Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
CLEAN WATER FUND
CLEAN WATER FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 216 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,967,689 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,695,316). 126 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.1M
- Funders on record
- 216
- Grants received
- $23M
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What Clean Water Fund does
Mission
Clean Water Fund promotes clean, safe, and affordable water, empowering diverse groups of people to work together for changes that improve their lives, focused on health, environmental and community problems.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Environmental justice and health. Programs to protect communities of color and safeguard public health by reducing exposure to toxic chemicals and health threatening pollution: advancing "upstream" soultions to keep toxic chemicals out of consumer products and cosmetics. Protecting vulnerable populations, especially childern, from toxic harm, recognizing their increased sensitivity.
$808,943 spent$813,504 earned by the program13% of program spendingPromoting clean water, from watershed to water tap. Programs to protect and promote clean water and healthy communities through; "upstream" pollution prevention to protect drinking water sources and keep toxics out of our water. Energy choices that protect water and create jobs, stronger protections from pollution due to fossil fuel development and power palnt operation. Controls on pollution from farms and from paved surfaces and lawns in developed areas. Smarter water systems and green infrastructure to manage and conserve water. Increased investment to improve systems and infrastructure for water protection, treatment and distribution, and strengtehn drinking water source protection.
$1,767,483 spent$840,505 earned by the program28% of program spendingSustainable energy and climate change. Programs address a broad range of water-energy concerns: toxic water pollution from power plants, climate change and greenhouse gas emissions, water and air pollution form fossil fuel production and use, including drilling and fracking for oil and gas, smart growth, transportation and sustainable development, energy efficiency, conservation and renewable energy development.
$1,172,987 spent$1,207,594 earned by the program19% of program spendingWaste prevention & other reducing waste at the source, preventing generation of trash, promoting programs to reduce the use of single-use disposable products.promoting producer responsibility initiatives to require product manaufacturers to assume responsibility for safe management of their products after their useful life is completed, including "take back" recycling programs. Promoting fiscally and environmentally sound solutions for managing waste that minimize impactson the environment and promote re-use and composting alternatives instead of disposal.
$2,524,031 spent$1,491,596 earned by the program40% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,273,444.
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 $6.9M to $5.7M (−17%).
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: 2017 5% · 2018 9% · 2019 5% · 2020 11% · 2021 12% · 2022 4% · 2023 7% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of CLEAN WATER FUND’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 8 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
James Rhodes
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 50 funders to 74 funders, grant income rose $1.7M → $3.4M.
41 of 216 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 CLEAN WATER FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 216 funders by total. 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
CLEAN WATER FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 7% of grant income, and it takes 13 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 13 funders to its left
57% 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 CLEAN WATER FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 12% · 2018 16% · 2019 12% · 2020 19% · 2021 8% · 2022 12% · 2023 17% — 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.
How long its funders stay
38% of CLEAN WATER FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
CLEAN WATER FUND draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 25 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 21 states is 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.
Against its field
CLEAN WATER FUND's funding base is broadening — from 50 funders to 74 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,187 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding CLEAN WATER FUND receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record — $1.2M federal, $5k state.
- Environmental Protection Agency$955k
- Department of Commerce$200k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$5k
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 CLEAN WATER FUND
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 Washington, D.C.
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
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 24 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Clean Water Action · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CLEAN WATER FUND: 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 CLEAN WATER FUND?
- CLEAN WATER FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 216 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,967,689 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,695,316). 126 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CLEAN WATER FUND have?
- IRS filings report 216 organizations giving $22,967,689 in grants to CLEAN WATER FUND, 126 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLEAN WATER FUND?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,695,316 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLEAN WATER FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 216 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing