California · Nonprofit
WATERING MINDS INC
WATERING MINDS INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $291,186 to it, the largest being Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation ($290,186). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- John Pritzker Family Fundshared funders
- Water From Wineportfolio match
- The Laszlo N Tauber Family Foundation Incshared funders
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2019: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $84k → $80k.
From the IRS filings of WATERING MINDS 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
WATERING MINDS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 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
WATERING MINDS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- John Pritzker Family Fundshared fundersCA · backs 36 organizations that share your funders
- Water From Wineportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Laszlo N Tauber Family Foundation Incshared fundersMD · backs 25 organizations that share your funders
- The Mehring Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pledges Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Deatley Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sawyer Foundation Charitable Trportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- One Days Wagesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dearborn Community Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Digdeep Right to Water Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Good Works Institute Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- doTERRA Healing Hands Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like WATERING MINDS INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WATERING MINDS 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds WATERING MINDS INC?
- WATERING MINDS INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $291,186 to it, the largest being Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation ($290,186). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WATERING MINDS INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $291,186 in grants to WATERING MINDS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WATERING MINDS INC?
- Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $290,186 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WATERING MINDS 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2019 (financials across 2018–2019), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing