· Private foundation
The William and Cathy Kwapil Foundation Inc
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
50% of The William and Cathy Kwapil Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Watertown Area Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The William and Cathy Kwapil Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $285k. 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 FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $172k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WATERTOWN HIGH SCHOOL | $55,000 |
| YMCA | $50,000 |
| CORNERSTONE OF GRACE | $32,400 |
| WATERTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| WATERTOWN EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY LAKE SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| WATERTOWN HUMANE SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| 1ST BRIGADE BAND | $10,000 |
| ROCK RIVER COMMUNITY CLINIC | $10,000 |
| WATERTOWN YOUTH BASEBALL | $10,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $10,000 |
| WATERTOWN MAIN STREET PROGRAM | $5,000 |
| BUCKETS FOR HUNGER | $3,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 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.
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.
The mission of the Watertown Area Chamber of Commerce is to connect members with one another and provide resources that foster growth and sustainability.
The foundation commenced operations on december 29, 2003. the foundation has been organized to support educational and other non-profit organizations in the town of watertown.
To stimulate and support economic and housing development within the communities of the city of waterbury.
To serve the community, jointly and ecumenically, in such a way as to make the compassion and reconciling purpose of god felt wherever there is human need.
Providing a pathway out of homelessness
Economic development in the watertown, south dakota area.
The primary goal of the society is to preserve watertown history and to strengthen the community's connection to teh past, to each other & to the future.
We strive toward providing improved access to healthcare in the watertown area, with a focus on identifying populations that are in need and the available resources. we will coordinate the compassion and caring of the people of our area to…
To assist in meeting human care needs of watertown area residents.
Developing within each child the character of christ in a challenging educational environment based on a biblical world view.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Watertown Area Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Buckets for Hunger Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 15 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 WATERTOWN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cornerstone of Grace ↗
- Who funds Watertown Historical Society ↗
- Who funds WATERTOWN HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY LAKE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ROCK RIVER COMMUNITY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds WATERTOWN MAIN STREET PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKETS FOR HUNGER 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: Joseph and Sharon Darcey Foundation · Earl and Eugenia Quirk 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 William and Cathy Kwapil Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% 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.