· Public charity
Living Water Project
The Living Water Project is an effort to fund clean and accessible water for people in impoverished areas of the world, thereby also extending to them the love of God.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $108k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $152k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Final Command Ministries | $92,680 |
| Zambia Mission Fund | $59,500 |
| Exile International | $44,723 |
| Invite Joy Burkino Faso | $22,342 |
| Water 4 | $21,300 |
| Lipscomb University | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $419k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Grants abroad, by region: $289k on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: GSA Road Church of Christ - To construct 16 clean water wells in Liberia and provide access to clean water to approximately 6400 people, · Paul Partey - to fund the construction of 18 new clean water wells in Ghana and 12 well refurbishments to provide access to clean water to those in need. These projects serve approximately 12,000 people. · Water Access - To provide 4 new clean water wells in Malawi and 14 well refurbishments in order to provide clean water access to approximately 7,200.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 12% of Living Water Project’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 44% of the giving stays in TN; by stated purpose, 3%.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 1 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 FY2025, 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
- FCFINAL COMMAND MINISTRIES6× · 2020–2025 · $677k · revenue +33%
- WIWATER4 INC6× · 2020–2025 · $416k · revenue +52%
- ZCZambia Christian College Inc dba Zambia Mission Fund6× · 2020–2025 · $320k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- MIMADE IN THE STREETSone grant, 2024 · $13k · revenue 0%
Living Water Internationalone grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue +16%
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.
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To share the love of Jesus and advance God's Kingdom by serving our neighbors with water and community development projects. Installing water filters in Tanzania, education and training on water, sanitation and, hygiene.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 9 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.
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: Servant Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Living Water Project funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Living Water Project. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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