South Carolina · Nonprofit
WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL
WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL (South Carolina) receives grants from 298 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,045,622 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($15,123,182). 157 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $42M
- Funders on record
- 298
- Grants received
- $59M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Water Missions International does
Mission
To honor god by developing, implementing, and sharing best-in-class safe water solutions that transform as many lives as possible, as quickly as possible.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Safe water for communities: water mission works closely with communities to design, build, and operate customized safe water solutions using innovative technology and tailored water treatment methods. Our safe water solutions include piped distribution to shared community tap stands; bottling stations with home delivery by vehicles; and direct private connections to households, clinics, and schools. We utilize a variety of service delivery approaches to provide long-term operations and maintenance (o&m) support to keep safe water flowing. Water mission also implements sanitation infrastructure and works to educate and equip communities to practice healthy sanitation and hygiene behaviors. In fiscal year 2025 (fy2025), water mission served nearly 770,000 people in communities around the world with ongoing access to safe water and nearly 167,000 people in communities with first-time access to safe water through 46 new safe water projects.
$33,814,163 spentof which $2,550,441 as grants81% of program spendingDisaster response: water mission implements immediate and long-term safe water solutions following natural disasters and during humanitarian crises. Working in partnership with local governments and other organizations, water mission's disaster assistance response team provides immediate aid and helps build long-term resiliency. Solutions are tailored to the specific needs of each community impacted by disaster and can include emergency safe water provision, water quality testing, infrastructure rehabilitation, new construction, hygiene supplies, and more. In fy2025, water mission responded to five natural disasters, impacting more than 140,000 people through wash solutions.
$4,671,624 spentof which $189,628 as grants11% of program spendingSafe water for refugees: water mission provides sustainable access to safe water for men, women, and children who have been forced to leave their homes due to violence, persecution, food insecurity, or natural disasters. Access to safe water helps refugees experience healthier and more dignified living conditions. By constructing new safe water systems, rehabilitating existing systems, and providing ongoing o&m services, water mission keeps safe water flowing in refugee contexts. Water mission also provides safe water, sanitation, and hygiene (wash) services in host communities (existing communities near refugee settlements), where the need is great. In fy2025, water mission served more than 683,000 refugees and displaced people in five refugee camps and settlements.
$2,705,016 spent6% of program spendingLiving water water mission meets people's spiritual and emotional needs through our living water program. In communities, we do this through the church and community mobilization program (ccmp), equipping local church leaders with biblically based training that helps them identify needs in their communities and proclaim the gospel in word and deed. All ccmp activities take place alongside our routine community development and wash promotion activities - working together to bring physical and spiritual transformation. In refugee contexts, water mission equips local church leaders to provide biblically based trauma-informed care. This care promotes forgiveness and reconciliation, guiding people through the grieving and healing process. When we respond to a disaster, we intentionally connect with local churches. When appropriate, we equip church leaders with trauma care tools to help meet the emotional, mental, and spiritual needs of their community. In fy2025, water mission conducted more than 400 ccmp activities across seven countries and engaged more than 500 churches. Advocacy one of water mission's priorities is to educate others about the global water crisis. This goal is…
$606,800 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $41,797,603.
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 2017 to 2018, from $11M to $21M (+90%).
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.
99% of WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
George C Greene Iv
CEO & president
Board chair
Steven Cox
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 62 funders to 107 funders, grant income rose $3.2M → $11M.
51 of 298 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 298 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 MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
74% 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 MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 31% · 2019 57% · 2020 31% · 2021 34% · 2022 21% · 2023 24% — 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
39% of WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
62% of WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL'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 $23M that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from funders outside South Carolina, across 43 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36M arriving through sponsors registered in 25 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 MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL has grown faster 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 MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $102k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$102k
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 MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL
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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 29 states
Part of a family of 9 related entities
- Water Missions Peru · exempt
- Water Missions International - Kenya · exempt
- Water Missions International - Malawi · exempt
- Water Missions Uganda · exempt
- Misiones del Agua Internacional · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: 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 MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL?
- WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL (South Carolina) receives grants from 298 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,045,622 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($15,123,182). 157 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 298 organizations giving $59,045,622 in grants to WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL, 157 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,123,182 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 298 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