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West Atlanta Watershed Alliance
West Atlanta Watershed Alliance (Georgia) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,178,966 to it, the largest being WINDWARD FUND ($760,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What West Atlanta Watershed Alliance does
Mission
The mission of the West Atlanta Watershed Alliance is to improve the quality of life within the West Atlanta Watershed by protecting, preserving, and restoring our communitys natural resources.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
WAWA partnered with the City of Atlanta Department of Parks, Recreation, and Cultural Affairs and other partners to provide environmental education, environmental stewardship and health and wellness programming at the Outdoor Activity Center, Cascade Springs Nature Preserve, the Lionel Hampton-Beecher Hills Preserve. Specifically, WAWA led repeated and significant experiences for youth from underserved communities in the outdoors as well as led the Atlanta, GA Nature Everywhere initiative to determine a collective vision statement and goals with our partners. We also facilitated over 1,015 hours of outdoor youth and family programs, led youth and families in hiking 1,900 miles of trails, and engaged over 4,739 adults and children in outdoor exploration, learning, and fun!
$377,597 spent40% of program spendingIn partnership with grassroots community-based partners, environmental non-profit organizations, and local collegiate partners such as the Proctor Creek Stewardship Council, Green Team of English Avenue, Cascade Springs Nature Conservancy, Hunter Hills, the Mozeley Park Neighborhood Association, the Student Conservation Association, and Spelman and Morehouse Colleges, WAWA led 25 nature-based, environmental stewardship volunteer projects helping to sustain the 22-acre old growth urban forest at the OAC and other West Atlanta parks and greenspaces in the Proctor, Utoy, and Sandy Creek Watersheds. With these efforts, we cleared over 17,000 sq. ft. of nonnative species and engaged over 500 volunteers to care for the native species, food, and wildlife at the OAC. In addition to the OAC, we cleared non-native species, cleaned West Atlanta waterways, and mapped urban heat islands across West Atlanta neighborhoods through additional volunteers in over 2,170 hours of service, and contributing over $72,471 in volunteer labour to steward the City of Atlantas parks and greenspaces and to advance local climate resilience initiatives.
$220,667 spent23% of program spendingWAWA invested in community-led solutions to environmental challenges in urban watershed by co-facilitating the training of 10, Metropolitan Atlanta-based community leaders through the Atlanta Watershed Learning Network (AWLN) and supporting their initiation of community-based Champions projects to address watershed protection, equitable development, and environmental justice issues in their communities. WAWA also helped to grow and distributed 994 pounds of fresh produce through a community-based mutual aid effort; conducted on-site torus at the Hartnett Community Garden at the OAC and led educational programming on local food sovereignty efforts; hosted a capacity-building workshop for 40 community based organizations to learn grant-writing,environmental mapping, and coalition-building; and led place-keeping efforts through our OAC/Bush Mountain Oral History Project.
$285,784 spent30% of program spendingProvided land and water stewardship of publicly forested greenspaces in and waterways through water quality monitoring, trail maintenance,creek clean-up activities, and invasive removal. Delivered watershed-based environmental training programs,conducted community-engaged research on urban heat islands and heat resilience.
$58,607 spent6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $942,655.
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 2021 to 2022, from $766k to $1.3M (+70%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 33% · 2020 9% · 2022 2% · 2023 8% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of West Atlanta Watershed Alliance’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Patrice Francis
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $22k → $1.3M.
7 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 West Atlanta Watershed Alliance’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 funders by total. 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
West Atlanta Watershed Alliance has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
74% 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 West Atlanta Watershed Alliance.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 75% · 2019 66% · 2020 24% · 2021 22% · 2022 21% · 2023 37% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
50% of West Atlanta Watershed Alliance's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
West Atlanta Watershed Alliance draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $975k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Against its field
West Atlanta Watershed Alliance holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding West Atlanta Watershed Alliance receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $227k on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$175k
- Department of Agriculture$52k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like West Atlanta Watershed Alliance
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% 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
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for West Atlanta Watershed Alliance: 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 West Atlanta Watershed Alliance?
- West Atlanta Watershed Alliance (Georgia) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,178,966 to it, the largest being WINDWARD FUND ($760,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does West Atlanta Watershed Alliance have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $4,178,966 in grants to West Atlanta Watershed Alliance, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of West Atlanta Watershed Alliance?
- WINDWARD FUND is the largest funder on record, with $760,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like West Atlanta Watershed Alliance find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 47 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