California · Nonprofit
Water Is Life Inc
Water Is Life Inc (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,000 to it, the largest being Brooks Family Foundation ($12,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $71k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $17k
- Net assets
- $18k
What Water Is Life Inc does
Mission
Water is Life Inc. is a non-profit 501(c)(3) religious organization devoted to sharing Christ in African countries, helping children, families, and communities reach their full potential to overcome poverty.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Provide education, health resources, water wells, and religious commuinity involvement in african countries
$44,229 spentof which $11,480 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $44,229.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $20k to $8k (−60%).
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.
100% of Water Is Life Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $3k.
From the IRS filings of Water Is Life 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 Is Life Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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 63% · 2022 100% · 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
Water Is Life Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 Is Life Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,894 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,894 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Water Is Life 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.
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Water Is Life 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 Water Is Life Inc?
- Water Is Life Inc (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,000 to it, the largest being Brooks Family Foundation ($12,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Water Is Life Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $17,000 in grants to Water Is Life Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Water Is Life Inc?
- Brooks Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $12,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Water Is Life 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.
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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 2023–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing