California · Nonprofit
USA WATER POLO INC
USA WATER POLO INC (California) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,657,362 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC COMMITTEE ($10,830,068). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $20M
- Net assets
- $4.7M
What USA Water Polo Inc does
Mission
Grow the sport of water polo throughout the united states and win medals in the olympic games, world championships, and pan american games.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Men's international program: supports usa men's national team programs, including intercontinental tournament, hosting common training with foreign teams, and teams trips to russia, hungary, italy, canada and japan. Program also supports various lower level team training and international trips.
$2,374,101 spent$142,775 earned by the program14% of program spendingWomen's international program: supports usa women's national team programs, including hosting common training with foreign teams and team trips to new zealand, china, canada and russia. Program also supports various lower level team training and international trips.various lower level team training and international trips.
$2,912,160 spent$403,228 earned by the program18% of program spendingMembership and sport development: supports usa water polo membership programs. Members received sport accident insurance, membership cards, usawp publications, and may participate in usawp sanctioned tournaments based on membership level.
$5,844,642 spent$7,825,446 earned by the program35% of program spendingOther program services: supports other usa water polo programs, including the olympic high performance program. Olympic development program: approximately 5,000 participants aged 11th grade and younger trained in the program. Camps held nationwide. National training center: promote and support the construction and operation of a world-class national training center for public and elite team benefit.
$5,498,627 spentof which $51,700 as grants$2,762,774 earned by the program33% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $16,629,530.
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 2020 to 2021, from $7.4M to $10M (+39%).
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 7% · 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
25% of USA WATER POLO INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (10% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
William Smith
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $1.6M.
10 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 USA WATER POLO INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 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
USA WATER POLO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
70% 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 USA WATER POLO INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 86% · 2019 57% · 2020 51% · 2021 49% · 2022 81% · 2023 64% — 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
44% of USA WATER POLO INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
USA WATER POLO INC draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
USA WATER POLO INC is better cushioned than half of the 303 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 303 recreation & sports nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding USA WATER POLO INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $155k on record.
- Department of Defense$155k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like USA WATER POLO INC
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 USA WATER POLO 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 USA WATER POLO INC?
- USA WATER POLO INC (California) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,657,362 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC COMMITTEE ($10,830,068). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does USA WATER POLO INC have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $19,657,362 in grants to USA WATER POLO INC, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of USA WATER POLO INC?
- UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC COMMITTEE is the largest funder on record, with $10,830,068 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like USA WATER POLO INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 47 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