· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON | $9,500 |
| ST PATRICKS FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS STATE COUNCIL | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| POPE SAINT JOHN XXIII SEMINARY | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of Watertown Charitable Council Inc 155knights of Columbus’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 65%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FOFRIENDS OF THE UNBORN INC3× · 2021–2023 · $2k · revenue +133%
- TJTHE JOHN M BARRY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NEWTON INC2× · 2021–2022 · $1k · revenue +20%
- NCNEWTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERS INC2× · 2021–2022 · $1k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- NENEW ENGLAND SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANSone grant, 2021 · $500
- EAED AUCOIN SHUTT DETACHMENT FUNDone grant, 2021 · $100
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To cultivate an intimate, welcoming community where children develop respectful relationships and inquisitive minds, build confidence in their individual gifts, and are engaged, prepared and inspired to learn.
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Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
Our mission is to mobilize people, partnerships and resources to catalyze change that strengthens the communities served.
See schedule o.founded in 1891, the university club is boston's premier social and athletic club. our club offers a warm and inviting atmosphere to its members, families, and guests. we pride ourselves on our sense of community, the…
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
Since 1972, the open center for children has worked in partnership with families to create a nurturing early education and care experience. the play-based curriculum inspires children to become motivated, self-directed learners, feel…
Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.
The union club of boston was founded in the year 1863 for the "encouragement and dissemination of patriotic sentiment and opinion, and the condition of membership was "unqualified loyalty to the constitution and the union of the united…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
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How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE UNBORN INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN M BARRY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NEWTON INC ↗
- Who funds NEWTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds BEAVERBROOK STEP INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS CITIZENS FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds REGIS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WEST SUBURBAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SPRINGWELL INC ↗
- Who funds WATERTOWN BOYS AND GIRLS' CLUB INC ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Watertown Charitable Council Inc 155knights of Columbus funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Watertown Charitable Council Inc 155knights of Columbus. Bigger dots raise more.
- Beaverbrook Step Inc: 93% of income from government
- Springwell Inc: 68% of income from government
- Newton Community Service Centers Inc: 20% of income from government
- Watertown Boys and Girls' Club Inc: 3% of income from government
- Regis College: 2% of income from government
- West Suburban Young Men's Christian Association: 0% of income from government
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