WATER ENVIRONMENT FEDERATION

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C022

Classification

8000

Street

601 WYTHE ST

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

• WEFTEC is the most comprehensive gathering of water quality professionals and thought leaders, featuring the sector's leading technical education program; an extensive exhibition showcasing the field's most cutting-edge solutions; and a variety of valuable networking opportunities. WEFTEC provides access to the latest technologies, services and products for those looking to design, build, maintain, or upgrade water management systems and programs.

  Expenses $7,017,258 · Grants $13,219 · Revenue $18,383,027

• Technical Programs, Seminars, and Workshops - As the leading source of water quality expertise, WEF is committed to advancing the professional workforce development of the water sector through educational seminars and workshops that focus on environmental, sustainability, and public health topics. WEF provides education to water professionals from over 70 countries at WEFTEC as well as at WEF's specialty conferences. WEF's educational content includes all areas of water resources management, including utility management and operations, collection systems, stormwater, water and wastewater treatment, and biosolids. WEF's commitment to the sustainable development goals focus on safe, sustainable access to clean water and sanitation, innovation and a circular economy. WEF provides in-depth education on biological hazards to wastewater operators through virtual workshops and public health communications platforms, and provided a free update to a manual of practice on safety and security of water resource recovery facilities.

  Expenses $5,685,108 · Grants $11,200 · Revenue $1,699,128

• Public Outreach & Advocacy - WEF's public outreach and advocacy programs encompass a broad range of activities intended to better inform the public and policy leaders of critical issues and the vital role water resources play in the everyday lives of citizens. These programs include coordinating all interviews and meetings with media/news outlets, writing and dissemination of all society news releases, training society leaders and members in public communications and effective media relations, providing communications counsel to the Federation's various member associations. WEF's water advocates program empowers WEF members to share knowledge and expertise to inform government decision-makers about the importance of water. Water advocates program helps grassroots communities all of the US speak with a united voice for water to reach out to and connect with elected officials on important water quality issues including aging infrastructure, affordability, and continued economic pressures which have put unprecedented stress on local governments and agencies that provide essential water services.

  Expenses $2,867,795 · Grants $100,869 · Revenue $73,442

• Membership Services - Handles customer service operations, membership recruitment and retention, and engagement with customers, members, member associations and affiliated organizations.

  Expenses $2,393,945 · Grants $176,720 · Revenue $3,860,289

• Publications and Subscriptions - WEF publishes technical and educational magazines, newsletters, books, technical reports, fact sheets, conference proceedings, and training materials. Water Environment & Technology (WE&T) is the publication professionals read to learn about the latest technologies, trends, and news in water quality. Members receive it monthly as a membership benefit. In addition, the publication is sold on a subscription basis to libraries and other water professionals. WEF publishes digital newsletters, WEFTEC Now and WEF Smartbrief. WEF also publishes Water Environment Research, a peer-reviewed research journal, in partnership with Wiley. WEF publishes an extensive range of peer-reviewed manuals of practice, textbooks, and supplemental texts for classroom use as well as a comprehensive operator training series titled Wastewater Treatment Fundamentals. This training series includes manuals, trainer's kits, companion online training, and study guides. WEF co-publishes Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater with the American Public Health Association and the American Water Works Association. WEF's conference proceedings, magazine features, technical reports, fact sheets, books, and training materials are published on Access Water, WEF's online library.

  Expenses $2,651,607 · Revenue $503,120

• Grants & Contracts - Includes funds used to provide subject matter expertise in the development and updating of multiple wastewater unified facility criteria and unified facility guide specs. CDC funds were received to set up a community of practice for correctional facility wastewater surveillance.

  Expenses $652,762 · Revenue $598,161

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.

The first 25 listed. 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

  $31,015,734

  Expenses

  $28,586,705

  Contributions

  $2,638,636

  Grants paid

  $302,008

• 2023

  Revenue

  $31,872,253

  Expenses

  $32,815,938

  Contributions

  $4,678,754

  Grants paid

  $370,767

• 2022

  Revenue

  $26,779,126

  Expenses

  $27,924,125

  Contributions

  $2,527,512

  Grants paid

  $437,403

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

• 2024 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2023 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2022 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $23,632,520

  Expenses

  $26,240,078

  Assets (EOY)

  $39,764,439

• 2021 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $24,449,693

  Expenses

  $18,529,821

  Assets (EOY)

  $45,041,940

• 2020 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $26,675,441

  Expenses

  $25,677,545

  Assets (EOY)

  $30,738,590

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $27,540,835

  Expenses

  $25,782,774

  Assets (EOY)

  $35,793,348

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $28,156,074

  Expenses

  $26,301,524

  Assets (EOY)

  $34,356,453

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

• US Water Alliance

  $40,000

  2024 · Program Support

• Watereuse Association

  $25,000

  2024 · Program Support

• Florida WEA

  $19,000

  2024 · Program Support

• National Association of Clean Water Agencies

  $17,001

  2023 · Program Support

• NEW YORK WEA

  $16,095

  2022 · PROGRAM SUPPORT

• National Association of Clean Water Agencies

  $15,999

  2024 · Program Support

• NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CLEAN WATER AGENCIES

  $15,393

  2022 · PROGRAM SUPPORT

• Illinois WEA

  $15,000

  2023 · Program Support

• Iowa WEA

  $15,000

  2023 · Program Support

• CLEAN WATER PROFESSIONALS OF KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE

  $14,595

  2022 · PROGRAM SUPPORT

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PARTNERSHIP INCORPORATED

  $19,884

  2022 · TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, TRAINING AND RESEARCH AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

• RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PARTNERSHIP INCORPORATED

  $18,928

  2023 · TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, TRAINING AND RESEARCH AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $5,587

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $0

  2025 · GENERAL SUPPORT

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.

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