Owyhee Watershed Council

Analysis

Owyhee Watershed Council is a registered charity in United States, based in Adrian, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2007, 19 years ago. Its declared purposes cover community improvement and capacity building, which this site groups under community and economic development. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Owyhee Watershed Council reported income of $696k and spending of $733k, spending 105% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $756k to $696k (-7.9%), an average of -2.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 94%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, Owyhee Watershed Council sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile, and in the 75th percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Great City Ms Foundation ($696k), East Central Career Programs Inc ($696k) and Macon County Sheltered Workshop Inc ($696k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $100k. At year end it held assets of $283k against liabilities of $22k, net assets of $261k. It reported 3 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.