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HAW RIVER ASSEMBLY INC

EIN 58-1510282 BYNUM, NC

Revenue 2024
$397,564
Expenses 2024
$586,399

Program services were 91.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C320
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 187

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

HAW RIVER ASSEMBLY WAS FOUNDED IN 1982 TO PROTECT THE WATERS OF THE HAW RIVER, JORDAN LAKE AND TRIBUTARIES. WE ADVOCATE FOR CLEAN WATER AND CONDUCT EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, STREAM MONITORING, RIVER CLEAN-UPS, AND OTHER ACTIVITIES THAT ENGAGE VOLUNTEERS AND THE PUBLIC.

  • WATER QUALITY MONITORING PROGRAM: THE HAW RIVER WATCH PROGRAM TRAINS AND EQUIPS VOLUNTEERS TO EVALUATE WATER QUALITY IN CREEKS AND RIVER SITES IN THE HAW RIVER WATERSHED. WE TEACH VOLUNTEERS TO MONITOR AND IDENTIFY SOURCES FOR SEDIMENT IN OUR STREAMS THROUGH THE MUDDY WATER WATCH PROGRAM. IN ADDITION, WE COLLECT WATER SAMPLES FOR ANALYSIS OF INDUSTRIAL CONTAMINANTS, CAFO NUTRIENTS, AND MICRO-PLASTICS. WE TEST POPULAR SWIMMING SITES ON THE HAW RIVER AND JORDAN LAKE FOR E-COLI LEVELS EACH WEEK DURING THE SUMMER AND PUBLISH THE RESULTS IN OUR ONLINE SWIM GUIDE. VOLUNTEERS ALSO ASSIST US IN INSTALLING AND MAINTAINING TRASH TRAPS ON URBAN STREAMS TO REMOVE SINGLE USE PLASTICS AND OTHER TRASH. 261 VOUNTEERS TOOK PART IN THESE POLLUTION MONITORING, CLEAN UP, AND RESTORATION PROGRAMS.

    Expenses $173,683

  • HAW RIVER WATERSHED EDUCATION AND OUTREACH PROGRAM:THE HAW RIVER WATERSHED EDUCATION AND OUTREACH PROGRAM FOR SCHOOLS AND THE PUBLIC INCLUDES THE ANNUAL HAW RIVER LEARNING CELEBRATION OUTDOOR PROGRAM FOR SCHOOLS, WHERE STUDENTS LEARN ABOUT THE RIVER ECOSYSTEM AND CULTURAL HISTORY. WE HOLD AN ANNUAL FREE RIVER FESTIVAL FOR THE PUBLIC EACH MAY, AND AN ANNUAL RIVER CLEAN-UP OF OUR WATERWAYS WITH HUNDREDS OF VOLUNTEERS. OTHER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS INCLUDE FILM STREAMINGS AND GUIDED HIKES AND PADDLES THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. 394 VOUNTEERS TOOK PART IN THESE EDUCATION AND OUTREACH PROGRAMS REACHING OVER 800 CHILDREN AND ADULTS.

    Expenses $177,240 · Grants $2,575

  • HAW RIVERKEEPER PROGRAM: HAW RIVERKEEPER PROGRAM FOCUSES ON ADVOCACY FOR CLEAN WATER IN THE PUBLIC ARENA. WE CONDUCT PROGRAMS AND PRESENTATIONS FOR THE COMMUNITY, AGENCES, AND ELECTED OFFICIALS ABOUT THREATS TO CLEAN WATER, AND PROMOTING THE CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES. WE WORK TO FIND SOLUTIONS TO STOP INDUSTRIES FROM CONTAMINATING THE HAW RIVER WITH PFAS AND OTHER UNREGULATED CHEMICALS, AND TO REDUCE NUTRIENT AND SEDIMENT POLLUTION INTO THE HAW RIVER.

    Expenses $182,653

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Elaine Chiosso

    PAST EXEC DI

    Total calculated
    $87,727
    From this org
    $87,727
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Emily Sutton

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $71,611
    From this org
    $71,611
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Jeannie Ambrose

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Chris Carter

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lynn Featherstone

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dianne Ford

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Kate Fulbright

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Nicole Gaines

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sharon Garbutt

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Chris Green

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • David Jester

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Crystal Cavalier Keck

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Rufus King

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Janet McFall

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Francisco Plaza

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Runkle

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jo Sanders

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Wagner

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ayo Wilson

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $397,564
    Expenses
    $586,399
    Contributions
    $365,129
    Grants paid
    $2,575
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,451,188
    Expenses
    $427,668
    Contributions
    $1,525,767
    Grants paid
    $4,495
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $305,466
    Expenses
    $239,940
    Contributions
    $228,075
    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
    $652,754
    Expenses
    $209,158
    Assets (EOY)
    $657,036
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $170,206
    Expenses
    $218,217
    Assets (EOY)
    $237,688
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $225,967
    Expenses
    $172,674
    Assets (EOY)
    $259,904
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $149,976
    Expenses
    $140,829
    Assets (EOY)
    $203,097
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $48,034
    Expenses
    $125,073
    Assets (EOY)
    $195,234
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    -$45,627
    Expenses
    $110,912
    Assets (EOY)
    $272,734
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $471,578
    Expenses
    $96,434
    Assets (EOY)
    $427,488
  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $102,648
    Expenses
    $110,804
    Assets (EOY)
    $52,384
  • 2013 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $104,113
    Expenses
    $103,615
    Assets (EOY)
    $62,099
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $119,598
    Assets (EOY)
    $60,042

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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.