The Digdeep Right to Water Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 460686920
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4242850773
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Water Resource, Wetlands Conservation and Management
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $14,596,293
- Expenses
- $16,679,425
- Assets
- $22,721,804
- Liabilities
- $491,919
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GEORGE MCGRAW (FOUNDER & CEO)
- ANNE-MARIE JONES (PRESIDENT & CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER)
- KIMBERLY LEMME (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, DIGDEEP LABS)
Highest reported compensation
- GEORGE MCGRAW (FOUNDER & CEO): $329,764 total reported compensation
- ANNE-MARIE JONES (PRESIDENT & CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $252,769 total reported compensation
- AMANDA RYAN-SMITH (CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER): $241,349 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Digdeep is a human rights organization working to ensure that every american has equitable access to water and sanitation forever. We do this through our impact model, which focuses on community-led water projects; education & research; and (continued on schedule o) mobilizing america and building the wash sector.
What it reported doing in 2025
Building the sector and mobilizing america is working collectively with community leaders, residents, nonprofit organizations, the public sector, and other experts across the nation to coordinate solutions, develop policies and practices, and work on implementing solutions at scale to solve the water access crisis.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.2%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 84%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.79 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90%; rating input score 90; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -14.3%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.36; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.5%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 26.4% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.9% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 97.2% of revenue deployed · 84% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 10 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $14M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $330K · 17 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.1M reported
- Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 12 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.