California · Nonprofit
QUENCH AND CONNECT
QUENCH AND CONNECT (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,768 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($25,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $106k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $87k
- Net assets
- $125k
What Quench and Connect does
Mission
To improve student achievement at schools in Uganda by providing clean water and educational tools for success.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Since its inception in 2010, Quench and Connect has provided clean drinking water to high school students in Uganda by constructing borehole water wells directly on school campuses, where 500-1000 students are fetching contaminated water from ponds and streams. After the borehole is drilled, students no longer suffer from water-borne diseases and are healthy and strong to study. The boreholes are drilled to the aquifer so the water can never be contaminated. Simple mechanical design ensures a borehole lifetime of 10-15 years. Wells are drilled by a Ugandan contractor, employing 20-25 local workers, and the costs are modest. After the borehole is in place, student achievement has improved and enrollment at the schools has increased since local parents choose to send their children to a school that has clean water to drink. Access to the clean water has also been made available to hundreds of local villagers. To date, Quench and Connect has provided clean water to 52 schools, including two boreholes drilled in 2025. Each borehole provides clean drinking water for 2,000-3,000 students and their community.
$16,998 spent81% of program spendingThere were no funds expended in 2024 for this activity. Prior years' accomplishments are described below. In Uganda, at the end of high school training, students take national exams to be ranked for eligibility for university education. Unfortunately, most students who score high cannot afford to attend university. Quench and Connect provides university scholarships to star students who have severe financial need and are promising future leaders, as nominated by their Head Teachers. Scholarships cover all costs for tuition, room and board, school supplies, medical costs and living expenses to one of the 27 major universities in Uganda. As a requirement for scholarship support, after the sponsored student has obtained a university degree, he/she must return to their home high school as a teaching assistant for one term. In this way, the recipient can serve as a role model to motivate future Ugandan students. To date, Quench and Connect has provided scholarships to three top students. The first recipient earned a degree in Development Studies and has been hired by a humanitarian development organization in Uganda. The second recipient graduated with a degree in an…
In 2025, computers and science teaching tools were provided to St. Denis SS in Rakai District. Prior years' accomplishments are described below. The government of Uganda does not yet provide universal high school secondary education, so nearly two-thirds of the high schools in the country are private schools established by parents and private citizens who recognize the value of secondary education. These schools operate on very small budgets received from modest fees paid by students families. Consequently, the schools have few teaching tools, and students have no textbooks. As another facet of its work, Quench and Connect has followed up with educational assistance. After a school has received a borehole and students are healthy, Quench and Connect has assisted the educational programs at selected schools. Quench and Connects goal is to support the curriculum according to the priorities of the national educational program of the Uganda Ministry of Education. To achieve this goal, following site-visits and discussions with teachers, Quench and Connect has identified donors to provide specific teaching tools needed by the teachers. The need is particularly great for science…
$4,100 spent19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $21,098.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $59k to $125k (+113%).
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.
99% of QUENCH AND CONNECT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Karin Veatch Jd
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $10k → $9k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 QUENCH AND CONNECT’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
QUENCH AND CONNECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
73% 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 QUENCH AND CONNECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 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
60% of QUENCH AND CONNECT'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 $35k that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $52k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
QUENCH AND CONNECT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,468 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like QUENCH AND CONNECT
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
71%
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 QUENCH AND CONNECT: 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 QUENCH AND CONNECT?
- QUENCH AND CONNECT (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,768 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($25,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does QUENCH AND CONNECT have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $86,768 in grants to QUENCH AND CONNECT, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of QUENCH AND CONNECT?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like QUENCH AND CONNECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 7 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