· Private foundation
Homer Ip B Watts Memorial Trust
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| WESTON-MCEWEN HIGH SCHOOL | $3,500 |
| ATHENA AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY | $2,500 |
| ATHENA WESTON SCHOOL DISTRICT | $2,500 |
| SOUTHERN OREGON UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| ATHENA GEM THEATRE | $2,000 |
| WALLA WALLA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| BLUE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| EASTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON | $2,000 |
| EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA | $2,000 |
| GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,250 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 91% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +18% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- AMAthena Mainstreet Association3× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +12%
- GFGEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +15%
- WUWHITWORTH UNIVERSITY2× · 2024–2025 · $5k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- GTGEM THEATREone grant, 2019 · $7k
- WHWESTON-MCEWEN HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUBone grant, 2024 · $4k
- RCRIPON COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +30%
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.
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Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
To expand on the mission statement made on page 1, trinity's core mission values and characteristics emphasize: 1)commitment to the education of women in a particular way through the design and pedagogy of the historic undergraduate…
Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Willamette University and the most unlike its peers is Athena Mainstreet Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 55 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 BLUE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Athena Mainstreet Association ↗
- Who funds GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Grand Canyon University ↗
- Who funds Linfield University ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds RIPON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The College of Idaho Inc ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Sunset Housing Inc ↗
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: American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Homer Ip B Watts Memorial Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 5% of income from government
- Pacific University — 5% of income from government
- Willamette University — 4% of income from government
- Linfield University — 4% of income from government
- George Fox University — 3% of income from government
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.