Alabama · Nonprofit
NEW WATER MINISTRIES
NEW WATER MINISTRIES (Alabama) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,489,182 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($2,269,201). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $519k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What New Water Ministries does
Mission
The mission of New Water Ministries ("new water") is to operate a working and teaching farm and event facility that creates both experiences and activities to cultivate spiritual growth and renewal.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
New water utilizes a variety of teachers and leaders on many subjects in its programming and offerings to teach its participants and inspire leaders. This includes, but not limited to, worship gatherings and services, leadership development, spiritual discipleship, bible studies and retreats, and agricultural mentorship.
$215,978 spent$398,409 earned by the program64% of program spendingThrough experiential learning, new water provides hands-on learning activities for the advancement and appropriate technology transfer in areas such as agricultural and land stewardship, personal health, evangelism and market place ministry.
$120,330 spent36% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $336,308.
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 2022 to 2023, from $876k to $1.3M (+48%).
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.
23% of NEW WATER MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Robert Brandon
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $118k → $742k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 NEW WATER MINISTRIES’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.
How concentrated its funding is
NEW WATER MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund NEW WATER MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 71% · 2020 67% · 2021 89% · 2022 65% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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
92% of NEW WATER MINISTRIES'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. Of the $197k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside Alabama, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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
NEW WATER MINISTRIES's revenue grew 29% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NEW WATER MINISTRIES
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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEW WATER MINISTRIES: 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 NEW WATER MINISTRIES?
- NEW WATER MINISTRIES (Alabama) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,489,182 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($2,269,201). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NEW WATER MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $2,489,182 in grants to NEW WATER MINISTRIES, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW WATER MINISTRIES?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,269,201 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW WATER MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 4 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