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The Thomas P Waters Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k38 grants · $190k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR CONSIOUS LIVING & DYING | $20,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEA | $10,000 |
| COMBAT HERO BIKE BUILD INC | $10,000 |
| RON AND VICKI SANTO DIABETIC ALERT | $10,000 |
| FOOTHILLS CARING CORPS INC | $10,000 |
| SAFEHOUSE PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE FOR | $10,000 |
| MANNA FOOD BANK INC | $10,000 |
| AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA | $10,000 |
| MONASTARY OF THE HOLY SPIRITY | $8,000 |
| ATLANTA CENTER FOR SELF SUFFICIENCY | $8,000 |
| PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK | $8,000 |
| STAR HOUSE FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| THE CAMPUS KITCHENS PROJECT | $8,000 |
| JOHNSON CITY RECOVERY CENTER | $7,500 |
| SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN RONALD MCDONAL | $7,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $123k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of The Thomas P Waters Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
62 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 16 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- RARon and Vicki Santo Diabetic Alert Dogs Foundation5× · 2020–2024 · $46k · revenue +24%
- SHSTAR HOUSE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +7%
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC6× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- SJST JEAN BAPTISTE PAROCHIAL HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $20k
- RPREALNESS PROJECTone grant, 2024 · $11k · revenue 0%
- GCGONZAGA COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…
Empowering victims and creating a bridge to close the gap for people with disabilities through discovery of self-resiliency by providing support and services.
Seeking to put god's love into action; habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. fort collins habitat for humanity adheres…
Through structured programs, we create opportunities for veterans to transform their experiences into strengths, reinforcing that they are not alone and that their skills remain valuable in civilian life. by partnering with private…
The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…
Food bank of the rockies ignites the power of community to nourish people facing food insecurity.
Project angel heart improves health and well-being for people with life- threatening illnesses by preparing and delivering medically tailored meals and promoting the power of food as medicine.
To offer compassionate care to animals, support safe communities, and provide socially conscious sheltering. (continued on schedule o)
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
To advance change by feeding the hungry and educating and engaging the community in the fight to end hunger.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mediators Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Colten Cowell Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
71 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 71 of the 109 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE WHISPERING HOPE RANCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ron and Vicki Santo Diabetic Alert Dogs Foundation ↗
- Who funds STAR HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS PATRIOT ANGLERS INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA CENTER FOR SELF SUFFICIENCY INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD BOUND OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project ↗
- Who funds BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds FOOTBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Open Doors of Asheville Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds COMBAT HERO BIKE BUILD INC ↗
- Who funds LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING ↗
- Who funds TEACHING PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND THE BRICKS INC ↗
- Who funds BOULDER VALLEY WOMEN'S HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Be the Difference Foundation ↗
- Who funds Asheville GreenWorks ↗
- Who funds DONT FORGET TO FEED ME PET FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE KIVA CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
- Who funds WATER FOR PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MARY CROWLEY MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Ignatian Lay Volunteer Corporation ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOUSE PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE FOR NONVIOLENCE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · AEC Trust · The Denver Foundation · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Rose Community Foundation · The Frances & William H Beattie Fdn · Pajwell Foundation · The Longmont Community Foundation · The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Impactassetsinc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Thomas P Waters Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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