Living Water Project

Analysis

Living Water Project is a registered charity in United States, based in Brentwood, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2014, 12 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 (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Living Water Project reported income of $461k and spending of $499k, spending 108% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $305k to $461k (+51%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 59%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Living Water Project sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile, and in the 70th percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ubuntu Global Connections Inc ($461k), Take Heart Project ($462k) and Camp Lightbulb Incorporated ($461k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $238k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $238k.