· Private foundation
The Waters Family Foundation Inc
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 FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GIDEON RESCUE MISSION | $10,000 |
| SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA WRESTLING ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| CROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH | $2,500 |
| ST MARY'S CHURCH | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| GO FUND ME HELP | $525 |
| ALZHEIMERS FOUNDATION | $500 |
| UT SOUTHWEST MEDICAL CENTER | $500 |
| PARKINSON VOICE PROJECT | $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 (FY23–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 69% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 10 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, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- MAMAKE A WISH FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $55k
- SMST MARY'S CHURCH3× · 2023–2025 · $40k
- OUOUTCAST UNDER TRANSFORMATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $1k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $11k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
- FKFUNDAMENTAL KIDS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $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.
Caroles House of Hope provides transitional living for young women and mothers who have aged out of foster care or have become homeless. Our home-like environment, paired with innovative programs and services, encourages self-sufficiency…
To build houses for people in need and to give them a stepping stone to a better life.
To operate a 30 unit permanent and temporary housing facility known as Destiny Village for rental to low income individuals and families who are survivors of domestic violence and or sexual assault
Assisting and housing females in recovery
Bethany house abuse shelter provides a safe haven and comprehensive services for victims of domestic violence and their children.
Provide a homelike atmosphere to help change the lives of drug and alcohol reliant individuals.
Provide housing and residential care for recovering alcoholic
Home-first offers permanent solutions to homelessness by providing transitional housing and permanent housing, homelessness prevention assitance and support services to strengthen families and build commun
Led by formerly incarcerated people, we aim to eradicate poverty and incarceration, and in their place, create communities of care that support self-determination and keep families safe. We accomplish his mission through housing models,…
Residential sober living house. assit men in overcoming addiction and reintergrating into society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alzheimer's Foundation of America Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ardmore Beautification Council. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 34 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 JOYCE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPING HEARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OKLAHOMA CITY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES OF SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA ↗
- Who funds OUTCAST UNDER TRANSFORMATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON VOICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ARDMORE DAY NURSERY INC ↗
- Who funds ARDMORE BEAUTIFICATION COUNCIL ↗
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: Jerome Westheimer Family Foundation · The Daube Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Ardmore Inc · McCrory Foundation
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 Waters Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City Inc — 1% 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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