Spring Rivers Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 201778247
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Cassel, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5303355446
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Water Resource, Wetlands Conservation and Management
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $82,941
- Expenses
- $56,902
- Assets
- $542,405
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ann Chrisney (Vice President, Director)
- Jeffrey D Cook (President)
People named in this filing
- Ann Chrisney (Vice President, Director)
- Theo Light (Director)
- Andrew Sih (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The purpose of the Spring Rivers Foundation is to enhance natural systems through multidisciplinary research, restoration, education, public involvement, and outreach in order to further knowledge and to protect the health and biodiversity of the environment, with emphasis on the native aquatic taxa of northeastern California. (To protect the health and diversity of our region's unique spring-fed waterways, and to provide outdoor learning opportunities for our communities' schools)
What it reported doing in 2025
Outdoor Education-Spring Rivers Foundation Outdoor Education Program-K thru 6th-Grade Field Trip in a Box Program and Kindergarten, 2nd, & 5th-Grade field trips for Fall River Joint Unified School District funded by Burney Fall River Education Foundation and individual donations. Field trips for several schools in the Redding and Willow, CA area. Over 1,000 children, parents, and adult volunteer docents take part annually.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.2%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 31.4%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 9.53; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.2% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $57K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 40 of 40 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.