Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$256,351

Total expenses

$214,147

Contributions and grants received

$255,600

Grants paid

$41,835

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$751

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$90,853

Total liabilities, end of year

$2,207

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$88,646

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$181,949

Management and general expenses

$11,617

Fundraising expenses

$20,581

Program service expenses (Part III)

$181,949

Program services were 85.0% 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

• Water For Nature Program: In 2023, we: a) advanced water allocation policies in Oregon and California, including successfully extending emergency instream flow requirements for three northern California rivers petitioning for permanent instream flow requirements for the Shasta River, advancing stronger groundwater protections in Oregon, and successfully appealing three falsified water right change petitions to keep more waters in streams; b) filed a legal protest of water right applications for Sites Reservoir construction with allies and engaged in quasi-judicial water right hearings opposing this threat to aquatic wildlife and evaluated and publicized the Dwinnell dams harms to the Shasta River; c) worked to ensure that public environmental water funding programs assess projects impact on instream flows and only fund those that either do no harm to flows or increase them; d) launched the Oregon Water Justice Alliance to enhance water justice communities capacity and collaboration with environmental and human right to water allies e) worked to ensure that California and Oregon agencies integrated instream flows into their racial equity, climate, and drought policies; and e) provided 7 customized water advocacy trainings to Native American, youth, and other stakeholder groups; gave verbal testimony at 15+ public hearings/meetings; submitted 12 technical comment letters on 6+ regulatory processes participated in 24 meetings with key water allocation and dam decisionmakers from 7 state and federal agencies; facilitated 100+ direct and 3500+ online stakeholder engagements in decisionmaking processes that impact their lives and environment, and educated thousands more via social media, our website, conference presentations, emails, and printed materials. Together, this work has slowed the decline of salmonid populations, prevented the premature death of thousands of salmon and steelhead, and laid the groundwork for fundamentally transforming how we allocate public trust waters to be more equitable for ecosystems and communities that depend on them for subsistence, culture, and mental enrichment.

  Expenses $112,087

• Paddle Tribal Waters Storytelling Collaborative: In 2023 we became a formal partner in the Paddle Tribal Waters Storytelling Collaborative, managing funds, providing advocacy training, and coordinating with partners to document and host community events centering the program. Paddle Tribal Waters is a collaborative effort of Rios to Rivers and Maqlaqs Paddle to provide Indigenous youth with whitewater kayaking skills, public engagement training and experience, and a platform for sharing their stories as they train to paddle an undammed Klamath River from source to sea. Ultimately, Paddle Tribal Waters and the Storytelling Collaborative seek to support these youth not only in their own personal development but also in symbolically returning stewardship of the Klamath to the Tribes whose lives have been interconnected with it since time immemorial.

  Expenses $69,862 · Grants $41,835

As filed on the 2023 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

• RIOS TO RIVERS

  $41,835

  TO SUPPORT TRIBAL YOUTH ACTIVITIES IN CALIFORNIA

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

10 October 2024

IRS schema version

2023v5.1

Source object

202403189349310140

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