South Carolina · Private foundation
The Watterson Family Foundation
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.
- $98k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2024
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $12,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 24
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $338k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations The Watterson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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 | 22 | $98k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $93k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $114k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $106k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $91k | 28% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $407k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global Leadership Network | $210,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The University of Findlay | $139,700 | 6 | 0% |
| Hilton Head Island Deep Well Project Inc | $50,850 | 6 | 0% |
| Bluffton Self Help Inc | $38,700 | 5 | 0% |
| The Volunteers in Medicine Clinic | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Blacquity SC | $26,500 | 3 | 7% |
| Antioch Educational Center | $26,400 | 4 | n/a |
| Real Champions Inc | $25,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Changing Our Image Now Project | $24,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Bluffton Mlk Observance Committee | $21,500 | 4 | n/a |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($175k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Watterson Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · Heritage Classic Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Bargain Box · Palmetto Electric Trust · The Church Mouse Thrift Shop Inc · Wexford Foundation · The Berkeley Hall Charitable Foundation · United Way of the Lowcountry · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Enstine Family Foundation Inc · Ginn Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Watterson Family Foundation
- How much does The Watterson Family Foundation give?
- The Watterson Family Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $97,880 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 24 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does The Watterson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (27%), Education (26%), Human Services (17%).
- Who are The Watterson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Global Leadership Network ($210k), The University of Findlay ($140k), Hilton Head Island Deep Well Project Inc ($51k).
- Does The Watterson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Watterson Family Foundation 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 Watterson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of the Lowcountry, Heritage Classic Foundation, Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc.
- Where is The Watterson Family Foundation based?
- The Watterson Family Foundation is based in SC.
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