California · Nonprofit
CALIFORNIA WATER ALLIANCE
CALIFORNIA WATER ALLIANCE (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being VETS WITH WINGS ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $-1064
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $45k
What California Water Alliance does
Mission
California Water Alliance works to keep our government accountable to current and future sustainable water policies. Calwa is the most trusted statewide educational voice and authority on water policy and issues, advocating for an increased water supply benefiting families, cities, businesses, farmers and the environment.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Educate the public and policy makers on the improtance of protecting and enhancing our natural resources and infrastructure
$58,698 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $58,698.
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 2022 to 2023, from $4k to $37k (+773%).
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.
0% of CALIFORNIA WATER ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (92% 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.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
William Bourdeau
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
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 CALIFORNIA 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.
Where its funders are
CALIFORNIA WATER ALLIANCE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
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
CALIFORNIA WATER ALLIANCE's revenue fell 101% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like CALIFORNIA WATER ALLIANCE
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CALIFORNIA 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 CALIFORNIA WATER ALLIANCE?
- CALIFORNIA WATER ALLIANCE (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being VETS WITH WINGS ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CALIFORNIA WATER ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $20,000 in grants to CALIFORNIA WATER ALLIANCE.
- Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA WATER ALLIANCE?
- VETS WITH WINGS is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALIFORNIA WATER ALLIANCE 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.
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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 1 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