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SWEETWATER IMPROVEMENT INC

SWEETWATER IMPROVEMENT INC (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $268,453 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ABILENE ($268,453). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$228k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$268k
Net assets
$278k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 52%
01What it does

What Sweetwater Improvement Inc does

Mission

None

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Nolan co foundation-in affiliation with community foundation of abilene (cfa), provides scholarships and grants to local charities. Grant income from cfa pays for supervision and management of programs of this organization

    of which $2,500 as grants$65,000 earned by the program
  2. Shca - local non profit concert association to promote and provide local entertainment and concerts for the local area.

    $14,625 spent$14,000 earned by the program
    8% of program spending
  3. Fight for the cure. This is a local cancer awareness and fundraising program.

    $17,383 spent$18,272 earned by the program
    9% of program spending
  4. Women's forum, simmons house, bennett youth sports, building fund, techno fund, newman basketball park, promise room, and goodfellows are programs to aid the various citizen group's and local youth projects

    $157,877 spent$199,681 earned by the program
    83% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $189,885.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($162k) Expenses 100 ($50k) Net assets 100 ($383k)2018 Revenue 50 ($81k) Expenses 336 ($169k) Net assets 77 ($295k)2019 Revenue 49 ($79k) Expenses 230 ($116k) Net assets 68 ($259k)2020 Revenue 51 ($82k) Expenses 228 ($115k) Net assets 59 ($226k)2021 Revenue 28 ($45k) Expenses 91 ($46k) Net assets 59 ($225k)2022 Revenue 75 ($122k) Expenses 225 ($113k) Net assets 61 ($233k)2023 Revenue 45 ($73k) Expenses 121 ($61k) Net assets 64 ($246k)2024 Revenue 56 ($91k) Expenses 173 ($87k) Net assets 65 ($250k)2025 Revenue 141 ($228k) Expenses 399 ($201k) Net assets 73 ($278k)
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Revenue (141)Expenses (399)Net assets (73)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 2017 to 2018, from $383k to $295k (−23%).

$383k
$295k
$259k
$226k
$225k
$233k
$246k
$250k
$336k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 43%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

130% of SWEETWATER IMPROVEMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,439 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$112k
’17
−$87k
’18
−$36k
’19
−$33k
’20
−$1k
’21
$8k
’22
$13k
’23
$4k
’24
$28k
’25
12
months of
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

Karen Hunt

Exec dir

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed131617777777
Joined·+4+4+1+1+3+1+2+3
No longer listed·131113123
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $75k → $63k.

Funder
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funders
1
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1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SWEETWATER IMPROVEMENT INC’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.

Where its funders are

100% of SWEETWATER IMPROVEMENT INC'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $268k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SWEETWATER IMPROVEMENT INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin12% · above the median
Months of reserve11.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like SWEETWATER IMPROVEMENT INC

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In Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TX

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Sweetwater Chamber of Commerce · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds SWEETWATER IMPROVEMENT INC?
SWEETWATER IMPROVEMENT INC (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $268,453 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ABILENE ($268,453). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SWEETWATER IMPROVEMENT INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $268,453 in grants to SWEETWATER IMPROVEMENT INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SWEETWATER IMPROVEMENT INC?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ABILENE is the largest funder on record, with $268,453 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SWEETWATER IMPROVEMENT INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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