Ohio · Nonprofit
NATIONAL GROUND WATER ASSOCIATION INC
NATIONAL GROUND WATER ASSOCIATION INC (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $40,000 to it, the largest being JOHNNY CARSON FOUNDATION ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.2M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $13M
What National Ground Water Association Inc does
Mission
The national ground water association is the hallmark organization for anyone affiliated with the groundwater industry. A nonprofit organization, ngwa is composed of u.s. And international groundwater professionals-contractors, scientists and engineers, equipment manufacturers, and suppliers. Our purpose is to provide guidance to members, government representatives, and the public for sound scientific, economic, and beneficial development, protection, and management of the world's groundwater resources.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education and certification - the national ground water association (ngwa) hosts on average, eight conferences every year, in addition to the annual ground water expo, ground water summit, 30 or so short courses, and numerous webinars. In addition, ngwa also offers a variety of customized, in-house training courses. The ngwa also offers two certification programs and a professional recognition program. The certification program includes the "nwga well construction and pump installation certification" for contractors and the "certified ground water professional" designation for scientists and engineers. Ngwa offers manufacturers and suppliers the "certified sales professional" designation.
Membership - the national ground water association (ngwa) has over 10,000 members and it provides groundwater professionals with professional and technical leadership in the advancement of the ground water industry and in the protection, promotion and responsible development of the resources. Ngwa provides groundwater professionals a variety of benefits, including: award-winning publication subscriptions; ngwa courses, conferences, and ngwa bookstore; opportunities to participate in interest groups; volunteer opportunities; ngwa published research papers, article, and conference proceedings through ground water on-line; ngwa membership directory; a listing in one of the "find a groundwater professional" online directories; community water system surveys; industrial reports; as well as a variety of other services.
Trade shows - the national ground water association offers/organizes regional and national trade shows. These shows are held yearly and offer opportunities for manufactures and suppliers of ground water equipment and supplies to exhibit their goods.
Safety program - conferences and programs to educate and promote industry standards and practices
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $13M to $15M (+18%).
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: 2020 3% · 2021 7% · 2022 5% · 2023 1% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
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.
Chief executive
Terry Morse
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $542k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated). These are real filings, and they are not money NATIONAL GROUND WATER ASSOCIATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL GROUND WATER ASSOCIATION INC’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
NATIONAL GROUND WATER ASSOCIATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 1 state in all.
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.
Government funding NATIONAL GROUND WATER ASSOCIATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $93k on record — $25k federal, $68k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$25k
- NJ$55k
- VT$11k
- MA$1k
- OK$665
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 NATIONAL GROUND WATER ASSOCIATION 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Groundwater Foundation · exempt
- Ngwa-Pac · exempt
- National Ground Water Insurance Agency Inc · corp_trust
- Ngwa Business Pro LLC · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL GROUND WATER ASSOCIATION 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 NATIONAL GROUND WATER ASSOCIATION INC?
- NATIONAL GROUND WATER ASSOCIATION INC (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $40,000 to it, the largest being JOHNNY CARSON FOUNDATION ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL GROUND WATER ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $40,000 in grants to NATIONAL GROUND WATER ASSOCIATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL GROUND WATER ASSOCIATION INC?
- JOHNNY CARSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL GROUND WATER ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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