Water Environment Federation: $26.8M Revenue, $27.9M Expenses

Water Environment Federation grades a B on the NonprofitTruth efficiency rubric. 69/100 on the composite — above the national median, with strong performance on some factors balanced by middling performance on others.

Water Environment Federation reported $26.8M in 2023 revenue — a mid-sized nonprofit by U.S. standards. Organizations in this bracket typically operate with a small permanent staff, project-based program structures, and modest reserves. Financial health is a strength: Water Environment Federation carries a healthy operating-reserve cushion against $27.9M in annual expenses, the kind of balance-sheet stability that helps an organization weather funding gaps without cutting programs.

Five-year revenue is essentially flat — Water Environment Federation's funding base appears stable but not growing. For mature organizations this is often the steady state; for younger ones it can signal a funding plateau worth diagnosing. Compensation for current officers and key employees runs $867,776 against $26.8M in revenue — within the band third-party charity raters typically consider reasonable for an organization of this size and complexity. This is an aggregate across all listed officers, not a single executive's salary. Water Environment Federation works in Environment & Animals — environmental, conservation, animal-welfare, and natural-resources programs. The sector spans large international conservation groups and small local land trusts; the financial profile varies accordingly.