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Watsi Inc

Watsi, inc. Is a san francisco-based non-profit organization that directly connects people through technology to fund life-changing healthcare for patients around the world. Since launching in 2012, the organization has helped more than 30,000 patients across 33 countries. Watsi, inc.'s innovative approach has been featured by the bbc,…

$997k
Granted FY2020
5
Grants FY2020
5
Organizations funded FY2020
0%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$124,091
Largest grant, FY2020
$589,740
Organizations funded a year
5 to 11
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
5
Total assets, FY2020
$2.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 0% of the organizations Watsi Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time
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
FY20205$997k0%
FY20196$1.2M0%
FY20187$1.4M0%
FY201711$3.4Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

International$4.3MHealth$2.2MHuman Services$542k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
VT
MN
NY
MA
OH
MD
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Watsi Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
African Mission Healthcare Foundation$2,797,517418%
Children's Surgical Centre$1,483,260437%
Burma Border Projects Inc$946,999486%
Wuqu Kawoq SA$542,396345%
International Cardiac Alliance Inc$477,719451%
World Altering Medicine$254,348482%
International Care Ministries$184,25713%
Jonathan & Faye Kellerman Foundation$165,194262%
Nyaya Health$57,57411%
Innovating Health International Inc$57,570110%
Missionrestore Inc$19,72918%

Where it is load-bearing

Watsi Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAfrican Mission Healthcare Foundation: $2,797,517 over 4y, 18% of budgetChildren's Surgical Centre: $1,483,260 over 4y, 37% of budgetBurma Border Projects Inc: $946,999 over 4y, 86% of budgetWuqu Kawoq SA: $542,396 over 3y, 45% of budgetInternational Cardiac Alliance Inc: $477,719 over 4y, 51% of budgetWorld Altering Medicine: $254,348 over 4y, 82% of budgetInternational Care Ministries: $184,257 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetJonathan & Faye Kellerman Foundation: $165,194 over 2y, 62% of budgetNyaya Health: $57,574 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetInnovating Health International Inc: $57,570 over 1y, 10% of budgetMissionrestore Inc: $19,729 over 1y, 8.4% 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 11.

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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA11.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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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About Watsi Inc

How much does Watsi Inc give?
Watsi Inc reported 5 grants totaling $997,285 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Watsi Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are International (61%), Health (31%), Human Services (8%).
Who are Watsi Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: African Mission Healthcare Foundation ($2.8M), Children's Surgical Centre ($1.5M), Burma Border Projects Inc ($947k).
Does Watsi Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Watsi Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is Watsi Inc based?
Watsi Inc is based in CA.

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 11 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $1.6M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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