Michigan · Nonprofit
WASTE WATER EDUCATION INC
WASTE WATER EDUCATION INC (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,594 to it, the largest being COLEGATO FOUNDATION ($1,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $71k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $66k
What Waste Water Education Inc does
Mission
Statement of Program Service Accomplishments: Statement of Purpose: Independent. Impartial. We provide access to information to empower sustainable, local, wastewater decision making. Our Purpose: To provide education which increases public awareness of the link between clean drinking water, safe recreational waters, environmentally sustainable surface and groundwater with watershed based, best management practices related to appropriate wastewater systems, technology, treatment and management. Water is Water - NOT waste!
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Online Continuing Education credit classes for multiple States. Total hours served 1382 + 3 day live training. $31872.19 reflects online Continuing Education classes provided to Ohio, Michigan, Virginia, Wisconsin, Oregon and other individual States for professional Development. Topics include safety, installation and servicing of onsite wastewater systems. Water and WasteWater Conference presentation - $883 Fiscal Sponsorship for Operators Without Borders - providing disaster response and management training. Serving multiple developing countries and the Caribbean $2260
$34,133 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $34,133.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $39k to $66k (+68%).
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.
11% of WASTE WATER EDUCATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Dendra Best
Executive Director and CFO
Board chair
Ben Kele
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $20 → $28.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 WASTE WATER EDUCATION INC’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
WASTE WATER EDUCATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
WASTE WATER EDUCATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $94 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
WASTE WATER EDUCATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,195 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like WASTE WATER EDUCATION 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 Michigan
Nationally
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WASTE WATER EDUCATION 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 WASTE WATER EDUCATION INC?
- WASTE WATER EDUCATION INC (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,594 to it, the largest being COLEGATO FOUNDATION ($1,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WASTE WATER EDUCATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,594 in grants to WASTE WATER EDUCATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WASTE WATER EDUCATION INC?
- COLEGATO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WASTE WATER EDUCATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 2 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