Pennsylvania Organization for Watersheds and Rivers

Analysis

Pennsylvania Organization for Watersheds and Rivers is a registered charity in United States, based in Pittsburgh, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1995, 31 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Pennsylvania Organization for Watersheds and Rivers reported income of $323k and spending of $372k, spending 115% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $208k to $323k (+55%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 101%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Pennsylvania Organization for Watersheds and Rivers sits at the 60th percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 63rd percentile, and in the 61st percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Save Our Saluda ($323k), Salish Center for Sustainable Fishing Methods ($324k) and Middlesex Land Trust ($323k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 91% and program service revenue 4.1% of the total. At year end it held assets of $826k against liabilities of $665k, net assets of $160k.