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The Virginia Section of the American Water Works Association Inc

The Virginia Section of the American Water Works Association Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $416,081 to it, the largest being AMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION ($416,081). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.5M
Revenue FY2024
1
Funders on record
$416k
Grants received
$906k
Net assets
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%

Against its field

The Virginia Section of the American Water Works Association Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,002 public benefit nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve1.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,002 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($1.0M) Expenses 100 ($901k) Net assets 100 ($510k)2018 Revenue 109 ($1.1M) Expenses 111 ($998k) Net assets 120 ($612k)2019 Revenue 123 ($1.2M) Expenses 131 ($1.2M) Net assets 130 ($664k)2020 Revenue 34 ($344k) Expenses 40 ($363k) Net assets 129 ($660k)2021 Revenue 82 ($823k) Expenses 83 ($744k) Net assets 148 ($754k)2022 Revenue 107 ($1.1M) Expenses 119 ($1.1M) Net assets 141 ($721k)2023 Revenue 129 ($1.3M) Expenses 143 ($1.3M) Net assets 153 ($780k)2024 Revenue 153 ($1.5M) Expenses 157 ($1.4M) Net assets 177 ($906k)
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Revenue (153)Expenses (157)Net assets (177)Peer revenue range

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

1% of The Virginia Section of the American Water Works Association Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,088 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$105k
17
$102k
18
$57k
19
$18k
20
$79k
21
$6k
22
$3k
23
$125k
24
1.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $47k → $48k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of The Virginia Section of the American Water Works Association Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

Where its funders are

The Virginia Section of the American Water Works Association Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state in all.

CO

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

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23
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like The Virginia Section of the American Water Works Association Inc

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Virginia

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 15%Fundraising 2%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Virginia Section of the American Water Works Association Inc: 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 The Virginia Section of the American Water Works Association Inc?
The Virginia Section of the American Water Works Association Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $416,081 to it, the largest being AMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION ($416,081). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Virginia Section of the American Water Works Association Inc have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $416,081 in grants to The Virginia Section of the American Water Works Association Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Virginia Section of the American Water Works Association Inc?
AMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $416,081 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Virginia Section of the American Water Works Association Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 1funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing