Maryland · Nonprofit
MARYLAND RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION
MARYLAND RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $4,235,655 to it, the largest being NATIONAL RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION ($4,235,655). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MARYLAND 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· 432 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Horizon Foundation of Howard County Inclocal
- Water Environment Federationportfolio match
- American Water Works Associationportfolio match
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.
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 72% · 2018 71% · 2019 71% · 2020 79% · 2022 73% · 2023 75% · 2024 76% · 2025 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of MARYLAND 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 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $510k → $768k.
From the IRS filings of MARYLAND RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
Where its funders are
MARYLAND RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- The Horizon Foundation of Howard County InclocalMD · funds 69 organizations near you
- Water Environment Federationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Water Works Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maryland Grain Producers Utilization Board Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chesapeake Bay Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chesapeake Charities Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Fund for Change Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nonprofit Partners Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Appalachian Voicesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- River Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding MARYLAND RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $305k on record.
- Grant$305k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MARYLAND RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MARYLAND 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MARYLAND RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION?
- MARYLAND RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $4,235,655 to it, the largest being NATIONAL RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION ($4,235,655). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARYLAND RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $4,235,655 in grants to MARYLAND RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARYLAND RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION?
- NATIONAL RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,235,655 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARYLAND RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing