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Waterstone Support Foundation Inc
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Read this first · the figures below need context
72% of Waterstone Support Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Christian Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 11 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Waterstone Support Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $25M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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.
The 9 grants below total $25,423,623 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $26,054,030 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $630,407 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $22k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $559k
- $250k+2 grants · $25M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $22,878,937 |
| PREGNANCY CARE CLINIC | $1,950,000 |
| WILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY | $177,337 |
| FAIRVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH | $161,344 |
| ROSS DILLON SPECIAL NEEDS TRUST | $150,000 |
| PROFESSIONAL CHRISTIAN COUNSELING SERVICES | $70,549 |
| ADAMS THERMAL FOUNDATION ETHIOPIA ACADEMIES | $22,000 |
| FOOTHILLS CHURCH | $7,000 |
| HOMEBRIDGE FINANCIAL SERVICES INC | $6,456 |
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 (FY17–25, $939k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2022, 10 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.7M 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
- WSWATERSTONE SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC2× · 2021–2022 · $31M · revenue +144% · 69% of their budget
- PCPROFESSIONAL CHRISTIAN COUNSELING S9× · 2017–2025 · $506k · revenue +93% · 32% of their budget
- ATADAMS THERMAL SYSTEMS FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2022 · $79k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- OIOC International Support Foundationone grant, 2019 · $567k · revenue -78%
- GIGENERATEHOPE INCone grant, 2017 · $415k · revenue +11% · 42% of their budget
- RARough Acres Foundationone grant, 2018 · $210k · revenue -28%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is So They Can. 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 19 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 16% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 55 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.
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- Who funds WILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY ↗
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- Who funds PARENTS TELEVISION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ADAMS THERMAL SYSTEMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WaterStone Supporting Org Trust 2 ↗
- Who funds WATERSTONE SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION TRUST 1 ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL HOUSE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS DEFENDING FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WINDRIDER INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CARY BROWN FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SO THEY CAN ↗
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- Who funds CALDWELL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HUMAN COALITION ↗
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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Tyndale House Ministries · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Waterstone Support 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- National House of Hope Inc — 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.
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