· Private foundation
Watkins Burnham Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEWPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH GEORGETOWN | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 24% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +105% since the first grant, against +53% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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 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
NEWPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY7× · 2019–2025 · $116k · revenue +105%- NCNEWPORT CONTEMPORARY BALLET2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue +31%
- NHNewport Hospital Foundation2× · 2019–2021 · $8k · revenue +47%
Funded once
THE NORMAN BIRD SANCTUARY TRUSTgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +53%- ACAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEESgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +28%
- MIMETCALF INSTITUTE FOR MARINE & ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTINGone grant, 2019 · $3k
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.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
Preserve ri's vision is a future where historic preservation creates positive change, making our diverse cultures, the environment, and the economy better for the people who live, visit and work in rhode island. preserve ri's mission is to…
The mission of the Newport Public Library: To bring people, ideas, and information for the good of every individual and the community it services. The library aims to be a leading resource for information and the center for lifelong…
Bike newport's mission is to ensure that bicycling is a viable, safe, and comfortable primary choice for transportation and recreation.
The nantucket historical association preserves and interprets the history of nantucket through its programs, collections, and properties, in order to promote the island's significance and foster an appreciation of it among all audiences.
The preservation society of newport county's mission is to protect, preserve, and present an exceptional collection of house museums and landscapes in one of the most historically intact cities in america. we hold in public trust the…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
To protect, preserve and interpret the martime heritage of the lower Merrimack Valley region and how it relates to American History
The new england aquarium is a catalyst for global change through public engagement and education, commitment to marine animal conservation, innovative scientific research, and effective advocacy for a vital and vibrant ocean.
To promote the creation and preservation of green space in the city of newport news by acquisition, advocacy, and assistance to others.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 13 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 NEWPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT CONTEMPORARY BALLET ↗
- Who funds THE NORMAN BIRD SANCTUARY TRUST ↗
- Who funds Newport Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds The Newport Tree Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Clubs of Newport County Inc ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE BAY 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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Watkins Burnham Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Watkins Burnham Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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