Washington, D.C. · Public charity
Clean Water Fund
CLEAN WATER FUND promotes clean, safe, and affordable water, empowering diverse groups of people to work together for changes that improve their lives, focused on health, environmental and community problems.
- $348k
- Granted FY2023
- 12
- Itemized grants FY2023
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 55%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2023
- $291k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2023
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $45,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 4
- Total assets, FY2023
- $5.7M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 55% of the organizations Clean Water Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 11 | $291k | 55% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $165k | 57% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $187k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $282k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $390k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $447k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Climate Xchange Education and Research Inc | $183,000 | 4 | 25% |
| Better Future Project Inc | $133,000 | 4 | 8% |
| Ironbound Community Corporation | $100,475 | 5 | 1% |
| District of Columbia Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc | $99,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Anacostia Coordinating Council Inc | $96,408 | 4 | 14% |
| Clinton Hill Community Action Inc | $79,583 | 2 | 2% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Centro de Apoyo Familiar | $71,500 | 3 | 3% |
| Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts Education Fund Inc | $62,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Toxics Action Center Inc | $57,500 | 5 | 2% |
Show all 49 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Clean Water Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Barr Foundation · Patagoniaorg · United States Energy Foundation · The New World Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The John Merck Fund · Cedar Tree Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Windward Fund · Greater Washington Community Foundation
How this is measured
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About Clean Water Fund
- How much does Clean Water Fund give?
- Clean Water Fund reported 12 itemized grants totaling $291,000, out of $347,999 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Clean Water Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2023, its largest causes are Environment (79%), Civil Rights (5%), Health (5%).
- Who are Clean Water Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2023: Climate Xchange Education and Research Inc ($183k), Better Future Project Inc ($133k), Ironbound Community Corporation ($100k).
- Does Clean Water Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Clean Water Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Barr Foundation, Patagoniaorg, United States Energy Foundation.
- Where is Clean Water Fund based?
- Clean Water Fund is based in DC.
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