Tennessee · Nonprofit
GUARDIANS OF THE WATERS INC
GUARDIANS OF THE WATERS INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $340 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($340). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $340
- Net assets
- $44k
What Guardians of the Waters Inc does
Mission
Support and administer programs related to maritime safety and enviromental protection through direct projects, youth and adult public education programs and collaboration with other complementary organizations such as bsa's sea scouts program.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Guardians of the waters continued it's mission in 2025 by supporting youth education programs in the middle tennessee area. Accomplishmnets include hosting a total of 36 calendar days of youth education activities covering marine safety and enviromental stewardship involving over 25 local youths.
$20,364 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $20,364.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $136k to $111k (−18%).
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.
100% of GUARDIANS OF THE WATERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 GUARDIANS OF THE WATERS 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.
Where its funders are
100% of GUARDIANS OF THE WATERS 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $340 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
GUARDIANS OF THE WATERS INC's revenue fell 94% between 2020 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,356 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like GUARDIANS OF THE WATERS 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GUARDIANS OF THE WATERS 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 GUARDIANS OF THE WATERS INC?
- GUARDIANS OF THE WATERS INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $340 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($340). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GUARDIANS OF THE WATERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $340 in grants to GUARDIANS OF THE WATERS INC.
- Who is the largest funder of GUARDIANS OF THE WATERS INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $340 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GUARDIANS OF THE WATERS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2020–2025), 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