Massachusetts · Community foundation
Watertown Community Foundation Inc
The foundation commenced operations on december 29, 2003. The foundation has been organized to support educational and other non-profit organizations in the town of watertown.
- $286k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 9
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $213k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,100
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $72,541
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 10% of the organizations Watertown Community Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 9 | $213k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $872k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $570k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $585k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $208k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $63k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $60k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Watertown Housing Authority | $948,572 | 3 | n/a |
| Metro West Collaborative Development Inc | $550,882 | 7 | 12% |
| Wayside Youth and Family Support Network Inc | $326,981 | 7 | 0% |
| Watertown Boys and Girls' Club Inc | $201,000 | 5 | 11% |
| Watertown Public Schools | $172,306 | 5 | n/a |
| The Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the Arts Inc | $68,281 | 6 | 2% |
| Watertown High School Ptso | $46,152 | 2 | n/a |
| Town of Watertown | $44,418 | 4 | n/a |
| Springwell Inc | $36,500 | 5 | 0% |
| New Repertory Theatre Inc | $33,100 | 3 | 2% |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Watertown Housing Authority | $948,572 | 3 | n/a |
| Metro West Collaborative Development Inc | $550,882 | 7 | 12% |
| Wayside Youth and Family Support Network Inc | $326,981 | 7 | 0% |
| Watertown Boys and Girls' Club Inc | $201,000 | 5 | 11% |
| Watertown Public Schools | $172,306 | 5 | n/a |
| The Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the Arts Inc | $68,281 | 6 | 2% |
| Watertown High School Ptso | $46,152 | 2 | n/a |
| Town of Watertown | $44,418 | 4 | n/a |
| Springwell Inc | $36,500 | 5 | 0% |
| New Repertory Theatre Inc | $33,100 | 3 | 2% |
| Watertown Food Pantry | $26,199 | 2 | 7% |
| World in Watertown Inc | $24,545 | 3 | 55% |
| First Parish of Watertown | $22,284 | 3 | n/a |
| Friends of Project Literacy Incorporated | $14,333 | 2 | n/a |
| Survival Education Fund Inc | $7,815 | 1 | n/a |
| Watertown Community Gardens | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Armenian Museum of America Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Watertown Cable Access Corporation | $7,500 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($25k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Watertown Community Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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About Watertown Community Foundation Inc
- How much does Watertown Community Foundation Inc give?
- Watertown Community Foundation Inc reported 9 itemized grants totaling $212,602, out of $285,654 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Watertown Community Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (45%), Housing & Shelter (21%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are Watertown Community Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Watertown Housing Authority ($949k), Metro West Collaborative Development Inc ($551k), Wayside Youth and Family Support Network Inc ($327k).
- Does Watertown Community Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Watertown Community Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Marshall Home Fund Inc, Boston Foundation Inc, Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc.
- Where is Watertown Community Foundation Inc based?
- Watertown Community Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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