How much does American Water Works Association give?

American Water Works Association reported 37 itemized grants totaling $1,985,377, out of $2,590,506 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 38 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does American Water Works Association fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (88%), Public Benefit (10%), Arts & Culture (2%).

Who are American Water Works Association's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: California-Nevada Section American Water Works Association ($2.0M), American Water Works Association- Texas Section ($987k), Florida Section American Water Works Association ($826k).

Does American Water Works Association fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as American Water Works Association?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.

Where is American Water Works Association based?

American Water Works Association is based in CO.

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Colorado · Public charity

American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 37
Itemized grants FY2024: 37
Organizations funded FY2023: 0%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $2.0M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $40,215
Largest grant, FY2024: $270,491
Organizations funded a year: 36 to 38; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 37
Total assets, FY2024: $52M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations American Water Works Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentInternational

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	37	$2.0M	0%
FY2023	37	$1.8M	0%
FY2022	36	$2.0M	0%
FY2021	37	$1.8M	3%
FY2020	37	$1.8M	3%
FY2019	38	$1.8M	0%
FY2018	38	$1.7M	0%
FY2017	38	$1.7M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$13MPublic Benefit$1.4MArts & Culture$250kInternational$104kPublic Safety & Disaster$46k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
California-Nevada Section American Water Works Association	$1,957,566	8	12%
American Water Works Association- Texas Section	$986,788	8	11%
Florida Section American Water Works Association	$826,119	8	12%
Pacific Northwest Section of the American Water Works Association	$782,826	8	9%
Illinois Section of the American Water Works Association Inc	$605,267	8	12%
American Water Works Association Ohio Section	$603,351	8	36%
American Water Works Association Rocky Mountain Section	$575,491	8	29%
New York Section American Water Works Association	$545,906	8	16%
Kentucky Tennessee Section of the American Water Works Association	$509,852	8	36%
Pennsylvania Section of the American Water Works Association	$494,840	8	29%

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All grantees of American Water Works Association by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
California-Nevada Section American Water Works Association	$1,957,566	8	12%
American Water Works Association- Texas Section	$986,788	8	11%
Florida Section American Water Works Association	$826,119	8	12%
Pacific Northwest Section of the American Water Works Association	$782,826	8	9%
Illinois Section of the American Water Works Association Inc	$605,267	8	12%
American Water Works Association Ohio Section	$603,351	8	36%
American Water Works Association Rocky Mountain Section	$575,491	8	29%
New York Section American Water Works Association	$545,906	8	16%
Kentucky Tennessee Section of the American Water Works Association	$509,852	8	36%
Pennsylvania Section of the American Water Works Association	$494,840	8	29%
New England Water Works Association Inc	$493,342	8	3%
Michigan Section - American Water Works Association	$471,595	8	10%
The Virginia Section of the American Water Works Association Inc	$416,081	8	15%
American Water Works Association North Carolina Section	$385,739	8	10%
Georgia Section of the American Water Works Assoc	$371,645	8	50%
Indiana Section American Water Works Association Inc	$360,312	8	7%
New Jersey Section of the American Water Works Association	$349,590	8	25%
American Water Works Association Southwest Section Inc	$339,708	8	48%
American Water Works Association Alabama-Mississippi Section	$298,552	8	36%
Awwa Arizona Section	$269,080	8	n/a
Minnesota Section American Water Works Association	$260,000	8	22%
Wisconsin Section of the American Water Works Association	$249,797	8	14%
American Water Works Association South Carolina Section	$248,758	8	10%
American Water Works Association	$222,099	8	49%
Chesapeake Section American Water Works Association Inc	$219,217	8	32%
American Water Works Association	$184,341	8	13%
American Water Works Association	$171,647	8	13%
American Water Works Association Iowa Section	$157,607	8	32%
Kansas Section American Water Works Association	$129,820	8	58%
West Virginia Section American Water Works Association	$122,207	8	89%
American Water Works Association - Hawaii Section	$120,916	8	36%
American Water Works Association	$120,739	8	n/a
Awwa North Dakota Section	$119,394	8	n/a
Montana Section American Water Works Association	$119,270	8	44%
Nebraska Section American Water Works Association	$119,168	8	46%
Awwa Puerto Rico Section	$90,591	6	n/a
Water for People	$79,175	3	0%
Alaska Water Wastewater Management Association (AWWMA)	$76,334	5	36%
American Water Works Association Alaska Section	$45,000	3	n/a
Engineers Without Borders-Usainc	$25,000	1	0%

American Water Works Association supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 17 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 35.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA0.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 American Water Works Association

How much does American Water Works Association give?: American Water Works Association reported 37 itemized grants totaling $1,985,377, out of $2,590,506 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 38 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does American Water Works Association fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (88%), Public Benefit (10%), Arts & Culture (2%).
Who are American Water Works Association's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: California-Nevada Section American Water Works Association ($2.0M), American Water Works Association- Texas Section ($987k), Florida Section American Water Works Association ($826k).
Does American Water Works Association fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as American Water Works Association?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is American Water Works Association based?: American Water Works Association is based in CO.