California · Nonprofit
CALIFORNIA RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION
CALIFORNIA RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $8,527,303 to it, the largest being NATIONAL RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION ($8,527,303). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CALIFORNIA RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
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.
- Sacramento Food Bank & Family Serviceslocal
- 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 25% · 2021 17% · 2022 18% · 2023 21% · 2024 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
45% of CALIFORNIA RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION’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. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1.0M → $1.4M.
From the IRS filings of CALIFORNIA RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION’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.
Where its funders are
CALIFORNIA RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
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.
- Sacramento Food Bank & Family ServiceslocalCA · funds 223 organizations near you
- Water Environment Federationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Water Works Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Association of Realtorsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Car Housing Affordability Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Croplife Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Cotton Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Carp 46 No Ca Counties Conf Board- U B of Carp & Join of Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Association of Realtors Issues Mobilization Political Action Comportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Water Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jacobs Engineering Foundationportfolio 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 CALIFORNIA RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $341k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$309k
- Department of Health and Human Services$32k
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 CALIFORNIA RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 CALIFORNIA RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION: 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 CALIFORNIA RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION?
- CALIFORNIA RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $8,527,303 to it, the largest being NATIONAL RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION ($8,527,303). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CALIFORNIA RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $8,527,303 in grants to CALIFORNIA RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION?
- NATIONAL RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,527,303 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALIFORNIA RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 1funders 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