California · Private foundation
Watling Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $70k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 27
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $488k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Watling Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 24 | $70k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $70k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $70k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $70k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $70k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $70k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christ Episcopal Church | $90,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Greenwich Hospital | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Bruce Museum Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc | $18,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Transition House | $15,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Ganna Walska Lotusland | $15,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Sarah Lawrence College | $15,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Conservancy | $15,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics | $14,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Lobero Theatre Foundation | $12,500 | 6 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christ Episcopal Church | $90,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Greenwich Hospital | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Bruce Museum Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc | $18,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Transition House | $15,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Ganna Walska Lotusland | $15,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Sarah Lawrence College | $15,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Conservancy | $15,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics | $14,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Lobero Theatre Foundation | $12,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Casa Serena | $10,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Casa del Herrero | $8,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Easy Lift Transportation Inc | $8,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Hospice of Santa Barbara Inc | $5,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| People for Palmer Park | $4,250 | 6 | 1% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Women's Fund of Santa Barbara | $2,750 | 1 | 0% |
| Santa Barbara International Film Festival Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Vna Health Foundation | $2,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Women's Economic Ventures | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Santa Barbara Courthouse Legacy Foundation | $500 | 1 | 1% |
| Santa Barbara Club Preservation Foundation | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($108k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Watling Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · Towbes Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Volentine Family Foundation · St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbara · Walter J & Holly O Thomson Charitable · Brittingham Family Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation
How this is measured
About Watling Foundation
- How much does Watling Foundation give?
- Watling Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $70,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 27 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Watling Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (21%), Arts & Culture (20%), Health (17%).
- Who are Watling Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Christ Episcopal Church ($90k), Greenwich Hospital ($30k), Bruce Museum Inc ($30k).
- Does Watling Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Watling Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Watling Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation, Santa Barbara Foundation, Mosher Foundation.
- Where is Watling Foundation based?
- Watling Foundation is based in CA.
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