Oklahoma · Private foundation
Waters Charitable 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.
- $620k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 35
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $39M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Waters Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k 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 | 20 | $620k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $624k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $661k | 3% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $624k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $562k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $485k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salvation Army | $296,170 | 6 | n/a |
| Holland Hall | $285,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Tulsa Library Trust | $250,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma Inc | $180,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Iron Gate Inc | $125,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Little Light House Inc | $120,000 | 5 | 1% |
| University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc | $120,000 | 6 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $115,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Philos Hospitality Inc | $105,000 | 4 | 4% |
| The Spring Shelter Inc | $100,000 | 4 | 2% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($741k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Waters Charitable Foundation 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.
Open a dossier: The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · Oneok Foundation Inc · Sanford P & Irene F Burnstein Foundation Irene F Burnstein Co-Trustee · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · One Gas Foundation Inc · George Kaiser Family Foundation · Arvest Foundation
How this is measured
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About Waters Charitable Foundation
- How much does Waters Charitable Foundation give?
- Waters Charitable Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $620,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 35 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Waters Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (37%), Education (22%), Food & Nutrition (11%).
- Who are Waters Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Salvation Army ($296k), Holland Hall ($285k), Tulsa Library Trust ($250k).
- Does Waters Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Waters Charitable Foundation 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 Waters Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation, Tulsa Community Foundation, The Gelvin Foundation.
- Where is Waters Charitable Foundation based?
- Waters Charitable Foundation is based in OK.
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