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SAFER WATERS IN MEMORY - OF NICHOLAS

SAFER WATERS IN MEMORY - OF NICHOLAS (Missouri) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,576 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($43,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$202k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$141k
Net assets
$254k
4/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Safer Waters in Memory - of Nicholas does

Mission

Public education for drowning prevention

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Raised awareness for the prevention of drowning and helped prevent drowning accidents

    $92,055 spent$205,955 earned by the program
    74% of program spending
  2. Funded scholarships through hope floats foundation for families who qualify under uspa income eligibility guidelines

    $32,880 spentof which $32,880 as grants
    26% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $124,935.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($147k) Expenses 100 ($64k) Net assets 100 ($96k)2022 Revenue 131 ($193k) Expenses 168 ($108k) Net assets 188 ($181k)2023 Revenue 90 ($132k) Expenses 204 ($131k) Net assets 188 ($181k)2024 Revenue 138 ($202k) Expenses 201 ($130k) Net assets 264 ($254k)
2021202220232024
Revenue (138)Expenses (201)Net assets (264)Peer revenue range

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 $96k to $181k (+88%).

$96k
$181k
$181k
$254k
2021202220232024
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of SAFER WATERS IN MEMORY - OF NICHOLAS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (75% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,485 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$83k
’21
$85k
’22
$110
’23
$73k
’24
24
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $8k → $15k.

3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 SAFER WATERS IN MEMORY - OF NICHOLAS’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

SAFER WATERS IN MEMORY - OF NICHOLAS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

76% 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 SAFER WATERS IN MEMORY - OF NICHOLAS.

31%
largest funder
76%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 40% · 2022 27% · 2023 54% — diversifying over time.

“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.

How long its funders stay

50% of SAFER WATERS IN MEMORY - OF NICHOLAS's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

76% of SAFER WATERS IN MEMORY - OF NICHOLAS'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 $34k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from Missouri funders.

MN
MO
FL

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

’21
’22
’23
Missouri out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $106k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SAFER WATERS IN MEMORY - OF NICHOLAS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin36% · top quartile
Months of reserve23.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like SAFER WATERS IN MEMORY - OF NICHOLAS

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 Missouri

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

59%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MO

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Questions and answers

Who funds SAFER WATERS IN MEMORY - OF NICHOLAS?
SAFER WATERS IN MEMORY - OF NICHOLAS (Missouri) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,576 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($43,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SAFER WATERS IN MEMORY - OF NICHOLAS have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $140,576 in grants to SAFER WATERS IN MEMORY - OF NICHOLAS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SAFER WATERS IN MEMORY - OF NICHOLAS?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $43,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SAFER WATERS IN MEMORY - OF NICHOLAS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 10 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