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CLEAN WATER ACTION

EIN 23-7128611 MOUNT CLEMENS, MI

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Revenue 2024
$5,903,614
Expenses 2024
$6,122,636

Program services were 57.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 188

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

CLEAN WATER ACTION IS A NATIONAL CITIZENS ORGANIZATION WORKING FOR CLEAN, SAFE, AND AFFRODABLE WATER, PREVENTION OF HEALTH THREATENING POLLUTION, CREATION OF ENVIRONMENTALLY SAFE JOBS AND BUSNESSES AND EMPOWERMENT OF PEOPLE TO MAKE DEMOCRACY WORK. CLEAN WATER ACTION ORGANIZES STRONG GRASSROOTS GROUPS, COALITIONS AND CAMPAIGNS TO PROTECT OUR ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH, ECONOMIC WELL-BEING AND COMMUNITY QUALITY OF LIFE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH AND LOBBYING: LEGISLATIVE CONTACT AND EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH, ENGAGING INDIVIDUALS, ORGANIZATIONS AND PUBLIC OFFICIALS IN THE EFFORTS TO UNDERSTAND AND IMPROVE POLICIES AND THEIR IMPLEMENTATION RELATED TO WATER, ENVIRONMENT HEALTH, TOXICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT. MAJOR EMPHASIS ON WATER QUALITY AND SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH RISKS FROM POLLUTING POWER PLANT EMISSIONS.

  • PUBLIC EDUCATION: CITIZEN CONTACT & EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH, PROVIDING INFORMATION FOR INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT IN PUBLIC POLICY AND LOCAL IMPACTS ON ISSUES RELATED TO WATER, ENVIROMENTAL HEALTH, TOXICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT.

    Expenses $97,672 · Grants $9,000 · Revenue $59,777

  • MAKING DEMOCRACY WORK - WE HARNESS GRASSROOTS POWER BY ENGAGING OUR MEMBERS AND THE PUBLIC IN LOBBYING FOR AND SUPPORTING CLEAN WATER LEADERS FROM LOCAL TO THE NATIONAL LEVEL. REFORMING OUR DEMOCRACY IS ESSENTIAL TO PROTECTING OUR WATER, PUBLIC HEALTH, AND OUR COMMUNITIES.

    Expenses $227,088 · Revenue $429,000

  • OTHER: PROGRAMS TO EDUCATE AND ENGAGE THE PUBLIC ON CLEAN ENERGY AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY.

    Expenses $3,212,505 · Revenue $375,988

  • OTHER PROGRAM EXPENSES

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.

  • Jeffrey Carter

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $210,283
    From this org
    $46,940
    From related orgs
    $140,819
    Other
    $22,524
    Hours/week
    13 + 38 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $46,940 + $140,819 related
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $5,631 + $16,893 related
    Filer's total
    $52,571 + $157,712 related
  • Lewanda Gipson

    CORPORATE SE

    Total calculated
    $147,220
    From this org
    $34,252
    From related orgs
    $102,756
    Other
    $10,212
    Hours/week
    13 + 38 related
  • Shanna Serrano

    PHONE CANVAS

    Total calculated
    $128,040
    From this org
    $128,040
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Mary Carbone

    REGIONAL CAN

    Total calculated
    $107,452
    From this org
    $107,452
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Adam Fischer

    PHONE CANVAS

    Total calculated
    $104,548
    From this org
    $104,548
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Margaret Armstrong

    ASSISTANT SE

    Total calculated
    $75,562
    From this org
    $19,644
    From related orgs
    $43,198
    Other
    $12,720
    Hours/week
    1
  • Colron Chambers

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mary Ann Fake

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Wynnie-Fred Victor Hinds

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Erica Holloman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sarah Naiman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Marisa Perales

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Julie Risser

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tonyehn Verkitus

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Randall Walsh

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Marguerite Young

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kate Reid Koeze

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Lawson Shadburn

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $5,903,614
    Expenses
    $6,122,636
    Contributions
    $5,822,280
    Grants paid
    $9,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,219,754
    Expenses
    $5,482,248
    Contributions
    $5,124,771
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,488,111
    Expenses
    $6,385,946
    Contributions
    $6,396,056
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,488,111
    Expenses
    $6,385,946
    Contributions
    $6,396,056
    Grants paid
    $0

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
    $5,749,311
    Expenses
    $5,432,052
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,117,280
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,601,137
    Expenses
    $6,202,693
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,712,923
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,601,137
    Expenses
    $6,202,693
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,712,923
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,761,241
    Expenses
    $8,720,072
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,317,914
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,761,241
    Expenses
    $8,720,072
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,317,914
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,829,774
    Expenses
    $8,332,314
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,642,704
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,767,651
    Expenses
    $8,174,442
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,048,165
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,026,928
    Expenses
    $8,040,421
    Assets (EOY)
    $632,504
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,240,346
    Expenses
    $8,996,726
    Assets (EOY)
    $644,289
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,011,503
    Expenses
    $8,804,436
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,244,752

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Related corporations and trusts on its 2024 return

  • CITIZENS CAMPAIGN INC

    C CORP · DC

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

  • CONOPCO INC. D/B/A UNILEVER ITSELF AND ACTING THROUGH ITS SUBSIDIARIES

    $585,691 in sales

    2021 Commercial Coventurer

    $38,172 to charity

  • CONOPCO INC. D/B/A UNILEVER ITSELF AND ACTING THROUGH ITS SUBSIDIARIES

    $128,445 in sales

    2021 Commercial Coventurer

    $6,126 to charity

  • CONOPCO INC. D/B/A UNILEVER ITSELF AND ACTING THROUGH ITS SUBSIDIARIES

    $2,330,889 in sales

    2020 Commercial Coventurer

    $103,114 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.