Connecticut · Private foundation
Watering Pond Foundation Inc
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.
- $64k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $13,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 40
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Watering Pond Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 28 | $64k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 36 | $58k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $59k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $65k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $56k | 7% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $53k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $65,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Mercy Corps | $31,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation | $25,000 | 6 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $25,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health | $19,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $14,600 | 6 | 0% |
| Guest House Inc | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Spirit Rock Meditation Center | $7,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Connecticut Foodshare Inc | $6,100 | 6 | 0% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($93k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Watering Pond Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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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.
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How this is measured
About Watering Pond Foundation Inc
- How much does Watering Pond Foundation Inc give?
- Watering Pond Foundation Inc reported 28 grants totaling $63,682 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 40 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Watering Pond Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (29%), Human Services (10%), Environment (6%).
- Who are Watering Pond Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($66k), Mercy Corps ($31k), Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation ($25k).
- Does Watering Pond Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Watering Pond Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Watering Pond Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Newalliance Foundation Inc, Eder Family Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven.
- Where is Watering Pond Foundation Inc based?
- Watering Pond Foundation Inc is based in CT.
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