New Mexico · Nonprofit
WATERLINES
WATERLINES (New Mexico) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $230,020 to it, the largest being WALLACE GENETIC FOUNDATION II INC ($100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $5
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $230k
- Net assets
- $0
What Waterlines does
Mission
Waterlines sunset at the end of 2021 but before that for 35 years its mission was to provide adequate drinking water and sanitation to rural communities in developing countries. It did so by providing funding and technical expertise to implement projects. Those who worked with Waterlines in the US did so on a volunteer basis. In the last two years of 2020 and 2021 Waterlines intentionally discouraged any contributions because of the intention to go out of existence in December 2021.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Program
2021 was the last year of Waterlines' existence but it spent down its remaining bank account doing these final projects: In Kenya: building 19 latrine blocks toilets and bathing stalls at healthcare dispensaries building 3 complete rainwater harvesting systems 45,000 litre sized capacity at 3 healthcare dispensaries providing 3 plastic water tanks 10,000 litre capacity at the dispensaries building 3 raised tanks to provide water for handwashing and toilet facilities at these healthcare dispensaries.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $102k to $0 (−100%).
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
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $100k → $5.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 WATERLINES’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
WATERLINES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 91% · 2019 67% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
WATERLINES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like WATERLINES
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 New Mexico
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 WATERLINES: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds WATERLINES?
- WATERLINES (New Mexico) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $230,020 to it, the largest being WALLACE GENETIC FOUNDATION II INC ($100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WATERLINES have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $230,020 in grants to WATERLINES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WATERLINES?
- WALLACE GENETIC FOUNDATION II INC is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WATERLINES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Mexico. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2020–2021), and the filings of 5 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