Texas · Private foundation
Watkins Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $100k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $65,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 7
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Watkins Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 7 | $100k | 57% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $140k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $143k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $96k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $104k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $56k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $115k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $95k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Davidson College | $645,065 | 9 | 0% |
| St Francis Episcopal School | $130,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Embassy Cultural Center Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Bo's Place | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Breakthrough Houston | $4,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Making It Better dba Literacy Now | $3,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Beta Sigma Educational Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | 1% |
| The Rose | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chance for Hope Foundation | $500 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($106k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Watkins Family Foundation 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: Shell USA Company Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Watkins Family Foundation
- How much does Watkins Family Foundation give?
- Watkins Family Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $100,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Watkins Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (82%), Human Services (10%), Arts & Culture (6%).
- Who are Watkins Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Davidson College ($645k), St Francis Episcopal School ($130k), Embassy Cultural Center Foundation Inc ($50k).
- Does Watkins Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Watkins Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Watkins Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Shell USA Company Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Watkins Family Foundation based?
- Watkins Family Foundation is based in TX.
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