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The Waters Charitable Remainder Unitrust

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.

$118k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$541kEducation$133kPhilanthropy$68kHealth$48kInternational$47kHuman Services$32kFood & Nutrition$28kArts & Culture$26kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $73k
$2,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MANHATTAN BEACH ROTARY FOUNDATION$27,500
WINGS OF RESCUE$25,000
DOG IS MY COPILOT$10,000
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA (DAVIDE)$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
CORRIDOR RESCUE INC$4,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
EL CAMINO COLLEGE FOUNDATION$3,000
CAPTAIN PAUL WATSON FOUNDATION$2,500
ARCHEOLOGICAL INSTITUE OF AMERICA$2,500
BEESLEY ANIMAL FOUNDATION$2,500
HOMEWARD BOUND GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE AND SANCTUARY$2,000
CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE$2,000
GOLDEN BOND RESCUE OF OREGON$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LITTLE ANGEL SERVICE DOGS: $4k → 11%LITTLE ANGEL SERVICE DOGS: $3k → 11%LITTLE ANGEL SERVICE DOGS: $3k → 11%LITTLE ANGEL SERVICE DOGS: $2k → 11%MYCHAL'S LEARNING PLACE: $2k → 14%MYCHAL'S LEARNING PLACE: $1k → 14%MYCHAL'S LEARNING PLACE: $1k → 14%WELLS BRING HOPE: $15k → 14%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
VA
TN
TX
FL
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$863k · 51 repeat orgs$98k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

51 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
30

Total granted

$863k
$79k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+12%

Still filing today

63%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsInternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentOther
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

  • DI
    DOG IS MY COPILOT
    6× · 2020–2025 · $38k · revenue +140%
  • CR
    CORRIDOR RESCUE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +58%
  • BF
    BETTERTOGETHER FOREVER
    7× · 2017–2023 · $27k · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • WB
    WELLS BRING HOPE
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
  • VU
    VANGUARD UNIVERSITY - GLOBAL CENTER FOR WOMEN AND JUSTICE
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA
    one grant, 2017 · $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.

1
The Adoptable Dog
Animals
2
Raskels Rescue
Animals
3
Animal Rescuers Without Borders

Battling against the overpopulation of homeless pets and improving the lives of companion animals through rescue, fostering programs, adoption, pet care, educational programs and of course spaying and neutering.

Animals
4
Asian Dogs Rescue Allies

To rescue at risk k-9s from asia.

Animals
5
Donna's Love Pet Rescue
Animals
6
St Clouds Rescue
Animals
7
Rescuesforjojo

Dog rescue

Animals
8
Their Lives Matter

Dog rescue and care nurturing finding a home

Animals
9
Rescue Coop
Animals
10
Animal Dominion Rescue

Animal Dominion Rescue is a non-profit organization dedicated to rescuing cats and dogs worldwide, ensuring they find permanent, loving homes. The organization emphasizes direct support to rescuers on the ground, promoting animal welfare,…

Animals
11
Pet Rescue Miami Inc
Animals
12
Anas Safe Haven Rescue Inc

Animal Welfare

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue & Sanctuary Inc; the most unlike its peers is Captain Paul Watson Foundation. 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

