National Rural Water Association
Duncan, OK · EIN 73-1006395. Reported 151 grants totalling $153.8M to 51 organizations across tax years 2021-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 51 distinct organizations, with 3% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 100% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $1,052,121. Half of what it reported fell between $800,146 and $1,246,617; the smallest was $42,896 and the largest $1,684,419. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri Rural Water Association | Ashland, MO | $4,357,628 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Texas Rural Water Association | Austin, TX | $4,238,208 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Minnesota Rural Water Association | Elbow Lake, MN | $4,148,562 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Kentucky Rural Water Association | Bowling Green, KY | $4,134,430 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Arkansas Rural Water Association | Lonoke, AR | $4,125,047 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Kansas Rural Water Association | Seneca, KS | $4,093,234 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Illinois Rural Water Association | Taylorville, IL | $4,019,863 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Louisiana Rural Water Association Inc | Kinder, LA | $4,019,542 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Mississippi Rural Water Association Inc | Pearl, MS | $3,993,743 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| California Rural Water Association | Sacramento, CA | $3,927,410 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| New York Rural Water Association Inc | Claverack, NY | $3,917,230 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Alliance of Indiana Rural Waterfoundation Inc | Franklin, IN | $3,883,336 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Tennessee Association of Utility Districts | Murfreesboro, TN | $3,855,784 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Colorado Rural Water Association | Pueblo West, CO | $3,836,422 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| North Carolina Rural Water Association Inc | Welcome, NC | $3,733,610 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Florida Rural Water Association Inc | Tallahassee, FL | $3,627,565 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Alabama Rural Water Association | Montgomery, AL | $3,605,361 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| South Carolina Rural Water Association | Columbia, SC | $3,415,175 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Evergreen Rural Water of Washington | Shelton, WA | $3,402,206 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Michigan Rural Water Association | Okemos, MI | $3,358,471 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Georgia Rural Water Assoc | Barnesville, GA | $3,355,266 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Oklahoma Rural Water Association Inc | Oklahoma City, OK | $3,312,038 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| South Dakota Association of Rural Water Systems | Madison, SD | $3,136,561 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Idaho Rural Water Association | Boise, ID | $3,082,813 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Wisconsin Rural Water Association Inc | Plover, WI | $3,079,852 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| West Virginia Rural Water Association Inc | Scott Depot, WV | $3,072,402 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Montana Rural Water Systems Inc | Great Falls, MT | $3,035,244 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Oregon Association of Water Utilities Inc | Independence, OR | $2,965,738 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Hawaii Rural Water Association | Waikoloa, HI | $2,961,719 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| New Mexico Section American Water Resources Association | Albuquerque, NM | $2,942,706 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Virginia Rural Water Association | Buena Vista, VA | $2,923,754 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Nebraska Rural Water Association Inc | Wahoo, NE | $2,882,282 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Rural Water Association of Utah | Bluffdale, UT | $2,795,796 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Pennsylvania Rural Water Assn | Bellefonte, PA | $2,779,127 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Iowa Rural Water Association | Newton, IA | $2,752,563 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Ohio Rural Water Association | Zanesville, OH | $2,746,937 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| North Dakota Rural Water Systems Association Inc | Bismarck, ND | $2,730,157 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Alaska Rural Water Association | Wasilla, AK | $2,575,547 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Delaware Rural Water Assoc | Milford, DE | $2,468,733 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| New Jersey Rural Water Association Inc | Lanoka Harbor, NJ | $2,386,408 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Mass Rural Water Association | Northfield, MA | $2,383,820 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Vermont Rural Water Association | Essex Junction, VT | $2,303,904 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Maryland Rural Water Association | Glenwood, MD | $2,209,364 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Wyoming Rural Water Foundation | Glenrock, WY | $2,175,566 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Maine Rural Water Association | Richmond, ME | $1,958,064 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Rural Water Association of Arizona | CASA Grande, AZ | $1,929,543 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Granite State Rural Water Association | Plymouth, NH | $1,675,022 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Nevada Rural Water Assoc | Carson City, NV | $1,456,477 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Atlantic States Rural Water & Wastewater Association | Wethersfield, CT | $977,224 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Rhode Island Rural Water Association | North Kingstown, RI | $956,939 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Water Systems Council | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
51 of 51 (100%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 24 of 51 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 49 | $44.1M | $872,514 |
| 2022 | 51 | $52.6M | $1,050,765 |
| 2023 | 51 | $57.1M | $1,138,425 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
3% of its giving went to organizations in Missouri. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
Down to the city
Find more funders like National Rural Water Association
We read newly filed IRS returns and email you the grantmakers whose giving matches your state and cause, as they are published. Free.
No spam, unsubscribe in one click. We never sell or share your address.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $1,052,121 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Missouri.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from National Rural Water Association's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 2915 S 13TH Street, Duncan, OK, 73533.
EIN 73-1006395 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
Is something here wrong about your organization? Email hello@funderscope.com and we will correct it.