· Private foundation
The Dennis a and Julia M Watkins Foundation Inc
The Dennis A.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ORDER OF SOCIAL WORKERS IN ALBANIA | $45,176 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $5,000 |
| ALEXANDRIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC | $3,600 |
| WELLSPRING | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF INDIANA | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 29% of grant dollars ($58k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 71% that went abroad ($141k) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Beyond the US: 71% of all-years giving ($141k)
4 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WIWELLSPRING INC2× · 2024–2025 · $14k · revenue +3%
- EPECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +41%
- COCOUNCIL ON SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION2× · 2023–2024 · $4k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- BABULGARIAN ASSN OF SOCIAL WORK EDUCAone grant, 2024 · $43k
- FCFOUNDATION CUREone grant, 2023 · $40k
- CFCENTER FOR RESEARCHone grant, 2021 · $30k
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.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
To provide services to members which are mandated in the credit union act to charters and to provide a means whereby members can provide each other with needed financial services.
To provide at no cost legal assistance to veterans of the u.s. armed forces and current service members.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Ala is the catalyst for growth by providing: diverse educational experiences, engaged peer communities, strategic solutions, dynamic resources, and trusted networks.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The social science research council is an independent, international nonprofit organization. it fosters innovative research, nurtures new generations of social scientists, and deepens how inquiry is practiced within and across disciplines.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf 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…
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
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 WELLSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds Alexandria Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF UTAH RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds University of Maine Foundation ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CARPENTER'S SHELTER 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.
Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Dennis a and Julia M Watkins Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dennis a and Julia M Watkins Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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