NonprofitsFood & Water Watch

Food, Agriculture & Nutrition

Food & Water Watch

WASHINGTON, DC

Total revenue

$20.7M

Total expenses

$16.0M

Net assets

$30.5M

Grants received

$56.6M

425 grants

EIN

320160439

Tax year

2024

Mission

See part iii, line 1.

Programs

2 programs

Climate - working at the state and local level to educate and advocate on climate change by eliminating the production and use of fossil fuels which makes progress towards banning fracking and stopping new and existing fossil fuel infrastructure.

Expenses: $3.2MGrants: $340K

Water - the water program educates and advocates about affordable, publicly controlled drinking water, health and environmental dangers of bottled water, health and environmental dangers of fracking and fossil fuels, the importance of moving from fossil fuels to safe, renewable energy and the importance of public investment in infrastructure.

Expenses: $3.1MGrants: $23K

Financials

FY 2024

Revenue

Contributions & grants$19.7M
Program service revenue
Investment income$826K
Other revenue$248K
Total revenue$20.7M

Expenses

Grants paid$404K
Salaries & benefits$11.3M
Fundraising$2.1M
Other expenses$3.9M
Total expenses$16.0M
Total assets$33.5M
Net assets$30.5M

People

15 listed

NameRoleCompensation

WENONAH HAUTER

FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Board

$226K

36.1 hrs/wk

CALAND BARNEY

CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER

Board

$173K

39.13 hrs/wk

DAVID HUNT

DIRECTOR

Board

0.5 hrs/wk

ZEPHYR TEACHOUT

DIRECTOR

Board

0.5 hrs/wk

ROBERT HOWARTH

DIRECTOR

Board

0.5 hrs/wk

MICHELE MERKEL

DIRECTOR

Board

0.5 hrs/wk

SHAWN MCKENZIE

DIRECTOR

Board

0.5 hrs/wk

LISA SCHUBERT

SECRETARY

Board

0.5 hrs/wk

MARY RICCI

TREASURER

Board

1 hrs/wk

RUSSELL GREENE

DIRECTOR

Board

0.5 hrs/wk

MAUDE BARLOW

CHAIR

Board

0.5 hrs/wk

TAMARA TRIPP

MANAGNG DIR. OF PHILANTHROPY

Staff

$174K

39.57 hrs/wk

EMILY WURTH

MANAGING DIRECTOR OF ORGANIZING

Staff

$171K

37.4 hrs/wk

MARK SCHLOSBERG

MANAGING DIR. OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

Staff

$165K

37.8 hrs/wk

MITCHELL JONES

DEPUTY DIR.OF FOOD & WATER ACTION

Staff

$165K

33.1 hrs/wk

Independent contractors

FUSE FUNDRASING GROUP LLC

FUNDRAISING SERVICES

$538K

CLIFTONLARSONALLEN LLP

ACCOUNTING CONSULTING AND SOFTWARE SERVI

$221K

DJMC LLC

PRINTING SERVICES

$158K

RWT PRODUCTION LLC

DIRECT MAIL SERVICES

$155K

JACKSON RIVER LLC

DATABASE SUPPORT SERVICES

$152K

Grants received

Showing 200 of 425

FromAmountPurposeYear
$6.5M
Environment & Animals
2024
$1.2M
WORKING TOWARDS A RESILIENT AND EQUITABLE FOOD SYSTEM, ENCOURAGING A JUST TRANSITION AWAY FROM FOSSIL FUELS
2024
$228K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2024
$200K
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
2024
$191K
Food and Water watch
2024
$100K
to build public support for policies that reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions and generate opposition to false climate solutions in Iowa, a key state for influencing national agricultural policy
2024
$85K
CHARITABLE
2024
$50K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2024
$45K
SUPPORT OF THE FOOD AND WATER WATCH ANNUAL BENEFIT
2024
$45K
ENVIRONMENTAL
2024
$45K
GRANTS DIRECTED BY CFGCR: HEALTHY PANTRY INITIATIVE
2024
$30K
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
2024
$25K
FOOD, NUTRITION
2024
$25K
FOOD/AGRICULTURE/NUTRITION
2024
$25K
PROJECT SUPPORT - ENVIRONMENT
2024
$18K
SUPPORT CLEAN RENEWABLE ENERGY
2024
$16K
ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELO
2024
$15K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2024
$15K
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
2024
$10K
UNRESTRICTED GENERAL SUPPORT
2024
$10K
ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELO
2024
$10K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2024
$5K
Organization's legal team activities Fund
2024
$5K
CHARITABLE
2024
$5K
TRUSTEE GRANT - SHARON KIND
2024
$3K
CHARITABLE
2024
$2K
CHARITY
2024
$2K
TO ASSIST THE ORGANIZATION IN CARRYING OUT ITS EXEMPT PURPOSE
2024
$1K
General & Unrestricted
2024
$1K
ALL CONTRIBUTIONS ARE FOR THE GENERAL SUPPORT OF THE 501(C)(3) NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS.
