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.

Where is Stanley W Watson Foundation based?

Stanley W Watson Foundation is based in MA.

Stanley W Watson Foundation

Stanley W Watson Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Stanley W Watson Foundation

Q: 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.

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 FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$450k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Science & Tech$2.9MHealth$2.5MEducation$737kEnvironment$730kHousing & Shelter$694kHuman Services$461kArts & Culture$403kReligion$120kOther$0

02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k11 grants · $55k
$10k–50k17 grants · $398k
$50k–250k7 grants · $878k
$250k+1 grant · $450k

$22,000

Median grant

States reached

$31M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION	$450,000
MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY	$200,000
COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF CAPE COD	$188,000
CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION	$180,000
CAPE COD YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC	$100,000
CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION	$90,000
FALMOUTH HOUSING CORPORATION	$70,000
THE 300 COMMITTEE LAND TRUST	$50,000
GOSNOLD INC	$40,000
WOODWELL CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTER INC	$40,000
BUZZARDS BAY COALITION	$35,000
FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC	$35,000
FALMOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC	$30,000
WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION CAPE & ISLAND NPR - WCAI	$30,000
FALMOUTH HOUSING TRUST	$25,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$8.5M · 38 repeat orgs$185k to everyone else

38 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$8.5M

$31k

Still filing today

79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $154k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationScience & TechHealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterEnvironmentOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

WH
WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION
5× · 2020–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +35%
MB
MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY
5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +27%
CH
COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF CAPE COD INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $830k · revenue +48%

Funded once

WF
WGBH FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $20k
MK
MARGARET K AND CHARLES D SPOHR CHARITABLE TRUST
one grant, 2022 · $6k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2020 · $5k

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.

04Its field

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.

Oyster Pond Environmental Trust Inc

Land conservation

Environment

The Compact of Cape Cod Conservation Trusts Inc

To encourage and assist in the acquisition, preservation and management of open space on cape cod

Environment

Cohasset Conservation Trust Inc

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Lower Cape Communications Inc

To provide public broadcasting to lower cape cod massachusetts

Arts & Culture

Falmouth Artists Guild Inc

The mission of the falmouth artists guild is to promote the visual arts for the cape cod community through educational opportunities and exhibitions for all.

Arts & Culture

Falmouth Memorial Library Association

To enhance the quality of life of our community by inspiring lifelong learning, providing free and open access to information, and fostering community connections.

Education

Cuttyhunk Historical Society Inc

Arts & Culture

Cape Cod Museum of Natural History

To inspire appreciation, understanding and stewardship of our natural environment through discovery and learning.

Arts & Culture

Falmouth Community Television Corp

Local cable programs by and for residents.

Arts & Culture

Friends of Casco Bay

To improve and protect the environmental health of casco bay, maine.

Environment

Friends of the Cape Cod National Seashore Inc

Preservation and Maintenance of Cape Cod National Seashore by the Organizations Volunteers.

—

Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Belonging to Each Other Inc; the most unlike its peers is Gosnold Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 45 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

32/32

Grantees still filing

24/32

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Science & Tech$3,095,000Other$2,809,395Health$1,004,000Education$698,950Environment$505,000Housing & Shelter$390,000Arts & Culture$178,000

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.

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.

Cape Cod Foundation IncMA53× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Stanley W Watson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stanley W Watson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

15get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

3rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home