· Private foundation
Sens Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA | $25,000 |
| WATERTOWN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $15,000 |
| CAMBRIDGE NEIGHBORS | $10,000 |
| LAKE FOREST ACADEMY | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against -7% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTHE COLORADO COLLEGE4× · 2017–2020 · $80k · revenue +39%
- CNCAMBRIDGE NEIGHBORS INC7× · 2017–2024 · $58k · revenue +9%
- LFLAKE FOREST ACADEMY7× · 2017–2024 · $41k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- MAMOSESIAN ARTSone grant, 2021 · $15k
- VCVNA CARE NETWORK & HOSPICEone grant, 2017 · $10k
- WFWATERTOWN FOOD PANTRYone grant, 2020 · $8k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
To stimulate and support economic and housing development within the communities of the city of waterbury.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The Foundation was created to assist in the promotion, development and enhancement of the financial resources for Washburn University of Topeka, as well as to receive and hold in trust any assets given in benefit of the University.
The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…
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…
Washington college challenges and inspires emerging citizen leaders to discover lives of purpose and passion.core valueswe share these values of our founding patron, george washington: integrity, determination, curiosity, civility,…
Empowering learners to achieve excellence by linking knowledge to practice.
To ensure college and career success for high-potential students from low-income backgrounds, and through our efforts help build diverse, equitable, and vibrant communities. we do this through a comprehensive model of financial aid and…
We provide students with a world-class liberal arts education that stimulates intellect, ignites passion, and shapes character.
The wcc foundation strengthens educational opportunities by providing student scholarships, supporting faculty and staff development, and assisting with key college initiatives.
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds WATERTOWN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARNOLD GOLD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds WATERTOWN BOYS AND GIRLS' CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOROTHY AND CHARLES MOSESIAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sens Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sens Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Watertown Community Foundation Inc: 95% of income from government
- Watertown Boys and Girls' Club Inc: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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