Bethesda Water Supply Corporation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

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

8 people listed

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

To provide the members with a potable water supply.

Provided potable water to members of the corporation.

Revenue model: Earned-program. 94% 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 available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
Foreign activity oversight: Limited
Grant itemization coverage: Limited
Major donor itemization: Limited
Related-party transparency: Limited

Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass

Operating margin: 10.6%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.23; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 1.6%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

Program expense growth: Limited
Revenue growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
Leadership: top reported pay $157K · 8 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $731K reported
Consistency: 12 of 12 current checks pass
Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes executive pay
Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
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.
Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

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