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WATER FIRST INTERNATIONAL

EIN 20-2601035 SEATTLE, WA

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Revenue 2024
$2,016,777
Expenses 2024
$3,958,550

Program services were 92.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T122
Classification
1000
Street
509 OLIVE WAY STE 1122

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 · 2024

Mission

WATER 1ST'S MISSION IS TO ENABLE THE WORLD'S POOREST PEOPLE TO IMPLEMENT AND SUSTAIN COMMUNITY-MANAGED PROJECTS INTEGRATING CLEAN WATER SUPPLY, SANITATION AND HYGIENE EDUCATION. WATER 1ST UNITES PEOPLE TO FIGHT THE GLOBAL WATER AND SANITATION CRISIS . WE BELIEVE THIS WORLDWIDE, SILENT CATASTROPHE WILL BE SOLVED WHEN WE BUILD A COMMUNITY OF CONCERNED INDIVIDUALS, AND MOBILIZE THEM TO TAKE SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE ACTIONS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

WATER 1ST'S MISSION IS TO UNITE PEOPLE TO END THE GLOBAL WATER AND SANITATION CRISIS.

  • SEE SCHEDULE O

    Expenses $3,673,242 · Grants $2,988,022 · Revenue $72,601

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Julia Clarke

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lynn Carr

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Carolyn Bardon

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Tim Kirley

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Chris Pratley

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Allison Harr

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Courtney Klipper

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Erika Gudmundsson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Marla Smith-Nilson

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $121,234
    From this org
    $117,703
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,531
    Hours/week
    40

  • Kirk Anderson

    DIRECTOR OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS

    Total calculated
    $128,099
    From this org
    $110,761
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,338
    Hours/week
    40

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,016,777
    Expenses
    $3,958,550
    Contributions
    $1,951,519
    Grants paid
    $2,988,022
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,582,679
    Expenses
    $1,260,927
    Contributions
    $3,600,767
    Grants paid
    $412,749
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,969,815
    Expenses
    $2,297,051
    Contributions
    $1,963,088
    Grants paid
    $1,550,835

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
    $2,323,784
    Expenses
    $2,018,813
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,744,455

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,514,484
    Expenses
    $1,803,280
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,621,978

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,533,522
    Expenses
    $2,835,375
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,117,157

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,533,522
    Expenses
    $2,835,375
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,117,157

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,904,370
    Expenses
    $2,414,052
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,271,797

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,370,047
    Expenses
    $2,600,818
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,860,869

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,209,488
    Expenses
    $2,249,025
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,155,946

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,637,942
    Expenses
    $2,335,058
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,101,487

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,686,978
    Expenses
    $1,893,101
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,245,076

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,579,433
    Expenses
    $1,436,723
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,330,115

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.