Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
INITIATIVE EAU
INITIATIVE EAU (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $81,074 to it, the largest being THE SIDNEY E FRANK FOUNDATION ($65,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $30k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $81k
- Net assets
- $26k
What Initiative Eau does
Mission
To strengthen water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) and public health capacity in developing areas and crisis zones for improved health outcomes.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Program
29 Research Program. Under its research program Initiative: Eau made progress during tax year 2021. Example 1: Given the role of Fada N'Gourma (Burkina Faso) as a regional economic hub and its large IDP population, there was a critical need to understand the current WASH and IPC capacities of the health centers of Fada NGourma. In order to identify areas requiring support, Initiative: Eau conducted periodic diagnostic assessments of WASH and IPC capacities in the six public health centers in Fada N'Gourma. Specifically, Initiative: Eau 1) administered a health center WASH and IPC capacity survey, developed by UNICEF, to the directors of each health center, 2) analyzed survey data to identify potential intervention opportunities, and 3) prepared a final report presenting results and recommending a set of priority interventions designed to strengthen WASH and IPC capacities. Based on our findings, Initiative: Eau identified a number of critical gaps for intervention, including: 1) insufficient water access and storage capacity in several health centers, 2) inadequate procedures and aging infrastructure preventing proper excreta management, and 3) shortcomings in procedures,…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $16k to $28k (+74%).
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 INITIATIVE EAU’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. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $3k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 INITIATIVE EAU’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
INITIATIVE EAU leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 95% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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
INITIATIVE EAU draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20 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
INITIATIVE EAU runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,237 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,237 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Organizations like INITIATIVE EAU
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
49%
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 INITIATIVE EAU: 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 INITIATIVE EAU?
- INITIATIVE EAU (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $81,074 to it, the largest being THE SIDNEY E FRANK FOUNDATION ($65,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INITIATIVE EAU have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $81,074 in grants to INITIATIVE EAU, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INITIATIVE EAU?
- THE SIDNEY E FRANK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INITIATIVE EAU find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2020–2022), and the filings of 5 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