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The Watkins Family Charitable Foundation Aka
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $782k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 24
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 93%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $512k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 71
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $17M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 93% of the organizations The Watkins Family Charitable Foundation Aka funded were first-time grantees, receiving 89% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 24 | $512k | 58% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $156k | 93% |
| FY2022 | 48 | $464k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 68 | $567k | 12% |
| FY2020 | 71 | $630k | 27% |
| FY2019 | 59 | $623k | 69% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $1.0M | 32% |
| FY2017 | 21 | $595k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Bland College Foundation Inc | $652,000 | 4 | 20% |
| The University of Connecticut Foundation Inc | $595,000 | 7 | 0% |
| William & Mary Foundation | $499,420 | 6 | 0% |
| The Conservancy of Southwest Florida | $420,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Northwestern Memorial Healthcare | $105,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Higher Achievement Program Inc | $80,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Western Kentucky University | $75,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Naples Botanical Garden Inc | $61,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769) | $60,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $55,000 | 7 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 82 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Watkins Family Charitable Foundation Aka supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The Chicago Community Trust · The Community Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Reco Foundation · David D & Mary F Grumhaus Fund · The William H - John G - Emma Scott Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · Tesco Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Ge Aerospace Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Watkins Family Charitable Foundation Aka
- How much does The Watkins Family Charitable Foundation Aka give?
- The Watkins Family Charitable Foundation Aka reported 24 itemized grants totaling $512,000, out of $782,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 71 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Watkins Family Charitable Foundation Aka fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (42%), Health (14%), Environment (11%).
- Who are The Watkins Family Charitable Foundation Aka's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Richard Bland College Foundation Inc ($652k), The University of Connecticut Foundation Inc ($595k), William & Mary Foundation ($499k).
- Does The Watkins Family Charitable Foundation Aka fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 93% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Watkins Family Charitable Foundation Aka accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Watkins Family Charitable Foundation Aka?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, The Community Foundation Inc, The Ayco Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Watkins Family Charitable Foundation Aka based?
- The Watkins Family Charitable Foundation Aka is based in IL.
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