WATER FOUNDATION

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C32

Classification

1200

Street

3335 WATT AVE B

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

• THE STATES AND BASINS PROGRAM INCLUDES STATE, REGIONAL, AND LOCAL EFFORTS TO SECURE CLEAN AND AFFORDABLE DRINKING WATER, BUILD URBAN AND RURAL CLIMATE RESILIENCE, AND/OR ADVANCE SOLUTIONS THAT RESTORE AND PROTECT FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS. GRANTS FROM THE WATER FOUNDATION IN 2024 SUPPORTED SUSTAINABLE, INCLUSIVE GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT AND SAFE AND AFFORDABLE DRINKING WATER IN CALIFORNIA; COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN GREEN STORMWATER INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY; A CAMPAIGN TO RESTORE THE COLUMBIA-SNAKE RIVER BASIN IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST; COALITIONS SUPPORTING THE PROTECTION OF SURFACE WATER, WETLANDS, AND FLOODPLAINS IN NEW MEXICO; AND EFFORTS TO ADVANCE SUSTAINABLE WATER MANAGEMENT THAT BENEFITS PEOPLE AND NATURE IN TEXAS.

  Expenses $9,852,499 · Grants $4,191,852

• NATIONAL - NATIONAL PROGRAMS INCLUDE EFFORTS TO MAXIMIZE THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND COMMUNITY BENEFITS OF FEDERAL INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING AND TO STRENGTHEN A NATIONAL MOVEMENT FOR WATER. GRANTS IN 2024 SUPPORTED THE CAPACITY OF WATER ORGANIZATIONS, COALITIONS, AND LEADERS; EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF WATER-RELATED PUBLIC FUNDING; THE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF WATER INFRASTRUCTURE, WATERSHED RESTORATION, AND CLIMATE RESILIENCE PROJECTS; AND EFFORTS TO ESTABLISH A PERMANENT FEDERAL PROGRAM TO SUPPORT AFFORDABLE DRINKING WATER.

  Expenses $5,950,282 · Grants $4,805,490

• WATER TABLE - THE WATER TABLE IS A FUNDER COLLABORATIVE HOSTED BY THE WATER FOUNDATION THAT ADVANCES A SUSTAINABLE AND RESILIENT WATER FUTURE IN THE U.S. TABLE MEMBERS POOL AND ALIGN FUNDING TOWARD WATER SOLUTIONS TO ACHIEVE GREATER COLLECTIVE IMPACT. THE TABLE'S 2024 PRIORITY AREAS FOR COORDINATED INVESTMENT AND/OR LEARNING INCLUDE: A NATIONAL CLEAN WATER EFFORT, URBAN WATER SOLUTIONS, CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE IN THE WEST, SUSTAINABLE WATER MANAGEMENT IN TEXAS, TRIBAL PARTNERSHIPS, AND ACTIVATION OF FEDERAL FUNDING FOR WATER PROJECTS. THE TABLE ALSO WORKS TO INCREASE FIELD AND FUNDER COORDINATION, BUILD COMMUNITY POWER, AND INVEST IN FIELD CAPACITY TO DRIVE WATER SOLUTIONS.

  Expenses $1,520,427 · Grants $16,450

• TRANSITIONING STRATEGIES: IN 204, WATER FOUNDATION GRANTS SUPPORTED AN ASSESSMENT OF HEADWATER FOREST MANAGEMENT IN THE WEST THAT IDENTIFIED OPPORTUNITIES TO ENSURE CLEAN, RELIABLE WATER THROUGH FOREST RESTORATION AND PROTECTION.

  Expenses $373,689 · Grants $308,575

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.

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

  $22,281,949

  Expenses

  $18,296,237

  Contributions

  $21,780,850

  Grants paid

  $9,322,367

• 2023

  Revenue

  $19,477,867

  Expenses

  $21,859,801

  Contributions

  $18,972,038

  Grants paid

  $13,577,544

• 2022

  Revenue

  $25,984,608

  Expenses

  $16,681,548

  Contributions

  $25,725,183

  Grants paid

  $8,565,687

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

  $14,837,978

  Expenses

  $11,919,544

  Assets (EOY)

  $24,031,910

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $15,010,145

  Expenses

  $11,484,390

  Assets (EOY)

  $19,586,632

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $14,403,936

  Expenses

  $10,814,124

  Assets (EOY)

  $14,977,246

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $9,278,677

  Expenses

  $11,555,563

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,990,978

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $20,914,846

  Expenses

  $9,435,743

  Assets (EOY)

  $13,325,797

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2016

Tax period

1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016

Principal officer

Show names as filed Wade CrowfootWADE CROWFOOT

Mailing address

555 CAPITOL MALL STE 1155SACRAMENTO CA 95814

Website

Something was entered that is not a web address, so it is not shown.

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

• COMMUNITY ALLIANCE WITH FAMILY FARMERS

  $1,048,904

  2024 · WATER ACCESS AND CONSERVATION

• POLICYLINK

  $801,400

  2022 · WATER ACCESS AND CONSERVATION

• TROUT UNLIMITED (TU)

  $796,600

  2022 · WATER ACCESS AND CONSERVATION

• ANTHROPOCENE ALLIANCE

  $700,000

  2022 · WATER ACCESS AND CONSERVATION

• AMERICAN FLOOD COALITION

  $600,000

  2023 · WATER ACCESS AND CONSERVATION

• ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS

  $585,000

  2022 · WATER ACCESS AND CONSERVATION

• ANTHROPOCENE ALLIANCE

  $581,675

  2023 · WATER ACCESS AND CONSERVATION

• WATER WISE GULF SOUTH

  $575,000

  2023 · WATER ACCESS AND CONSERVATION

• TROUT UNLIMITED (TU)

  $560,000

  2023 · WATER ACCESS AND CONSERVATION

• COMMUNITY WATER CENTER

  $521,500

  2023 · WATER ACCESS AND CONSERVATION

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $1,025,000

  2022 · ENVIRONMENT, ANIMALS

• SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $356,000

  2024 · Environment

• SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $350,000

  2022 · Environment

• RESOURCES LEGACY FUND

  $300,000

  2023 · LAND OR MARINE CONSERVATION, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND/OR ENVIRON. EQUITY AND JUSTICE.

• RESOURCES LEGACY FUND

  $300,000

  2022 · LAND OR MARINE CONSERVATION, PROMOTION OF EDUCATION AND/OR HEALTHY COMMUNITIES

• SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $289,100

  2023 · Environment

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $150,000

  2024 · EDUCATION

• RESOURCES LEGACY FUND

  $100,000

  2024 · LAND OR MARINE CONSERVATION, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND/OR ENVIRONMENTAL EQUITY AND JUSTICE

• WINDWARD FUND

  $94,997

  2022 · ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $75,000

  2023 · EDUCATION

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

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