Love Water
Legal name: Love-water Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 900838636
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2012
- Location
- Bakersfield, CA, US
- Phone
- 6617038625
- Rating
- 40
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $99,541
- Expenses
- $123,378
- Assets
- $105,928
- Liabilities
- $1,522
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAKE SHERLEY (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JAKE SHERLEY (PRESIDENT)
- CHRISTINA PAVLETICH (TREASURER)
- KRIS PELSTER (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide clean water to people in need and help the employment of the countries we work in.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provided access to clean water to 39,630 people in zambia,31,650 in uganda and 1,505 in nicaragua, through the installation of wells and filters in homes, communities, orphanages and prisons.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -23.9%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.86; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.