Missouri · Nonprofit
WATERS OF GRACE
WATERS OF GRACE (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $570 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($370). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $154k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $570
- Net assets
- $23k
What Waters of Grace does
Mission
The purpose of Waters of Grace is to share the love and grace of Jesus Christ with people in need. Through God's word we learn that Jesus Christ brings us living water and grace upon grace. As disciples working together through Jesus Christ, Waters of Grace can (may) bring gifts of grace and love to make a difference in peoples' lives. Waters of Grace provides community to global outreach and discipleship which assists individuals or groups, whose needs may be, but are not limited to physical, financial, spiritual or educational, as well as support other organizations whose mission reflect the same.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Outreach to Dina's Orphanage in Haiti began in 2015. Dina currently has 15 orphans plus 4 helpers, but has been as high as 31. Our monthly outreach includes money for food, helpers for the orphanage, school expenses, propane and transportation costs. A mission team traveled to Haiti in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 to help the orphanage with special project needs including a well, stove, and bunk beds for the kids. Our outreach has also included medical expenses and funeral expenses when needed. In 2020 the orphanage moved to a new safer and more sanitary location with access to water. Waters of Grace helped with moving costs, a water holding tank, a motorcycle for transportation, and new mattresses for the children. In 2021 the orphanage had to move again. Due to increasing violence in the area, the children were moved again in 2024 closer to the Dominican border. They are able to attend school and are thriving, however, they continue to be in need. They had to leave everything behind except for a small bag of clothes for each child, and were sleeping on the floor. Waters of Grace helped with moving costs and school fees. In 2025 we also helped them get new beds and mattresses.
$0 spentof which $20,380 as grantsOutreach to Haitian Support/God's Lambs began in 2018. God's Lambs Orphanage was created in 2018 with 18 kids ages 3-11 living on the streets, homeless, starving and some of them sick. Many were abandoned so young that they didn't even know their names. In 2020, the orphans were moved to a safer location due to the political unrest in the country, and were joined by 6 other orphans being supported by a local church. Bunk beds were provided for the orphans, as well as goats and chickens. The children attended a local school in walking distance of their location, and received medical care when needed. 6 additional orphans were added in 2021. In 2023, due to political unrest and gang violence, the children were moved to safer locations either with extended family members or to a local church supported orphanage. In 2024, grants also include outreach to global charitable organizations for disaster relief and food distribution with an emphasis on serving children and widows. In 2025, grants were made to Haiti Mission of Hope and Care to build a brighter future for the Haiti island of La Gonave to transform lives through accessible healthcare, quality education and strong community…
$0 spentof which $50,855 as grantsOutreach to children and families in Haiti began in 2016. Several children/families have been sponsored, helping them with essential items such as food, clothing, shelter, medical care and school costs. In 2020, Waters of Grace also helped with funeral costs for a Pastor and his wife related to one of our sponsor families who were tragically robbed and killed. In 2021, Waters of Grace provided aid to earthquake victims also. In 2025, two families were helped with immigration paperwork and fees to be able to legally stay in the U.S.
$0 spentof which $86,066 as grants
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $21k to $14k (−33%).
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.
100% of WATERS OF GRACE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $200 → $106.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 OF GRACE’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 OF GRACE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% 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
65% 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 OF GRACE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 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
65% of WATERS OF GRACE'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 $200 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Missouri funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $370 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.
Against its field
WATERS OF GRACE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WATERS OF GRACE
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
32%
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 WATERS OF GRACE: 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 WATERS OF GRACE?
- WATERS OF GRACE (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $570 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($370). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WATERS OF GRACE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $570 in grants to WATERS OF GRACE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WATERS OF GRACE?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $370 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WATERS OF GRACE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 2 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