2024
$1K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2024
$500
WITH MORE THAN 2 MILLION SUPPORTERS, FOOD & WATER WATCH FIGHTS FOR SUSTAINABLE FOOD, CLEAN WATER, AND A LIVABLE CLIMATE FOR ALL OF US. FOOD & WATER WATCH PROTECTS PEOPLE FROM THE CORPORATIONS AND OTHER DESTRUCTIVE ECONOMIC INTERESTS THAT PUT PROFIT AHEAD OF EVERYTHING ELSE.
2024
$500
RESEARCH - FOOD & WATER SAFETY
2024
$500
General & Unrestricted
2024
$30
GENERAL OPERATING PURPOSE
2024
$6.1M
SOCIAL SERVICES
2023
$4.0M
GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
2023
$2.2M
FOOD SYSTEMS
2023
$1.1M
ENCOURAGING A JUST TRANSITION AWAY FROM FOSSIL FUELS, WORKING TOWARDS A RESILIENT AND EQUITABLE FOOD SYSTEM
2023
$450K
To support research, education, and outreach about US energy systems
2023
$225K
Mega-dairy work in New Mexico
2023
$220K
TO STRENGTHEN PROTECTIONS FROM SHALE DEVELOPMENT IN THE REGION
2023
$155K
For grant recipient's exempt purposes
2023
$151K
LEGAL ADVOCACY
2023
$125K
TO SUPPORT PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AND CIVIC INVOLVEMENT IN ACTIONS TO REDUCE THE HARM FROM INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY IN ALLEGHENY COUNTY
2023
$125K
ENVIRONMENT - PROJECT SUPPORT
2023
$101K
General support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes
2023
$100K
GENERAL OPERATING PURPOSE
2023
$100K
To support a grassroots organizing campaign to increase public support for policies that would reduce agricultural climate emissions and generate opposition to false solutions in Iowa
2023
$100K
PROTECT CALIFORNIA'S WATER CAMPAIGN
2023
$100K
ENVIRONMENT - PROJECT SUPPORT
2023
$85K
CHARITABLE
2023
$65K
PROJECT SUPPORT - ENVIRONMENT
2023
$50K
ENVIRONMENT - PROJECT SUPPORT
2023
$50K
GRANT AWARDED PER THE RECOMMENDATION OF A DONOR ADVISOR AND APPROVED BY CFGCR FOR UNRESTRICTED USE
2023
$50K
SUPPORT FOR WORK ON GOVERNMENT AND CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY.
2023
$45K
ENVIRONMENTAL
2023
$26K
FOOD, NUTRITION
2023
$25K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2023
$25K
FWW CA Water Support
2023
$25K
FWW CA Program
2023
$25K
FOOD/AGRICULTURE/NUTRITION
2023
$25K
ENVIRONMENT - PROJECT SUPPORT
2023
$20K
RESEARCH - FOOD & WATER SAFETY
2023
$20K
CAMPAIGN TO STOP OIL AND GAS INFRAST
2023
$15K
OPERATING SUPPORT
2023
$15K
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
2023
$15K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2023
$15K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2023
$12K
GRANT APPROVED BY CFGCR FOR FOOD AS MEDICINE
2023
$10K
UNRESTRICTED GENERAL SUPPORT
2023
$9K
FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
2023
$8K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2023
$6K
JOHN W. MACK FELLOWS PROGRAM
2023
$6K
FOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
2023
$5K
GENERAL FUND CONTRIBUTION
2023
$5K
GENERAL OPERATIONS
2023
$5K
GRANT AWARDED PER THE RECOMMENDATION OF A DONOR ADVISOR AND APPROVED BY CFGCR FOR THE FOOD ACCESS REFERRAL LINE
2023
$5K
TO FURTHER THE CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION
2023
$5K
501(C)(3) ACTIVITIES
2023
$5K
CHARITABLE
2023
$5K
UNRESTRICTED CHARITABLE GIFT
2023
$5K
TRUSTEE GRANT - SHARON KIND
2023
$3K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2023
$3K
Support for clean water, sustainable food and a livable climate
2023
$3K
To mobilize people to solve food, water and climate problems
2023
$3K
CHARITABLE
2023
$2K
OPERATING SUPPORT
2023
$2K
CHARITY
2023
$2K
TO ASSIST THE ORGANIZATION IN CARRYING OUT ITS EXEMPT PURPOSE
2023
$1K
General & Unrestricted
2023
$1K
AID DONEE ORGANIZATION TO CARRY OUT FUNCTIONS
2023
$1K
CHARITABLE PURPOSES
2023
$1K
PRESERVE THE ENVIRONMENT
2023
$1K
GENERAL OPERATING
2023
$1K
ALL CONTRIBUTIONS ARE FOR THE GENERAL SUPPORT OF THE 501(C)(3) NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS.
2023
$500
General Operating Fund
2023
$500
FURTHER ENVIRONMENT
2023
$500
General & Unrestricted
2023
$200
PROGRAM/OPERATING SUPPORT
2023
$100
ASSISTANCE WITH 501(C)(3) PURPOSE
2023
$100
GENERAL CONTRIBUTION TO SERVE THE ORGANIZATION'S NEEDS
2023
$100
UNRESTRICTED USE IN CHARITABLE ENDEAVOR
2023
$80
MATCHING GIFTS
2023
$40
