· Public charity
Watertown Area United Way Inc
To assist in meeting human care needs of watertown area residents.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $442,378 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $478,849 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $36,471 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $223k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $183k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WATERTOWN | $120,000 |
| BEACON CENTER | $63,000 |
| HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY | $32,500 |
| LAKE AREA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $30,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $25,000 |
| WATERTOWN PEOPLE AGAINST HUNGER | $25,000 |
| IMAGINATION LIBRARY | $24,378 |
| WATERTOWN AREA TRANSIT | $20,000 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES | $17,500 |
| ICAP 60S PLUS DINING | $15,000 |
| WATERTOWN BASEBALL ASSOCIATION | $12,500 |
| INTERLAKES COMMUNITY ACTION INC | $11,000 |
| LAKE AREA TECHNICAL INST ADULT EDUC | $10,000 |
| WATERTOWN AREA SWIM CLUB | $8,000 |
| WATERTOWN HOCKEY ASSOCIATION | $8,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $630k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BCBEACON CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $605k · revenue +134%
- HSHUMAN SERVICE AGENCY8× · 2017–2024 · $327k · revenue +67%
- LALAKE AREA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $281k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- WBWATERTOWN BANQUETone grant, 2018 · $32k
- WCWATERTOWN CAREER LEARNING CENTERone grant, 2017 · $10k
- PCPresentation Collegeone grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue -99%
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.
Economic development in the watertown, south dakota area.
The mission of the Watertown Area Chamber of Commerce is to connect members with one another and provide resources that foster growth and sustainability.
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those that need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
Chamber of commerce
To stimulate and support economic and housing development within the communities of the city of waterbury.
The society operates a museum, which is a three story octagon house built in 1854.
Providing service to young men ages 7-21 and young women ages 14-21 within 17 counties of the state of iowa, by promoting the ability of young men and women to do things for themselves and others, training them in scoutcraft and teaching…
In partnership with state and federal government, our mission is to administer programs designed to help residents in our 10-county region of southwest iowa achieve self-sufficiency.
Provide the areas of waterbury, waterbury center, and duxbury with pre-hospital emergency care and emergency transportation.
We strive toward providing improved access to healthcare in the watertown area, with a focus on identifying populations that are in need and the available resources. we will coordinate the compassion and caring of the people of our area to…
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.
To provide the residents of the Town of Watertown, Massachusetts access to cable channels that promote talents, culture, ideas and community concerns.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Watertown Area Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Codington County Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 19. 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 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 32 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.
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Watertown ↗
- Who funds BEACON CENTER ↗
- Who funds HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY ↗
- Who funds LAKE AREA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds INTER-LAKES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds WATERTOWN AREA PEOPLE AGAINST CHILD HUNGER ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WATERTOWN BASEBALL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WATERTOWN YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WATERTOWN AREA SWIM CLUB ↗
- Who funds WATERTOWN VOLUNTEER CENTER ↗
- Who funds SIOUX COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds EAST-CENTRAL COURT APPOINTED SPECIA ↗
- Who funds WATERTOWN AREA TRANSIT INC ↗
- Who funds SEARCH AND RESCUE SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS - DAKOTA HORIZONS ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WATERTOWN HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Presentation College ↗
- Who funds WATERTOWN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CODINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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: 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
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 Watertown Area United Way 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.
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.