Water for Life Institute

Analysis

Water for Life Institute is a registered charity in United States, based in Kailua Kona, HI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2007, 19 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. 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, Water for Life Institute reported income of $107k and spending of $116k, spending 108% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income fell from $288k to $107k (-63%), an average of -28% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 80%. Over the whole period it spent 74% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Water for Life Institute sits at the 37th percentile: it is larger than about 37% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 39th percentile, and in the 37th percentile within HI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include North Carolina Association of Environmental Professionals ($107k), Coldstream Foundation ($108k) and Muskingum Watershed Conservancy Foundation Inc ($107k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $154k against liabilities of $3,001, net assets of $151k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.