California · Nonprofit
DRIVE FOR WATER
DRIVE FOR WATER (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being ARTHUR Q JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($6,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $73k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $42k
What Drive for Water does
Mission
The mission of Drive for Water as a nonprofit faith based organization is to provide hope for those people around the world lacking the basic necessity of clean water by raising money through golf tournaments and other charity events with corporate sponsors to fund the installation of wells and water purification systems as well as to provide health and hygiene training to these communities so that benefits of clean water are realized and understood.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Raise money and awareness for providing clean water to those lacking around the world.
$62,000 spentof which $62,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $62,000.
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 2021 to 2022, from $227k to $23k (−90%).
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.
181% of DRIVE FOR WATER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
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 DRIVE FOR WATER’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
100% of DRIVE FOR WATER's grant income comes from California funders.
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
DRIVE FOR WATER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,894 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,894 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like DRIVE FOR WATER
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% 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 DRIVE FOR WATER: 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 DRIVE FOR WATER?
- DRIVE FOR WATER (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being ARTHUR Q JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($6,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DRIVE FOR WATER have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $6,000 in grants to DRIVE FOR WATER.
- Who is the largest funder of DRIVE FOR WATER?
- ARTHUR Q JOHNSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DRIVE FOR WATER 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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing