Iowa · Nonprofit
AGRICULTURE'S CLEAN WATER ALLIANCE
AGRICULTURE'S CLEAN WATER ALLIANCE (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,000 to it, the largest being IOWA CORN GROWER'S ASSOCIATION ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $857k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $55k
- Net assets
- $306k
What Agriculture's Clean Water Alliance does
Mission
Acwa's misssion is to identify and advance solutions that reduce nutrient loss, build healthier soils, and improve iowa's waters.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Water monitoring and research - water monitoring engages farmers with tile-line and stream water monitoring; research and development on edge of field practices including drainage water management and practices like bioreactors and saturated buffers; and supports implementation of targeted watershed efforts.
$986,361 spent93% of program spendingCommunications - communication activities, which directly align with other organizational priorities and objectives to best serve the accomplishment of the mission activities, include website development and curation, events, and social media.
$74,068 spent7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,060,429.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $360k to $479k (+33%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 21% · 2023 25% · 2024 30% · 2025 43%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of AGRICULTURE'S CLEAN WATER ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Harry Ahrenholtz
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of AGRICULTURE'S CLEAN WATER ALLIANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AGRICULTURE'S CLEAN WATER ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AGRICULTURE'S CLEAN WATER ALLIANCE.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of AGRICULTURE'S CLEAN WATER ALLIANCE's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AGRICULTURE'S CLEAN WATER ALLIANCE has grown faster than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like AGRICULTURE'S CLEAN WATER ALLIANCE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AGRICULTURE'S CLEAN WATER ALLIANCE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AGRICULTURE'S CLEAN WATER ALLIANCE?
- AGRICULTURE'S CLEAN WATER ALLIANCE (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,000 to it, the largest being IOWA CORN GROWER'S ASSOCIATION ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AGRICULTURE'S CLEAN WATER ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $55,000 in grants to AGRICULTURE'S CLEAN WATER ALLIANCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AGRICULTURE'S CLEAN WATER ALLIANCE?
- IOWA CORN GROWER'S ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AGRICULTURE'S CLEAN WATER ALLIANCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing