Illinois · Nonprofit
WATERLOO CITIZENS FOR A POOL
WATERLOO CITIZENS FOR A POOL (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $443 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($413). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
WATERLOO CITIZENS FOR A POOL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,243 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,243 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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.
- Sophia and Elmer Oerter Charitable Foundationlocal
- The Arts Federation Incportfolio match
- William M & Donna J Hoaglin Foundation Incportfolio match
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.
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.
90% of WATERLOO CITIZENS FOR A POOL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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 rose $36 → $142.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 WATERLOO CITIZENS FOR A POOL’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
WATERLOO CITIZENS FOR A POOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% 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
93% 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 WATERLOO CITIZENS FOR A POOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 84% · 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
93% of WATERLOO CITIZENS FOR A POOL'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 $30 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $413 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.
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.
- Sophia and Elmer Oerter Charitable FoundationlocalIL · funds 8 organizations near you
- The Arts Federation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William M & Donna J Hoaglin Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Iowa Lakes Electric Members Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- USA Swimming Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southwest Minnesota Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arlin Falck Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Upper Mississippi Gaming Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Joseph and Sharon Darcey Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Watertown Area Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Black Hawk County Gaming Associationportfolio 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 WATERLOO CITIZENS FOR A POOL
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
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 WATERLOO CITIZENS FOR A POOL: 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 WATERLOO CITIZENS FOR A POOL?
- WATERLOO CITIZENS FOR A POOL (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $443 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($413). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WATERLOO CITIZENS FOR A POOL have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $443 in grants to WATERLOO CITIZENS FOR A POOL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WATERLOO CITIZENS FOR A POOL?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $413 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WATERLOO CITIZENS FOR A POOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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