Washington, D.C. · Private foundation
Alfred N Watson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $36k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 39
- Grants FY2025
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 42
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $238k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Alfred N Watson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 39 | $36k | 23% |
| FY2024 | 42 | $57k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $24k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $21k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 42 | $41k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $32k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $32k | 37% |
| FY2018 | 33 | $35k | 18% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $9,100 | 9 | 0% |
| United Way of Greater Fall River Inc | $8,650 | 7 | 0% |
| Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc | $7,250 | 7 | 0% |
| Catholic Relief Services | $6,650 | 9 | n/a |
| Habitat for Humanity Inc | $6,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Capital Area Food Bank Inc | $6,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Abby Kelley Foster House Inc | $6,336 | 4 | 0% |
| Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation | $6,250 | 9 | 0% |
| Some Inc | $5,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $5,250 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 52 recipients with no EIN on record ($168k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Alfred N Watson Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Philip Snyder Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Gannett Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Verizon Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
About Alfred N Watson Family Foundation
- How much does Alfred N Watson Family Foundation give?
- Alfred N Watson Family Foundation reported 39 grants totaling $36,350 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 42 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Alfred N Watson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (25%), Housing & Shelter (13%), Education (10%).
- Who are Alfred N Watson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($9k), United Way of Greater Fall River Inc ($9k), Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc ($7k).
- Does Alfred N Watson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Alfred N Watson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Alfred N Watson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Philip Snyder Foundation.
- Where is Alfred N Watson Family Foundation based?
- Alfred N Watson Family Foundation is based in DC.
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