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Watley Charitable 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.

$69k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
18%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$6,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 20
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$975k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Watley Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’22’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthInternationalEducationReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving11$69k45%
FY202411$84k18%
FY202320$216k80%
FY20226$46k83%
FY20201$1k0%
FY20194$25k50%
FY20181$1k0%
FY20175$26kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$103kReligion$94kHealth$83kHuman Services$62kInternational$49kPublic Safety & Disaster$39kPhilanthropy$22kYouth Development$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
SD
IA
NE
MO
OK
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 28 grantees
All grantees of Watley Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Feed Lake Highlands Inc$60,000110%
Pregnancy Center Inc$55,54017%
Mybridge$53,00031%
Mbch Children and Family Ministries$40,37410%
The Banquet$31,50041%
Possibilities Africa$28,96334%
Assure Womens Center$26,50040%
Mater Filius of Nebraska Inc$21,50032%
Allegro Organizational Solutions Inc$20,00020%
Columbus Rescue Mission$20,00014%
Yutan Volunteer Fire Department$19,0901n/a
Dow Rummel Village$15,00010%
Relevant Community Church$5,0001n/a
Heart Ministry Center$5,00010%
Project Hope Inc$5,0001n/a
Heartland Hope Mission$5,0001n/a
Omaha Youth for Christ$4,50020%
First Baptist Church$3,0001n/a
Africa Inland Mission International Incorporated$1,2001n/a
Christian Heritage Children's Home$70020%
Feeding South Dakota$70020%
Lighthouse$50010%
Lincoln Christian School Foundation Short Tax Year Ended 5/31/2025$50010%
University of Sioux Falls$50010%
Food Bank of Lincoln Inc$50010%
Mosaic Community Development$50010%
Open Door Mission D/B/A Open Door Mission & Lydia House$50010%
Speravita Institute$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($43k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Watley Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFeed Lake Highlands Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetPregnancy Center Inc: $55,540 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetMybridge: $53,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetMbch Children and Family Ministries: $40,374 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Banquet: $31,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetPossibilities Africa: $28,963 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetAssure Womens Center: $26,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMater Filius of Nebraska Inc: $21,500 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetAllegro Organizational Solutions Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetColumbus Rescue Mission: $20,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetDow Rummel Village: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHeart Ministry Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOmaha Youth for Christ: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChristian Heritage Children's Home: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding South Dakota: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLighthouse: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLincoln Christian School Foundation Short Tax Year Ended 5/31/2025: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Sioux Falls: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank of Lincoln Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMosaic Community Development: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOpen Door Mission D/B/A Open Door Mission & Lydia House: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSperavita Institute: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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.

Lincoln Community Foundation IncNE23.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Bettenhausen Family Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Growing Good Foundation · Cl Werner Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

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.

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How do I get to Watley Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Watley Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Watley Charitable Foundation

How much does Watley Charitable Foundation give?
Watley Charitable Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $68,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Watley Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (22%), Religion (20%), Health (18%).
Who are Watley Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Feed Lake Highlands Inc ($60k), Pregnancy Center Inc ($56k), Mybridge ($53k).
Does Watley Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Watley Charitable 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 Watley Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lincoln Community Foundation Inc, Bettenhausen Family Foundation, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc.
Where is Watley Charitable Foundation based?
Watley Charitable Foundation is based in NE.

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 35 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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