Form 990 for tax year 2023

What the amendment changed

Compared with the latest return for 2023 , filed 21 October 2025. matched by us Only the return's totals, a 990-PF's accounting method and the names listed in Part VII (Part VIII on a 990-PF) are compared. We relate returns by organization, tax year and form, and order them by each return's own timestamp; the filer's own "amended return" checkbox is a separate fact.

Total revenue

$2,335,372 →changed to $2,204,523

Total expenses

$2,564,069 →changed to $2,582,936

Contributions and grants received

$2,022,820 →changed to $2,045,715

Investment income

$154,115 →changed to $0

Other revenue

$221 →changed to $592

Total assets, end of year

$7,878,719 →changed to $7,861,064

Total liabilities, end of year

$531,245 →changed to $531,308

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$7,347,474 →changed to $7,329,756

Program services expenses

$1,978,195 →changed to $1,992,721

Management and general expenses

$370,883 →changed to $373,525

Fundraising expenses

$214,991 →changed to $216,690

Program service expenses (Part III)

$1,978,195 →changed to $1,992,721

Totals

Total revenue

$2,335,372

Total expenses

$2,564,069

Contributions and grants received

$2,022,820

Grants paid

$16,667

Program service revenue

$158,216

Investment income

$154,115

Other revenue

$221

Total assets, end of year

$7,878,719

Total liabilities, end of year

$531,245

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$7,347,474

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$1,978,195

Management and general expenses

$370,883

Fundraising expenses

$214,991

Program service expenses (Part III)

$1,978,195

Program services were 77.2% 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 · 2023

• CLIMATE RESILIENCE - CRWA IS COMMITTED TO REDUCING THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND SUPPORTING RESTORATIVE CLIMATE ADAPTATION. THE ORGANIZATION WORKS EVERY DAY ACROSS ALL PROGRAM AREAS TO CREATE RIVER AND WATERSHED RESILIENCE TO MORE INTENSE RAIN EVENTS, MORE FREQUENT SUMMERTIME DROUGHTS AND HOTTER TEMPERATURES. IT DOES THIS THROUGH CRWA'S WATER-ENERGY NEXUS WORK, BRINGING TOGETHER MUNICIPAL STAFF FROM ACROSS THE WATERSHED AS PART OF THE CHARLES RIVER CLIMATE COMPACT, PARTICIPATION IN MUNICIPAL AND STATE CLIMATE PLANNING INITIATIVES, EDUCATING LOCAL ELECTED OFFICIALS, WATERSHED- AND SUBWATERSHED-SCALE PLANNING, STREAM, WETLAND AND FLOODPLAIN RESTORATION, DAM REMOVAL, LEGISLATIVE LOBBYING AND ADVOCACY. CRWA IS ALSO ACTIVELY WORKING TO ENGAGE WITH COMMUNITIES THAT ARE PARTICULARLY VULNERABLE TO THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE, ESPECIALLY LOW INCOME AND MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES. CRWA IS WORKING TO DEVELOP A GREENER AND MORE JUST WORLD THAT WILL BE MORE RESILIENT TO THE CHANGES THAT ARE COMING.

