Friends of the Flint River Watershed Inc

Analysis

Friends of the Flint River Watershed Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Flint, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2025. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation (type iii functionally integrated) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Friends of the Flint River Watershed Inc reported income of $652k and spending of $334k, leaving 49% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $405k to $652k (+61%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 66%. Over the whole period it spent 89% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Friends of the Flint River Watershed Inc sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile, and in the 74th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of Patterson Park Inc ($652k), Waterways ($652k) and Gila Watershed Partnership of Arizona ($650k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 95% and program service revenue 4.8% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $168k (50% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $441k against liabilities of $1,063, net assets of $440k.