Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$298,045

Total expenses

$306,025

Contributions and grants received

$298,019

Grants paid

$4,500

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$26

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$181,317

Total liabilities, end of year

$120,831

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$60,486

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$299,541

Management and general expenses

$4,084

Fundraising expenses

$2,400

Program service expenses (Part III)

$299,541

Program services were 97.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2022

• GUNPOWDER RIVERKEEPER AGREED TO SETTLE LITIGATION WITH EPA AND DOJ ON THE FEDERAL CLEAN WATER ACT SUIT AGAINST THE EPA FOR THE APPROVED MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL (PCB) POLLUTION DIET. THE COURT APPROVED SETTLEMENT WILL PROVIDE FOR FISH PCB MONITORING AT CANAL CREEK AT ABERDEEN PROVING GROUNDS AND AT SENECA AND SALTPETER CREEKS AT THE LEGACY C.P. CRANE COAL FIRED POWERPLANT SITE. 25% OF TOTAL PROJECTS.

  Expenses $74,886 · Revenue $10,798

• GUNPOWDER RIVERKEEPER STAFF WORKED ON ADVOCACY AND OUTREACH WITH COMMUNITY GROUPS ALONG THE LOWER GUNPOWDER TO DISCUSS SOURCES OF SEDIMENT IN THE TIDAL GUNPOWDER AND ITS TRIBUTARIES. NAMELY; BOTH FOSTER AND TAYLOR BRANCH ARE EXPERIENCING SEDIMENT AND BACTERIA POLLUTION FROM IMPROPERLY REGULATED UPSTREAM SOURCES. GUNPOWDER RIVERKEEPER UNDERTOOK SIGNIFICANT LEGAL RESEARCH TO ADVOCATE FOR SOLUTIONS TO NONCOMPLIANT UPSTREAM CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES. IF POLLUTION IS DIMINISHED, RECREATIONAL, ECONOMIC AND AESTHETIC VALUE OF THIS SECTION OF THE LOWER GUNPOWDER RIVER COULD BE RESTORED. 20% OF TOTAL PROJECTS ONGOING.

  Expenses $59,908 · Revenue $14,239

• ABINGDON WOODS PROJECT: RIVERKEEPER WAS FORCED TO APPEAL A CIRCUIT COURT DECISION UPHOLDING THE MDE WETLANDS AND WATERWAYS PERMIT. THE SITE CURRENTLY CONTAINS MANY SENSITIVE ENVIRONMENTAL FEATURES INCLUDING SIGNIFICANT FORESTED WETLANDS, SPECIMEN TREES AND PART OF A STREAM CATCHMENT DRAINING TO OTTER POINT CREEK A HIGH QUALITY TIER II WATERWAY THAT DRAINS INTO THE VIBRANT BUSH RIVER LARGEMOUTH BASS FISHERY. THIS FORESTED AREA PROVIDES VITAL STORMWATER AND FLOOD CONTROLS TO ADJACENT AND DOWNSTREAM RESIDENTIAL AREAS. THIS WORK IS ONGOING. 20% OF TOTAL PROJECTS.

  Expenses $59,908 · Revenue $8,639

• C.P. CRANE COAL FIRED POWERPLANT: THIS SIGNIFICANT DISCHARGER OF PCBS IN THE GUNPOWDER WATERSHED WAS CLOSED BY MDE ENFORCEMENT ACTION. RIVERKEEPER HAS SINCE TRACKED REDEVELOPMENT PLANS OF THE PROPERTY. RIVERKEEPER AND OPPOSED A PLAN TO REDEVELOP THE PROPERTY INTO HOUSING THAT WOULD IMPACT THE TIDAL GUNPOWDER AND MIDDLE RIVER AND REQUIRE COUNTY WATER AND SEWER TO BE BROUGHT OUT TO THE PENINSULA THAT IS APPROXIMATELY ONE FOOT ABOVE SEA LEVEL. 10% OF TOTAL PROJECTS.

  Expenses $29,954 · Revenue $4,319

• BACTERIA MONITORING IN THE GUNPOWDER RIVER WAS CONDUCTED AND POSTED THROUGH SWIM GUIDE AND SOCIAL MEDIA OUTLETS TO PROVIDE GUIDANCE ON EPA SAFE SWIMMING CRITERIA. 10% OF TOTAL PROJECTS.

  Expenses $29,954 · Revenue $4,319

• GUNPOWDER RIVERKEEPER VOLUNTEERS MAINTAINED WADER WASH STATIONS ACROSS 18 MILES OF THE COLDWATER SECTION OF THE RIVER TO CONTAIN DIDYMO ALGAE AND COORDINATED OUTREACH ON NEW ZEALAND MUDSNAILS IN THE UPPER AND LOWER RIVER. THIS WORK IS ONGOING. 5% OF TOTAL PROJECTS.

  Expenses $14,977 · Revenue $6,160

• GUNPOWDER RIVERKEEPER STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS WORKED ON ADVOCACY AND OUTREACH THROUGH THE UPPER WATERSHED WITH COMMUNITY, OFFICE, SCHOOL GROUPS, AND SCOUT AND BROWNIE TROOPS ON FOREST TO FAUCET STREAMWALKS AND SERVICE PROJECTS ALONG THE RIVER AND DISCUSSED THE SOURCES OF CITY DRINKING WATER AND THE IMPORTANCE OF PROTECTED PARK AND RESERVOIR LANDS, WILD TROUT AND COLDWATER HABITAT. 5% OF TOTAL PROJECTS

  Expenses $14,977 · Revenue $2,160

• INDUSTRIAL DISCHARGES: IN THE LOWER GUNPOWDER RIVER AND BUSH RIVER ARE BEING IMPACTED BY INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES THAT ARE NONCOMPLIANT WITH STORMWATER DISCHARGE PERMITS. IN THE GUNPOWDER AND BUSH RIVERS THERE ARE 119 FACILITIES UNDER THE STORWATER PERMIT THAT HAS A 25% COMPLIANCE RATE STATEWIDE. RIVERKEEPER APPEALED THE ISSUANCE OF THE NEW STORMWATER PERMIT AND WON A PARTIAL REMAND BECAUSE THE RAFT PERMIT DID NOT ACCOUNT FOR CLIMATE CHANGE RAINFALL DATA, AND NO EXPOSURE CERTIFICATION REGULATED BY NATIONAL POLLUTION ELIMINATION DISCHARGE (NPDES) INDUSTRIAL DISCHARGE PERMITS IDENTIFY THE PERMIT CONDITIONS AND ASSESS COMPLIANCE OF THESE CONDITIONS AND THEIR IMPACTS TO LOCAL AND DOWNSTREAM WATER QUALITY IN UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES. THIS PROJECT IS ONGOING. 5% OF TOTAL PROJECTS.

  Expenses $14,977 · Revenue $2,160

As filed on the 2022 return.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

9 November 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

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