Water Information Sharing & Analysis Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 371445642
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 8664264722
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Disaster Preparedness and Relief Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,547,763
- Expenses
- $1,712,824
- Assets
- $2,397,183
- Liabilities
- $692,183
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- THOMAS B DOBBINS (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
People named in this filing
- JOHN P SULLIVAN (CHAIR)
- SCOTT DEWHIRST (TREASURER)
- SUSAN BREAU (SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Conducts threat analysis and disseminates threat and vulnerability information and best practices for water and wastewater utilities. The center provides a method of communication between the utilities and federal agencies dealing with security, law enforcement, intelligence, the environment, and public health.
What it reported doing in 2025
Develop, operate, and maintain a secure online portal for the sharing of information and analysis related to the security of the public drinking water and wastewater infrastructure of the united states; educate utilities and state and federal agencies about security threats, planning, and response.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 94% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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
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: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.5%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 85%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $0 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 22nd 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.7%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.4; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.5% of revenue deployed · 85% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $1.2M reported
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.