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WATER COMPASS INC

WATER COMPASS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $439,798 to it, the largest being THE EDWARD H BUTLER FOUNDATION ($116,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$195k
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$440k
Net assets
$-12573
9/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 63%
01What it does

What Water Compass Inc does

Mission

To prevent disease through the provision of clean water, improved sanitation and hygiene promotion.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Water compass builds and operates solar-powered water supply systems in rural communities in uganda. Four water systems were constructed by water compass in 2024, bringing the total number of water systems under our operation to eleven. More than 14,500 people are served by these water systems.

    $299,507 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $299,507.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($290k) Expenses 100 ($260k) Net assets 100 ($65k)2021 Revenue 96 ($278k) Expenses 109 ($282k) Net assets 90 ($59k)2022 Revenue 91 ($264k) Expenses 79 ($204k) Net assets 174 ($114k)2023 Revenue 71 ($205k) Expenses 88 ($229k) Net assets 141 ($92k)2024 Revenue 67 ($195k) Expenses 115 ($300k) Net assets -19 ($-12573)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (67)Expenses (115)Net assets (-19)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 2023 to 2024, from $97k to $40k (−59%).

$87k
$79k
$127k
$97k
$40k
20202021202220232024
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

89% of WATER COMPASS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,945 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$30k
’20
−$4k
’21
$59k
’22
−$24k
’23
−$105k
’24
3.4
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.

Board chair

Edward Morgan

Board chair and exec

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

2020202120222023
Listed691010
Joined·+3+1+0
No longer listed·000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $11k → $129k.

4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 WATER COMPASS 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

WATER COMPASS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

39% 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 WATER COMPASS INC.

26%
largest funder
66%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 91% · 2020 59% · 2021 34% · 2022 41% · 2023 27% — 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

40% of WATER COMPASS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

WATER COMPASS INC draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 8 states in all.

WA
WI
NY
MA
OH
MO
DE
DC

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

’18
’20
’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $148k 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

WATER COMPASS INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−54% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−9% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,524 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

96%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds WATER COMPASS INC?
WATER COMPASS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $439,798 to it, the largest being THE EDWARD H BUTLER FOUNDATION ($116,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WATER COMPASS INC have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $439,798 in grants to WATER COMPASS INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WATER COMPASS INC?
THE EDWARD H BUTLER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $116,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WATER COMPASS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 15 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