· Private foundation
Watersheds 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $340k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| A ROCHA USA | $90,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| YMCA OF THE USA WORLD SERVICE | $65,000 |
| PLANT WITH PURPOSE | $60,000 |
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES | $50,000 |
| THE MINISTRY OFFICE | $30,000 |
| NATIONAL CHARITABLE FUND | $25,000 |
| THE ANTIOCH PARTNERS | $25,000 |
| ECHO | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 51% of Watersheds Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $280k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FUFLORESTA USA INCORPORATED6× · 2020–2025 · $275k · revenue +200%
- MOMINISTRY OFFICE4× · 2021–2025 · $110k · revenue +6%
- EREPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT3× · 2020–2022 · $105k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- CSCREATION STEWARDS INTERNATIONALone grant, 2024 · $30k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
Religious
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
International needs has the vision to transform lives and change communities by helping christian nationals serve both god and neighbor within their own countries.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
To every tribe exists to extend the worship of christ among all peoples by mobilizing the church, training disciple-makers, and sending missionary teams to plant churches among the unreached.
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FLORESTA USA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MINISTRY OFFICE ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds A ROCHA USA INC A ROCHA USA ↗
- Who funds National Council of YMCAs of the USA ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHARITABLE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE A PARTNERS DBA THE ANTIOCH PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds ECHO Inc ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Watersheds Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Watersheds Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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