  Expenses $1,203,299

• EDUCATION AND OUTREACH - CRWA'S WORK TO PROMOTE BETTER WATERSHED MANAGEMENT AND RIVER STEWARDSHIP INCLUDES A WIDE RANGE OF OUTREACH AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING: EDUCATIONAL TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS TO SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY GROUPS; A COMPREHENSIVE WEBSITE AND ONLINE COMMUNICATIONS; THE PUBLICATION OF BROCHURES, PLANS AND REPORTS; TRAININGS AND WORKSHOPS FOR MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES; AND PARTICIPATION IN MANY LOCAL AND REGIONAL EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES. COMMITTED TO GROWING THE NEXT GENERATION OF ENVIRONMENTALISTS, CRWA TRAINS NUMEROUS STUDENT INTERNS EACH YEAR AND HOSTS THE RITA BARRON FELLOW, A ONE-YEAR POSITION FOR RECENT MASTERS' DEGREE GRADUATES, AND ENGAGES NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL GROUPS FOR EDUCATIONAL AND NETWORKING PURPOSES.AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF THIS PROGRAM ARE TWO SIGNATURE OUTREACH EVENTS:THE RUN OF THE CHARLES CANOE AND KAYAK RACE HELD EVERY APRIL, CRWA'S RUN OF THE CHARLES CANOE AND KAYAK RACE, WHICH BEGAN 38 YEARS AGO, SHOWCASES THE ONGOING IMPROVEMENTS TO THE RIVER. THIS RACE IS ONE OF THE NATION'S OLDEST AND LARGEST CANOE AND KAYAK RACES ATTRACTING OVER 1,000 NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONALS, AMATEURS, AND CORPORATE TEAMS COMPETING ON THE 26-MILE COURSE.ANNUAL EARTH DAY CHARLES RIVER CLEANUP THE ANNUAL EARTH DAY CHARLES RIVER CLEAN UP BRINGS THOUSANDS OF VOLUNTEERS TOGETHER ACROSS THE WATERSHED TO MAKE THE CHARLES CLEANER, HEALTHIER AND MORE BEAUTIFUL BY PICKING UP TRASH AND REMOVING DEBRIS. CRWA ORGANIZES THE CLEANUP IN PARTNERSHIP AND COLLABORATION WITH PARKLAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS, COMMUNITIES, AND THE MA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND RECREATION.

  Expenses $493,113 · Revenue $158,437

• ADVOCACY, POLICY, AND LAW - CRWA IS INVOLVED IN EVERY MAJOR DECISION AFFECTING THE HEALTH OF THE CHARLES RIVER AND IN IMPORTANT STATEWIDE WATER ISSUES. ADVOCACY INCLUDES COMMENTING ON ALL MAJOR WATERSHED DEVELOPMENT AND REDEVELOPMENT PROJECTS, CHALLENGING PERMITS ADMINISTRATIVELY AND SOMETIMES IN COURT, PARTICIPATING IN HEARINGS BEFORE LOCAL BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS AND STATE AGENCIES, PROTECTING PUBLIC TRUST LANDS AND ACCESS TO PARKLANDS, PARTICIPATING IN TASK FORCES, LOBBYING ON ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION, AND WORKING WITH MANY PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS ON ISSUES OF NATIONAL, REGIONAL AND STATE SIGNIFICANCE, SUCH AS CLIMATE CHANGE, SMART GROWTH, STORMWATER POLLUTION, AND SUSTAINABLE WATER RESOURCE POLICIES AND REGULATIONS. CRWA'S STRONG SCIENCE IS INTEGRAL TO ITS ADVOCACY AND POSITIONS THE ORGANIZATION ADOPTS.

  Expenses $77,767

• STORMWATER SOLUTIONS - CURBING STORMWATER POLLUTION WITH GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE SOLUTIONS AND STRONGER STORMWATER REGULATIONS TO ACHIEVE A CLEAN, RESILIENT CHARLES RIVER FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.RIVER SCIENCE AND RESTORATION - COLLECTING ROBUST WATER QUALITY DATA TO UNDERSTAND THE HEALTH OF OUR RIVER, ADVOCATE FOR EFFECTIVE CLEANUP AND RESTORATION STRATEGIES, AND PROTECT PUBLIC HEALTH. REMOVING DEFUNCT DAMS, TACKLING INVASIVE SPECIES, DAYLIGHTING STREAMS, AND MORE TO RESTORE NATURAL ECOLOGY AND BUILD CLIMATE RESILIENCE.

  Expenses $204,016 · Grants $16,667

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

• DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND RECREATION

  $16,667

  PROGRAM SUPPORT

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

15 August 2025

IRS schema version

2023v6.0

Source object

202522279349300327

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