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Watertown Area Community Foundation
The mission of the watertown community foundation is to invest in the vitality and future of watertown by supporting community priorities, responding to human service needs and enhancing recreation, educations, arts and culture.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 24
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $630k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $16,200
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $104,059
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 31
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $944k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 32% of the organizations Watertown Area Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $203k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 22 | $615k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $702k | 32% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $405k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $842k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $692k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $416k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $410k | 37% |
| FY2017 | 15 | $241k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of the Goss Opera House Inc | $871,034 | 7 | 20% |
| Human Service Agency | $707,738 | 8 | 3% |
| Lake Area Zoological Society | $263,393 | 8 | 31% |
| Duel High School | $197,818 | 4 | n/a |
| Boys and Girls Club of Watertown | $140,186 | 6 | 2% |
| Watertown Concert Association | $135,748 | 7 | 65% |
| Prairie Lakes Health Care System Inc | $135,422 | 7 | 0% |
| Joy Ranch of South Dakota | $103,838 | 3 | 4% |
| Lake Area Technical College | $98,820 | 5 | n/a |
| City of Watertown | $96,301 | 4 | n/a |
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Where it is load-bearing
Watertown Area Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 38 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: South Dakota Community Foundation · Watertown Area United Way Inc · Prairie Lakes Health Care System Inc · Valley Queen Charitable Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · Watertown Area Community Foundation Inc · Engels Family Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
Compare Watertown Area Community Foundation with peer funders
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About Watertown Area Community Foundation
- How much does Watertown Area Community Foundation give?
- Watertown Area Community Foundation reported 24 itemized grants totaling $630,451, out of $1,175,254 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Watertown Area Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (22%), Human Services (22%), Education (11%).
- Who are Watertown Area Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Friends of the Goss Opera House Inc ($871k), Human Service Agency ($708k), Lake Area Zoological Society ($263k).
- Does Watertown Area Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Watertown Area Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include South Dakota Community Foundation, Watertown Area United Way Inc, Prairie Lakes Health Care System Inc.
- Where is Watertown Area Community Foundation based?
- Watertown Area Community Foundation is based in SD.
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