· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k21 grants · $547k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+1 grant · $270k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AWWA CALIFORNIA-NEVADA SECTION | $270,491 |
| AWWA TEXAS SECTION | $139,290 |
| AWWA FLORIDA SECTION | $121,799 |
| AWWA PACIFIC NORTHWEST SECTION | $109,587 |
| AWWA ILLINOIS SECTION | $85,821 |
| AWWA ROCKY MOUNTAIN SECTION | $80,442 |
| AWWA OHIO SECTION | $77,971 |
| AWWA KENTUCKY-TENNESSEE SECTION | $73,219 |
| AWWA NEW YORK SECTION | $71,931 |
| AWWA MICHIGAN SECTION | $69,029 |
| AWWA PENNSYLVANIA SECTION | $64,371 |
| AWWA NEW ENGLAND SECTION | $63,024 |
| AWWA VIRGINIA SECTION | $55,842 |
| AWWA NORTH CAROLINA SECTION | $52,453 |
| AWWA INDIANA SECTION | $51,990 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 72% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Grants abroad, by region: $345k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region, $329k to organizations and $16k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: OPERATIONAL SUPPORT · AWWA CORPORATE SPONSORED SCHOLARSHIPS · AWWA SCHOLARSHIPS (EDZWALD)
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.
39 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AWAMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION- TEXAS SECTION8× · 2017–2024 · $987k · revenue +42%
- FSFLORIDA SECTION AMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $826k · revenue +82%
- PNPACIFIC NORTHWEST SECTION OF THE AMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $783k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- EWENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USAINCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +2%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide its members and the general public with activities, programs and services that facilitate the advancement of water resources research, planning, development, management and education.
Advancing knowledge of alabama's water environment. awea is commited to serve alabama's water professionals by providing leadership, education, and cultivation of ideas that support and protect alabama's clean water environment.
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.
The American Water Security Project AWSP strives to be the leader in promoting through education and advocacy the need for sewage and wastewater infrastructure upgrades and repairs ethical treatment and pretreatment of used water and human…
Asdwa seeks to protect the public health by working with both state and federal officials to assure the highest quality drinking water possible.
To provide arkansas' rural water utilities the highest level of training and technical services in order to obtain quality water at the lowest possible cost.
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
The mission of WateReuse is to educate the public on the importance of reusing water and to advocate for laws, policies and funding to increase water reuse in communities across the United States.
The georgia association of water professionals educates, provides professional development and promotes sound public policy in the water resources and related environmental fields.
Amwa was organized for the purposes of improving, advancing and protecting the drinking water supplied by public water agencies in the united states. the association works with congress and federal agencies to ensure safe and…
To provide the latest information, education and technical assistance to protect our public waters and improve the quality of life in minnesota
To provide education to members through newletters, annual meetings and training seminars.
How this is measured
35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CALIFORNIA-NEVADA SECTION AMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION- TEXAS SECTION ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA SECTION AMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC NORTHWEST SECTION OF THE AMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS SECTION OF THE AMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Water Works Association Ohio Section ↗
- Who funds American Water Works Association Rocky Mountain Section ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SECTION AMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY TENNESSEE SECTION OF THE AMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA SECTION OF THE AMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN SECTION - AMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The Virginia Section of the American Water Works Association Inc ↗
- Who funds American Water Works Association North Carolina Section ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA SECTION OF THE AMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA SECTION AMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds New Jersey Section of the American Water Works Association ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION SOUTHWEST SECTION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION ALABAMA-MISSISSIPPI SECTION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA SECTION AMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN SECTION OF THE AMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION SOUTH CAROLINA SECTION ↗
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- Who funds CHESAPEAKE SECTION AMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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- Who funds AMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION IOWA SECTION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS SECTION AMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA SECTION AMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION - HAWAII SECTION ↗
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- Who funds Alaska Water Wastewater Management Association (AWWMA) ↗
- Who funds ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USAINC ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization American Water Works Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Water Works Association. Bigger dots raise more.
- New Jersey Section of the American Water Works Association: 1% of income from government
- New England Water Works Association Inc: 0% of income from government
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