Colorado · Nonprofit
WATER FOR PEOPLE
WATER FOR PEOPLE (Colorado) receives grants from 152 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,625,215 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($15,915,697). 90 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $31M
- Funders on record
- 152
- Grants received
- $61M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Water for People does
Mission
Water for People exists to develop high quality water and sanitation, accessible to all, and sustained by strong communities, businesses, and governments, working in ten countries; guatemala, honduras, tanzania, peru, bolivia, uganda, malawi, rwanda, india,united states.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Africa:we focus on improving access to reliable water and sanitation services in ten everyone forever districts across malawi, rwanda, uganda, and tanzania. Our efforts include developing piped water supply systems, constructing boreholes, and enhancing water and sanitation facilities in public institutions such as schools and healthcare centers. We collaborate with local authorities to create an enabling environment for sanitation service delivery by supporting entrepreneurs through market-based solutions. Pit-emptying businesses are thriving, and decentralized fecal sludge treatment plants are expanding. By strengthening local capacity, we aim to improve sustainability while increasing coverage. (continued on schedule o) additionally, we work closely with government partners to reinforce wash systems at both local and national levels. The everyone forever model has been successfully replicated by other ngos and is gaining regional and national momentum. In 2024, we directly reached 194,807 people with improved water services, 77,052 people with improved sanitation services, and 104,719 people through hygiene interventions.
$19,326,097 spent$6,780 earned by the program73% of program spendingLatin america:Water for People addresses the global water and sanitation crisis by implementing contextually appropriate infrastructure in 18 everyone forever municipalities across bolivia, guatemala, honduras, and peru. We strengthen the capacity of local partners to manage these systems effectively. Our sanitation strategy promotes awareness of household sanitation facilities and safe fecal sludge management while fostering public-private partnerships to meet consumer demand. As we continue to implement and validate the model locally, we also advocate for its adoption by national governments and peer organizations. In 2024, we reached 12,627 people with improved water services, 27,982 people with improved sanitation services, and provided hygiene education to 13,263 individuals.
$4,923,867 spent18% of program spendingIndia:in india, we work to expand access to water and sanitation services and build the capacity of communities and government entities to operate and maintain these services in ten everyone forever districts. Our operations span bihar, maharashtra, west bengal, assam, odisha, and jharkhand. In addition to supporting the construction of water infrastructure in communities and public institutions, we provide technical assistance to state and district governments to implement national wash policies and programs effectively. Together with local partners, we develop robust sanitation markets to ensure reliable and affordable services. We also focus on source sustainability through water resource management projects. (continued on schedule o) in 2024, we reached 32,568 people with improved water services, 9,280 people with improved sanitation services, and delivered hygiene interventions to 28,472 individuals across everyone forever districts and additional partner areas.
$2,349,989 spentof which $582,490 as grants$45,052 earned by the program9% of program spendingUnited states: we work at a national scale, regionally in the southwest, and locally in arizona to close the wash access gap through advocacy, partnerships, capacity building, knowledge exchanges, and collaboration. Through strengthening national wash coalitions and partnerships, we co-chair regional working groups, participate in advocacy discussions, and support sector building initiatives. As steering committee members and co-founders of the vessel collective, a coalition of national wash organizations dedicated to addressing the water and sanitation crisis in the united states, we supported the creation of a national roadmap to close the access gap. We participated in the planning of a national convening, bringing the sector together, and we collectively advocated for federal programs and funding mechanisms. We also strengthened and supported a statewide wash network with partner organizations and academic institutions in arizona. Locally we co-lead the implementation of the southern arizona water leadership institute- bringing local community members into water decision-making spaces, connecting them to local leaders. We are working to scale these place-based programs to…
$50,321 spent$52,216 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $26,650,274.
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 2021 to 2022, from $16M to $29M (+80%).
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: 2018 1% · 2019 4% · 2020 2% · 2021 9% · 2022 7% · 2023 17% · 2024 16% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of WATER FOR PEOPLE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Mark Duey
CEO
Board chair
Greg Mcintyre
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 43 funders to 55 funders, grant income rose $1.8M → $22M.
31 of 152 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 FOR PEOPLE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 152 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
WATER FOR PEOPLE 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
81% 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 FOR PEOPLE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 31% · 2019 38% · 2020 37% · 2021 33% · 2022 25% · 2023 68% — growing more concentrated.
“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 WATER FOR PEOPLE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
52% of WATER FOR PEOPLE'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 $29M that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 37 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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
WATER FOR PEOPLE is better cushioned than half of the 190 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 190 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding WATER FOR PEOPLE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $22.1M on record.
- Agency for International Development$22.1M
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 WATER FOR PEOPLE
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WATER FOR PEOPLE: 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 WATER FOR PEOPLE?
- WATER FOR PEOPLE (Colorado) receives grants from 152 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,625,215 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($15,915,697). 90 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WATER FOR PEOPLE have?
- IRS filings report 152 organizations giving $60,625,215 in grants to WATER FOR PEOPLE, 90 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WATER FOR PEOPLE?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $15,915,697 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WATER FOR PEOPLE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 152 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing