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National Onsite Wastewater Recycling Association

National Onsite Wastewater Recycling Association (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $161,782 to it, the largest being RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PARTNERSHIP INCORPORATED ($161,782). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.4M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$162k
Net assets
$1.2M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What National Onsite Wastewater Recycling Association does

Mission

Provided information through meetings, publications, education, and training to its members on environmental onsite wastewater disposal issues. Provided a form for economic, political, and technical development in the industry.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. N/a

    $1,251,218 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,251,218.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($427k) Expenses 100 ($430k) Net assets 100 ($62k)2018 Revenue 116 ($497k) Expenses 102 ($439k) Net assets 213 ($132k)2019 Revenue 134 ($573k) Expenses 114 ($489k) Net assets 331 ($204k)2020 Revenue 132 ($564k) Expenses 103 ($441k) Net assets 518 ($320k)2021 Revenue 187 ($798k) Expenses 158 ($680k) Net assets 715 ($442k)2022 Revenue 229 ($976k) Expenses 140 ($602k) Net assets 1310 ($809k)2023 Revenue 264 ($1.1M) Expenses 217 ($934k) Net assets 1559 ($963k)2024 Revenue 230 ($981k) Expenses 213 ($917k) Net assets 1670 ($1.0M)2025 Revenue 328 ($1.4M) Expenses 291 ($1.3M) Net assets 1920 ($1.2M)
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Revenue (328)Expenses (291)Net assets (1920)

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 $442k to $809k (+83%).

$77k
$152k
$223k
$343k
$442k
$809k
$963k
$1.0M
$1.2M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$3k
’17
$58k
’18
$84k
’19
$122k
’20
$119k
’21
$374k
’22
$192k
’23
$65k
’24
$150k
’25
11
months of
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

Thomas Groves

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed171616161717171717
Joined·+8+0+6+9+5+8+6+0
No longer listed·90685860
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $18k → $72k.

Funder
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of National Onsite Wastewater Recycling 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

National Onsite Wastewater Recycling Association draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state in all.

DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like National Onsite Wastewater Recycling 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 Massachusetts

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for National Onsite Wastewater Recycling 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 National Onsite Wastewater Recycling Association?
National Onsite Wastewater Recycling Association (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $161,782 to it, the largest being RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PARTNERSHIP INCORPORATED ($161,782). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does National Onsite Wastewater Recycling Association have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $161,782 in grants to National Onsite Wastewater Recycling Association, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of National Onsite Wastewater Recycling Association?
RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PARTNERSHIP INCORPORATED is the largest funder on record, with $161,782 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like National Onsite Wastewater Recycling Association find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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