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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.

$280k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$105k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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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
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $137,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $280,377 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $143,377 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $32k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $105k
$8,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YESS OF CHARLES COUNTY$105,000
DINE BAADEITI - FOR THE PEOPLE$8,000
FUNDAMENTAL NEEDS INC$8,000
THE ACCOMPLIS COLLECTIVE INC$8,000
SOL COMMUNICATIONS INC$8,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE ACCOMPLIS COLLECTIVE INC: $8k → 17%REZ REFUGE: $30k → 28%THE ACCOMPLIS COLLECTIVE INC: $35k → 17%WATER DROP LOS ANGELES: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
MN
IL
NY
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
NC
HI
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$694k · 9 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
26

Total granted

$694k
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
0%

Still filing today

78%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NT
    NAVAJO TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2021–2023 · $219k · revenue +18%
  • TA
    THE ACCOMPLIS COLLECTIVE INC
    2× · 2022–2025 · $43k · revenue +255%
  • IW
    INTERNATIONAL WATER INITIATIVE FOR SANITATION AND HYGIENE INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $33k · revenue +401% · 25% of their budget

Funded once

  • NT
    Navajo Tribal Utility Authority
    one grant, 2021 · $237k
  • SB
    ST BONAVENTURE INDIAN MISSIONS & SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $200k
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +26%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Water for the World
International
2
Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising
—
3
Sovereignty Rises

Sovereignty Rises is a 501c3 Native-led organization that supports new opportunities for cultural, health, and economic sovereignty in communities impacted by systems of oppression through community-driven systems change.

Community Improvement
4
Second Nile Global Corp

Our commitment to providing accessible clean water extends beyond the boundaries of countries, continents, and cultures. We are driven by a shared belief in the power of technology to transform lives, uplift communities, and create a more…

International
5
Cihuapactli Collective

The Cihuapactli Collective's purpose is to provide healing for urban Indigenous Peoples from the diaspora. This is done by sharing wisdom, connecting resources, revitalizing Traditional Knowledge, promoting and advocating for health &…

Arts & Culture
6
Indigenous Environmental Network

To educate youth and indigenous people regarding environmental issues and their health.

Education
7
Planet Wise Solutions

Planet Wise Solutions provides culturally appropriate co-created technologies with indigenous communities in the rainforest regions of Chiapas and Oaxaca Mexico. Our primary focus is the implantation of high efficiency clean cookstoves,…

International
8
Kiha Mana Foundation

The KiHa Mana Foundation is a non-profit organization with the mission to educate, preserve, restore and conserve the culture of Native Hawaiians and their resources.

Arts & Culture
9
Honor the Earth

Honor the earth is committed to protecting the lifeways and sovereignty of our indigenous relatives across mother earth. we do this by investing in our communities and a new generation of organizers through campaigns, research, training,…

Environment
10
Sovereign Energy

Sovereign Energy builds the individual and collective power of Southwest Pueblos and Tribes to lead the way toward a just, interdependent, and sustainable energy future.

Environment
11
The Grand Canyon Trust Inc

The mission of the grand canyon trust is to safeguard the wonders of the grand canyon and the colorado plateau, while supporting the rights of its native peoples.

Environment
12
International Indigenous Fund for Development and Solidarity Batani
International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Water Well Trust Inc; the most unlike its peers is Honor Water Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 36 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/25
Grantees still filing
12/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YESS OF CHARLES COUNTY: $255,000 · OtherYESS OF CHARLES COUNTYNavajo Tribal Utility Authority: $236,950 · OtherNavajo Tribal Utility AuthorityNAVAJO TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY: $218,706 · OtherNAVAJO TECHNICAL UNIVERSITYST BONAVENTURE INDIAN MISSIONS & SCHOOL: $200,000 · OtherST BONAVENTURE INDIAN MISSIONS & SCHOOLBLANDING CITY: $100,000 · OtherBLANDING CITYST MICHAELS ASSOCIATION FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION INC: $44,156 · Other+12 more: $164,229 · Other+12 moreWAIORG INC: $150,000 · EnvironmentWAIORG INCElevate Energy: $130,000 · EnvironmentElevate EnergySOL Communications Inc: $43,000 · EnvironmentSOL Communications In…INTERNATIONAL WATER INITIATIVE FOR SANITATION AND HYGIENE INC: $33,179 · EnvironmentINTERNATIONAL WATER I…HONOR WATER INC: $30,000 · EnvironmentHONOR WATER INC+2 more: $20,000 · EnvironmentJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPK…KABOOM INC: $149,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE ACCOMPLIS COLLECTIVE INC: $43,000 · Human ServicesREZ REFUGE MINISTRIES INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesSEEDS OF HARMONY INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesWATER DROP: $10,000 · Human ServicesFundamental Needs Inc: $18,000 · Food & NutritionColorado Native Outreach Project: $10,000 · Food & NutritionROCKY MOUNTAIN SEED ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionRED FEATHER DEVELOPMENT GROUP: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterPUEBLO UNIDO CDC: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,219,041Environment$406,179Education$200,000Recreation & Sports$149,000Human Services$93,000Food & Nutrition$38,000Housing & Shelter$35,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

Seventh Generation Fu…Wells Fargo FoundationImpactassetsincPaypal Charitable Giv…National Philanthropi…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Digdeep Right to Water Project funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Digdeep Right to Water Project. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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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