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Living Water - Malawi
Living Water - Malawi (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $45 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($45). 1 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
- $68k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $45
- Net assets
- $22k
What Living Water - Malawi does
Mission
Charitable and educational relief to those living in poverty in Malawi Africa
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Secondary School: Several years ago we helped build a secondary school on property adjacent to our orphanage center: Currently we support the school by providing salaries for several of the 12 teachers. Teacher salaries 6712 plus 196 for paper 890 for business manager salary 500 for Tuition Assistance 160 for science chemicals plus 45 for desk repairs and 227 for graduation expenses.
$8,730 spent12% of program spendingOrphanage Care: Our Seed of Hope Child Care Center offers full-time care for 30 children in the Mulanje district Malawi Africa. The center includes a preschool for about 65 children in the local region and a church for local villagers. It is secured by a brick wall and 24-hour guard coverage. The center employs 2 house mothers that live on site a cook 2 pre-school teachers and 2 security guards. Expenses include 16,600 for Monthly Support 2600 for rice 8670 for maize 1,605 for House mother salaries 535 for cook salary 1,594 for security guard salaries 1,900 for pre-school teachers salaries,1,670 for Director Salary 5,360 for purchase of mini-van 480 for vehicle costs 654 for Kitchen repairs 3,275 for construction of rice & maize storage building 874 for toilet repairs 571 for other necessary repairs 395 for clothing 140 for Garden seed and fertilizer plus 1,379 for other miscellaneous expenses.
$48,302 spent65% of program spendingChild Sponsorships - By sponsoring 62 children monthly we supported their education and family well-being. Total funding comprised 11,050 in monthly donations 2,419 for scholarships and 712 for school fees & supplies.
$14,181 spent19% of program spendingFood Relief: We provided 1,000 worth of maize flour for the area around our orphanage in the Mulanje district and also 1,400 worth of maize flour for the Nsanje district in the south of Malawi where they suffered severe flooding.
$2,400 spent3% of program spendingChipatala Evening Light Private Medical Clinic: Nurse Salary: 960
$960 spent1% of program spendingJob Training: We provided 157 for job training and 45 for sewing machine repairs at our center.
$202 spent0% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $74,775.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2024 to 2025, from $31k to $22k (−28%).
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 Living Water - Malawi’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (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.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Caroline Schauer
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5 → $17.
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 Living Water - Malawi’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 Living Water - Malawi'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. $45 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
Living Water - Malawi has grown faster than half of the 1,793 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,793 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Living Water - Malawi?
- Living Water - Malawi (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $45 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($45). 1 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 Living Water - Malawi have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $45 in grants to Living Water - Malawi, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Living Water - Malawi?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $45 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Living Water - Malawi find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2023–2025), 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