· Community foundation
Watertown Community Foundation Inc
The foundation commenced operations on december 29, 2003.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of WATERTOWN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $212,602 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $285,654 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $73,052 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 $10k4 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $126k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +98% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- MWMETRO WEST COLLABORATIVE DEVELOPMENT INC7× · 2018–2024 · $551k · revenue +188%
- WYWAYSIDE YOUTH AND FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK INC7× · 2018–2024 · $327k · revenue +98%
- WBWATERTOWN BOYS AND GIRLS' CLUB INC5× · 2018–2023 · $201k · revenue +159%
Funded once
- SESURVIVAL EDUCATION FUND INCone grant, 2023 · $8k
- WCWATERTOWN COMMUNITY GARDENSone grant, 2022 · $8k
- AMARMENIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICA INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +27%
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.
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 to realize their full potential as productive and responsible and caring citizens.
The society operates a museum, which is a three story octagon house built in 1854.
To stimulate and support economic and housing development within the communities of the city of waterbury.
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.
To Promote Intellectual Improvement and Social Culture; and to Establish and Maintain a Library for Residents and Taxpayers of the Town of Watertown, Connecticut.
Family Resource Center providing free programming
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.
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
Downtown waterbury development
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Watertown Boys and Girls' Club Inc and 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.
12 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. 12 of the 19 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 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 Cable Access Corporation ↗
- Who funds WATERTOWN COMMUNITY GARDENS ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC ↗
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.
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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 Community Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 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
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.