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The Waugh Family Foundation at a glance

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The Waugh Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$76k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$48k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$539kEducation$207kPhilanthropy$50kYouth Development$33kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kArts & Culture$10kHuman Services$10kHealth$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $73k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$246k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY$48,490
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY$25,000
CHELSEA PIERS FOUNDATION$2,000
THE TRUSTEES OF LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, 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.

area typical 11%CHELSEA PIERS FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%HEARTSHARE ST VINCENTS: $5k → 20%HARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
PA
NJ
CA
KY
NC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$807k · 7 repeat orgs$153k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against -21% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
17

Total granted

$807k
$102k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
-21%

Still filing today

71%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPublic Safety & DisasterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2025 · $228k · revenue +30%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA
    2× · 2017–2019 · $33k · revenue +62%
  • CP
    CYPRESS POINT CLUB
    2× · 2017–2019 · $1k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • AR
    Abaco Rescue Fund Non-Profit Corporation
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -86%
  • MP
    MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -29%
  • TL
    THE LAWRENCEVILLE FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…

Community Improvement
2
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
3
University of New Haven

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…

Education
4
Penfield Country Club Inc

Penfield country club is a member owned country club whose mission is to provide premier services and facilities to its members, their families, and guests, by developing relationships and creating a sense of camaraderie through the…

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5
College World Golf Championships Foundation Inc

Our mission is to preserve the integrity of college golf, recognizing that our student-athletes not only excel in the sport but also become significant contributors to society. by hosting exceptional ncaa di golf championships, we honor…

Recreation & Sports
6
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Sage Hill School

We inspire in our students a love of knowledge and the ability to use that knowledge creatively, compassionately and courageously throughout their lives.sage hill school's commitment to academic excellence and our outstanding college…

Education
8
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
9
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
10
Canterbury School Inc

Canterbury school is pk3-12, coeducational, college preparatory day school with approximately 650 students. the school is dedicated to academic excellence within a caring and supportive community emphasizing character, leadership and…

Education
11
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectural lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard unversity with respect to harvard college applicants and undergraduates in the dc area.

Education
12
Ladies Professional Golf Association

To promote worldwide interest in the game of women's professional golf. primary activities include sanctioning and administering golf tournaments and providing education and certification opportunities for individuals in the golf industry.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of the Lawrenceville School; the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
6/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INC: $507,349 · OtherWEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INCUS GOLF ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · OtherTHE LAWRENCEVILLE FUND: $20,000 · Other+11 more: $22,950 · OtherWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $227,917 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYGOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY: $48,490 · EducationGOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVER…+2 more: $8,000 · EducationBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $33,000 · Youth DevelopmentMONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyAbaco Rescue Fund Non-Profit Corporation: $25,000 · Public Safety & DisasterST VINCENT'S SERVICES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesCHELSEA PIERS FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Human Services
Other$575,299Education$284,407Youth Development$33,000Philanthropy$30,500Public Safety & Disaster$25,000Human Services$12,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INC: $507,349 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $227,917 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY: $48,490 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $33,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAbaco Rescue Fund Non-Profit Corporation: $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetMONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST VINCENT'S SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LPGA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCYPRESS POINT CLUB: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JAMES C FERRER EDUCATIONAL FUNDINC (FORMERLY SHINNECOCK HILLS EDUCATIONAL ): $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Pga Tour IncAmerican Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
Pga Tour IncFL13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pga Tour Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Waugh Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Waugh Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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