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Thomas J and Olive C Watson Fdn Xxxxx1004

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.9M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2018
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100% of Thomas J and Olive C Watson Fdn Xxxxx1004’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Brown University, 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.

Organizations named directly on the return

1
’18
0
’21
0
’23
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2024
$2,906,953
Largest grant, FY2024
$2,906,953
States reached, FY2024
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$11MPhilanthropy$1.1MScience & Tech$25k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Air Force Academy Foundation$1,150,00014%

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About Thomas J and Olive C Watson Fdn Xxxxx1004

How much does Thomas J and Olive C Watson Fdn Xxxxx1004 give?
Thomas J and Olive C Watson Fdn Xxxxx1004 reported 1 grants totaling $2,906,953 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Thomas J and Olive C Watson Fdn Xxxxx1004 fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2018, its largest causes are Education (90%), Philanthropy (10%), Science & Tech (0%).
Who are Thomas J and Olive C Watson Fdn Xxxxx1004's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2018: Air Force Academy Foundation ($1.1M).
Does Thomas J and Olive C Watson Fdn Xxxxx1004 accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Thomas J and Olive C Watson Fdn Xxxxx1004 based?
Thomas J and Olive C Watson Fdn Xxxxx1004 is based in IL.

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 3 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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