How much does Phyllis C Wattis Foundation give?

Phyllis C Wattis Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $484,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 92 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Phyllis C Wattis Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (91%), Education (2%), Philanthropy (2%).

Who are Phyllis C Wattis Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Dancers Group ($317k), Intersection for the Arts ($205k), SOMArts ($156k).

Does Phyllis C Wattis Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Phyllis C Wattis Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Phyllis C Wattis Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Zellerbach Family Foundation, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, Fleishhacker Foundation.

Where is Phyllis C Wattis Foundation based?

Phyllis C Wattis Foundation is based in CA.

Foundation Dossiers

California · Private foundation

Phyllis C Wattis Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$484k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 42
Grants FY2024: 42
Organizations funded FY2023: 12%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $12,500
Largest grant, FY2024: $15,000
Organizations funded a year: 13 to 92; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $9.3M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 12% of the organizations Phyllis C Wattis Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationEmploymentRecreation & SportsHealthOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	39	$484k	10%
FY2023	42	$531k	12%
FY2022	46	$860k	15%
FY2021	52	$1.1M	15%
FY2020	92	$1.0M	75%
FY2019	17	$444k	88%
FY2018	16	$447k	88%
FY2017	13	$360k	n/a

98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$4.8MEducation$103kPhilanthropy$100kYouth Development$68kCivil Rights$30kHealth$18kInternational$18kEnvironment$15kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Dancers Group	$316,500	7	2%
Intersection for the Arts	$205,100	8	1%
SOMArts	$155,500	6	2%
Shotgun Players	$147,750	6	3%
CounterPulse	$145,000	6	3%
Womens Audio Mission	$120,750	5	2%
Brava for Women in the Arts dba Brava Theater Center	$119,000	6	3%
Fresh Meat Productions	$114,750	6	6%
InterMusic SF	$114,750	7	4%
Zaccho Sf	$110,500	6	8%

