· Private foundation
Watson-Brown Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k98 grants · $505k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $742k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+4 grants · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $684,659 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA | $570,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA-COLUMBIA | $564,000 |
| AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY | $256,416 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA-AIKEN | $228,000 |
| WOFFORD COLLEGE | $219,000 |
| GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $210,000 |
| GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY | $180,000 |
| KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY | $120,000 |
| COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON | $120,000 |
| ANDERSON UNIVERSITY | $120,000 |
| GEORGIA COLLEGE & STATE UNIVERSITY | $111,000 |
| LANDER UNIVERSITY | $99,000 |
| FURMAN UNIVERSITY | $92,967 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA-UPSTATE | $90,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
207 repeat relationships — 135 still active in FY2024, 72 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
WOFFORD COLLEGE6× · 2019–2024 · $944k · revenue +24%- AUANDERSON UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2024 · $535k · revenue +86%
- FUFURMAN UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2024 · $491k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- AHATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $300k · revenue +141%
- MCMadison-Morgan Conservancy Incone grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue -37% · 46% of their budget
- GSGeorgia State University Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $143k · revenue +189%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University and the most unlike its peers is Lockerly Arboretum Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 74 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
160 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 160 of the 309 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: National Collegiate Athletic Association · Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc · Council of Independent Colleges · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Folds of Honor Foundation · Dick Horne Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area Inc · Spartanburg County Foundation · South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities · Emory University
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Watson-Brown Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 3% of income from government
- Franklin W Olin College of Engineering Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Bentley University — 1% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lynn University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% of income from government
- Palm Beach Atlantic University Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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