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TEXAS RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION

EIN 23-7014779 AUSTIN, TX

Revenue 2025
$8,890,963
Expenses 2025
$9,236,985

Program services were 0.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
06
Classification
1000
Street
1700 RIO GRANDE ST STE 100

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 · 2025

Mission

TRWA is dedicated to helping rural water and wastewater utilities in Texas provide efficient service and clean, safe drinking water to their customers through on-site technical assistance, classroom and online training, publications, member support services, and representation in legislative processes.

  • Under the state contract program, approximately 766 on-site visits were made to public drinking water and wastewater utility systems in Texas to assess, assist, and improve the financial, managerial, and technical capabilities of the systems.

  • Under the federal contract program, TRWA provided technical assistance and training to small public water and wastewater systems in Texas, making 1841 contacts with these systems.

  • TRWA's professional training and development program trained more than 1410 students during 105 classroom and virtual instructor-led training sessions held in 2025, and trained approximately 3551 students by means of internet-based training courses. Students taking classes are professional water operators that are required by state agencies to have continuing education to qualify for and maintain licenses to operate public water and wastewater systems.

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Lara Zent

    Executive Director & Chief Legal Officer

    Total calculated
    $375,265
    From this org
    $299,859
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $75,406
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $260,443
    Bonus
    $39,416
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $26,278
    Nontaxable benefits
    $41,255
    Filer's total
    $367,392

  • Jason Knobloch

    Deputy Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $219,000
    From this org
    $169,185
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $49,815
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $159,185
    Bonus
    $10,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $11,648
    Nontaxable benefits
    $24,751
    Filer's total
    $205,584

  • Mary Alice McKaughan

    General Counsel

    Total calculated
    $176,783
    From this org
    $144,850
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $31,933
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $136,850
    Bonus
    $8,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $10,319
    Nontaxable benefits
    $10,083
    Filer's total
    $165,252

  • Nichol Everingham

    Development & Training Director

    Total calculated
    $166,110
    From this org
    $130,530
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $35,580
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $126,030
    Bonus
    $4,500
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $8,829
    Nontaxable benefits
    $16,819
    Filer's total
    $156,178

  • Larry Bell

    Technical Assistance Director

    Total calculated
    $156,318
    From this org
    $117,047
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $39,271
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $114,547
    Bonus
    $2,500
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $11,500
    Nontaxable benefits
    $16,633
    Filer's total
    $145,180

  • Josh Smith

    FMT Program Manager

    Total calculated
    $139,609
    From this org
    $107,670
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $31,939
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $107,670
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $848
    Nontaxable benefits
    $16,010
    Filer's total
    $124,528

  • Thomas Shephard

    Finance Director

    Total calculated
    $139,529
    From this org
    $107,637
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $31,892
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $101,637
    Bonus
    $6,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $6,511
    Nontaxable benefits
    $16,318
    Filer's total
    $130,466

  • Mark Gardenhire

    Board President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Steve Adams

    Board Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Allen Knight

    Board Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Bruce Alexander

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Joshua Howard

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Roby Jekel

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Steven Sanchez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Charles Beseda

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Carolyn Black

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kyle Eppler

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Rachel Webb

    Board Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • T Chad Wilson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Matthew Barrett

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Amber Stelly

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $8,890,963
    Expenses
    $9,236,985
    Contributions
    $5,581,918
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $8,774,032
    Expenses
    $8,402,097
    Contributions
    $5,530,630
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $8,161,801
    Expenses
    $7,641,619
    Contributions
    $5,243,333
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $7,009,299
    Expenses
    $6,753,332
    Contributions
    $4,451,249
    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
    $6,774,519
    Expenses
    $6,055,116
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,862,352

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,816,169
    Expenses
    $5,135,458
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,640,117

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.

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

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 2025 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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.