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Water Council Inc

To align the regional fresh water research community and water-related industries to establish the milwaukee 7 region as the global capital for fresh water research and education, through the advancement of scientific collaboration on fresh water research, the fostering of fresh water educational opportunities, outreach to the public on…

$275k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
—
States reached
$126k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$308kScience & Tech$210kCommunity Improvement$133kArts & Culture$25kInternational$24kYouth Development$20k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $156,102, the rows itemized in this filing. The $274,502 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $118,400 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $126k
$10,000
Median grant
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States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOR-M FOUNDATION$126,102
PAGE TECHNOLOGIES$10,000
POLYGONE SYSTEMS INC$10,000
LUCENDI$10,000
02The need
03

Where the grant dollars land

Across the US and around the world.

Grants abroad, by region: $118k on the FY2024 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.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$118k · 100% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: PILOT PROGRAM AWARD

How this is measured
Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

20%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$148k · 4 repeat orgs$572k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
18

Total granted

$148k
$416k

Still filing today

0%
6%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $156k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementEnvironmentOther
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

  • TW
    TOMMOROW WATER
    2× · 2021–2022 · $75k
  • WR
    WATER RESOURCES MONITORING GROUP LLC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $29k
  • WW
    WATER WARRIORS INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $23k

Funded once

  • P
    PAVEDRAIN
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • SU
    STARWATER USA LLC
    one grant, 2018 · $57k
  • ET
    ENERGY TECH INNOVATIONS
    one grant, 2018 · $31k
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
04the grantee network

2 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. 2 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
2/2
Grantees still filing
0/2
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PAVEDRAIN: $100,000 · OtherPAVEDRAINTOMMOROW WATER: $75,000 · OtherTOMMOROW WATERSTARWATER USA LLC: $57,000 · OtherSTARWATER USA LLCENERGY TECH INNOVATIONS: $30,982 · OtherSTORMWATER SOLUTIONS ENGINEERING LLC: $29,650 · OtherWATER RESOURCES MONITORING GROUP LLC: $29,324 · OtherBLOOMOPTIX: $25,000 · OtherDMR INTERNATIONAL INC: $24,000 · OtherWATER WARRIORS INC: $23,183 · OtherVERIFI H2O: $20,000 · OtherROVING BLUE: $20,000 · OtherPULSED BURST SYSTEMS LLC: $20,000 · Other+12 more: $129,500 · Other+12 moreFOR-M FOUNDATION INC: $126,102 · Community ImprovementFOR-M FOUNDATION IN…HARBOR DISTRICT INC: $10,000 · Environment
Other$583,639Community Improvement$126,102Environment$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOR-M FOUNDATION INC: $126,102 over 1y, 17% of budgetHARBOR DISTRICT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

  • Who funds FOR-M FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HARBOR DISTRICT INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report 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 26 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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