Kansas · Private foundation
Linda T Watson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $107k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 27
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $789k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Linda T Watson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 | 16 | $107k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $85k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $102k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $92k | 4% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $108k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $57k | 59% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $39k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harvesters - the Community Food Network | $41,000 | 6 | 0% |
| New Reform Temple | $34,261 | 7 | n/a |
| Temple Israel Inc | $23,136 | 6 | n/a |
| Kansas City Chorale | $21,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts | $20,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Performing Arts Foundation of Kansas City | $19,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Kansas City Hospice Inc | $15,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Public Television 19 Inc | $11,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Barstow School | $8,100 | 5 | 0% |
| United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc | $8,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harvesters - the Community Food Network | $41,000 | 6 | 0% |
| New Reform Temple | $34,261 | 7 | n/a |
| Temple Israel Inc | $23,136 | 6 | n/a |
| Kansas City Chorale | $21,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts | $20,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Performing Arts Foundation of Kansas City | $19,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Kansas City Hospice Inc | $15,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Public Television 19 Inc | $11,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Barstow School | $8,100 | 5 | 0% |
| United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc | $8,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Nelson Gallery Foundation | $7,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Umkc Foundation | $7,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Safehome Inc | $5,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Children's Mercy Hospital | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Rabbit Hole Kc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Midwest Center for Holocaust Education | $4,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Actors' Fund of America | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Sunflower House Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Quality Hill Productions | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Horizon Academy | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($341k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Linda T Watson Family 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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Hartley Family Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Richard J Stern Foundation for the Arts Commerce Bank Trustee · John W and Effie E Speas Memorial Trust · G Kenneth and Ann Baum Philanthropic Fund · Buttonwood Foundation Charitable Tr · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Greater Horizons
How this is measured
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About Linda T Watson Family Foundation
- How much does Linda T Watson Family Foundation give?
- Linda T Watson Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $106,743 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 27 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Linda T Watson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (45%), Arts & Culture (16%), Religion (10%).
- Who are Linda T Watson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Harvesters - the Community Food Network ($41k), New Reform Temple ($34k), Temple Israel Inc ($23k).
- Does Linda T Watson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Linda T Watson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Linda T Watson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City, Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation.
- Where is Linda T Watson Family Foundation based?
- Linda T Watson Family Foundation is based in KS.
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