Itasca Waters
Legal name: Itasca Water Legacy Partnership
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 274411875
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Grand Rapids, MN, United States
- Phone
- (218) 256-5998
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Water Resource, Wetlands Conservation and Management
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,914
- Expenses
- $22,153
- Assets
- $35,070
- Liabilities
- $556
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STEPHANIE KESSLER (President)
- JOHN DOWNING (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- SANDY ANDERSON (Treasurer)
- JAN SANDBERG (Secretary)
- CARY BATES (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Itasca Waters' mission is to "Team Up" with other organizations and concerned citizens to maintain abundant, clean water for our continued health, enjoyment and a strong economy. A Citizen-driven Organization Today, Itasca Waters (formerly Itasca Water Legacy Partnership) is a vibrant blend of private citizens, public agencies, and contributing organizations. The organization works to implement, support, and promote research, education, and public outreach activities, all with the goal of maintaining clean water for our continued health, enjoyment, strong economy, and vibrant community. This engagement creates opportunities for longer term local partnerships and programs. For example, since2011, ISD 318 has been an integral part of the Itasca Waters Annual Youth Water Summit at the Grand Rapids Fairgrounds. During this one-day event in May, 300-400 students receive w.
What it reported doing in 2025
Itasca waters leads an effort to help property owners curb water pollution and runoff by focusing on shorelands. Through seminars, literature, visits to restored shorelands and consultations with local professionals and experts the project will educate the public in the areas of the aquatic zone, shoreland, erosion/runoff, septic/excavation, and private forest management. The program provides onsite information and assistance, at no cost, to lakeshore owners interested in curtailing sources of pollution from their property. Over 30 citizens have agreed to be trained and make visits in itasca county.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -220.4%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.58; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -11.6% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -23.1% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -12.3% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.