Washington · Nonprofit
SPLASH INTERNATIONAL
SPLASH INTERNATIONAL (Washington) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,920,507 to it, the largest being CONRAD N HILTON FOUNDATION ($6,210,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.8M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What Splash International does
Mission
The mission of Splash International and its subsidiaries is to ensure clean water for children. Splash partners with governments and local organizations to deliver sustainable water, sanitation, hygiene, and menstrual health programs in public schools in large, low resource cities in Africa and Asia. Through its Project WISE (WASH in Schools for Everyone) program, Splash integrates infrastructure improvements, behavior change programming, and strengthened menstrual health support to ensure that children can learn in safe, healthy, and dignified school environments. In its current strategic phase, Splash emphasizes systems level change by supporting government planning, financing, and implementation capacity so that services are sustained and expanded over time. Since 2007, Splash has completed more than 2,500 projects across multiple countries in Asia and Africa, reaching over 1.2 million children with improved WASH services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Splash's work in Sub-Saharan Africa is centered on Project WISE Phase II, a multi country, citywide initiative designed to demonstrate that sustainable, government led WASH services can reach every public school in a city. Phase II builds on earlier implementation by transitioning from direct service delivery to a model that works through government systems and local implementing partners to achieve broader scale and long term sustainability. Ethiopia remains Splash's largest country program. Rapid urban growth in cities such as Addis Ababa continues to strain water and sanitation services, particularly in public schools. By the end of 2025, Splash had served more than 845,000 children across multiple Ethiopian cities, including Addis Ababa and Bahir Dar. Phase II expands this work by strengthening government ownership, embedding standards and monitoring systems, and ensuring that operations and maintenance are financed and managed locally over time. Splash is also expanding into additional countries in East and Southern Africa, including Zambia and Malawi. Across these countries, Splash is implementing a citywide approach that aims to reach all public schools in target cities…
$3,504,642 spent87% of program spendingIn South Asia, supports its prior investments in urban WASH in schools programs to improve long-term sustainability. By the end of 2025, Splash had served more than 350,000 children in cities including Kathmandu, Kolkata, and Dhaka. While direct implementation has decreased as Splash has either exited , Splash's work in the region contributes to global learning on cost effective, scalable WASH in Schools models and informs ongoing expansion efforts under Project WISE Phase II. The organization continues to support government engagement and evidence generation to promote replication and scale in similar urban contexts.
$376,882 spent9% of program spendingSplash's programs in East and Southeast Asia reflect earlier phases of the organization's work, where it implemented WASH infrastructure and services directly in child serving institutions. By the end of 2025, Splash had ensured access to clean water for approximately 350,000 children across countries including China, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand. In China, Splash successfully completed a nationwide initiative to ensure safe water access in orphanages, reaching more than 1,100 institutions across 32 provinces. The organization has since transitioned out of direct implementation in several countries as programs were completed, reflecting its broader strategy to demonstrate effective models and enable local stakeholders to sustain and expand services independently.
$166,390 spent4% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,047,914.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $3.6M to $7.9M (+122%).
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: 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 3% · 2021 2% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of SPLASH INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Eric Stowe
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Board chair
Skye Gibert
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $415k → $4.3M.
12 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 SPLASH INTERNATIONAL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
SPLASH INTERNATIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
29% 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 SPLASH INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 50% · 2019 36% · 2020 43% · 2021 63% · 2022 27% · 2023 52% — growing more concentrated.
“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
68% of SPLASH INTERNATIONAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
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
SPLASH INTERNATIONAL draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
SPLASH INTERNATIONAL is better cushioned than half of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SPLASH INTERNATIONAL
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
42%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Splash Social Enterprises LLC · disregarded
- SSE Water Solutions Private Ltd · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPLASH INTERNATIONAL: 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 SPLASH INTERNATIONAL?
- SPLASH INTERNATIONAL (Washington) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,920,507 to it, the largest being CONRAD N HILTON FOUNDATION ($6,210,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPLASH INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $14,920,507 in grants to SPLASH INTERNATIONAL, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPLASH INTERNATIONAL?
- CONRAD N HILTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,210,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPLASH INTERNATIONAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 34 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