· Private foundation
The Watts Family Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Watts Family Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to President And Fellows Of Harvard College, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year The Watts Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $390k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k11 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $49k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $318k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND | $200,000 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE | $117,629 |
| ST CHRISTOPHER'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $19,000 |
| THE CARROLL SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| THAYER ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| ST CROIX FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WORLD OCEAN SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CAPE COD | $3,000 |
| WGBH | $3,000 |
| CAPE ABILITIES | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| ST CROIX ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER | $2,000 |
| CHATHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| MONOMOY COMMUNITY SERVICES | $2,000 |
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 (FY18–21, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
16 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2021, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $201k 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
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2019–2020 · $112k · revenue +17%
- TCTHE CARROLL SCHOOL4× · 2018–2021 · $40k · revenue +86%
- TOTRUSTEES OF THAYER ACADEMY INC4× · 2018–2021 · $40k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $1k
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.
Chatham day school celebrates and values each child as a unique learner with extraordinary potential. we offer an academically ambitious program that promotes intellectual achievement and emotional growth in a diverse and nuturing…
Building on the county's strategic location between the triad and triangle, edc is positioning chatham as the preferred location for emerging growth companies. the policy-driven approach focuses on targeted attraction, retention, and…
Cahiim's mission is to provide innovative leadership that drives enhanced workforce competence by ensuring educational excellence. cahiim serves the public interest in advancing the value of health informatics and health information…
The purpose of the cape cod & islands association of realtors, inc. ("cc&iaor") is to unite and serve those involved in the real estate industry in our region and work in concert with the massachusetts association of realtors and the…
We engage a diverse community of learners in a collaborative educational experience, preparing them for college success and a lifetime of meaningful engagement with the broader world.
We know, value, and challenge each student. we commit to building a diverse and inclusive community. we graduate independent thinkers and globally aware citizens.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Promotion of tourism on cape ann including the towns of rockport, gloucester, manchester, essex, and ipswich ma.
The association is the leader in providing services to and advocating for, the state's providers of long-term, subacute, rehabilitative, and assisted living care. additionally, the association serves as a clearing house for information…
A pre-kindergarten through grade 8 independent school committed to academic excellence and the joy of childhood, fostering intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and the development of the whole child.
Advance the highest quality of home and community-based care.
To foster an appreciation of the quality and diversity of life on cape ann, past and present; to further the knowledge and enjoyment of cape ann history and art; to collect and preserve significant information and artifacts; and to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Thayer Academy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chatham Ecumenical Council Helping Prevent Homelessness Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 20 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 President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THAYER ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE AND ISLANDS UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds World Ocean School Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPE ABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds ST CROIX ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MONOMOY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM ECUMENICAL COUNCIL HELPING PREVENT HOMELESSNESS 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: Bernard and Judy Cornwell Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Weller Family Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Watts 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.
- Cape Abilities Inc — 81% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- World Ocean School Inc — 4% of income from government
- Chatham Historical Society 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.