· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| THAYER ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| ST CROIX FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE CARROLL SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CAPE COD | $3,000 |
| WORLD OCEAN SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| WGBH | $3,000 |
| CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER | $2,000 |
| MONOMOY COMMUNITY SERVICES | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| CAPE ABILITIES | $2,000 |
| ST CROIX ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| CHATHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,000 |
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 (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 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.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2019–2020 · $112k · revenue +17%
- TOTRUSTEES OF THAYER ACADEMY INC4× · 2018–2021 · $40k · revenue +46%
- TCTHE CARROLL SCHOOL4× · 2018–2021 · $40k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $1k
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.
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…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 20 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 President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THAYER ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CAPE AND ISLANDS UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds World Ocean School Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPE ABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ST CROIX ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds MONOMOY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM ECUMENICAL COUNCIL HELPING PREVENT HOMELESSNESS INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Watts Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Watts Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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