The walk that got shorter
Eleven-year-old Saya used to leave home before dawn to haul water from a river two hours away. A new tap stand now sits a five-minute walk from her door. She is back in school for the first full year of her life.
Annual Report · Fiscal Year 2025
Where every drop —
and every dollar — went.
Caudal brings clean water within a 15-minute walk of every rural family we serve. This is the full account of what your giving did in 2025.
No spin, no rounding in our favor. Figures below are drawn from books independently audited by Mora & Finch LLP, who issued a clean opinion on 11 April 2026.
01 — The year in figures
Four numbers that define 2025.
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48,200
People reached
with safe, year-round water across 9 regions
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$3,140,000
Funds raised
from 12,800 donors — 89% recurring
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27
Programs run
water, sanitation & hygiene initiatives
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92%
Reached programs
of every dollar went straight to the field
02 — Where every dollar goes
Of every dollar you gave, 92¢ reached the field.
The breakdown below covers all $3,140,000 raised in 2025. Hover or read the legend for what each slice paid for.
- Water systems & wells
- 52%
- Drilling, piping, pumps, and community tap stands.
- Sanitation & hygiene
- 21%
- Latrines and household handwashing programs.
- Monitoring & repair
- 11%
- Mobile teams keeping every system flowing year-round.
- Community training
- 8%
- Local water committees and on-site technicians.
- Operations & admin
- 5%
- Staff, audit fees, and field offices.
- Fundraising
- 3%
- Reaching the next cohort of recurring donors.
03 — Milestones of the year
Twelve months, one through-line: keep the water on.
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February
First deep well in the highlands
Year-round water reached 1,400 people in the Q’eros valley.
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April
Independent audit, clean opinion
Books reviewed and signed off by Mora & Finch LLP.
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July
WASH programs reach a 9th region
27 active programs now span the country.
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September
Mobile repair fleet launched
Five teams keep 600+ existing systems flowing.
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December
$3.14M raised — our most transparent year
89% of gifts came from recurring monthly donors.
04 — Impact stories
Behind every percentage, a person.
A village that fixes its own well
In Aullagas, we did not just drill — we trained a local water committee and two technicians. When a pump failed in October, they had it running again before our team could even reach the road.
From boil-water to safe taps
A combined wells-and-hygiene push in the eastern lowlands paired clean water with handwashing programs in every household. Clinic visits for waterborne illness fell sharply within a single rainy season.
05 — Audit & transparency
We hand the books to people paid to doubt them.
Caudal’s 2025 financial statements were audited by Mora & Finch LLP, an independent chartered firm with no other relationship to the organization. They issued an unqualified (“clean”) opinion on 11 April 2026.
Governance sits with a nine-member volunteer board; no board member is compensated. Our two highest salaries are published in the full report.
How we count “people reached”
We count a person as reached only once a water point is built, flow-tested, and handed to a trained local committee — not at ground-breaking. Figures are reconciled against committee logs each quarter and de-duplicated across overlapping programs.
- RC-2014-0099
- Registered charity number
- Audited since 2016
- Ten consecutive clean opinions
- Platinum
- Full-transparency seal
- 100%
- Restricted gifts honored
Read the whole thing.
The full 2025 Impact Report — audited financials, board roster, salary bands, and program methodology — in one PDF.
06 — Keep supporting us
$30 a month keeps one tap stand flowing for a year.
Recurring gifts are what let us promise communities water that lasts — not a one-off well that breaks. Pick what works for you.