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Water Quality Research Foundation

Education & research

$232k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Itemized grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$187k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$93,299
Organizations funded a year
3 to 5
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$5.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Water Quality Research Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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 arriving5$187k60%
FY20234$90k0%
FY20223$93k0%
FY20215$217k0%
FY20205$202k80%
FY20183$174k0%
FY20175$146kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$554kScience & Tech$451kHealth$90kFood & Nutrition$12kArts & Culture$4k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
MA
NV
IN
NJ
CA
CO
VA
AZ
DC

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University$301,9814n/a
University of Massachusetts$247,2505n/a
Corona Environmental Consulting LLC$224,9645n/a
University of Arizona$144,9796n/a
Trustees of Purdue University$64,8746n/a
The University of British Columbia$57,00010%
University of Wisconsin$23,5633n/a
Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers Inc$21,73620%
Board of Regents Nevada System of Higher Education$8,9912n/a
Paragon Corporation$7,4341n/a
Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of Water Quality Research Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University$301,9814n/a
University of Massachusetts$247,2505n/a
Corona Environmental Consulting LLC$224,9645n/a
University of Arizona$144,9796n/a
Trustees of Purdue University$64,8746n/a
The University of British Columbia$57,00010%
University of Wisconsin$23,5633n/a
Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers Inc$21,73620%
Board of Regents Nevada System of Higher Education$8,9912n/a
Paragon Corporation$7,4341n/a
Applied Research$3,5001n/a
Baytel Associates$3,5001n/a

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How do I get to Water Quality Research Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Water Quality Research Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Water Quality Research Foundation

How much does Water Quality Research Foundation give?
Water Quality Research Foundation reported 5 itemized grants totaling $186,724, out of $231,571 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Water Quality Research Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (50%), Science & Tech (41%), Health (8%).
Who are Water Quality Research Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University ($302k), University of Massachusetts ($247k), Corona Environmental Consulting LLC ($225k).
Does Water Quality Research Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Water Quality Research Foundation based?
Water Quality Research Foundation is based in IL.

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 12 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $105k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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