· Private foundation
Emily Waters Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k23 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHAGRIN FALLS DOCUMENTARY FILM | $22,540 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,715 |
| FEDERATED CHURCH | $2,000 |
| CARLEE HOUGHTELIN FOUNDATION | $1,750 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIV | $1,300 |
| SHAKER SCHOOLS FOUND | $1,300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| THE TURN | $1,000 |
| CHAGRINFALLS SUBUR BANK VOL | $1,000 |
| CHAGRIN FALLS HISTORICAL SOC | $1,000 |
| BOULDER CTY WILD FIRE FUND | $1,000 |
| LANSON STATE CURTIS MEMORIAL | $750 |
| WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA | $750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 72% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +77% since the first grant, against +70% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TTTHE TURN3× · 2020–2022 · $3k · revenue +8%
- DUDENISON UNIVERSITY3× · 2020–2022 · $3k · revenue +20%
- CFCHAGRIN FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY3× · 2020–2022 · $3k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $19k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $1k
- AXALPHA XI DELTA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +48%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
Social organization to promote academic achievement and leadership training of its members.
The delta chi fraternity provides great advantages derived from a brotherhood of college and university men, appreciating that close association may promote friendship, develop character, advance justice and assist in the acquisition of a…
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
The mission of chapman university is to provide personalized education of distinction that leads to inquiring, ethical and productive lives as global citizens.
See schedule o.drake's mission is to provide an exceptional learning environment that prepares students for meaningful personal lives, professional accomplishments, and responsible global citizenship. the drake experience is distinguished…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
The purpose of this corporation is to perform the charitable functions of and carry out the charitable purposes of charles r. drew university of medicine and science (cdu), a california nonprofit public benefit corporation. this…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Clarkson university is an independent, nationally recognized technological university whose faculty of teacher-scholars aspires to offer superior instruction and engage in high-quality research and scholarship in engineering, business,…
Delaware state university is a public, comprehensive, 1890 land-grant institution that offers access and opportunity to diverse populations from delaware, the nation, and the world. (continued on schedule o.)building on its heritage as a…
Alpha chi omega makes a promise to empower each member to become the best version of herself. the real. strong. women. experience delivers on this promise by providing an environment where members take on the issues and challenges that…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alpha Xi Delta Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Geauga County Library Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 50 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE TURN ↗
- Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHAGRIN FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BETA THETA PI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHAGRIN FALLS MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds ALPHA XI DELTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OMICRON DELTA KAPPA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GEAUGA COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH RUSSELL POLICE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHAGRIN VALLEY LITTLE THEATRE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Emily Waters Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.