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Living Water International

Living Water International ("Living Water") exists to demonstrate the love of God by helping communities in 17 developing countries acquire desperately needed clean water and to experience "living water" - the gospel of Jesus Christ.

$11M
Granted FY2018
4
Itemized grants FY2018
4
Organizations funded FY2018
100%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Itemized, FY2018
$56k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2018
$14,000
Largest grant, FY2018
$14,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
1
Total assets, FY2018
$7.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 100% of the organizations Living Water International funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20184$56k100%
FY20171$45kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

International$45kPublic Safety & Disaster$28kReligion$28k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Child Freedom Coalition$45,000112%
Kingsland Baptist Church$14,0001n/a
Second Baptist Church$14,0001n/a
Ecclesia Houston$14,0001n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($14k), not named here.

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.

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Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Living Water International

How much does Living Water International give?
Living Water International reported 4 itemized grants totaling $56,000, out of $10,956,304 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does Living Water International fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are International (45%), Public Safety & Disaster (28%), Religion (28%).
Who are Living Water International's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: Child Freedom Coalition ($45k), Kingsland Baptist Church ($14k), Second Baptist Church ($14k).
Does Living Water International fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Living Water International?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Living Water International based?
Living Water International is based in TX.

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 5 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $14M 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 FY2018, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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