South Dakota · Nonprofit
WESTERN DAKOTA REGIONAL WATER SYSTEM
WESTERN DAKOTA REGIONAL WATER SYSTEM (South Dakota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being ELEVATE RAPID CITY ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What Western Dakota Regional Water System does
Mission
To provide a source of water from the missouri river or any other feasible source to its members to construct, build and own plats, facilities and pipelines for the transporting of said water to its members.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Western Dakota Regional Water System constructs, operates, and maintains a water system for its members
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $1.7M to $3.2M (+91%).
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: 2022 86% · 2023 97% · 2024 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of WESTERN DAKOTA REGIONAL WATER SYSTEM’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% 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.
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.
Chief executive
Cheryl Chapman
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of WESTERN DAKOTA REGIONAL WATER SYSTEM’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.
Where its funders are
100% of WESTERN DAKOTA REGIONAL WATER SYSTEM's grant income comes from South Dakota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
WESTERN DAKOTA REGIONAL WATER SYSTEM runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,003 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,003 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like WESTERN DAKOTA REGIONAL WATER SYSTEM
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 South Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WESTERN DAKOTA REGIONAL WATER SYSTEM: 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 WESTERN DAKOTA REGIONAL WATER SYSTEM?
- WESTERN DAKOTA REGIONAL WATER SYSTEM (South Dakota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being ELEVATE RAPID CITY ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WESTERN DAKOTA REGIONAL WATER SYSTEM have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $25,000 in grants to WESTERN DAKOTA REGIONAL WATER SYSTEM.
- Who is the largest funder of WESTERN DAKOTA REGIONAL WATER SYSTEM?
- ELEVATE RAPID CITY is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WESTERN DAKOTA REGIONAL WATER SYSTEM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Dakota. 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 1 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