· Private foundation
The Watt Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $46k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ORCHESTRA OF ST LUKE'S | $80,000 |
| THE BRUCE MUSEUM | $21,000 |
| AVON THEATRE FILM CENTER | $15,000 |
| SARASOTA OPERA | $10,000 |
| CHAMBER PLAYERS OF GREENWICH | $6,070 |
| HARVEST TIME ASSEMBLY OF GOD | $5,000 |
| SOUND BEACH VOLUNTEER SERVICE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SARASOTA BALLET | $5,000 |
| TRINITY ASSEMBLY OF GOD | $5,000 |
| PAROT MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $2,000 |
| CARAMOOR CENTRE FOR THE ARTS | $2,000 |
| GOSHEN FREE LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| WAVERLY LIFE CARE NETWORK FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.
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.
31 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 9 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
- SLST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $276k · revenue +10%
- SBSarasota Ballet of Florida Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $60k · revenue +142%
- ATAVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INC5× · 2019–2024 · $41k · revenue +526%
Funded once
- SCSERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORKone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +10%
- TSTHE STAMFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $5k
- LYLEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +66%
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.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
Founded in 1881 the Staten Island Museum engages visitors with interdisciplinary exhibitions, public programs, and educational activities for all ages. It is the mission of the Staten Island Museum to spark curiosity and generate…
The florence griswold museum seeks to promote a greater understanding of connecticut's contribution to american art and history through public exhibitions and educational programs.
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
The newport art museum's mission is to share a diversity of art and experiences that spark reflection, inspiration, and connection within our newport community and beyond. the museum was founded in 1912 on the belief that arts and culture…
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
White columns identifies significant emerging and under-represented visual artists and encourages their creative and professional development through the presentation of group and solo exhibitions, an online curated artists registry, and…
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenwich Arts Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 59 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 ST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds AVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Sarasota Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds BRUCE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SOUND BEACH VOLUNTEER SERVICES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE SOUND BEACH VOLUNTEER FIRE ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC ↗
- Who funds LEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH CHORAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HILL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds VENICE ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
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 Coleman Family Foundation · The Old Stones Foundation Inc · Royce Family Fund Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Ibm International Foundation · Malkin Fund Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Watt Family Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Hill House Inc — 28% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Greenwich Arts Council Inc — 1% of income from government
- Bruce Museum Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.