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National Association of Water Companies

Nawc is the trade association for the private water industry that provides educational and informational support to its members, and to those that work within the industry.

$126k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Itemized grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
40%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$98k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$40,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 5
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$10M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations National Association of Water Companies funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalPublic BenefitOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$98k50%
FY20235$88k40%
FY20224$51k50%
FY20211$36k0%
FY20202$32k50%
FY20191$21k0%
FY20182$22k100%
FY20175$54kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$295kPublic Benefit$51kSocial Science$10kCommunity Improvement$8kEducation$6kOther$0

Top grantees

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

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($54k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget National Association of Water Companies supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNational Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners: $184,995 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetEnvironmental Council of States Inc: $72,450 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetNational Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates (Nasuca): $25,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCenter for Innovative Policy: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMid Atlantic Conference of Regulatory Utilities Comm Inc: $11,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetAmerican Gas Association: $9,106 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWestern Conference of Public Service Commissioners: $7,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSoutheastern Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners: $7,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetNew Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 9.

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.

Edison Electric Institute IncDC20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Edison Electric Institute Inc · American Gas Association · Nuclear Energy Institute Inc

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 National Association of Water Companies

How much does National Association of Water Companies give?
National Association of Water Companies reported 6 itemized grants totaling $97,606, out of $125,861 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does National Association of Water Companies fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (74%), Public Benefit (13%), Social Science (3%).
Who are National Association of Water Companies's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners ($185k), Environmental Council of States Inc ($72k), National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates (Nasuca) ($25k).
Does National Association of Water Companies fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as National Association of Water Companies?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Edison Electric Institute Inc, American Gas Association, Nuclear Energy Institute Inc.
Where is National Association of Water Companies based?
National Association of Water Companies is based in PA.

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 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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