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Agua Fundinc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
74
Grants FY2024
70
Organizations funded FY2023
9%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$150,000
Organizations funded a year
57 to 70
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
15
Total assets, FY2024
$8.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 9% of the organizations Agua Fundinc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $594k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EnvironmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsAnimalsOther
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
FY2024still arriving74$3.1M14%
FY202370$3.3M9%
FY202269$2.8M41%
FY202159$2.3M22%
FY202057$2.2Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$5.8MCivil Rights$1.6MFood & Nutrition$1.5MPhilanthropy$1.4MPublic Benefit$960kCommunity Improvement$929kHuman Services$665kHealth$504kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
IL
NY
MA
SD
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
AR
DC
HI
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 79 grantees
All grantees of Agua Fundinc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Piedmont Environmental Council$775,00053%
Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley$750,000531%
Southern Environmental Law Center$500,00050%
Potomac Riverkeeper Network$486,00056%
First Nations Development Institute$340,00051%
New Virginia Majority$338,50051%
National Wildlife Federation$330,25030%
Pennsylvania Voice$324,00051%
Policylink$320,00040%
Iona Senior Services$315,00051%
Virginia Conservation Network$265,00056%
Virginia Organizing Inc$264,00051%
Legal Counsel for the Elderly$262,75052%
Western Colorado Alliance$254,00056%
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition$246,7505n/a
Wild Virginia Incorporated$203,600516%
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law$200,00050%
Intertribal Agriculture Council$192,50041%
League of Conservation Voters Education Fund$190,00050%
Mesa County Land Conservancy Inc$146,50051%
Moonshot Missions Inc$144,00025%
Seabury Resources for Aging$142,08051%
Washington Hospital Center Corporation$120,00030%
Native American Rights Fund Inc$120,00020%
Virginia League of Conservation Voters Education Fund$110,00055%
Friends of Anacostia Park$105,90035%
The Ocean Foundation$105,87540%
All Voting Is Local$102,40030%
Committee of Seventy$101,05032%
Three Bays Preservation Inc$100,00042%
National Marine Sanctuary Foundation$100,00040%
Land Trust Alliance Inc$100,00020%
Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Inc$100,00050%
Ma Ka Hana Ka Ike Building Program$100,00052%
Virginias United Land Trusts$97,40039%
Dreaming Out Loud Inc$97,40022%
District of Columbia Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc$96,05038%
Everymind Inc$95,00050%
The Laurel Center Intervention for Domestic & Sexual Violence$91,60051%
Phoenix Project Inc$91,60056%
Food Research & Action Center$90,00050%
Foodshed Capital$90,00032%
River Network$85,87531%
D C Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative Inc$81,20055%
The Center for Mind-Body Medicine$80,52550%
Thrive DC$70,52551%
Food & Friends Inc$60,00050%
The Conservancy of Southwest Florida$60,00030%
Virginia Civic Engagement Table$58,00023%
Defensores de la Cuenca$51,20033%
Minority and Veteran Farmers of the Piedmont Inc$51,200326%
Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance$50,00029%
Conservation Innovation Fund$50,0001n/a
Ndn Collective Inc$45,00010%
American Rivers Inc$40,00010%
DC Greens Inc$35,80031%
Capitol Hill Village$35,50031%
Anacostia Watershed Society Inc$35,50031%
Arcadia Food Inc$30,00012%
National Korean American Service and Education Consortium Inc$30,00010%
Organic Farming Research Foundation$30,00012%
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University$30,0001n/a
The Hopi Foundation Lomasumi'Nangwtukwsiwmani$29,50051%
Kingdom Care Senior Village$25,00025%
Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future$25,00011%
Sierra Club Foundation$25,00010%
House of Ruth$20,00020%
Progeorgia State Table Inc$20,00010%
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders$20,00011%
Georgia Coalition for the People's Agenda$20,00011%
Nantucket Land & Water Council Inc$20,00011%
Cascadia Research Collective$20,00011%
Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia$20,0001n/a
Future Harvest Inc$19,00022%
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc$15,00010%
The DC Central Kitchen Inc$13,00020%
Bay Journal Media Inc$10,00012%
Rappahannock Tribe Foundation$10,00013%
Helpage USA Inc$5,00011%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Agua Fundinc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 75 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Piedmont Environmental Council: $775,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetAlliance for the Shenandoah Valley: $750,000 over 5y, 31% of budgetSouthern Environmental Law Center: $500,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPotomac Riverkeeper Network: $486,000 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetFirst Nations Development Institute: $340,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetNew Virginia Majority: $338,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetNational Wildlife Federation: $330,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPennsylvania Voice: $324,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetPolicylink: $320,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetIona Senior Services: $315,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetVirginia Conservation Network: $265,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetVirginia Organizing Inc: $264,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetLegal Counsel for the Elderly: $262,750 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetWestern Colorado Alliance: $254,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetWild Virginia Incorporated: $203,600 over 5y, 16% of budgetLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: $200,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetIntertribal Agriculture Council: $192,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetLeague of Conservation Voters Education Fund: $190,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMesa County Land Conservancy Inc: $146,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMoonshot Missions Inc: $144,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetSeabury Resources for Aging: $142,080 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetWashington Hospital Center Corporation: $120,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNative American Rights Fund Inc: $120,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVirginia League of Conservation Voters Education Fund: $110,000 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetFriends of Anacostia Park: $105,900 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetThe Ocean Foundation: $105,875 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAll Voting Is Local: $102,400 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCommittee of Seventy: $101,050 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetThree Bays Preservation Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetNational Marine Sanctuary Foundation: $100,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLand Trust Alliance Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBlue Ridge Area Food Bank Inc: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMa Ka Hana Ka Ike Building Program: $100,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetVirginias United Land Trusts: $97,400 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetDreaming Out Loud Inc: $97,400 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetDistrict of Columbia Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc: $96,050 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetEverymind Inc: $95,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Laurel Center Intervention for Domestic & Sexual Violence: $91,600 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetPhoenix Project Inc: $91,600 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetFood Research & Action Center: $90,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFoodshed Capital: $90,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetRiver Network: $85,875 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetD C Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative Inc: $81,200 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetThe Center for Mind-Body Medicine: $80,525 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetThrive DC: $70,525 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetFood & Friends Inc: $60,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Conservancy of Southwest Florida: $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetVirginia Civic Engagement Table: $58,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 75.

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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.

The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment IncMD40.7× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Chesapeake Bay Trust · New Venture Fund · Frederick Henry Prince Trust Dated 7947 · Patagoniaorg · Windward Fund · The Oak Hill Fund · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · National Fish and Wildlife 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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How do I get to Agua Fundinc?

Find your warmest path to Agua Fundinc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Agua Fundinc

How much does Agua Fundinc give?
Agua Fundinc reported 74 grants totaling $3,070,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 57 and 70 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Agua Fundinc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (39%), Civil Rights (10%), Food & Nutrition (10%).
Who are Agua Fundinc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Piedmont Environmental Council ($775k), Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley ($750k), Southern Environmental Law Center ($500k).
Does Agua Fundinc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Agua Fundinc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Agua Fundinc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc, Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation.
Where is Agua Fundinc based?
Agua Fundinc is based in VA.

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 117 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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