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THE LIVING RIVER RESTORATION TRUST

EIN 73-1688340 NORFOLK, VA

Revenue 2024
$377,908
Expenses 2024
$480,677

Program services were 81.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S32
Classification
1000
Street
5215 COLLEY AVE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

The Trust works to restore the environmental quality of the Elizabeth River by removing legacy contaminants and conserving the river and its tributaries for future beneficial uses and resiliency. It also conserves land in the coastal Virginia region for health and well-being, habitat and open space.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The Conservancy works to restore the environmental quality of the Elizabeth River by removing legacy contaminates and pollution. It conserves the river and adjacent tributaries for future beneficial use and resiliency. It conserves land in the coastal region of Virginia for health and well-being, habitat, and open space.

  • Restoring waterways by removing pollutants and mitigating their impacts on the Elizabeth River and its tributaries. Specific work done during the year ending September 30, 2025, included:(a) long-term monitoring of improvements made to Paradise Creek and (b) approved permitting and construction of oyster reef at Lambert's Point.

    Expenses $363,073

  • Conservation - Conservation activities include acquisition of easement adjoining waterways in the Hampton Roads watershed in Virginia Beach along West Neck Creek. Activities also include inspection and maintenance of held easements.

    Expenses $30,677 · Revenue $188,295

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Helen W Kuhns

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $80,000
    From this org
    $80,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Jody Wagner

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Joseph J Thomas

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Mary Ann Saunders

    Chairperson

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • Edward Wolcott Jr

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Steven Jenkins

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    7.5

  • Jennifer Cool

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    7.5

  • Mary-Carson Saunders Stiff

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Audrey Cotnior

    Trustee, Chair of Restoration Committee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Lauren C Rose

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Christopher A Pocta

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Myles Pocta

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Karen Schaffer

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    7.5

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $377,908
    Expenses
    $480,677
    Contributions
    $61,230
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $311,836
    Expenses
    $284,254
    Contributions
    $157,211
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $179,340
    Expenses
    $331,137
    Contributions
    $81,443
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $304,855
    Expenses
    $2,866,160
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,240,888

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $301,151
    Expenses
    $915,948
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,847,476

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,964,936
    Expenses
    $696,921
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,230,765

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $237,182
    Expenses
    $84,540
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,002,296

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $813,598
    Expenses
    $268,283
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,393,655

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $53,808
    Expenses
    $84,725
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,854,029

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $26,494
    Expenses
    $127,520
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,891,146

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $27,466
    Expenses
    $225,757
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,003,456

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $242,887
    Expenses
    $134,560
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,198,245

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $37,219
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,080,087

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.