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South Dakota · Public charity

Watertown Area United Way Inc

To assist in meeting human care needs of watertown area residents.

$479k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
18
Itemized grants FY2024
15
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$442k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$17,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$120,000
Organizations funded a year
15 to 24
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$924k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Watertown Area United Way Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Crime & LegalHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving15$432k0%
FY202315$428k0%
FY202220$526k0%
FY202121$616k0%
FY202022$544k0%
FY201923$628k13%
FY201823$636k13%
FY201724$599kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$1.4MHuman Services$765kRecreation & Sports$454kHousing & Shelter$357kFood & Nutrition$350kCrime & Legal$302kAnimals$281kCommunity Improvement$208kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Boys and Girls Club of Watertown$1,103,99689%
Beacon Center$605,496816%
Human Service Agency$326,93481%
Lake Area Zoological Society$280,577811%
The Salvation Army$272,4828n/a
Inter-Lakes Community Action Partnership Inc$230,82580%
Watertown Area People Against Child Hunger$190,752741%
Lutheran Social Services of South Dakota$167,73080%
The Dollywood Foundation$159,99780%
Watertown Baseball Association$159,421813%
Show all 29 grantees
All grantees of Watertown Area United Way Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Boys and Girls Club of Watertown$1,103,99689%
Beacon Center$605,496816%
Human Service Agency$326,93481%
Lake Area Zoological Society$280,577811%
The Salvation Army$272,4828n/a
Inter-Lakes Community Action Partnership Inc$230,82580%
Watertown Area People Against Child Hunger$190,752741%
Lutheran Social Services of South Dakota$167,73080%
The Dollywood Foundation$159,99780%
Watertown Baseball Association$159,421813%
Watertown Area Transit$139,2656n/a
Watertown Youth Soccer Association$101,700811%
Watertown Area Swim Club$74,80085%
Watertown Volunteer Center$68,240541%
Sioux Council Boy Scouts of America Inc$56,84760%
City of Watertown$56,2486n/a
East-Central Court Appointed Specia$52,80065%
Watertown Area Transit Inc$50,00025%
Search and Rescue Support Inc$43,425612%
Watertown Lacrosse Club$42,9987n/a
Girl Scouts - Dakota Horizons$40,46260%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$37,80040%
The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society$34,87040%
Watertown Banquet$31,8001n/a
Watertown Hockey Association Inc$28,50036%
Ne Glacial Lakes American Red Cross$20,0002n/a
Watertown Career Learning Center$10,0001n/a
Presentation College$9,00010%
Codington County Historical Society$5,07616%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($8k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Watertown Area United Way Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoys and Girls Club of Watertown: $1,103,996 over 8y, 9.4% of budgetBeacon Center: $605,496 over 8y, 16% of budgetHuman Service Agency: $326,934 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetLake Area Zoological Society: $280,577 over 8y, 11% of budgetInter-Lakes Community Action Partnership Inc: $230,825 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetWatertown Area People Against Child Hunger: $190,752 over 7y, 41% of budgetLutheran Social Services of South Dakota: $167,730 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Dollywood Foundation: $159,997 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWatertown Baseball Association: $159,421 over 8y, 13% of budgetWatertown Youth Soccer Association: $101,700 over 8y, 11% of budgetWatertown Area Swim Club: $74,800 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetWatertown Volunteer Center: $68,240 over 5y, 41% of budgetSioux Council Boy Scouts of America Inc: $56,847 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetEast-Central Court Appointed Specia: $52,800 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetWatertown Area Transit Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetSearch and Rescue Support Inc: $43,425 over 6y, 12% of budgetGirl Scouts - Dakota Horizons: $40,462 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $37,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society: $34,870 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWatertown Hockey Association Inc: $28,500 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetPresentation College: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCodington County Historical Society: $5,076 over 1y, 6.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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.

Watertown Area Commun…South Dakota Communit…First Interstate Banc…Valley Queen Charitab…Midcontinent Foundati…Sioux Falls Area Comm…Brookings Area United…Prairie Lakes Health …United Way of Northea…Xcel Energy FoundationSanford Group ReturnAmazonsmile Foundation
Watertown Area Community FoundationSD30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Watertown Area Community Foundation · South Dakota Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Valley Queen Charitable Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · Brookings Area United Way · Prairie Lakes Health Care System Inc · United Way of Northeastern South Dakota Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Watertown Area United Way Inc

How much does Watertown Area United Way Inc give?
Watertown Area United Way Inc reported 18 itemized grants totaling $442,378, out of $478,849 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Watertown Area United Way Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (30%), Human Services (17%), Recreation & Sports (10%).
Who are Watertown Area United Way Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Boys and Girls Club of Watertown ($1.1M), Beacon Center ($605k), Human Service Agency ($327k).
Does Watertown Area United Way Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Watertown Area United Way Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Watertown Area Community Foundation, South Dakota Community Foundation, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc.
Where is Watertown Area United Way Inc based?
Watertown Area United Way Inc is based in SD.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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