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Watertown Charitable Council Inc 155knights of Columbus

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$22k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$9,500
Organizations funded a year
6 to 17
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Watertown Charitable Council Inc 155knights of Columbus funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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
FY2025still arriving5$22k0%
FY20246$26k0%
FY20237$19k14%
FY202216$21k6%
FY202117$21kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Religion$86kFood & Nutrition$8kEducation$5kHuman Services$3kYouth Development$2kHousing & Shelter$2kHealth$1kCivil Rights$1k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Friends of the Unborn Inc$1,50030%
The John M Barry Boys & Girls Club of Newton Inc$1,27520%
Newton Community Service Centers Inc$1,00020%
Beaverbrook Step Inc$1,00020%
Massachusetts Citizens for Life Inc$1,00021%
Regis College$1,00020%
West Suburban Young Men's Christian Association$1,00020%
Springwell Inc$1,00020%
Watertown Boys and Girls' Club Inc$1,00020%

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($99k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Watertown Charitable Council Inc 155knights of Columbus supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFriends of the Unborn Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe John M Barry Boys & Girls Club of Newton Inc: $1,275 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNewton Community Service Centers Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBeaverbrook Step Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Citizens for Life Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetRegis College: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWest Suburban Young Men's Christian Association: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSpringwell Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWatertown Boys and Girls' Club Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 9.

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.

Cambridge Savings Cha…Eastern Bank Foundati…Eastern Cambridge Fou…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation IncMA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Charitable Council Inc 155knights of Columbus

How much does Watertown Charitable Council Inc 155knights of Columbus give?
Watertown Charitable Council Inc 155knights of Columbus reported 5 grants totaling $22,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 17 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Watertown Charitable Council Inc 155knights of Columbus fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (79%), Food & Nutrition (7%), Education (5%).
Who are Watertown Charitable Council Inc 155knights of Columbus's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Friends of the Unborn Inc ($2k), The John M Barry Boys & Girls Club of Newton Inc ($1k), Newton Community Service Centers Inc ($1k).
Does Watertown Charitable Council Inc 155knights of Columbus fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Watertown Charitable Council Inc 155knights of Columbus accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Watertown Charitable Council Inc 155knights of Columbus?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, Eastern Cambridge Foundation.
Where is Watertown Charitable Council Inc 155knights of Columbus based?
Watertown Charitable Council Inc 155knights of Columbus is based in MA.

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 19 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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