Kansas · Nonprofit
Kansas Rural Water Association
Kansas Rural Water Association (Kansas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,696,200 to it, the largest being NATIONAL RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION ($7,696,200). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $7.7M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Kansas Rural Water Association does
Mission
To provide educational and technical information to public water systems located in Kansas.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Training and Technical Assistance: In 2025, KRWA provided 133 in-person training events and 14 online webinars. These 147 sessions were attended by 7,282 people; operators represented the largest category with 4,749 attendees. KRWA also had 17 operators in the Apprenticeship Program. The Association conducted 152 water loss surveys, locating 698 gallons per minute of water loss. The cost of that loss in production or purchase is $1,444,136 annually.KRWA also conducted smoke testing of five wastewater systems and measured sludge in lagoons for 16 wastewater systems. KRWA provided GPS mapping services to 50 cities and RWDs. A total of 25 Energy Efficiency Assessments were conducted. KRWA provided help with processing and posting 243 Water Quality Reports on the KRWA website. Staff provided help with water rights and source water protection plans, water conservation plans, emergency response plans, valve locating and exercising, fire hydrant testing, master and residential meter testing, pipeline locates, well drawdown and motor phase imbalance checks and worked with water and wastewater utilities on the full spectrum of water and wastewater treatment issues, management and…
$3,156,683 spentof which $1,000 as grants$1,837,905 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,156,683.
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 $12M to $9.5M (−20%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 30% · 2018 34% · 2019 39% · 2020 49% · 2021 2% · 2022 46% · 2024 43%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of Kansas Rural Water Association’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $972k → $1.4M.
From the IRS filings of Kansas Rural Water Association’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
Kansas Rural Water Association draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
Kansas Rural Water Association's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 497 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Kansas Rural Water Association
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 Kansas
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
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 Kansas Rural Water Association: 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 Kansas Rural Water Association?
- Kansas Rural Water Association (Kansas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,696,200 to it, the largest being NATIONAL RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION ($7,696,200). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Kansas Rural Water Association have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $7,696,200 in grants to Kansas Rural Water Association, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Kansas Rural Water Association?
- NATIONAL RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,696,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Kansas Rural Water Association find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing