How much did WATERTOWN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

WATERTOWN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION reported 24 grants totaling $1,175,254 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is WATERTOWN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION based?

WATERTOWN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is based in SD.

WATERTOWN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

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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

Grants

Communities

$104k

Largest

01What you fund

0177% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Human Services$931kCommunity Improvement$871kAnimals$283kArts & Culture$280kEducation$209kHousing & Shelter$170kCrime & Legal$161kHealth$143kYouth Development$140kOther$1.3M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

imprvmtsabusehistory

2019

history

2020

welfareissuesnews watchabuseseniorchildhousing

2021

welfareabusevisionissuesnews watchhistorychild

2022

chorusbuildseniorwelfarehistorystimulatecare

2023

otherssafeexamplechristministryrecoverytransit

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k4 grants · $27k
$10k–50k16 grants · $335k
$50k–250k4 grants · $268k

$16,200

Median grant

States reached

$944k

Total assets

Largest grants

FRIENDS OF THE GOSS FOUNDATION$104,059
WATERTOWN CARES$60,733
HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY$53,546
CITY OF WATERTOWN$50,000
DUEL HIGH SCHOOL$49,421
JOY RANCH$44,554
CODINGTON COUNTY HISTORIAL SOCIETY$32,500
EAST CENTRAL CASA$25,999
COMMUNITY TRANSIT OF WATERTOWN SISS$23,582
LAKE AREA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$20,179
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WATERTOWN$17,237
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH$16,200
THE SALVATION ARMY$15,651
WATERTOWN COMMUNITY CONCERT ASSOC$15,546
LAKE AREA TECHNICAL FOUNDATION$15,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $931k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.2M · 37 repeat orgs$250k to everyone else

37 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.2M

$237k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%

+81%

Still filing today

76%

56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalAnimalsHealthOther

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

FO
FRIENDS OF THE GOSS FOUNDATION
7× · 2018–2024 · $871k · revenue +1015%
HS
HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY
8× · 2017–2024 · $708k · revenue +66%
LA
LAKE AREA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
8× · 2017–2024 · $263k · revenue +70% · 31% of their budget

Funded once

WH
WATERTOWN HOCKEY ASSOCIATIONgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $44k · revenue +106%
FS
FALLOUT SHELTER MINISTRIESgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $29k · revenue +125%
GP
GROVE PARK RENEWALgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +81%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Watertown Area Chamber of Commerce

The Watertown Area Chamber of Commerce, founded in 1920, is focused on building Watertowns business community by creating events, sponsoring educational programming, and promoting our members to citizens and visitors.

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Greater Watertown-North Country

Continually increase the economic strength and quality of life in the region by helping members grow and prosper by supporting existing businesses, and by assisting in attracting and developing new business.

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Watertown Area Community Foundation

To provide for the betterment of watertown, wisconsin and the surrounding area and promote the enhancement of the quality of life for its people.

Philanthropy

Winona Area Chamber of Commerce

To promote business development and tourism in winona minnesota and the surrounding area

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Watertown Humane Society Inc

Provide for the lost, homeless, neglected and abused animals of the city of watertown and surrounding communities it contracts with, and to educate and enlighten the public regarding animal welfare.

Animals

Watertown Lutheran Senior Housing

Provide for the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to their care.

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Lakeland Community Hospital Watervliet

To improve health, inspire hope and save lives.

Health

Watertown Historical Society

The society operates a museum, which is a three story octagon house built in 1854.

Public Benefit

Waterbury Development Corporation

Long range planning for economic development

Community Improvement

South Dakota Association of

Rural water development in south dakota

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Woodbury Area Hockey Club

To provide the most gratifying and rewarding youth hockey experience for players, parents and coaches seeking either the best competitive or recreational atheletic experience in a positive, developmental environment at a

Recreation & Sports

Watertown Historical Society Inc

The primary goal of the society is to preserve watertown history and to strengthen the community's connection to the pas, to each other, and the future.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Watertown Development Company and the most unlike its peers is Prairie Lakes Health Care System Inc. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 31 years old; the field is 30. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/57

the rest of the field

12/155

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.

05the grantee network

41 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

40/41

Grantees still filing

32/41

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,744,114Human Services$931,400Community Improvement$871,034Animals$283,393Arts & Culture$279,915Education$208,707Housing & Shelter$169,520

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.

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.

South Dakota Community FoundationSD40.3× affinity18 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: South Dakota Community Foundation · Prairie Lakes Health Care System Inc · Watertown Area United Way Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation · Valley Queen Charitable Foundation · Sioux Falls Area Community · Engels Family Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 organisation WATERTOWN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: WATERTOWN COMMUNITY CONCERT ASSOC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +88% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 466012238 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on WATERTOWN COMMUNITY CONCERT ASSOC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 65% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Watertown Area Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Watertown Area Community Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

WATERTOWN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

41 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Watertown Area Community Foundation?

More from the funding graph

WATERTOWN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

41 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Watertown Area Community Foundation?

More from the funding graph