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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 24 grants below total $512,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $782,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $270,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $395k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANNE & ROBERT LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA | $75,000 |
| NCH CENTER FOR PHILANTHROPY | $60,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| UCONN FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH - LAKE FOREST | $50,000 |
| COLLEGE OF WILLIAM & MARY | $40,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO BOOTH | $10,000 |
| SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| KENNEDY CENTER | $7,500 |
| KELLOGG SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT | $5,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | $5,000 |
| MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & INDUSTRY | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–22, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 +39% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
75 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 65 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $351k 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
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $595k · revenue +79%
- WMWilliam & Mary Foundation6× · 2017–2022 · $499k · revenue +98%
THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA6× · 2018–2024 · $420k · revenue +201%
Funded once
- COCOLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY ATHLETICSone grant, 2017 · $75k
- COConservancy of Southwest Floridaone grant, 2023 · $30k
- TRTHE RICHMOND SYMPHONYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +36%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is B&O Railroad Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Virginia Genealogical Society. 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 48 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 56 of the 147 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 RICHARD BLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds William & Mary Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769) ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds B&O RAILROAD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds NAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER GREENBRIER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ARTIS-NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry ↗
- Who funds The Cara Program ↗
- Who funds SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
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: 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
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 Watkins Family Charitable Foundation Aka 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.
- B&o Railroad Museum Inc — 7% of income from government
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% of income from government
- Naples Community Hospital Inc — 0% 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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