Drive for Water

Analysis

Drive for Water is a registered charity in United States, based in Trabuco Cyn, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2012, 14 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Drive for Water reported income of $82k and spending of $84k, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $98k to $82k (-16%), an average of -4.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 295%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Drive for Water sits at the 29th percentile: it is larger than about 29% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 32nd percentile, and in the 34th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lithuanian Childrens Hope ($82k), Uplift Haiti Inc ($82k) and Iraq-Mn Art Project ($82k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 302% of the total. At year end it held assets of $21k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $21k.