Texas · Nonprofit
TEXAS RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION
TEXAS RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,959,050 to it, the largest being NATIONAL RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION ($7,959,050). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.9M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $8.0M
- Net assets
- $7.3M
What Texas Rural Water Association does
Mission
TRWA is dedicated to helping rural water and wastewater utilities in Texas provide efficient service and clean, safe drinking water to their customers through on-site technical assistance, classroom and online training, publications, member support services, and representation in legislative processes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Under the state contract program, approximately 766 on-site visits were made to public drinking water and wastewater utility systems in Texas to assess, assist, and improve the financial, managerial, and technical capabilities of the systems.
Under the federal contract program, TRWA provided technical assistance and training to small public water and wastewater systems in Texas, making 1841 contacts with these systems.
TRWA's professional training and development program trained more than 1410 students during 105 classroom and virtual instructor-led training sessions held in 2025, and trained approximately 3551 students by means of internet-based training courses. Students taking classes are professional water operators that are required by state agencies to have continuing education to qualify for and maintain licenses to operate public water and wastewater systems.
Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $0.
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.
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 $7.5M to $12M (+59%).
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: 2020 42% · 2021 43% · 2022 44% · 2023 47% · 2024 44% · 2025 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Lara Zent
Executive Director & Chief Legal Officer
Board chair
Mark Gardenhire
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $972k → $1.5M.
From the IRS filings of TEXAS RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION’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
TEXAS RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like TEXAS RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Texas Rural Water Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TEXAS RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION: 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 TEXAS RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION?
- TEXAS RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,959,050 to it, the largest being NATIONAL RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION ($7,959,050). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TEXAS RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $7,959,050 in grants to TEXAS RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TEXAS RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION?
- NATIONAL RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,959,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TEXAS RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION 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.
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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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing