Illinois · Nonprofit
Alliance for Water Efficiency
Alliance for Water Efficiency (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $766,233 to it, the largest being THE SCOTTS MIRACLE-GRO FOUNDATION ($650,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Alliance for Water Efficiency runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,184 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,184 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Community Foundation of Tompkins County Incshared funders
- Water Environment Federationportfolio match
- American Water Works Associationportfolio match
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.
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: 2020 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of Alliance for Water Efficiency’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $26k → $130k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Alliance for Water Efficiency’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
Alliance for Water Efficiency leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 96% · 2020 100% · 2021 76% · 2022 72% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
Alliance for Water Efficiency draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $233 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Community Foundation of Tompkins County Incshared fundersNY · backs 61 organizations that share your funders
- Water Environment Federationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Water Works Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- E4thefuture Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Global Water Challengeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Energy Action Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Water Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Gas Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Energy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Western Resource Advocatesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Edison Electric Institute Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding Alliance for Water Efficiency receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $52k on record.
- MA$44k
- CT$7k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Alliance for Water Efficiency
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Alliance for Water Efficiency: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Alliance for Water Efficiency?
- Alliance for Water Efficiency (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $766,233 to it, the largest being THE SCOTTS MIRACLE-GRO FOUNDATION ($650,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Alliance for Water Efficiency have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $766,233 in grants to Alliance for Water Efficiency, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Alliance for Water Efficiency?
- THE SCOTTS MIRACLE-GRO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $650,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Alliance for Water Efficiency find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing