SUNWATER INSTITUTE

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

R05

Classification

1000

Street

12358 PARKLAWN DR STE 240

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 SUNWATER INSTITUTE FOCUSES ON THREE FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS PROPERTY, ON WHICH OUR ECONOMY IS BUILT, GROUP DECISION-MAKING, ON WHICH OUR GOVERNMENT IS BUILT, AND RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES, ON WHICH OUR FREEDOM IS BUILT. THE FOCUS ON THESE FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS, ALONG WITH A LONG-TERM, INTERDISCIPLINARY, AND NONPARTISAN APPROACH GIVES THE SUNWATER INSTITUTE A UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE ON DATA RESEARCH, CONFERENCES, TRAININGS, ACADEMIC ARTICLES, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND VIDEO OUTPUTS.

  Expenses $2,353,016 · Grants $81,873 · Revenue $396,898

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.

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

  $415,017

  Expenses

  $3,171,343

  Contributions

  $18,119

  Grants paid

  $81,873

• 2023

  Revenue

  $1,092,449

  Expenses

  $3,006,653

  Contributions

  $834,177

  Grants paid

  $102,222

• 2022

  Revenue

  $33,736

  Expenses

  $1,232,468

  Contributions

  $30,262

  Grants paid

  $43,805

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

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $96,181

  Expenses

  $771,317

  Assets (EOY)

  $127,358

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $300,009

  Expenses

  $492,251

  Assets (EOY)

  $71,002

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $400,106

  Expenses

  $289,811

  Assets (EOY)

  $193,031

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $200,000

  Expenses

  $173,754

  Assets (EOY)

  $63,445

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 2017

Tax period

1 January 2017 to 31 December 2017

Principal officer

Matthew Chervenak

Mailing address

12358 Parklawn DriveNorth Bethesda MD 20852

Website

https://sunwater.org/

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 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

• YALE UNIVERSITY

  $101,422

  2023 · SPONSORSHIP TO FUND RESEARCH PROGRAM IN THE FIELDS OF GROUP DECISION MAKING AND EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVES ON RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES.

• YALE UNIVERSITY

  $81,873

  2024 · SPONSORSHIP TO FUND RESEARCH PROGRAM IN THE FIELDS OF GROUP DECISION MAKING AND EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVES ON RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES.

• YALE UNIVERSITY

  $43,805

  2022 · SPONSORSHIP TO FUND RESEARCH PROGRAM IN THE FIELDS OF GROUP DECISION MAKING AND EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVES ON RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• COUNCIL FOR INNOVATION PROMOTION

  $50,000

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT TO FURTHER THE ORGANIZATION'S PURPOSE.

• COUNCIL FOR INNOVATION PROMOTION

  $50,000

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT TO FURTHER THE ORGANIZATION'S PURPOSE.

• SANTA FE INSTITUTE

  $16,257

  2022 · UNDERSTANDING THE EFFECT OF INDIVIDUAL DECISION-MAKING STRATEGIES ON COLLECTIVE DECISION OUTCOMES

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