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WATERWAYS COUNCIL INC

EIN 26-0080090 WASHINGTON, DC

Largest nonprofits in District of Columbia

Revenue 2024
$2,916,033
Expenses 2024
$2,692,998

As filed

Subsection
06
NTEE code
C32
Classification
1000
Street
1100 NEW JERSEY AVE SE STE 760

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

THE MISSION OF THE CORPORATION IS TO BE THE NATIONAL UNIFYING ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA'S NUMEROUS INLAND WATERWAYS AND PORTS INFRASTRUCTURE INTERESTS, SERVING AS THE DEFINITIVE SPOKESPERSON FOR INLAND WATERWAYS INFRASTRUCTURE IN WASHINGTON AND AROUND THE COUNTRY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO ADVOCATE FOR OPTIMAL FEDERAL FUNDING FOR THE PLANNING, CONSTRUCTION, OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE NATION'S PORTS AND INLAND WATERWAYS, IN A PRIORITIZED WAY, IN ORDER TO REALIZE THE BENEFITS OF WATERBORNE COMMERCE.

  • PROMOTED A POSITIVE PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMIC, SOCIETAL, AND ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS OF A MODERN AND WELL MAINTAINED PORTS AND INLAND NAVIGATION SYSTEM. THE ORGANIZATION'S COMMUNICATION PLAN INCLUDED NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINE ARTICLES, COMMENTARIES AND OP-EDS, PRESS RELEASES, AND VIDEOS.

  • HELD AN ANNUAL MEETING TO INFORM AND EDUCATE MEMBERS AND OTHERS REGARDING NEW AND UPCOMING LEGISLATION AFFECTING THE INDUSTRY. APPROXIMATELY 175 MEMBERS AND ORGANIZATION STAFF ATTENDED THE MEETING. THE ANNUAL MEETING INCLUDED PRESENTATIONS ON VARIOUS TOPICS IMPORTANT TO THE INDUSTRY.

  • PRODUCED PUBLICATIONS TO INFORM MEMBERS OF UPCOMING AND PENDING LEGISLATION AFFECTING THE INDUSTRY.

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.

  • Andrew Brown

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Austin Golding

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Brandy Christian

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Brian Kelly

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Brian Mueller

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bruce McGinnis

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Cherrie Felder

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Chris Blanchard

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Damon Judd

    VICE CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Delbert Biliter

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jacqueline Bailey

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jake Brodbeck

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jeff Webb

    FIRST VICE CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jeffrey Keifer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jessica Stephan

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Wepfer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jordan Howard

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kerry Cole

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kristin Beck

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lance Rase

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lance Sannino

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lee Nelson

    VICE CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mario Munoz

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Martin Hettel

    SECRETARY

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

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,916,033
    Expenses
    $2,692,998
    Contributions
    $281,000
    Grants paid
    $40,560
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,410,990
    Expenses
    $2,949,909
    Contributions
    $662,810
    Grants paid
    $27,800
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,702,509
    Expenses
    $2,372,140
    Contributions
    $300,000
    Grants paid
    $9,140

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
    $3,194,948
    Expenses
    $2,947,572
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,198,017
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,483,601
    Expenses
    $2,232,487
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,028,807
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,598,413
    Expenses
    $2,724,505
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,688,208
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,586,297
    Expenses
    $2,489,257
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,739,799
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,555,897
    Expenses
    $2,418,899
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,832,707
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,686,615
    Expenses
    $2,554,081
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,696,447
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,689,744
    Expenses
    $2,633,413
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,465,480
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,515,729
    Expenses
    $2,475,104
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,540,906
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,480,220
    Expenses
    $2,443,170
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,259,896
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $2,383,944
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,372,135

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

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.