55 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. 55 of the 90 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/55
Grantees still filing
33/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WINGS OF RESCUE INC: $225,000 · AnimalsWINGS OF RESCUE INCDOG IS MY COPILOT: $37,500 · AnimalsDOG IS MY COPILOTCORRIDOR RESCUE INC: $28,000 · AnimalsCORRIDOR RESCUE INCBETTERTOGETHER FOREVER: $27,000 · AnimalsBETTERTOGETHER FOREVERHOMEWARD BOUND GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE & SANCTUARY INC: $18,000 · AnimalsWags and Walks: $18,000 · Animals+24 more: $111,000 · Animals+24 moreMANHATTAN BEACH ROTARY FOUNDATION: $67,500 · OtherMANHATTAN BEACH ROTARY FOUNDATIONCHEDER MENACHEM: $22,500 · OtherCHEDER MENACHEMGolden Bond Rescue of Oregon Inc: $21,500 · OtherGolden Bond Rescue of Oregon IncPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · OtherPENN STATE - STANISH ENHANCEMENT FUND: $20,000 · OtherCOASTAL GERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE: $17,000 · OtherWELLS BRING HOPE - CO BARBARA GOLDBERG: $15,300 · OtherCSULB FOUNDATION - DR PAUL SCOTTON: $13,000 · OtherARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $18,500 · Other+38 more: $170,200 · Other+38 moreUCLA FOUNDATION: $60,200 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationESCALA INITIATIVE INC: $20,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $5,000 · InternationalKIVA MICROFUNDS: $3,500 · InternationalSPEAK UP FOR THE POOR: $3,000 · International+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalWELLS BRING HOPE: $15,000 · Human ServicesLITTLE ANGELS SERVICE DOGS: $10,000 · Human ServicesMYCHALS LEARNING PLACE: $3,500 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $30,000 · HealthOPERATION FREEDOM PAWS: $19,500 · Public Benefit
Animals$464,500Other$385,500Education$61,200International$32,500Human Services$31,000Health$30,000Public Benefit$19,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWINGS OF RESCUE INC: $225,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $60,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDOG IS MY COPILOT: $37,500 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCORRIDOR RESCUE INC: $28,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetBETTERTOGETHER FOREVER: $27,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetGolden Bond Rescue of Oregon Inc: $21,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetESCALA INITIATIVE INC: $20,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetOPERATION FREEDOM PAWS: $19,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $18,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEWARD BOUND GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE & SANCTUARY INC: $18,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetWags and Walks: $18,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWELLS BRING HOPE: $15,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetWildlife Learning Foundation: $13,500 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetMuch Love Animal Rescue: $13,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetFOODSHARE INC: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE ANGELS SERVICE DOGS: $10,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEL CAMINO COMMUNITY COLLEGE District Foundation: $10,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNOWZAD DOGS NFP: $9,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetAnimals Rule Placement Foundation: $9,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetLOS ANGELES RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY AUXILIARY: $8,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetA Doggie 4 You: $7,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetDawg Squad: $7,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetNorcal Golden Retriever Rescue Inc: $5,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetThe Brittany Foundation Animal Sanctuary: $5,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLilys Legacy Senior Dog Sanctuary: $4,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT STREET VET: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetACE OF HEARTS: $4,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetKIVA MICROFUNDS: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTSIDE GERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE OF LOS ANGELES: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMYCHALS LEARNING PLACE: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPEAK UP FOR THE POOR: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSMILING DOG FARMS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA HOME 4 SPOT: $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PEPPER FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHooves & Paws Animal Rescue Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH ADVOCATES: $2,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMAKING OF MIRACLE STORIES ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES NEW HAVEN INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMIDWEST ANIMAL RESCUE AND SERVICES: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOLDIER STRONG INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOVEJOY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOGS ON DEATH ROW: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBORDER COLLIES IN NEED: $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budget
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 WINGS OF RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DOG IS MY COPILOT ↗
  • Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds CORRIDOR RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds BETTERTOGETHER FOREVER ↗
  • Who funds Golden Bond Rescue of Oregon Inc ↗
  • Who funds ESCALA INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION FREEDOM PAWS ↗
  • Who funds ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds HOMEWARD BOUND GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE & SANCTUARY INC ↗
  • Who funds Wags and Walks ↗
  • Who funds WELLS BRING HOPE ↗
  • Who funds Wildlife Learning Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Much Love Animal Rescue ↗
  • Who funds FOODSHARE INC ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE ANGELS SERVICE DOGS ↗
  • Who funds EL CAMINO COMMUNITY COLLEGE District Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NOWZAD DOGS NFP ↗
  • Who funds Animals Rule Placement Foundation ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY AUXILIARY ↗
  • Who funds A Doggie 4 You ↗
  • Who funds Dawg Squad ↗
  • Who funds Karma Rescue ↗
  • Who funds Norcal Golden Retriever Rescue 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.

Mary Jo and Hank Gree…Thornton S Jr and Kat…Joseph and Fiora Ston…California Community …Sempra FoundationPedigree FoundationHope for PawsPaypal Charitable Giv…The Michelson Found A…Stern Sidney Memorial…Petco LoveThe Duffield Family F…
Mary Jo and Hank Greenberg Animal Welfare FoundationCA24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mary Jo and Hank Greenberg Animal Welfare Foundation · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · Joseph and Fiora Stone Foundation co Wolf and Associates CPA Inc · California Community Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Pedigree Foundation · Hope for Paws · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Michelson Found Animals Foundation Inc · Stern Sidney Memorial Tuw · Petco Love · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund

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 The Waters Charitable Remainder Unitrust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Waters Charitable Remainder Unitrust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Archaeological Institute of America: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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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How do I get to The Waters Charitable Remainder Unitrust?

Find your warmest path to The Waters Charitable Remainder Unitrust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 90 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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