Colorado · Nonprofit
RIPPLING WATERS CHARITY
RIPPLING WATERS CHARITY (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $106,400 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($60,400). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $121k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $106k
- Net assets
- $62k
What Rippling Waters Charity does
Mission
Assist needy children in developing countries by creating systems that provide clean water, healthy food, and an opportunity to build a local economy that changes all village members' lives.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Rippling Waters Charity coordinates its activities with water professionals in the geosynthetic industry across the world, leveraging local resources and coordinating the engineering and technology efforts needed to develop aquaculture projects. But really, it's simple.an aquaponic system begins with tanks of fish. In kenya, where the project is beginning, we are growing tilapia, which serve as a food source for the children at the orphanage where we are building the system. The fish are one source of food, but the water from the tanks is filtered and used to grow herbs, vegetables and other plants in the aquaponic garden. The waste from the fish serves as fertilizer for the plants. With one simple system, the children now have viable sources of nutrients and proteins in an easy-to-maintain system.in addition to food, the aquaponic system provides a trade opportunity. The system will serve as a trade school for older students to learn the ins and outs of building and maintaining an aquaponic system. Over time they will be able to take this knowledge to other villages and help them build and maintain their own systems. Additionally, any food produced above and beyond the…
$110,250 spentof which $109,810 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $110,250.
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 2018 to 2019, from $88k to $46k (−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.
100% of RIPPLING WATERS CHARITY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
John Heap
Executive director, chairm
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 RIPPLING WATERS CHARITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 funders by total. 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
RIPPLING WATERS CHARITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 RIPPLING WATERS CHARITY.
“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
91% of RIPPLING WATERS CHARITY'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 $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Colorado funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $96k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
RIPPLING WATERS CHARITY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like RIPPLING WATERS CHARITY
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RIPPLING WATERS CHARITY: 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 RIPPLING WATERS CHARITY?
- RIPPLING WATERS CHARITY (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $106,400 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($60,400). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RIPPLING WATERS CHARITY have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $106,400 in grants to RIPPLING WATERS CHARITY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RIPPLING WATERS CHARITY?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $60,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RIPPLING WATERS CHARITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 5 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