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Waterday 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.

$66k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Youth Development$122kHuman Services$106kPublic Benefit$50kHealth$46kArts & Culture$13kPhilanthropy$6kEducation$3kRecreation & Sports$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $56k
$3,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITIZENS ALLIANCE FOUNDATION$35,000
GIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA$21,008
THE LINK FOUNDATION$3,000
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA MUSCIANS HOF$3,000
THE NEST OF PENNSYLVANIA$2,000
ART ASSOCIATION OF HARRISBURG$1,000
NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM COUNCIL$275
VISION RESOURCES OF CENTRAL PA$250
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%IN HIM CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $1k → 10%NORTHWESTERN MUT LEMON CHALLENGE: $2k → 7%THE NEST OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2k → 8%NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM COUNCIL: $275 → 9%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $500 → 12%SCOUTING AMERICA (BOY SCOUTS): $275 → 14%CITIZENS ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $35k → 6%GIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA: $21k → 8%VICKIE'S ANGEL WALK FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $250 → 12%CITIZENS ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $15k → 6%THE LINK FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%VICKIES ANGEL FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA MUSCIANS HOF: $3k → 12%LINK BANK FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%VICKIE'S ANGEL WALK FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA MUSCIANS HOF: $3k → 12%WSCC SUNSHINE FUND: $500 → 8%VICKIE'S ANGEL WALK FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%CENTRAL PA MUSIC HALL OF FAME: $3k → 12%KICK IN FOR KIDS INC: $500 → 8%VICKIE'S ANGEL WALK FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%NARCISSE THEATER COMPANY: $3k → 12%CAPITAL AREA INTERMEDIATE UNIT: $3k → 8%MEDARD'S HOUSE: $500 → 9%ART ASSOCIATION OF HARRISBURG: $1k → 12%PA FAMILY SUPPORT ALLIANCE: $10k → 12%SOUTH CENTRAL PA SICKLE CELL COUNCL: $9k → 12%SOUTH CENTRAL PA SICKLE CELL COUNCL: $8k → 12%PA FAMILY SUPPORT ALLIANCE: $7k → 12%PA FAMILY SUPPORT ALLIANCE: $7k → 12%SOUTH CENTRAL PA SICKLE CELL COUNCL: $5k → 12%SOUTH CENTRAL PA SICKLE CELL COUNCL: $4k → 12%GIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA: $55k → 12%GIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA: $30k → 12%GIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA: $15k → 12%VISION RESOURCES OF CENTRAL PA: $569 → 12%FOUR DIAMONDS: $100 → 12%VISION RESOURCES OF CENTRAL PA: $250 → 12%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.
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$307k · 7 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
14

Total granted

$307k
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-16%
+25%

Still filing today

29%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • GS
    GIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA
    4× · 2022–2025 · $121k · revenue -16%
  • VA
    VICKIE'S ANGEL WALK FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $80k
  • CA
    CITIZENS ALLIANCE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $50k

Funded once

  • VA
    VICKIE'S ANGEL WALK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +137%
  • LB
    LINK BANK FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • CP
    CENTRAL PA MUSIC HALL OF FAME
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
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 Link Foundation
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2
Vicksburg Foundation
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3
Corporate Alliance for Drug Education

Organization's mission: the mission of cadekids is to promote children's potential for growth through comprehensive, school-based and community-based youth development and support programs that are begun at an early age and are designed to…

—
4
Lehigh Valley Hospital

Our mission is to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and research.

Health
5
Linked Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Virtua Medical Group Pa

The physicians of virtua medical group (vmg) share a common philosophy in all they do: to create an outstanding experience for patients. in a broad range of specialties, from family medicine to surgery to oncology, vmg's highly-trained…

Health
7
The Klick Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Vickrey Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Kiss Foundation
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10
Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine

The mission of the edward via college of osteopathic medicine (vcom) is to prepare globally-minded, community-focused physicians to meet the needs of rural and medically underserved populations and promote research to improve human health.

Education
11
The Kimmell Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Hugo W Moser Research Institute At Kennedy Krieger Inc

The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medards House; the most unlike its peers is Link Foundation. 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

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VICKIE'S ANGEL WALK FOUNDATION: $80,250 · OtherVICKIE'S ANGEL WALK FOUNDATIONCITIZENS ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherCITIZENS ALLIANCE FOUNDATIONSOUTH CENTRAL PA SICKLE CELL COUNCL: $25,040 · OtherSOUTH CENTRAL PA SICKLE CELL COUNCLPA FAMILY SUPPORT ALLIANCE: $23,500 · OtherPA FAMILY SUPPORT ALLIANCE+14 more: $24,400 · Other+14 moreGIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA: $121,008 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA+2 more: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentVICKIE'S ANGEL WALK INC: $20,000 · HealthVISION RESOURCES OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA: $819 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthLINK FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Philanthropy
Other$203,190Youth Development$122,008Health$21,319Philanthropy$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA: $121,008 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetVICKIE'S ANGEL WALK INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetART ASSOCIATION OF HARRISBURG: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVISION RESOURCES OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA: $819 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDARDS HOUSE: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKICK IN FOR KIDS INCORPORATED: $500 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA ↗
  • Who funds VICKIE'S ANGEL WALK INC ↗
  • Who funds LINK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ART ASSOCIATION OF HARRISBURG ↗
  • Who funds VISION RESOURCES OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds MEDARDS HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds KICK IN FOR KIDS INCORPORATED ↗

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.

The Foundation for En…Kenneth Bankert Found…Schwab-Silfen Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Foundation for Enhancing CommunitiesPA17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · Kenneth Bankert Foundation Inc · Schwab-Silfen Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Waterday Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Waterday Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Waterday Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Waterday Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 25 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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