Rhode Island · Private foundation
Watkins Burnham Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $30k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 8
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $452k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Watkins Burnham Fund 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 2 | $30k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $25k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $25k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $55k | 75% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $40k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $15k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $22k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newport Historical Society | $116,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Christ Church Parish of Georgetown | $40,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Newport Contemporary Ballet | $15,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Norman Bird Sanctuary Trust | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Newport Hospital Foundation | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Amherst College Trustees | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Newport Tree Conservancy | $3,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Newport County Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Save the Bay Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($11k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Watkins Burnham Fund supplied at peak.
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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.
Open a dossier: Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · Ejmp Fund for Philanthropy · Alletta Morris McBean Charitable Trust · The Champlin Foundation · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bernard & Sarah Gewirz Fdn · Gruben Charitable Foundation · Roxiticus Foundation · Bazarsky Family Foundation · The de Ramel Foundation
How this is measured
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About Watkins Burnham Fund
- How much does Watkins Burnham Fund give?
- Watkins Burnham Fund reported 2 grants totaling $30,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Watkins Burnham Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (63%), Religion (19%), Animals (5%).
- Who are Watkins Burnham Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Newport Historical Society ($116k), Christ Church Parish of Georgetown ($40k), Newport Contemporary Ballet ($15k).
- Does Watkins Burnham Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Watkins Burnham Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Watkins Burnham Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust, Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc, Ejmp Fund for Philanthropy.
- Where is Watkins Burnham Fund based?
- Watkins Burnham Fund is based in RI.
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