Texas · Private foundation
Anchor Watch
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $128k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 62%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $54k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 62% of the organizations Anchor Watch funded were first-time grantees, receiving 55% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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 | 13 | $128k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $86k | 62% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $109k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $94k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $68k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $77k | 9% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $64k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $83k | 10% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Jacinto Community College Foundation Inc | $145,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Houston Maritime Museum | $37,500 | 3 | 6% |
| Maine Maritime Academy | $24,500 | 9 | n/a |
| YES Prep Public Schools Inc | $24,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Suny Maritime Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Women Offshore Foundation | $6,773 | 2 | 2% |
| Blue Water Scholarship Fund | $5,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Sea Sisters Inc | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($519k), not named here.
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: Shell USA Company Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Anchor Watch
- How much does Anchor Watch give?
- Anchor Watch reported 13 grants totaling $127,950 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Anchor Watch fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (94%), Arts & Culture (5%), Employment (1%).
- Who are Anchor Watch's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: San Jacinto Community College Foundation Inc ($145k), Houston Maritime Museum ($38k), Maine Maritime Academy ($25k).
- Does Anchor Watch fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 62% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Anchor Watch accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Anchor Watch?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Shell USA Company Foundation, Orange County Community Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Anchor Watch based?
- Anchor Watch is based in TX.
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