Jackson County Water Authority
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 351277125
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Brownstown, IN, USA
- Phone
- 8123583654
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,688,342
- Expenses
- $4,557,377
- Assets
- $34,370,267
- Liabilities
- $17,410,512
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STEVE RITTER (PRESIDENT)
- GARY WENTE (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- LARRY MCINTOSH (GENERAL MANAGER): $109,316 total reported compensation
- ROBERT AKIN (BOARD MEMBER): $3,600 total reported compensation
- GLENN HENRY (BOARD MEMBER): $3,600 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Distribute water to members in the surrounding area
What it reported doing in 2025
Distribute water to members in the surroundings area.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% 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: 82
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 60
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; 63rd 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.9%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.54; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.51; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $109K · 11 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $841K reported
- Consistency: 12 of 12 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.