· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k38 grants · $190k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR CONSIOUS LIVING & DYING | $20,000 |
| RON AND VICKI SANTO DIABETIC ALERT | $10,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEA | $10,000 |
| MANNA FOOD BANK INC | $10,000 |
| FOOTHILLS CARING CORPS INC | $10,000 |
| COMBAT HERO BIKE BUILD INC | $10,000 |
| AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA | $10,000 |
| SAFEHOUSE PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE FOR | $10,000 |
| PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK | $8,000 |
| ATLANTA CENTER FOR SELF SUFFICIENCY | $8,000 |
| STAR HOUSE FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| THE CAMPUS KITCHENS PROJECT | $8,000 |
| MONASTARY OF THE HOLY SPIRITY | $8,000 |
| APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN PROJECT ACCESS | $7,500 |
| APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS HUMANE SOCIET | $7,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of The Thomas P Waters Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
71 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. 71 of the 109 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 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 EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FOOTBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Open Doors of Asheville Inc ↗
- Who funds COMBAT HERO BIKE BUILD INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA 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 WATER FOR PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
- Who funds MARY CROWLEY MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Ignatian Lay Volunteer Corporation ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOUSE PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE FOR NONVIOLENCE 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Thomas P Waters Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Thomas P Waters Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
How this is measured
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