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The Digdeep Right to Water Project

Digdeep is a human rights organization working to ensure that every american has equitable access to water and sanitation forever. We do this through our impact model, which focuses on community-led water projects; education & research; and (continued on schedule o) mobilizing america and building the wash sector.

$280k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Itemized grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
75%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$137k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$8,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$105,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 19
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$23M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 75% of the organizations The Digdeep Right to Water Project funded were first-time grantees, receiving 97% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $290k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEducationRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterOther
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
FY2025still arriving5$137k0%
FY20244$300k75%
FY202319$723k79%
FY202211$503k91%
FY20217$462kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Environment$1.2MEducation$419kRecreation & Sports$149kHuman Services$74kFood & Nutrition$40kHousing & Shelter$35kPhilanthropy$15kScience & Tech$12kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
MN
IL
NY
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
NC
HI

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Yess of Charles County$255,0002n/a
Navajo Tribal Utility Authority$236,9501n/a
Navajo Technical University$218,70630%
St Bonaventure Indian Missions & School$200,0001n/a
Johns Hopkins University$200,00010%
Waiorg Inc$150,000114%
Kaboom Inc$149,00011%
Elevate Energy$130,00010%
Blanding City$100,0001n/a
St Michaels Association for Special Education Inc$44,1561n/a
Show all 34 grantees
All grantees of The Digdeep Right to Water Project by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Yess of Charles County$255,0002n/a
Navajo Tribal Utility Authority$236,9501n/a
Navajo Technical University$218,70630%
St Bonaventure Indian Missions & School$200,0001n/a
Johns Hopkins University$200,00010%
Waiorg Inc$150,000114%
Kaboom Inc$149,00011%
Elevate Energy$130,00010%
Blanding City$100,0001n/a
St Michaels Association for Special Education Inc$44,1561n/a
SOL Communications Inc$43,000324%
The Accomplis Collective Inc$43,00024%
International Water Initiative for Sanitation and Hygiene Inc$33,179225%
Rez Refuge Ministries Inc$30,00016%
Honor Water Inc$30,000226%
Dine Baadeiti - for the People$28,0002n/a
Red Feather Development Group$25,00021%
Birdspring Chapter$20,0001n/a
Western Navajo Fair$20,0001n/a
Fundamental Needs Inc$18,000210%
Utah Navajo Trust Fund$13,0501n/a
Hubitual$13,000112%
Water Resources Action Project Inc$10,0001n/a
Seeds of Harmony Inc$10,00015%
Pueblo Unido CDC$10,00010%
Water Drop$10,00013%
Colorado Native Outreach Project$10,000110%
Environmentalism Through Inspiration & Nonviolent Action$10,00013%
Healthy Alaska Natives Foundation$10,00011%
Water Well Trust Inc$10,00010%
Rocky Mountain Seed Alliance Inc$10,000113%
Chinle Planting Hope$10,00013%
Barbara Schneider Foundation$7,50012%
Episcopal Church in Navajoland$6,0001n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($12k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Digdeep Right to Water Project supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNavajo Technical University: $218,706 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJohns Hopkins University: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWaiorg Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetKaboom Inc: $149,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetElevate Energy: $130,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOL Communications Inc: $43,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetThe Accomplis Collective Inc: $43,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetInternational Water Initiative for Sanitation and Hygiene Inc: $33,179 over 2y, 25% of budgetRez Refuge Ministries Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetHonor Water Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetRed Feather Development Group: $25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFundamental Needs Inc: $18,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetHubitual: $13,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSeeds of Harmony Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetPueblo Unido CDC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWater Drop: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetColorado Native Outreach Project: $10,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetEnvironmentalism Through Inspiration & Nonviolent Action: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetHealthy Alaska Natives Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWater Well Trust Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRocky Mountain Seed Alliance Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetChinle Planting Hope: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetBarbara Schneider Foundation: $7,500 over 1y, 1.5% 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 23.

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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.

Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples IncCA13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc · Wells Fargo Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Digdeep Right to Water Project

How much does The Digdeep Right to Water Project give?
The Digdeep Right to Water Project reported 5 itemized grants totaling $137,000, out of $280,377 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 19 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does The Digdeep Right to Water Project fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (61%), Education (21%), Recreation & Sports (7%).
Who are The Digdeep Right to Water Project's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Yess of Charles County ($255k), Navajo Tribal Utility Authority ($237k), Navajo Technical University ($219k).
Does The Digdeep Right to Water Project fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Digdeep Right to Water Project?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc, Wells Fargo Foundation, Impactassetsinc.
Where is The Digdeep Right to Water Project based?
The Digdeep Right to Water Project is based in CA.

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 36 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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