 in grants to WOONASQUATUCKET RIVER WATERSHED, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOONASQUATUCKET RIVER WATERSHED?
- THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $408,277 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOONASQUATUCKET RIVER WATERSHED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 35 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