Montana · Nonprofit
FRESHWATER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL INC
FRESHWATER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL INC (Montana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $774,556 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($691,173). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $518k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $775k
- Net assets
- $31k
What Freshwater Project International Inc does
Mission
To provide water and sanitation to the people of malawi.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Wash in communities: most of the organization's projects are concentrated in the rural areas of malawi, in communities where access to clear water, safe sanitation, and hygiene information is a major challenge. This year, because of tropical cyclone freddy in early march, we focused on disaster response efforts to communities. This included the distribution of water and hygiene supplies such as: water filters, water storage buckets, buckets with taps, plastic hand washing basins, aquatabs, chlorine, and multi-purpose soap tablets. Additionally, they installed one well at magombo village in mbeta.
$26,476 spent5% of program spendingWash in schools: many schools in malawi lack access to clean water and safe sanitation. Students and teachers must fetch water from unprotected sources that are often contaminated and often are forced to relieve themselves in the bush. This exposes them to unhygienic practices and often results in water-related disease that impacts their school attendance. Additionally, when girls reach the age of puberty, they often drop out of school for lack of privacy in menstrual hygiene management. This year, the organization upgraded wash systems at five schools in malawi.
$105,904 spent21% of program spendingWash in health centers: when a health center lacks access to clean water, it is nearly impossible for medical professionals to provide hygienic, safe care to their patients, much time is wasted, and services are often delayed. In zomba district, the organization and partners upgraded wash systems at 100% of the government health centers.
$380,728 spent74% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $513,108.
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 $105k to $31k (−70%).
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.
99% of FRESHWATER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Heidi Rickels
Board chair/
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $87k → $117k.
5 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 FRESHWATER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL 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
FRESHWATER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 FRESHWATER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 100% · 2020 81% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
94% of FRESHWATER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL INC'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 $50k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Montana, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $725k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
FRESHWATER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL INC has grown faster than half of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FRESHWATER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL 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 Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRESHWATER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL INC?
- FRESHWATER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL INC (Montana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $774,556 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($691,173). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRESHWATER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $774,556 in grants to FRESHWATER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRESHWATER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL INC?
- THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $691,173 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRESHWATER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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