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Community Water Services Llc

Community Water Services Llc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $483,628 to it, the largest being GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ($195,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$273k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$484k
Net assets
$174k
4/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 45%
01What it does

What Community Water Services Llc does

Mission

Community Water Services mission is to offer education and filtration solutions for in-home safe drinking from the tap. Our experts offer in-home water quality testing filtration installation and monitoring and youth mentoring and workforce development.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Community water lab: to create a water lab to teach young students (primarily) in water basics and then advanced studies for students interested in research and career opportunities in water.

    $102,374 spent
    93% of program spending
  2. Water testing program: free water test at the kitchen sink (sampled by home owner in cup provided). Working with mcw to find homes with young children with high levels of lead in their water and to direct them to free services for testing childrens blood for lead.

    $7,619 spent
    7% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $109,993.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($236k) Expenses 100 ($148k) Net assets 100 ($88k)2024 Revenue 116 ($273k) Expenses 91 ($134k) Net assets 197 ($174k)
20232024
Revenue (116)Expenses (91)Net assets (197)Peer revenue range

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 $97k to $174k (+79%).

$97k
$174k
20232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of Community Water Services Llc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (37% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,334 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$88k
’23
$139k
’24
1.8
months of
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.

20232024
Listed36
Joined·+5
No longer listed·2
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $6k → $106k.

2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 Community Water Services Llc’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

Community Water Services Llc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

80% 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 Community Water Services Llc.

40%
largest funder
85%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 61% · 2023 47% — diversifying over time.

“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

50% of Community Water Services Llc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $241k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.

WI
OH

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’22
’23
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $243k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Community Water Services Llc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,828 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.

Operating margin51% · top quartile
Months of reserve1.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,828 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

64% of spending goes to programs.

Program 64%Management 36%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Community Water Services Llc: 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 Community Water Services Llc?
Community Water Services Llc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $483,628 to it, the largest being GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ($195,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Community Water Services Llc have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $483,628 in grants to Community Water Services Llc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Community Water Services Llc?
GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $195,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Community Water Services Llc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 7 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