Massachusetts · Private foundation
Stanley W Watson 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.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2024
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $22,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $450,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 35
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $31M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations Stanley W Watson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 36 | $1.8M | 11% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $1.5M | 9% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $1.7M | 14% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $1.8M | 10% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $1.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | $1,750,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Marine Biological Laboratory | $1,110,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Community Health Center of Cape Cod Inc | $830,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Falmouth Housing Corporation | $375,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Cape Cod Community College Educational Foundation Inc | $335,000 | 3 | 6% |
| The 300 Committee Land Trust Inc | $280,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc | $225,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Buzzards Bay Coalition | $225,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Falmouth Education Foundation Inc | $155,000 | 5 | 24% |
| Gosnold Inc | $155,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Stanley W Watson Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 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: Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · George H Lusk Trust · Harken Foundation · Cape & Coast Bank Foundation · Hermann Foundation Inc · Esther Simon 1952 Charitable Trust Xxxxx8006 · Lyndon Paul Lorusso Charitable Foundatio
How this is measured
About Stanley W Watson Foundation
- How much does Stanley W Watson Foundation give?
- Stanley W Watson Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $1,781,525 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 35 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Stanley W Watson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Science & Tech (33%), Health (29%), Education (8%).
- Who are Stanley W Watson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ($1.8M), Marine Biological Laboratory ($1.1M), Community Health Center of Cape Cod Inc ($830k).
- Does Stanley W Watson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Stanley W Watson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Stanley W Watson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cape Cod Foundation Inc, Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc, Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust.
- Where is Stanley W Watson Foundation based?
- Stanley W Watson Foundation is based in MA.
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