PROGRAM/OPERATING SUPPORT
2023
$40
PROGRAM/OPERATING SUPPORT
2023
$40
PROGRAM/OPERATING SUPPORT
2023
$40
PROGRAM/OPERATING SUPPORT
2023
$33
PROGRAM/OPERATING SUPPORT
2023
$25
PROGRAM/OPERATING SUPPORT
2023
$6.1M
SOCIAL SERVICES
2022
$650K
ENCOURAGING A JUST TRANSITION AWAY FROM FOSSIL FUELS
2022
$326K
General Operating Support, support of Campaign for Family Farms and the Environment, support for legal advocacy to increase regulation of factory farms
2022
$220K
TO STRENGTHEN PROTECTIONS FROM SHALE DEVELOPMENT IN ALLEGHENY COUNTY
2022
$215K
WORKING TOWARDS A RESILIENT AND EQUITABLE FOOD SYSTEM
2022
$213K
Food and Water watch
2022
$213K
Food and Water watch
2022
$150K
Mega-dairy work in New Mexico
2022
$149K
For grant recipient's exempt purposes
2022
$125K
TO SUPPORT RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND OUTREACH ABOUT CLEAN AND HEALTHY HOMES
2022
$125K
PUBLIC WATER FOR ALL CAMPAIGN
2022
$100K
For base-building, organizing, and bolstering narrative-shifting strategies to address methane from agriculture and factory farm biogas, and to increase support for a more just, sustainable, and climate-smart agriculture policy in Iowa and nationally
2022
$100K
MOVING THE GREATER NEW YORK REGION OFF FRACKED GAS
2022
$100K
TO PROTECT CALIFORNIA'S WATER RESOURCES FROM AGRICULTURAL AND FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY ABUSE
2022
$75K
SUPPORT FOR WORK ON GOVERNMENT AND CORPORATE ACCOUNTABIITY
2022
$67K
PROJECT SUPPORT-ENVIRONMENT
2022
$60K
TO SUPPORT CIVIC ENGAGEMENT EFFORTS IN ALLEGHENY COUNTY TO BUILD MOMENTUM FOR NEW ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONS
2022
$50K
EXEMPT PURPOSE OF ORGANIZATION
2022
$50K
PROJECT SUPPORT-ENVIRONMENT
2022
$45K
ENVIRONMENTAL
2022
$45K
TO ADDRESS CARBON-INTENSIVE INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE OHIO RIVER VALLEY
2022
$40K
PROJECT SUPPORT-ENVIRONMENT
2022
$30K
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
2022
$30K
PROJECT SUPPORT-ENVIRONMENT
2022
$30K
COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS IN VENTURA COUNTY
2022
$26K
FOOD, NUTRITION
2022
$25K
CURRENT USE FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES
2022
$25K
VOLUNTEER NETWORK
2022
$25K
TURNING CALIFORNIA INTO A RENEWABLE ENERGY LEADER
2022
$25K
FOOD/AGRICULTURE/NUTRITION
2022
$25K
GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
2022
$20K
GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
2022
$20K
Clean Energy and Just Transition
2022
$20K
GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES
2022
$18K
THE MUNICIPAL ORDINA
2022
$15K
Fluoride Legal program and for work in Oregon on Factory Farming, led by Tarah Heinzen
2022
$15K
OPERATING SUPPORT
2022
$15K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2022
$15K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2022
$10K
General & Unrestricted
2022
$10K
RESEARCH - FOOD & WATER SAFETY
2022
$10K
UNRESTRICTED GENERAL SUPPORT
2022
$10K
501(C)(3) ACTIVITIES
2022
$8K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2022
$8K
FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
2022
$6K
JOHN W. MACK FELLOWS PROGRAM
2022
$5K
SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS GOALS
2022
$5K
TO FURTHER THE CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION
2022
$5K
GENERAL FUND CONTRIBUTION
2022
$5K
CHARITABLE
2022
$4K
FOOD AND WATER SUSTAINABLITY
2022
$4K
CHARITABLE
2022
$4K
PROGRAM SUPPORT
2022
$3K
To mobilize people to solve food, water and climate problems
2022
$2K
TO ASSIST THE ORGANIZATION IN CARRYING OUT ITS EXEMPT PURPOSE
2022
$2K
UNRESTRICTED
2022

Funded by

$56.6M from 156 funders · 425 grants · 2016–2024

Columbus Foundation

$14.3M · 3 grants · 2020–2023

Silicon Valley Community Foundation

$13.1M · 4 grants · 2020–2024

New Tamarind Foundation Inc

$4.0M · 1 grant · 2023

The Schmidt Family Foundation

$3.8M · 5 grants · 2020–2024

Santa Barbara Foundation

$2.2M · 1 grant · 2023

The Heinz Endowments

$1.2M · 9 grants · 2020–2023

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

$1.1M · 7 grants · 2018–2023

Details

EIN320160439
NTEE codeK05
Subsection03
Ruling date2006-02
Formed2005
Employees123
Volunteers2462
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