North Carolina · Nonprofit
YADKIN RIVERKEEPER INC
YADKIN RIVERKEEPER INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,325,744 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($725,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $467k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $156k
What Yadkin Riverkeeper Inc does
Mission
To preserve and protect the yadkin pee dee river basin through education, advocacy, and action.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
River protection and water quality monitoring - yadkin riverkeeper monitors water quality parameters throughout the yadkin river watershed to assess the health of river and its tributaries and lakes. The yadkin pee dee watershed is the second largest in north carolina and provides drinking water for more than 1 million people. Based on this monitoring, aerial surveys and water-based patrols, yrk identifies and addresses threats to the river and its tributaries posed by inactive hazardous waste sites, coal ash disposal, land clearing for development, urban stormwater, municipal and industrial wastewater discharges, concentrated animal feeding operations and agricultural runoff. Yrk sampled more than 26 sites during the summer recreational season (memorial day - labor day) for harmful e. Coli levels and provides that information on its website and social media channels and the international swim guide website to make the public aware of where it is safe to swim and paddle on the river and yadkin lakes. Yrk also intensively samples high rock lake, the largest reservoir on the yadkin lakes, during the "algae growing season," april to october, for nutrient and bacteria pollution and…
$124,863 spent36% of program spendingPublic outreach and education - yrk engages communities along the river to educate them about threats to the watershed and potential solutions. Yrk sponsors creek week awareness building programs throughout the watershed and provides educational resources, holds community forums and organizes river/stream cleanup programs. Yrk staff make presentation to 10 -12 civic clubs, school groups, churches and other groups annually. Yrk works with communities to promote environmental justice and to provide technical and financial resources to assist with public outreach to address environmental concerns impacting their community.
$151,876 spent44% of program spendingYadkin river state trail - yadkin riverkeeper is the official nonprofit partner with the nc department of natural and cultural resources for the yadkin river state trail (yrst) blueway. The yrst is a state-designated 164-mile paddle trail that extends from the tailrace of the kerr scott dam in wilkes county to the yadkin's confluence with the uwharrie river at lake tillery in montgomery county. Yrk is in the process of implementing a five-year plan developed in 2022, to improve existing access areas and identify/develop new ones. The overall goal of the plan is to enhance access and improve safety on the yrst. Yrk has developed both printed and online maps for the yrst that are available to the public at no charge and working with landowners and public agencies to place mile marker signs along the yrst at strategic locations to assist paddlers and first respondoers in identifying their location. Yrk organizes guided paddles on the yrst for its members and the general public and is working with agencies and landowners in wilkes county to extend the ysrt across kerr scott reservoir to the wilkes county line.
$67,785 spent$1,785 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $344,524.
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.
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 $107k to $173k (+61%).
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: 2020 13% · 2021 4% · 2022 7% · 2023 8% · 2024 26% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of YADKIN RIVERKEEPER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $114k → $278k.
6 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 YADKIN RIVERKEEPER INC’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
YADKIN RIVERKEEPER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
81% 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 YADKIN RIVERKEEPER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 66% · 2019 45% · 2020 46% · 2021 38% · 2022 72% · 2023 72% — 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
50% of YADKIN RIVERKEEPER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
64% of YADKIN RIVERKEEPER INC'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. Of the $483k that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $843k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
YADKIN RIVERKEEPER INC has grown faster than half of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like YADKIN RIVERKEEPER 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
52%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds YADKIN RIVERKEEPER INC?
- YADKIN RIVERKEEPER INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,325,744 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($725,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does YADKIN RIVERKEEPER INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,325,744 in grants to YADKIN RIVERKEEPER INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YADKIN RIVERKEEPER INC?
- FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $725,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YADKIN RIVERKEEPER INC 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.
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 14 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