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A Cup of Water Foundation

A Cup of Water is committed to addressing the needs of poor orphan children and families by focusing on economic, food security, educatioin, health and community development issues.

$480k
Granted FY2021
1
Itemized grants FY2021
1
Organizations funded FY2021
100%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$7k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$7,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$7,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2018 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$262k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 100% of the organizations A Cup of Water Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21
InternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20211$7k100%
FY20201$7k0%
FY20191$12k100%
FY20184$160kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2021.

International$152kReligion$12kYouth Development$10kEducation$7kHuman Services$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
White Fields Inc$137,000119%
Freedom International Ministries$15,00020%
Kings Cross Church of San Diego$12,0001n/a
Urban Youth Collaborative$10,00011%
Childrens Heritage Foundation$7,00012%
Serving the Fringe$5,0001n/a

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About A Cup of Water Foundation

How much does A Cup of Water Foundation give?
A Cup of Water Foundation reported 1 itemized grants totaling $7,000, out of $480,457 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2021.
What does A Cup of Water Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2021, its largest causes are International (82%), Religion (6%), Youth Development (5%).
Who are A Cup of Water Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2021: White Fields Inc ($137k), Freedom International Ministries ($15k), Kings Cross Church of San Diego ($12k).
Does A Cup of Water Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as A Cup of Water Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is A Cup of Water Foundation based?
A Cup of Water Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 6 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $663k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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