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SOUTHWATER INC

EIN 37-1338297 TAMMS, IL

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Revenue 2024
$2,190,455
Expenses 2024
$2,437,436

Program services were 94.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
Classification
1000
Street
27183 SANDY CREEK RD

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

PROVIDE WATER SERVICES FOR COMMUNITIES AND FARM DWELLINGS IN RURAL SOUTHERN ILLINOIS. SOUTHWATER, INC. OPERATES A REGIONAL POTABLE WATER TREATMENT AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM.

Activities or mission (Part I)

PROVIDE WATER SERVICES FOR COMMUNITIES AND FARM DWELLINGS IN RURAL SOUTHERN ILLINOIS. SOUTHWATER OPERATES A REGIONAL POTABLE WATER TREATMENT AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM.

  • SOUTHWATER PROVIDES WATER TO COMMUNITIES AND TO FARM DWELLINGS IN RURAL SOUTHERN ILLINOIS WITH A REGIONAL POTABLE WATER TREATMENT AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM. IN 2024, SOUTHWATER PROCESSED AND DELIVERED 283 MILLION GALLONS OF WATER.

    Expenses $2,301,425 · Revenue $1,729,224

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Scott Ury

    BOARD PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $754
    From this org
    $754
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lamar Houston

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $500
    From this org
    $500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Scott Miller

    BOARD VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $404
    From this org
    $404
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Renee Wright

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $720
    From this org
    $720
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Connie Hunt

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $620
    From this org
    $620
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dennis Taylor

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $647
    From this org
    $647
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Richard McGovern

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Samuel Davis

    EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $74,747
    From this org
    $69,435
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,312
    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
    $2,190,455
    Expenses
    $2,437,436
    Contributions
    $455,000
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,574,104
    Expenses
    $2,218,113
    Contributions
    $52,000
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,595,820
    Expenses
    $1,972,544
    Contributions
    $0
    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
    $1,585,503
    Expenses
    $1,832,021
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,152,162
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,388,820
    Expenses
    $1,814,990
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,659,097
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,554,476
    Expenses
    $1,780,857
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,206,361
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,419,646
    Expenses
    $1,792,691
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,641,986
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,359,393
    Expenses
    $1,859,526
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,698,445
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,455,671
    Expenses
    $1,838,881
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,333,596
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,453,957
    Expenses
    $1,726,473
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,865,989
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,410,151
    Expenses
    $1,742,152
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,260,106
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,229,562
    Expenses
    $1,790,399
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,738,042
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,772,264
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,053,267

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

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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

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 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.