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I Am Waters Foundation Inc

I Am Waters Foundation Inc (Texas) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $219,611 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($101,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2018
$264k
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$220k
Net assets
$177k
4/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 30%
01What it does

What I Am Waters Foundation Inc does

Mission

Provide fresh, clean water to the homeless.

As stated on its FY2018 Form 990.

Program

Water Program: Since its 2010 inception I Am Waters Foundation (IAW) has provided a one of a kind program that provides a bottle of water with a word of Hope, Peace, Dream and Love; Physical and Spiritual hydration for America's homeless. A hybrid qualitative and quantitative study was conducted in 2016, "When Water Meets a Higher Need: A Study of an Unprecedented Mission," in order to assess the impact and efficacy of IAW's program. The study is the only literature about the water needs of the domestic homeless. I Am Waters program is the first line of defense against heat related injuries and death over the hottest months of the summer and the word serves as a much needed reminder not to give up hoping for a better day. The ultimate goal is to reintegrate the many hundreds of thousands of homeless back into society and get them working toward a sustainable, domiciled life. I Am Waters Goal has been recognized by the homeless and the our designated service care partners as one of the most crucial program to all homeless people regardless of race, gender, color, or socio-economic background. Water and love are the most basic necessities for a human beings and it is our opinion…

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($509k) Expenses 100 ($449k) Net assets 100 ($267k)2018 Revenue 52 ($264k) Expenses 79 ($354k) Net assets 66 ($177k)
20172018
Revenue (52)Expenses (79)Net assets (66)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $282k to $181k (−36%).

$282k
$181k
20172018
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.

2017
2018
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$61k
’17
−$90k
’18
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.

20172018
Listed78
Joined·+2
No longer listed·1
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2019: the base narrowed from 13 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $151k → $0.

3 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 I Am Waters Foundation Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 17 funders by total. 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

I Am Waters Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

55% 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 I Am Waters Foundation Inc.

46%
largest funder
78%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 72% — 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

51% of I Am Waters Foundation 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 $108k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Texas funders.

DE
TX

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

’17
’18
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $112k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like I Am Waters Foundation 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 Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

66% of spending goes to programs.

Program 66%Management 25%Fundraising 8%

Governance

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

Public support

83%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • I Am Brands Inc · corp_trust

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for I Am Waters Foundation 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 I Am Waters Foundation Inc?
I Am Waters Foundation Inc (Texas) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $219,611 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($101,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does I Am Waters Foundation Inc have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $219,611 in grants to I Am Waters Foundation Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of I Am Waters Foundation Inc?
GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $101,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like I Am Waters Foundation Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 17 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