Community Water Center Action Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 824259151
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Visalia, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5597330219
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Voter Education, Registration
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,396,127
- Expenses
- $1,239,281
- Assets
- $1,078,396
- Liabilities
- $463,804
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Susana De Anda (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Susana De Anda (President): $197,696 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Community Water Center Action Fund works to ensure that all communities have access to safe, clean and affordable drinking water through organizing, advocacy and political engagement.
What it reported doing in 2024
Political: Shifting power to deliver safe water access. In an area where safe water had been long denied, we led a transformative local election effort. We supported candidates who prioritized clean and affordable water. The result: a governing board flipped after 20 years of inaction. This victory demonstrates the power of grassroots leadership and civic engagement. We're building local power to advance water justice where its needed most. In Congressional Districts 22 and 13, our team spoke with more than 20,000 voters by phone or at their door to encourage voter turnout.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 64
- Accountability: 65
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.1%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 89.1%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $142.07 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 65.2%; rating input score 65; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.2%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.87; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.43; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.6%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 62.6% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 53.6% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 25.7% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.1% of revenue deployed · 89.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $198K · 3 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 59/100.