Wyoming · Private foundation
Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 55%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $33,838
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $24M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 55% of the organizations Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $467k 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 | 19 | $1.4M | 21% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $1.3M | 55% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $1.4M | 25% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $1.5M | 16% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $1.2M | 30% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $1.0M | 25% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $1.3M | 24% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $1.2M | 42% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior Citizen Council | $1,075,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Volunteers of America Northern Rockies | $585,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Sheridan Health Center Inc | $336,722 | 5 | 47% |
| Compass Center for Families | $320,165 | 6 | 12% |
| Child Development Center - Region II Inc | $310,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Wyo Theatre Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 9% |
| University of Wyoming Foundation | $300,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Antelope Butte Foundation Inc | $230,000 | 2 | 26% |
| Big Horn Baseball Club | $200,000 | 1 | 16% |
| Doubleday Sports Complex Inc | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Homer A Jr & Janet Scott Family Foundation · Wyoming Community Foundation · Dan & Jeanne Scott Family Foundation · George Foundation · The Roberts Family Foundation · Bf & Rose H Perkins Foundation · Chandler H Kibbee and Mercedes K Kibbee Foundation for Children · The Seidler Foundation · Muriel and Seymour Thickman Family Foundation · William F Welch & Lorene W Welch Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc with peer funders
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About Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc
- How much does Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc give?
- Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc reported 19 grants totaling $1,409,671 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (23%), Education (22%), Health (14%).
- Who are Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Senior Citizen Council ($1.1M), Volunteers of America Northern Rockies ($585k), Sheridan Health Center Inc ($337k).
- Does Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott Foundation, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc, Homer A Jr & Janet Scott Family Foundation.
- Where is Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc based?
- Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc is based in WY.
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