· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA | $13,000 |
| KRIPALU CENTER FOR YOGA & HEALTH | $7,000 |
| ENVIROMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $5,000 |
| MERCY CORPS | $5,000 |
| PARTNERS IN HEALTH | $4,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $3,589 |
| GUEST HOUSE RETREAT & CONFERENCE CENTER | $3,032 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $3,000 |
| SPIRIT ROCK MEDITATION CENTER | $3,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $2,500 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| SONOMA ASHRAM FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD (PPFA) | $1,500 |
| GUILFORD A BETTER CHANCE (ABC) | $1,000 |
| CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $66k · revenue +39%- MCMercy Corps6× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +16%
PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION6× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- OBOPERATION BBQ RELIEFone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -42%
- NONATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN INCone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +19%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Ceres is a nonprofit advocacy organization working to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and resilient world. through education and research, we make the business case for action on the most pressing sustainability…
Relief international (ri) partners with communities impacted by conflict, climate change, and disaster to save lives, build greater resilience, and promote long-term health and wellbeing of people in the communities that we serve. relief…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
To enhance the protection of rights of the displaced worldwide by the provision of advice and assistance on the application of international law, the conducting of research on the interpretation and application of international law and the…
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
45 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. 45 of the 72 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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds KRIPALU CENTER FOR YOGA & HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds GUEST HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE GUILFORD ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN & FAMILY LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GUILFORD A BETTER CHANCE INC GUILFORD A BETTER CHANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION & CHOICES ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW INC ↗
- Who funds Camp Rising Sun Inc ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BBQ RELIEF ↗
- Who funds REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEOS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Prison Dharma Network Inc ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS INC ↗
- Who funds Mitchell Farm Equine Retirement Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN 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: Newalliance Foundation Inc · Eder Family Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Joe & Cindy Goldberg Family Foundation Inc · MFUND Inc · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · The Stoddard Family Foundation · Yale University · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Guilford Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community 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 Watering Pond 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- City Seed Inc — 87% of income from government
- Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness Inc — 54% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services — 37% of income from government
- Solar Youth Inc — 19% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Wheat Inc — 3% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Guilford Art Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Legacy Theatre Inc — 1% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% 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.