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Watertown Community Foundation Inc

The foundation commenced operations on december 29, 2003.

$286k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$73k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$1.2MHousing & Shelter$551kHuman Services$369kYouth Development$201kEducation$127kArts & Culture$116kPublic Benefit$27kCivil Rights$25k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $212,602, the rows itemized in this filing. The $285,654 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $73,052 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $126k
$10,100
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WATERTOWN HOUSING AUTHORITY$72,541
WATERTOWN PUBLIC SCHOOLS$53,900
DOROTHY AND CHARLES MOSESIAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS$30,000
METRO WEST COLLABORATIVE DEVELOPMENT$15,000
WORLD IN WATERTOWN$10,100
WATERTOWN FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY$9,061
WAYSIDE YOUTH AND FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK$8,000
WATERTOWN CABLE ACCESS CORPORATION$7,500
SPRINGWELL$6,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $363k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%WAYSIDE MULTI-SERVICE CENTER: $9k → 8%WAYSIDE YOUTH AND FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK: $151k → 8%WAYSIDE YOUTH AND FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK: $66k → 8%WAYSIDE YOUTH AND FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK: $49k → 8%WAYSIDE YOUTH AND FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK: $37k → 8%WAYSIDE YOUTH AND FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK: $8k → 8%WAYSIDE MULTI-SERVICE CENTER: $7k → 8%SPRINGWELL: $8k → 8%SPRINGWELL: $8k → 8%SPRINGWELL: $8k → 8%SPRINGWELL: $8k → 8%SPRINGWELL: $7k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 15 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
3

Total granted

$2.5M
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+27%

Still filing today

60%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MW
    METRO WEST COLLABORATIVE DEVELOPMENT INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $551k · revenue +188%
  • WY
    WAYSIDE YOUTH AND FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $327k · revenue +98%
  • WB
    WATERTOWN BOYS AND GIRLS' CLUB INC
    5× · 2018–2023 · $201k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • SE
    SURVIVAL EDUCATION FUND INC
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
  • WC
    WATERTOWN COMMUNITY GARDENS
    one grant, 2022 · $8k
  • AM
    ARMENIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +27%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Watertown Area Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the Watertown Area Chamber of Commerce is to connect members with one another and provide resources that foster growth and sustainability.

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2
Boys and Girls Club of Watertown

To inspire and enable all young people to realize their full potential as productive and responsible and caring citizens.

Youth Development
3
Watertown Historical Society

The society operates a museum, which is a three story octagon house built in 1854.

Public Benefit
4
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.

Philanthropy
5
Watertown Library Association

To Promote Intellectual Improvement and Social Culture; and to Establish and Maintain a Library for Residents and Taxpayers of the Town of Watertown, Connecticut.

Education
6
Waterbury Development Corporation

To stimulate and support economic and housing development within the communities of the city of waterbury.

Community Improvement
7
Worcester Community Cable Access Inc
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8
Watertown Family Connections Inc

Family Resource Center providing free programming

Human Services
9
The Waterford Public Library

The mission of the waterford public library is to enrich, educate and connect our community through discovery and access to ideas, information, technology and entertainment.

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10
Waterford Public Library

It is a primary goal of the library that access to such materials and programs will promote personal, family and community enrichment for the residents of our chartered service area

Education
11
Wakefield Community Access Television Inc

Wakefield cable access tv (wcat) is your trusted community media partner that offers a communication platform for dialogue, civic engagement, and diverse perspectives not generally available from commercial media.

Arts & Culture
12
Revitalizing Waterbury Inc

Downtown waterbury development

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Watertown Boys and Girls' Club Inc; the most unlike its peers is New Repertory Theatre Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WATERTOWN HOUSING AUTHORITY: $948,572 · OtherWATERTOWN HOUSING AUTHORITYWATERTOWN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $172,306 · OtherWATERTOWN PUBLIC SCHOOLSWATERTOWN HIGH SCHOOL PTSO: $46,152 · OtherTOWN OF WATERTOWN: $44,418 · Other+5 more: $114,398 · Other+5 moreMETRO WEST COLLABORATIVE DEVELOPMENT INC: $550,882 · Housing & ShelterMETRO WEST COLLABORATIVE…WAYSIDE YOUTH AND FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK INC: $326,981 · Human ServicesWAYSIDE YOUTH AN…SPRINGWELL INC: $36,500 · Human ServicesSPRINGWELL INCWATERTOWN BOYS AND GIRLS' CLUB INC: $201,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE DOROTHY AND CHARLES MOSESIAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $68,281 · Arts & CultureARMENIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureWatertown Cable Access Corporation: $7,500 · Arts & CultureWORLD IN WATERTOWN INC: $24,545 · Civil RightsFRIENDS OF PROJECT LITERACY INCORPORATED: $14,333 · PhilanthropyWATERTOWN COMMUNITY GARDENS: $7,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,325,846Housing & Shelter$550,882Human Services$363,481Youth Development$201,000Arts & Culture$83,281Civil Rights$24,545Philanthropy$14,333Food & Nutrition$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMETRO WEST COLLABORATIVE DEVELOPMENT INC: $550,882 over 7y, 12% of budgetWAYSIDE YOUTH AND FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK INC: $326,981 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetWATERTOWN BOYS AND GIRLS' CLUB INC: $201,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetTHE DOROTHY AND CHARLES MOSESIAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $68,281 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetSPRINGWELL INC: $36,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW REPERTORY THEATRE INC: $33,100 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetWatertown Food Pantry: $26,199 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetWORLD IN WATERTOWN INC: $24,545 over 3y, 55% of budgetARMENIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWatertown Cable Access Corporation: $7,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budget
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 METRO WEST COLLABORATIVE DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds WAYSIDE YOUTH AND FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds WATERTOWN BOYS AND GIRLS' CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DOROTHY AND CHARLES MOSESIAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds SPRINGWELL INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds Watertown Food Pantry ↗
  • Who funds WORLD IN WATERTOWN INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF PROJECT LITERACY INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds WATERTOWN COMMUNITY GARDENS ↗
  • Who funds ARMENIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds Watertown Cable Access Corporation ↗

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.

The Marshall Home Fun…Boston Foundation IncCommunity Foundation …Cambridge Savings Cha…Eastern Bank Foundati…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Marshall Home Fund IncMA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Marshall Home Fund Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Watertown Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Watertown Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 23%
  • Springwell Inc: 68% of income from government
  • Watertown Community Gardens: 23% of income from government
  • Watertown Boys and Girls' Club Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Wayside Youth and Family Support Network Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 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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