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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 FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% 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
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$6,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$975k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Columbus Rescue Mission$20,000
Individual grant recipient$6,000
THE BANQUET$6,000
MYBRIDGE$6,000
ASSURE WOMEN'S CENTER$6,000
MATER FILIUS OF NEBRASKA INC$6,000
Heartland Hope Mission$5,000
Heart Ministry Center$5,000
Project Hope Inc$5,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$2,500
Africa Inland Mission$1,200
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHRISTIAN HERITAGE CHILDRENS HOME: $500 → 13%FEED LAKE HIGHLANDS: $60k → 14%MBCH CHILDREN AND FAMILY MINISTRIES: $40k → 11%CHRISTIAN HERITAGE CHILDRENS HOME: $200 → 13%SPERAVITA INSTITUTE: $500 → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $500 → 12%Project Hope Inc: $5k → 12%DOW RUMMEL VILLAGE: $15k → 9%LIGHTHOUSE: $500 → 13%Heartland Hope Mission: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
SD
IA
NE
MO
OK
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 22% of Watley Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 58% of the giving stays in NE; by stated purpose, 50%.

Watley Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 9.0% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$210k · 14 repeat orgs$258k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
16

Total granted

$210k
$222k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+9%

Still filing today

64%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthEducationInternationalReligionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • M
    MYBRIDGE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $53k · revenue +30%
  • TB
    THE BANQUET
    4× · 2022–2025 · $32k · revenue +22%
  • PA
    POSSIBILITIES AFRICA
    3× · 2019–2023 · $29k · revenue +148%

Funded once

  • FL
    Feed Lake Highlands Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue +19%
  • PC
    PREGNANCY CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $56k · revenue +62%
  • MC
    MBCH CHILDREN AND FAMILY MINISTRIESgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +27%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Human Choice of Iowa

Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…

Human Services
2
Food Bank of Iowa

The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.

Food & Nutrition
3
Feed the Hunger Inc

Feeding the spiritual and physical hunger, especially in at-risk children.

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4
Family Promise of Greater Des Moines

To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness

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5
Hope Ministries of Baton Rouge

Prevent homelessness. promote self-sufficiency and dignity.

Housing & Shelter
6
Options Now

To minister to women and their families needing care, support and resources due to pregnancy.

Health
7
A Door of Hope Pregnancy Center

A door of hope pregnancy center is a christ-centered organization that empowers people to make life-affirming and healthy decisions, particularly about sex, pregnancy and relationships.

Health
8
Second Harvest Foodbank of North Central Ohio

To grow hope in our region by creating pathways to nutritious food.

Food & Nutrition
9
A Christian Food Pantry Inc

Serve food to families and individuals in need.

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10
Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless

Since 1986, open your heart to the hungry and homeless has worked to ensureevery minnesotan is free from hunger and homelessness. by partnering with organizations serving those in need, we grow donor engagement and raise awareness to…

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11
Lutheran Family Services of Ne Inc

Lutheran family services of nebraska, inc.'s (lfs) mission is to express god's love for all people by providing quality human care services that build and strengthen individual, family and community life. our vision is saftey, hope and…

Human Services
12
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Omaha Youth for Christ; the most unlike its peers is Allegro Organizational Solutions Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 35 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
18/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Feed Lake Highlands Inc: $60,000 · Human ServicesFeed Lake Highlands IncMBCH CHILDREN AND FAMILY MINISTRIES: $40,374 · Human ServicesMBCH CHILDREN AND FAMILY MINIST…DOW RUMMEL VILLAGE: $15,000 · Human ServicesDOW RUMMEL VILLAGEPROJECT HOPE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesHEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $5,000 · Human Services+5 more: $2,700 · Human ServicesPREGNANCY CENTER INC: $55,540 · HealthPREGNANCY CENTER IN…Assure Womens Center: $26,500 · HealthAssure Womens Cente…YUTAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $19,090 · OtherYUTAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DE…LOCUST GROVE FREEWILL BAPTIST CHURCH: $15,000 · OtherLOCUST GROVE FREEWILL B…CENTRAL CHURCH: $7,000 · OtherCENTRAL CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $6,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipi…FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $5,000 · OtherRELEVANT COMMUNITY CHURCH: $5,000 · OtherINTERVARSITY: $4,800 · OtherColumbus Rescue Mission: $20,000 · OtherColumbus Rescue MissionOMAHA YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $4,500 · Other+6 more: $9,400 · Other+6 moreMYBRIDGE: $53,000 · ReligionMYBRIDGEPOSSIBILITIES AFRICA: $28,963 · InternationalPOSSIBILITI…ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC: $20,000 · InternationalALLEGRO ORG…THE BANQUET: $31,500 · Food & NutritionTHE BANQU…HEART MINISTRY CENTER: $5,000 · Food & NutritionHEART MIN…+2 more: $1,200 · Food & NutritionMATER FILIUS OF NEBRASKA INC: $21,500 · Philanthropy
Human Services$128,074Health$82,040Other$96,290Religion$53,000International$48,963Food & Nutrition$37,700Philanthropy$21,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

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 Fou…Bettenhausen Family F…First Interstate Banc…Growing Good Foundati…Cl Werner FoundationGilbert M and Martha …Immanuel Community Vi…Nebraska Community Fo…Chubb Charitable Foun…Thrivent Charitable I…Servant FoundationNatl Christian Charit…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Watley Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Watley Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    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.

    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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