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WATERS EDGE MINISTRIES INC

WATERS EDGE MINISTRIES INC (Indiana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $197,200 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($170,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$90k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$197k
Net assets
$30k
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%
01What it does

What Waters Edge Ministries Inc does

Mission

Water's edge gathers as a community on a weekly basis and also throughout the week, one of one with the executive director to focus on studying god's word as depicted in the bible and to assist those members struggling with emotional, health, financial or other needs.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Water's edge gathers as a community on a weekly basis and also throughout the week, one of one with the executive director to focus on studying god's word as depicted in the bible and to assist those members struggling with emotional, health, financial or other needs.

  2. Water's edge gathers as a community on a weekly basis and also throughout the week, one of one with the executive director to focus on studying god's word as depicted in the bible and to assist those members struggling with emotional, health, financial or other needs.

    $89,600 spent
    100% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $89,600.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($88k) Expenses 100 ($98k) Net assets 100 ($5k)2019 Revenue 112 ($99k) Expenses 100 ($98k) Net assets 111 ($5k)2020 Revenue 103 ($91k) Expenses 92 ($91k) Net assets 111 ($5k)2021 Revenue 111 ($98k) Expenses 100 ($98k) Net assets 111 ($5k)2022 Revenue 127 ($112k) Expenses 103 ($101k) Net assets 350 ($16k)2023 Revenue 122 ($108k) Expenses 103 ($101k) Net assets 507 ($23k)2024 Revenue 123 ($108k) Expenses 103 ($101k) Net assets 665 ($30k)2025 Revenue 102 ($90k) Expenses 91 ($90k) Net assets 674 ($30k)
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Revenue (102)Expenses (91)Net assets (674)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $5k to $16k (+216%).

$5k
$5k
$5k
$5k
$16k
$23k
$30k
$30k
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Total assets

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of WATERS EDGE MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,675 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$10k
’18
$487
’19
$0
’20
$0
’21
$11k
’22
$7k
’23
$7k
’24
$400
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $4k → $21k.

3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 WATERS EDGE MINISTRIES 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

WATERS EDGE MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% 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

100% 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 WATERS EDGE MINISTRIES INC.

86%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2021 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

100% of WATERS EDGE MINISTRIES INC'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $197k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WATERS EDGE MINISTRIES INC has grown faster than half of the 7,232 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin0% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,232 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IN

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Questions and answers

Who funds WATERS EDGE MINISTRIES INC?
WATERS EDGE MINISTRIES INC (Indiana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $197,200 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($170,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does WATERS EDGE MINISTRIES INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $197,200 in grants to WATERS EDGE MINISTRIES INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WATERS EDGE MINISTRIES INC?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $170,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WATERS EDGE MINISTRIES INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 3 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