· Private foundation
Watermark Auto Group Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REND LAKE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| REFUGE TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST INC | $2,500 |
| SOUTHERN ILLINOIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| MARION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| BOOK FOR HOPE INC | $500 |
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 (FY18–18, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MMMARION MEDICAL MISSION2× · 2020–2021 · $47k · revenue +39%
- TPTHE PROMISE MISSION6× · 2017–2022 · $34k · revenue +81%
- ACArtstarts Company5× · 2017–2022 · $28k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $50k
- COCITY OF MARIONone grant, 2019 · $40k
- MSMARKET STREET MUSIC CONSERVATORYone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +9%
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.
To help end homelessness in southern indiana by providing shelter, case management, life skills training, and social services that propel people into housing permanency.
The purpose of slm is to carry on and support christian missionay work throughout the world; to provide economic and material assistance to the needy; and to provide medical and other assistance to those in need of such help.
The mission of ronald mcdonald house charities of indiana - michiana is to provide a "home-away-from-home" for families of seriously ill children.
To transform the landscape of homelessness in springfield and sangamon county, il.
To provide financial assistance toward housing for senior women in need.
To advocate for abused and neglected children in the legal welfare system.
To foster low income housing, develop and promote affordable homeownership and rental opportunities, support community develpment, social services, and educational opportunities for individuals and families throughout menard county and the…
To provide a christ centered shelter to meet basic needs of housing, clothing, food, emotional and spirtitual needs.
To maintain and enhance the quality of life by developing friends and funds for support of the educational, cultural, and service goals of southwestern illinois college. the foundation promotes excellence by securing gifts for special…
Shelter's mission is to end the cycle of child abuse by providing a comprehensive network of support to children, their families, and our community to create safe, health, and nurturing homes.
The mission of inner city mission is to provide what is needed to help homeless children, their parents, and single women find their way home.
To promote and fund veteran programs supporting veteran service organizations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Market Street Music Conservatory. 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 30 years old; the field is 29. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% 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 9% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 38 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOI ↗
- Who funds MARION MEDICAL MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE PROMISE MISSION ↗
- Who funds REND LAKE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Artstarts Company ↗
- Who funds Southern Illinois Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds MARKET STREET MUSIC CONSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds ROTARY DISTRICT 6510 CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds SURVIVOR EMPOWERMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE VOYAGE SENIOR LIVING ↗
- Who funds BOOK FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds CLARITY WOMENS CARE ↗
- Who funds PONY BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHTHOUSE SHELTER ↗
- Who funds COCHLEAR IMPLANT AWARENESS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARION MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CENTERSTONE OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Fowler-Bonan Foundation ↗
- Who funds VICTORY THROUGH GRACE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds VETERANS HONOR FLIGHT OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds MENTORS 4 KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN A LOGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP 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: Fred G Harrison Foundation · Broemmel Foundation · Freedom Foundation Inc · Southern Illinois Hospital Services · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Watermark Auto Group Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.