North Dakota · Nonprofit
NORTH DAKOTA RURAL WATER SYSTEMS ASSOCIATION
NORTH DAKOTA RURAL WATER SYSTEMS ASSOCIATION (North Dakota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,453,973 to it, the largest being NATIONAL RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION ($5,453,947). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $5.5M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What North Dakota Rural Water Systems Association does
Mission
To educate, support, and lead its members in providing quality service to their customers.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Circuit rider programs - providing quality technical assistance to rural water system personnel on operation, finance, and management of their systems.
$517,137 spent31% of program spendingWaste water program - providing assistance for new or improved water and/or waste disposal systems to rural areas.
$493,837 spent29% of program spendingOther programs funded by state revolving fund and bureau of reclamation. Technical assistance with operation and maintenance, management of the garrison diversion unit tribal mr&I water systems and provide training to tribal program staff in relation to system operations and management. Wellhead protection program provides technical assistance to small systems serving 10,000 or fewer persons that have drinking water sources that are considered to be in areas vulnerable to contamination. Operator certification program - provides technical assistance to small systems serving 10,000 or fewer persons by aiding them to obtain properly certified operators. National apprenticeship - provides assistance to carry out pre- apprenticeship and youth outreach initiatives.
$205,459 spent12% of program spendingSource water fund - the source water protection program is designed to protect the quality of drinking water in the rural ares of north dakota. By working with farm service's county executive directors, the source water specialist will identify land use activities above an aquifer not previously studied in a community well head protection plan for potential contamination sources, and then recommend actions to reduce or eliminate contamination threats to the safe drinking water that rural communities depend on.
$466,631 spent$204,945 earned by the program28% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,683,064.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.2M to $1.5M (+21%).
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: 2023 68% · 2024 69%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of NORTH DAKOTA RURAL WATER SYSTEMS ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $584k → $865k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 NORTH DAKOTA RURAL WATER SYSTEMS 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.
How concentrated its funding is
NORTH DAKOTA RURAL WATER SYSTEMS ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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 NORTH DAKOTA RURAL WATER SYSTEMS ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
NORTH DAKOTA RURAL WATER SYSTEMS ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Dakota, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26 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
NORTH DAKOTA RURAL WATER SYSTEMS ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,551 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,551 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding NORTH DAKOTA RURAL WATER SYSTEMS ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $250k on record.
- Department of the Interior$250k
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 NORTH DAKOTA RURAL WATER SYSTEMS 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 North Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% 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 NORTH DAKOTA RURAL WATER SYSTEMS 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 NORTH DAKOTA RURAL WATER SYSTEMS ASSOCIATION?
- NORTH DAKOTA RURAL WATER SYSTEMS ASSOCIATION (North Dakota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,453,973 to it, the largest being NATIONAL RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION ($5,453,947). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTH DAKOTA RURAL WATER SYSTEMS ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,453,973 in grants to NORTH DAKOTA RURAL WATER SYSTEMS ASSOCIATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH DAKOTA RURAL WATER SYSTEMS ASSOCIATION?
- NATIONAL RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,453,947 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTH DAKOTA RURAL WATER SYSTEMS ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Dakota. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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