California · Private foundation
Waterford Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $641k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $76,420
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $124,520
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 12
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $434k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Waterford Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $641k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $4.8M | 100% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $1000k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $800k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $800k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $600k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2022.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central California Food Bank | $683,746 | 5 | 0% |
| Foundation for Clovis Schools | $329,326 | 4 | 47% |
| The Foundation for Sanger Schools | $308,025 | 5 | 60% |
| Angels of Grace Inc | $301,935 | 5 | 9% |
| Breaking the Chains | $299,626 | 5 | 13% |
| Pain Parents and Addicts in Need | $297,926 | 5 | 34% |
| Art of Life Cancer Foundation Inc | $285,325 | 4 | 36% |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of Fresno and Madera Counties | $224,421 | 4 | 5% |
| Hinds Hospice | $221,315 | 4 | 0% |
| Fresno Rescue Mission Inc | $171,930 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 12 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central California Food Bank | $683,746 | 5 | 0% |
| Foundation for Clovis Schools | $329,326 | 4 | 47% |
| The Foundation for Sanger Schools | $308,025 | 5 | 60% |
| Angels of Grace Inc | $301,935 | 5 | 9% |
| Breaking the Chains | $299,626 | 5 | 13% |
| Pain Parents and Addicts in Need | $297,926 | 5 | 34% |
| Art of Life Cancer Foundation Inc | $285,325 | 4 | 36% |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of Fresno and Madera Counties | $224,421 | 4 | 5% |
| Hinds Hospice | $221,315 | 4 | 0% |
| Fresno Rescue Mission Inc | $171,930 | 2 | 1% |
| Foundation for Central Schools | $149,570 | 2 | 52% |
| Buy Sell Rescue Inc Dba Mells Mutts | $94,920 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Waterford Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Educational Employees Credit Union · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Waterford Foundation
- How much does Waterford Foundation give?
- Waterford Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $641,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 12 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Waterford Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (24%), Education (23%), Food & Nutrition (17%).
- Who are Waterford Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Central California Food Bank ($684k), Foundation for Clovis Schools ($329k), The Foundation for Sanger Schools ($308k).
- Does Waterford Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Waterford Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Waterford Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Educational Employees Credit Union, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Waterford Foundation based?
- Waterford Foundation is based in CA.
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