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All grantees of Phyllis C Wattis Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Dancers Group	$316,500	7	2%
Intersection for the Arts	$205,100	8	1%
SOMArts	$155,500	6	2%
Shotgun Players	$147,750	6	3%
CounterPulse	$145,000	6	3%
Womens Audio Mission	$120,750	5	2%
Brava for Women in the Arts dba Brava Theater Center	$119,000	6	3%
Fresh Meat Productions	$114,750	6	6%
InterMusic SF	$114,750	7	4%
Zaccho Sf	$110,500	6	8%
The Z Space Studio	$102,500	4	2%
Bayview Opera House	$101,000	4	3%
Kala Art Institute	$99,750	5	2%
Root Division	$98,000	5	3%
Artcouncil Inc Dba Artadia	$90,000	5	4%
Northern California Grantmakers	$90,000	5	0%
AXIS Dance Company	$87,750	5	3%
Project Bandaloop	$87,000	5	2%
Center for Cultural Innovation	$85,000	2	1%
The Lab Sf	$82,750	6	9%
Southern Exposure	$80,500	5	4%
California College of the Arts	$78,000	3	0%
The Aurora Theatre Company	$75,000	3	1%
The Living Earth Show	$72,700	4	9%
Headlands Center for the Arts	$72,500	3	1%
New Performance Traditions	$72,000	5	3%
Cutting Ball Theater	$71,500	4	3%
Joe Goode Performance Group	$69,000	5	3%
Playground	$63,000	5	3%
African-American Shakespeare Company	$62,500	3	5%
Theatre Bay Area	$62,000	2	3%
Destiny Arts Center	$60,000	2	2%
Jess Curtisgravity Inc	$52,000	5	6%
Bridge Live Arts Prev Hope Mohr Dance	$49,000	6	9%
Oakland Theater Project	$47,500	3	4%
Opera Parallle	$47,500	4	2%
Magic Theatre Inc	$42,500	3	2%
Circuit Network	$42,500	2	13%
Frameline Inc	$42,500	4	1%
Immersive Arts Alliance	$41,025	2	15%
San Francisco International Arts Festival Inc	$40,000	1	n/a
Push Dance Company	$37,500	2	15%
La Pea Cultural Center Inc	$35,000	2	4%
Golden Gate Performing Arts Inc	$35,000	1	0%
Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco	$35,000	1	2%
Dance Film SF Inc	$35,000	1	12%
Del Sol Performing Arts Organization	$35,000	2	8%
Epiphany Dance Theater	$30,000	2	8%
Garrett Moulton Productions	$30,000	2	n/a
Ensemble Mik Nawooj	$27,500	2	n/a
Art21 Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Mills College	$25,000	1	0%
Rawdance	$25,000	2	7%
Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center	$25,000	2	4%
Cubacaribe	$25,000	2	11%
Robert Moses Kin	$23,500	2	4%
Berkeley Art Center Association	$23,000	2	5%
Margaret Jenkins Dance Studio Inc	$22,500	2	5%
Fifth Stream Music	$21,000	1	49%
Circo Zero	$20,500	3	3%
Anne Bluethenthal & Dancers	$20,000	2	4%
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble Inc	$20,000	2	6%
Safehouse for the Performing Arts	$20,000	2	8%
Shadowlight Productions	$20,000	1	7%
Kulintang Arts Inc	$20,000	2	3%
San Francisco Arts Education Project	$20,000	1	1%
ARTogether	$20,000	1	2%
Playwrights Foundation Inc	$20,000	2	4%
Chinese Historical Society of America	$20,000	1	2%
San Francisco Performances Inc	$20,000	1	1%
Creativity Explored Inc	$18,000	1	1%
Berkeley Ballet Theater Inc	$17,500	1	1%
Pro Arts Inc	$15,000	2	2%
San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company	$15,000	1	1%
Canyon Cinema Foundation	$15,000	1	6%
Art Foundation	$15,000	1	5%
Kinetech Arts	$14,800	1	n/a
Volti	$12,500	2	8%
West Edge Opera	$12,500	2	1%
San Francisco Girls Chorus Inc	$12,500	1	1%
Shawl-Anderson Modern Dance Center	$11,500	2	1%
CAPACITOR Performance CAPACITOR	$11,000	2	5%
Mercury Soul Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
William James Association	$10,000	1	1%
Alternative Theater Ensemble	$10,000	1	6%
Lower Bottom Playaz Inc	$10,000	1	2%
Theatre Rhinoceros Inc	$10,000	1	3%
Museum of Craft and Design	$10,000	1	0%
Gray Area Foundation for the Arts	$10,000	2	0%
Ragged Wing Ensemble	$7,500	1	2%
Youth Speaks Inc	$7,500	1	0%
San Francisco Playhouse	$7,500	1	0%
Flyaway Productions	$7,500	1	4%
San Francisco Camerawork Inc	$6,500	1	2%
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts	$5,000	1	0%
Yerba Buena Arts & Events dba Yerba Buena Gardens Festival	$5,000	1	1%
Dimensions Dance Theater Incorporated	$5,000	1	n/a
Three Girls Theatre Company Inc	$5,000	1	2%
Fractured Atlas Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Crowded Fire Theater Company	$5,000	1	1%
Artists Television Access	$5,000	1	6%
Embodiment Project	$5,000	1	n/a
Dance Elixir	$5,000	1	5%
Mediate Art Group	$5,000	1	n/a
First Voice Inc	$5,000	1	2%
QCC The Center for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Art & Culture	$5,000	1	1%
Kultivate Labs	$5,000	1	1%
Illuminate the Arts	$5,000	1	1%
Artist Magnet Justice Alliance	$5,000	1	4%
Center for New Music San Francisco Inc	$5,000	1	n/a
FOR-SITE Foundation	$5,000	1	1%
Gamelan Sekar Jaya	$5,000	1	2%
Kronos Performing Arts Association	$2,500	1	0%
Inkboat Inc	$2,500	1	9%
Lobster Theater Project Killing My Lobster	$2,500	1	1%
Central Works	$2,500	1	1%
Golden Thread Productions	$2,500	1	0%
Other Minds	$2,500	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($368k), not named here.

Phyllis C Wattis Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 109 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 109.

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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.

The Zellerbach Family FoundationCA147.8× affinity72 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Zellerbach Family Foundation · Kenneth Rainin Foundation · Fleishhacker Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Walter and Elise Haas Fund · The Sam Mazza Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Center for Cultural Innovation · East Bay Community Foundation · The Bernard Osher Foundation · The Map Fund Inc · Gerbode Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Phyllis C Wattis Foundation

How much does Phyllis C Wattis Foundation give?: Phyllis C Wattis Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $484,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 92 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Phyllis C Wattis Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (91%), Education (2%), Philanthropy (2%).
Who are Phyllis C Wattis Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Dancers Group ($317k), Intersection for the Arts ($205k), SOMArts ($156k).
Does Phyllis C Wattis Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Phyllis C Wattis Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Phyllis C Wattis Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Zellerbach Family Foundation, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, Fleishhacker Foundation.
Where is Phyllis C Wattis Foundation based?: Phyllis C Wattis Foundation is based in CA.