Connecticut · Public charity
Waterside School Inc
To provide a superb, well-rounded early year educational foundation for motivated, disadvantaged children, starting with pre-kindergarten through fifth grade.
- $4.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $146k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $26,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 10
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $78M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Waterside School Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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 | 11 | $136k | 55% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $114k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $140k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $155k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $181k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The University of Connecticut Foundation Inc | $102,500 | 4 | 0% |
| St Luke's Foundation Inc | $92,775 | 2 | 0% |
| Eagle Hill Foundation Inc | $70,400 | 2 | 0% |
| The Unquowa School Association Inc | $70,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Quinnipiac University | $48,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Winston Preparatory School | $42,600 | 2 | 0% |
| Bard College | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Howard University | $26,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Villanova University | $26,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Fordham University | $25,850 | 3 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The University of Connecticut Foundation Inc | $102,500 | 4 | 0% |
| St Luke's Foundation Inc | $92,775 | 2 | 0% |
| Eagle Hill Foundation Inc | $70,400 | 2 | 0% |
| The Unquowa School Association Inc | $70,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Quinnipiac University | $48,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Winston Preparatory School | $42,600 | 2 | 0% |
| Bard College | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Howard University | $26,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Villanova University | $26,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Fordham University | $25,850 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Richmond | $20,856 | 2 | 0% |
| School of the Holy Child | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Hampton University | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Connecticut | $13,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Drexel University | $12,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Archbishop Stepinac High School | $10,521 | 1 | n/a |
| Sacred Heart University Incorporated | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hampton University | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Southern California | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Gordon College | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Washington & Jefferson College | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Colgate University | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Emory University | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Northwestern University | $6,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Masters School | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of New England | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Trinity Christian College Association | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Trustees of the Convent of the Sacred Heart Inc | $5,670 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Hartford | $5,529 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Waterside School 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.
Open a dossier: Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Waterside School Inc
- How much does Waterside School Inc give?
- Waterside School Inc reported 12 itemized grants totaling $145,691, out of $4,060,126 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 10 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Waterside School Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
- Who are Waterside School Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: The University of Connecticut Foundation Inc ($103k), St Luke's Foundation Inc ($93k), Eagle Hill Foundation Inc ($70k).
- Does Waterside School Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Waterside School Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ge Aerospace Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
- Where is Waterside School Inc based?
- Waterside School Inc is based in CT.
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