Minnesota · Private foundation
Frederick O Watson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $5k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Frederick O Watson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 | 1 | $5k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $6k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $6k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $123k | 78% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $145k | 39% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $127k | 86% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $38k | 60% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $14k | 50% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olympic Peninsula Young Mens Christian Assn | $73,000 | 5 | 1% |
| North Olympic Land Trust | $45,000 | 3 | 3% |
| The Giving Plate | $22,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County | $21,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Campaign For Southern Equality | $20,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Peninsula Trails Coalition | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Food Bank for Monterey County | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Shepherd's House Ministries | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Bethlehem Inn | $8,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Education for Liberation Network | $7,500 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 24 grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($210k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Frederick O Watson 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: Seattle Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · South Dakota Community Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Frederick O Watson Foundation
- How much does Frederick O Watson Foundation give?
- Frederick O Watson Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $5,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Frederick O Watson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (50%), Health (12%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are Frederick O Watson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Olympic Peninsula Young Mens Christian Assn ($73k), North Olympic Land Trust ($45k), The Giving Plate ($22k).
- Does Frederick O Watson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Frederick O Watson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Frederick O Watson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, The Oregon Community Foundation, Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund.
- Where is Frederick O Watson Foundation based?
- Frederick O Watson Foundation is based in MN.
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