· Private foundation
The Watt Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| TRINITY ASSEMBLY OF GOD | $5,000 |
| SARASOTA BALLET | $5,000 |
| SOUND BEACH VOLUNTEER SERVICE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PAROT MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $2,000 |
| CARAMOOR CENTRE FOR THE ARTS | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| WAVERLY LIFE CARE NETWORK FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| GOSHEN FREE LIBRARY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- TSTHE STAMFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $5k
- SCSERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORKone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +10%
- LYLEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +66%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 59 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 SERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SOUND BEACH VOLUNTEER SERVICES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- 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 UNITED NETWORK FOR ORGAN SHARING ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Watt Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Watt Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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