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WASHINGTON TELANGANA ASSOCIATION (WATA)

WASHINGTON TELANGANA ASSOCIATION (WATA) (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,249,494 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($818,721). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$166k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
$41k
4/5 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Washington Telangana Association (Wata) does

Mission

To preserve, maintain and perpetuate the heritage of the people of telugu origin.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Teenmaar: the purpose of this event is to showcase the cultural identity ofthe telangana state where children and adults will practice and perform the cultural activities to provide awareness of telangana folk culture. Unknown people attended

    $27,616 spent
    22% of program spending
  2. India day parade: to bring national unity on the important day that the indian republic was formed.

    $51,649 spent
    41% of program spending
  3. Bathukamma: celebration of telangana region famous festival.colourful flower festival celebrations with famous cultural ambassadorsfrom telangana to perform various activities. Approximately 600 people attended.

    $45,969 spent
    37% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $125,234.

02The 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 ($100k) Expenses 100 ($111k) Net assets 100 ($38k)2018 Revenue 115 ($115k) Expenses 120 ($133k) Net assets 36 ($14k)2019 Revenue 114 ($114k) Expenses 101 ($112k) Net assets 42 ($16k)2020 Revenue 72 ($71k) Expenses 43 ($47k) Net assets 105 ($40k)2021 Revenue 84 ($84k) Expenses 26 ($29k) Net assets 250 ($96k)2022 Revenue 84 ($83k) Expenses 95 ($106k) Net assets 191 ($73k)2023 Revenue 549 ($548k) Expenses 240 ($266k) Net assets 928 ($355k)2024 Revenue 504 ($504k) Expenses 620 ($688k) Net assets 446 ($171k)2025 Revenue 166 ($166k) Expenses 266 ($295k) Net assets 108 ($41k)
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Revenue (166)Expenses (266)Net assets (108)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 2022 to 2023, from $73k to $355k (+386%).

$38k
$14k
$16k
$40k
$96k
$73k
$355k
$171k
$41k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of WASHINGTON TELANGANA ASSOCIATION (WATA)’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$11k
’17
−$18k
’18
$2k
’19
$24k
’20
$56k
’21
−$23k
’22
$282k
’23
−$184k
’24
−$130k
’25
2.8
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.

20232024
Listed44
Joined·+0
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $119k → $122k.

3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 WASHINGTON TELANGANA ASSOCIATION (WATA)’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

WASHINGTON TELANGANA ASSOCIATION (WATA) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

98% 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 WASHINGTON TELANGANA ASSOCIATION (WATA).

66%
largest funder
98%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 80% — 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

98% of WASHINGTON TELANGANA ASSOCIATION (WATA)'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 $19k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 2 states.

IL
NY

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

WASHINGTON TELANGANA ASSOCIATION (WATA)'s revenue grew 66% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−78% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds WASHINGTON TELANGANA ASSOCIATION (WATA)?
WASHINGTON TELANGANA ASSOCIATION (WATA) (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,249,494 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($818,721). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does WASHINGTON TELANGANA ASSOCIATION (WATA) have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,249,494 in grants to WASHINGTON TELANGANA ASSOCIATION (WATA), 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WASHINGTON TELANGANA ASSOCIATION (WATA)?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $818,721 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WASHINGTON TELANGANA ASSOCIATION (WATA) find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 5 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