Virginia · Nonprofit
Diversity in Aquatics Inc
Diversity in Aquatics Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $318,684 to it, the largest being USA Swimming Inc ($138,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $192k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $319k
- Net assets
- $65k
What Diversity in Aquatics Inc does
Mission
The mission of diversity in aquatics is to educate promote and support swimming water safety and healthy aquatics activities for underserved marginalized and vulnerable populations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
POOL: A Social History of Segregation is a mobile educational exhibit exploring the history of segregation in swimming and its continuing impact on access to aquatics. In 2025 Diversity in Aquatics expanded the exhibits reach through community engagement educational programming media and traveling exhibit activations designed to connect the history of swimming access with water safety health equity and aquatic participation.
$72,084 spent51% of program spendingHBCU Water Safety Festival and Celebration Week programming promotes water safety swimming participation and access to aquatic opportunities within HBCU communities. Programming includes hands-on water safety education swim instruction drowning prevention activities aquatic sports exposure developmental swimming opportunities and engagement with Olympic and elite swimmers. Activities are designed to build water competency connect youth and families to aquatic opportunities and create pathways to continued participation in swimming and aquatics.
$25,904 spent18% of program spendingBattle at the Burr is Diversity in Aquatics HBCU-focused water safety and aquatic engagement initiative held in conjunction with Howard University. Programming provides students youth and families with water safety education swimming and aquatic sport exposure and opportunities to engage with aquatic professionals and champions. The initiative supports increased water competency greater participation in aquatics and pathways to continued swimming training and aquatic careers.
$13,452 spent10% of program spendingHBCU Certified Lifeguard and WSI Academy Program: Diversity in Aquatics provided training and certification opportunities designed to expand the pipeline of certified lifeguards and Water Safety Instructors within HBCU communities. The program incorporated water safety education training initiatives and curriculum resources aligned with national and state standards and culturally responsive approaches to aquatics education. Programming focused on increasing water competency reducing fear of water and equipping individuals and communities with lifesaving knowledge and skills. The initiative also supported aquatic workforce development and expanded pathways to employment and continued participation in the aquatics field. Additional Water Safety and Community Programming: Diversity in Aquatics also delivered Water Safety Festivals Tour of Champions activities swim instruction drowning prevention education aquatic sport exposure and other community-based programming throughout the year. These initiatives engaged youth adults and families in water safety education increased access to swimming and aquatic opportunities and connected participants with aquatic professionals resources and…
$28,942 spent21% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $140,382.
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.
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 $99k to $25k (−75%).
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.
98% of Diversity in Aquatics Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 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.
Chief executive
Miriam Lynch
Executive Director
Board chair
Tara Egglston Stewart
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $11k → $86k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 Diversity in Aquatics Inc’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
Diversity in Aquatics Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
65% 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 Diversity in Aquatics Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 95% · 2021 100% · 2022 87% · 2023 58% — 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of Diversity in Aquatics Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 25% 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
Diversity in Aquatics Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $60k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Diversity in Aquatics Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,010 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,010 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Diversity in Aquatics Inc
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% 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 6 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Diversity in Aquatics Inc: 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 Diversity in Aquatics Inc?
- Diversity in Aquatics Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $318,684 to it, the largest being USA Swimming Inc ($138,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Diversity in Aquatics Inc have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $318,684 in grants to Diversity in Aquatics Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Diversity in Aquatics Inc?
- USA Swimming Inc is the largest funder on record, with $138,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Diversity in Aquatics Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 12 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