Watershed groups doing cleanups, monitoring, and the permit-comment work that keeps discharges out of a river in the first place.
5 organizations
Kanawha River Keepers
Charleston, WV · EIN 55-0918744 · Founded 2008
Verified since 2023
3.3 / 4 accountability812 donors hereListed 3 years
Monthly sampling at eleven points between Gauley Bridge and the Ohio, plus the tire and scrap pulls that most people know us for. The monitoring is the part that actually moves things, since it is what we take to the DEP when a permit comes up for renewal. Gifts pay for reagents, lab fees, and the pontoon.
Water monitoringCleanupsPermit comment
80% of expenses go to programs · $27,615 raised here this year
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Torreon Arroyo Project
Cuba, NM · EIN 85-2231670 · Founded 2014
Verified since 2024
3.0 / 4 accountability205 donors hereListed 1 year
One-rock dams and zuni bowls in the upper Puerco arroyos, built with local crews and volunteers. The Puerco carries more sediment per acre-foot than almost any river in the country and we are trying to slow some of it down.
Erosion controlArroyo restoration
77% of expenses go to programs · $8,964 raised here this year
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Housatonic Cleanup Crew
Great Barrington, MA · EIN 04-3517288 · Founded 2001
Verified since 2022
3.7 / 4 accountability1,544 donors hereListed 4 years
Two hundred volunteers, eleven access points, and about nine tons of debris a year out of the south county reach. We also do the willow and dogwood plantings on the cut banks and run the river days for the middle schools in Sheffield and Lee. Nothing here is complicated. It is people in waders with grabbers.
CleanupsRiverbank plantingSchools
85% of expenses go to programs · $61,330 raised here this year
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Deep Creek Alliance
Elizabeth City, NC · EIN 56-4419025 · Founded 2023
Cleanups on the Pasquotank and the feeder creeks. Six so far this year. We are new and we are figuring out the paperwork as we go.
Cleanups
65% of expenses go to programs · $1,885 raised here this year
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Upper Wabash Trash Pull
Huntington, IN · EIN 35-2088613 · Founded 2011
Verified since 2023
3.4 / 4 accountability967 donors hereListed 3 years
We run four big pulls a year between Bluffton and Peru and keep six access points mowed and usable the rest of the time. Volunteers bring their own boats. Donations cover dumpsters, the county tipping fees, and the trailer.
CleanupsCanoe access
82% of expenses go to programs · $33,184 raised here this year
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