New York · Nonprofit
Ugandan Water Project
Ugandan Water Project (New York) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,082,351 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($147,300). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $463k
What Ugandan Water Project does
Mission
Uwp exists to end uganda's water crisis once and for all by building infrastructure that relieves immediate water insecurity today, developing sustainable enterprises that keep clean water flowing tomorrow, then advocating for national systems that ensure it stays that way forever
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Safe water TODAY: Funding for drinking water projects in Uganda including Rainwater Collection Systems, Borehole Rehabilitation, New Borehole Drilling, Mechanized Boreholes, and Water Filters. Funds were raised and provided to a local partner organization in Uganda to implement agreed upon work to provide drinking water to communities there. Money was raised from private donors, businesses, schools, churches, foundations, and other charity organizations.
$619,622 spent54% of program spendingSafe water TOMORROW: In 2025, 310 enrolled communities contributed more than 55,000 USD of their own resources to fund preventative maintenance via Aqua Trust, a local water enterprise that UWP has launched in Uganda. UWP provides catalytic funding to support the development of AquaTrust, a professional preventative maintenance service for rural boreholes. AquaTrust enrolls communities into a fee- based service that delivers ongoing maintenance and rapid repairs. The program is designed to ensure consistent borehole functionality, with a target of maintaining greater than 99 percent uptime across enrolled water points.
$371,948 spent33% of program spendingSafe water FOREVER: The Rural and Urban Management Information System (RUMIS) is an initiative of UWP to design and deliver to the Ugandan Ministry of Water Environment (MWE) a live interative database built on the mWater platform, to manage all water assets in the country and encompass the work of all major stakeholder groups. In addition, UWP leads the training, implementation, and ongoing expert support for districts, MWE regional offices, and the MWEs MIS team. UWP also coordinates collaboration with other NGOs participating in the implementation of RUMIS in various districts of Uganda.
$151,276 spent13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,142,846.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $419k to $610k (+46%).
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: 2019 2% · 2020 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of Ugandan Water Project’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $19k → $176k.
12 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 Ugandan Water Project’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
Ugandan Water Project has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
72% 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 Ugandan Water Project.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 34% · 2019 56% · 2020 26% · 2021 26% · 2022 23% · 2023 18% — 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.
How long its funders stay
35% of Ugandan Water Project's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
Ugandan Water Project draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $390k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
Ugandan Water Project has grown faster than half of the 718 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Ugandan Water Project
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Ugandan Water Project: 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 Ugandan Water Project?
- Ugandan Water Project (New York) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,082,351 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($147,300). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Ugandan Water Project have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $1,082,351 in grants to Ugandan Water Project, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ugandan Water Project?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $147,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ugandan Water Project find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 35 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