Oklahoma · Public charity
National Rural Water Association
To cultivate opportunities for state associations to be successful for the benefits of their memebers.
- $61M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 49
- Grants FY2025
- 51
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,266,316
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,025,432
- Organizations funded a year
- 49 to 51
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 49
- Total assets, FY2025
- $89M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations National Rural Water Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
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
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 49 | $61M | 2% |
| FY2024 | 51 | $57M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 51 | $53M | 4% |
| FY2022 | 49 | $44M | 2% |
| FY2021 | 49 | $43M | 16% |
| FY2020 | 49 | $38M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| California Rural Water Association | $8,527,303 | 6 | 24% |
| Minnesota Rural Water Association | $8,180,424 | 6 | 35% |
| Missouri Rural Water Association | $8,079,873 | 6 | 37% |
| Texas Rural Water Association | $7,959,050 | 6 | 19% |
| Kentucky Rural Water Association | $7,713,413 | 6 | 37% |
| Kansas Rural Water Association | $7,696,200 | 6 | 43% |
| Mississippi Rural Water Association Inc | $7,468,380 | 6 | 50% |
| Arkansas Rural Water Association | $7,438,398 | 6 | 45% |
| Illinois Rural Water Association | $7,374,186 | 6 | 58% |
| Colorado Rural Water Association | $7,344,868 | 6 | 55% |
Show all 54 grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
National Rural Water Association supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 43 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 48 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
About National Rural Water Association
- How much does National Rural Water Association give?
- National Rural Water Association reported 49 grants totaling $60,927,870 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 49 and 51 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does National Rural Water Association fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (95%), Community Improvement (2%), Public Benefit (2%).
- Who are National Rural Water Association's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: California Rural Water Association ($8.5M), Minnesota Rural Water Association ($8.2M), Missouri Rural Water Association ($8.1M).
- Does National Rural Water Association fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as National Rural Water Association?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is National Rural Water Association based?
- National Rural Water Association is based in OK.
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