Virginia · Private foundation
The Watterson Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2024
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $270,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $350,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 39
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations The Watterson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 6 | $1.5M | 50% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $130k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $53k | 56% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $51k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $50k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 34 | $49k | 26% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $52k | 48% |
| FY2017 | 39 | $57k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hospice of the Piedmont Inc | $361,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Albemarle Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc | $270,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Inc | $265,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Senior Center Inc | $16,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Emergency Food Network | $11,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Tri-River Habitat for Humanity Inc | $8,100 | 4 | 17% |
| International Essential Tremor Foundation | $7,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Tuesday Evening Concert Series Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The Haven at First and Market Inc | $6,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Madison House | $6,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 50 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 60 recipients with no EIN on record ($861k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Watterson Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 45 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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.
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How this is measured
About The Watterson Foundation
- How much does The Watterson Foundation give?
- The Watterson Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $1,470,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 39 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Watterson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (20%), Education (20%), Food & Nutrition (15%).
- Who are The Watterson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Hospice of the Piedmont Inc ($361k), Albemarle Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc ($270k), Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Inc ($266k).
- Does The Watterson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Watterson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Watterson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charlottesville Area Community Foundation, The Charles Fund Inc, Perry Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Watterson Foundation based?
- The Watterson Foundation is based in VA.
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