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Sweetwater Outreach Inc

Sweetwater Outreach Inc (Alabama) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $335,324 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($136,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$267k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$335k
Net assets
$301k
5/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%
01What it does

What Sweetwater Outreach Inc does

Mission

Sweetwater Outreach is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that is committed to working alongside communities in developing nations to create sustainable solutions surrounding unsafe water. In 2024 Sweetwater Outreach installed purification systems in Kenya Tanzania and the Congo as well as supporting education and community programs.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Continued support of Water for Schools Program that provides water access and purification installations as well as health and hygiene education.

    $30,000 spent
    27% of program spending
  2. Continued Support for Community Water Purification Programs including Well Repair filter program chlorine program chlorine generators health and hygiene education medical clinics and community support.

    $60,000 spent
    55% of program spending
  3. Continued support for Pad Program providing girls with access to reusable pads and education.

    $20,000 spent
    18% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $110,000.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($93k) Expenses 100 ($68k) Net assets 100 ($89k)2021 Revenue 92 ($86k) Expenses 111 ($75k) Net assets 112 ($100k)2022 Revenue 209 ($195k) Expenses 168 ($114k) Net assets 208 ($185k)2023 Revenue 160 ($150k) Expenses 248 ($167k) Net assets 188 ($167k)2024 Revenue 221 ($206k) Expenses 207 ($140k) Net assets 318 ($283k)2025 Revenue 286 ($267k) Expenses 368 ($249k) Net assets 338 ($301k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (286)Expenses (368)Net assets (338)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 2023 to 2024, from $167k to $283k (+69%).

$89k
$100k
$185k
$167k
$283k
$301k
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Sweetwater Outreach Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,945 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$26k
’20
$11k
’21
$82k
’22
−$18k
’23
$67k
’24
$18k
’25
15
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

John Blevins

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20242025
Listed88
Joined·+0
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $14k → $41k.

5 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 Outreach 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.

How concentrated its funding is

Sweetwater Outreach Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

93% 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 Sweetwater Outreach Inc.

41%
largest funder
88%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 86% · 2019 47% · 2020 41% · 2021 80% · 2022 71% · 2023 70% — 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.

Where its funders are

93% of Sweetwater Outreach 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. Of the $23k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from Alabama funders.

MI
AL

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

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Alabama out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $313k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

Sweetwater Outreach Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,468 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · above the median
Months of reserve14.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)23% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 16%Fundraising 10%

Governance

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

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

AL

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds Sweetwater Outreach Inc?
Sweetwater Outreach Inc (Alabama) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $335,324 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($136,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Sweetwater Outreach Inc have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $335,324 in grants to Sweetwater Outreach Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Sweetwater Outreach Inc?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $136,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Sweetwater Outreach Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 2020–2025), 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