Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$1,277,102

Total expenses

$1,367,900

Contributions and grants received

$1,248,803

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$26,577

Investment income

$539

Other revenue

$1,183

Total assets, end of year

$1,821,284

Total liabilities, end of year

$335,637

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$1,485,647

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$886,432

Management and general expenses

$341,140

Fundraising expenses

$140,328

Program service expenses (Part III)

$886,432

Program services were 64.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2022

• Current is a Chicago-based water innovation hub launched in 2016 to help realize the region's economic and environmental potential as a water innovation leader. As a cross-sector convenor of local and global water sector stakeholders, Current builds networks, organizes events, and helps develop pilot projects that achieve environmental and economic equity. Current serves as a conduit for both technology and innovation, monitoring independently evaluating new ideas and technology in water management, and working with utilities, research institutions, businesses, and innovators to test new solutions. Current shares information with community-based organizations and serves as a trusted partner working towards economic inclusion and environmental justice. Current works to grow an inclusive blue economy by generating research and data to inform strategic priorities, driving collaborations among researchers, entrepreneurs, corporations, investors, utilities, and community partners. We work to keep water in focus as an economic development priority and create strategies to support education, workforce development, entrepreneurship, and investment. We host events and convenings to strengthen our networks.Current accelerates innovation by maintaining a sophisticated understanding of the state of the art in water technology, and identifying and supporting the development of promising technologies that solve persistent and emerging water challenges. We convene the capabilities of our Current Research Consortium to bridge advanced fundamental science and practical, outcome-based applied research. We also pursue research funding opportunities and cross-institutional partnerships to strengthen the research ecosystem, driving more financial resources and expertise to priority problems. Current helps solve pressing water challenges by identifying and independently assessing new technologies and building partnerships to help promising innovations go to scale. We do this by testing technologies and recommending the best solutions for others to try, or for us to pilot, to help improve water quality and management. Current maintains a database of promising water technologies that we have sourced and "de-risked" evaluated for their potential to be implemented at-cost and at-scale. We continue to receive and evaluate these new technologies and serve as a neutral recommendation engine for our major water utilities in the region. Across all of our work, Current demonstrates a commitment to environmental justice and inclusion. We seek to address water challenges through solutions that advance an equitable water infrastructure: the technologies we identify and pilot help to ensure that all people have access to safe and clean water, and that water resources are resilient to climate change and other environmental stressors. We also foster the growth of a robust blue economy that provides training and career pathways for traditionally underrepresented groups, including women and individuals of color. Finally, our outreach and education programs seek to engage youth, with an emphasis on underserved students, and communities that have long been absent from environmental conversations. It is through this lens of equity and inclusion that we maximize the impact of our work in inventing, testing, and adopting promising new solutions that work for everyone.

  Expenses $886,432 · Revenue $27,760

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

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.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

10 May 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

202301309349302150

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