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PROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC

EIN 61-1518154 LA PLATA, MD

Revenue 2025
$5,807,782
Expenses 2025
$5,231,953

Program services were 69.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
E50
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 695

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 · 2025

Mission

PROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC MISSION IS DEDICATED TO THE PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL REHABILITATION OF DISABLED ACTIVE DUTY MILITARY AND DISABLED VETERANS THROUGH FLY FISHING AND ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES INCLUDING EDUCATION AND OUTINGS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

SEE PART III, LINE 1.

  • REGIONAL PROGRAMS: PROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING OPERATES REGIONAL PROGRAMS IN 45 STATES, DELIVERING REHABILITATIVE THERAPY TO WOUNDED, ILL, AND INJURED ACTIVE-DUTY MILITARY PERSONNEL AND DISABLED VETERANS THROUGH FLY FISHING AND RELATED ACTIVITIES. EACH REGIONAL PROGRAM PROVIDES FIVE CORE PROGRAM ACTIVITIES - FLY TYING, ROD BUILDING, CASTING, FLY FISHING EDUCATION, AND FLY FISHING OUTINGS - THAT BUILD A SUPPORTIVE COMMUNITY IN WHICH PARTICIPANTS FIND PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALING. PROGRAMS PARTNER WITH DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL FACILITIES, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE MILITARY TREATMENT FACILITIES, VA OUTPATIENT CLINICS, AND LOCAL FLY FISHING ORGANIZATIONS TO REACH PARTICIPANTS WHERE THEY ALREADY RECEIVE CARE. ALL INSTRUCTION AND EQUIPMENT ARE PROVIDED TO PARTICIPANTS FREE OF CHARGE, AND VOLUNTEER PROGRAM LEADS DELIVER ONGOING, LONG-TERM CLASSES RATHER THAN ONE-TIME EVENTS, FOSTERING CAMARADERIE AND SUSTAINED ENGAGEMENT. IN 2025, REGIONAL PROGRAMS SERVED 7,900 VETERANS AND SERVICE MEMBERS ACROSS 160 LOCAL PROGRAM SITES.

    Expenses $2,169,531

  • NATIONAL PROGRAM SUPPORT: PROJECT HEALING WATERS PROVIDES CENTRALIZED NATIONAL SUPPORT TO SUSTAIN AND STRENGTHEN ITS NETWORK OF REGIONAL PROGRAMS, ENSURING CONSISTENT QUALITY OF CARE AND OPERATIONAL CAPABILITY ACROSS THE COUNTRY. THIS INCLUDES RECRUITING, TRAINING, AND SUPPORTING VOLUNTEER PROGRAM LEADS AND REGIONAL COORDINATORS; DEVELOPING CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTIONAL STANDARDS FOR FLY TYING, ROD BUILDING, AND CASTING INSTRUCTION; AND MAINTAINING RELATIONSHIPS WITH VA AND DOD MEDICAL FACILITY PARTNERS NATIONWIDE. ADMINISTRATIVE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT ALLOWS LOCAL VOLUNTEERS TO FOCUS ON DIRECT PARTICIPANT ENGAGEMENT RATHER THAN PROGRAM LOGISTICS. THIS BACKBONE OF SUPPORT ENABLED THE ORGANIZATION TO SUSTAIN 160 REGIONAL PROGRAMS IN 45 STATES DURING 2025. PROJECT HEALING WATERS PROVIDES ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME FLY FISHING DESTINATION EXPERIENCES FOR ACTIVE-DUTY MILITARY AND VETERAN PARTICIPANTS AT PREMIER FISHING LOCATIONS ACROSS THE COUNTRY, INCLUDING THROUGH DEDICATED PROGRAM SITES SUCH AS FREEDOM RANCH FOR HEROES IN WISE RIVER, MONTANA AND OAK HEART LODGE IN NEWAYGO, MICHIGAN, AS WELL AS TRIPS TO NATIONAL PARKS AND OTHER STORIED WATERS NATIONWIDE. THESE MULTI-DAY TRIPS EXTEND THE HEALING AND CAMARADERIE OF THE REGIONAL PROGRAM INTO AN IMMERSIVE OUTDOOR SETTING, OFFERING PARTICIPANTS - INCLUDING MANY WHO FACE MOBILITY, FINANCIAL, OR LOGISTICAL BARRIERS TO TRAVEL - AN OPPORTUNITY TO FISH WATERS THEY OTHERWISE COULD NOT ACCESS. TRIPS ARE PROVIDED FREE OF CHARGE TO PARTICIPANTS, WITH TRANSPORTATION, LODGING, AND GUIDE SERVICES COVERED BY THE ORGANIZATION AND ITS PARTNERS.

    Expenses $1,468,148

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • JOHN LANGFORD

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $199,423
    From this org
    $199,423
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $199,423
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $199,423

  • CINDY KUEHNER

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    25

  • GUY SCHILLER

    VICE-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • TYLER SPARROW

    GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • MIKE WILSON

    TREASURER - F&A CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • BRIAN WILSON

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • SARAH THOMAS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALEX KENNEY

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ELIZABETH TRANARY

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KENDYL HANKS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BLAIN TOMLINSON

    TRUSTEE (UNTIL 11/21/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TINA ATHERALL

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MIKE CATHER

    VP DEVELOPMENT (FROM 1/6/25)

    Total calculated
    $133,210
    From this org
    $133,210
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    45

  • CHRISTOPHER WOODWARD

    VP OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $126,780
    From this org
    $123,859
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,921
    Hours/week
    45

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $5,807,782
    Expenses
    $5,231,953
    Contributions
    $5,314,117
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,200,893
    Expenses
    $1,064,688
    Contributions
    $1,042,210
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,394,812
    Expenses
    $4,764,248
    Contributions
    $4,402,976
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,176,899
    Expenses
    $5,108,859
    Contributions
    $4,252,651
    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
    $3,812,781
    Expenses
    $3,973,345
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,077,868

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,168,985
    Expenses
    $2,275,595
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,234,460

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,466,087
    Expenses
    $2,911,583
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,408,609

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,403,244
    Expenses
    $6,140,506
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,956,910

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,992,320
    Expenses
    $5,348,894
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,448,002

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.

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.