Alberta Water System Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
721058154
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Castor, LA, USA
Phone
3185448485
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Public Utilities

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$459,155
Expenses
$407,019
Assets
$2,813,086
Liabilities
$1,152,766

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ROY SULLIVAN (PRESIDENT)
  • RANDY HILL (VICE-PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • ROY SULLIVAN (PRESIDENT)
  • RANDY HILL (VICE-PRESIDENT)
  • SCOTT YARNELL (SEC/TREAS)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Produce and provide potable water to residential housing and businesses within the unincorporated areas castor, jamestown and ashland, la. Aws has several deep water wells that distribute water by using main water.

What it reported doing in 2025

Alberta water system, inc, is like a mutual ditch or irrigation company in the we provide a benefit and service to the members of the system to which no local, state or federal governmental agency provides drinking water for residential and business customers. Every customer is a memberof aws and has a right to vote on who serves on the board of directors. A director has to be a member customer of aws and has to be nominated to the board by other members customers. Aws was created by members customers as a not for profit company and pays no dividends or sells any stock. We have two water processing plants with ground storage water tanks, water treatment facilities at each plant and approximately 100 miles of main water lines throughout the area we service. Customers are connected to the main lines via water meters and they pay for metered water service. Aws has one operator that operates the water system 7 days a week which consist of plant checks, water sampling testing, repair of main water lines and installation of meters.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 91% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 94
  • Sustainability: 62
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 11.4%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.91; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.41; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -41.7% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.