Georgia · Private foundation
Watson-Brown Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $5.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 153
- Grants FY2024
- 151
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $684,659
- Organizations funded a year
- 151 to 176
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 28
- Total assets, FY2024
- $143M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations Watson-Brown Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 148 | $5.1M | 9% |
| FY2023 | 151 | $5.1M | 11% |
| FY2022 | 163 | $5.0M | 17% |
| FY2021 | 158 | $4.2M | 16% |
| FY2020 | 176 | $4.7M | 23% |
| FY2019 | 176 | $4.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Augusta University | $1,597,501 | 6 | n/a |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | $1,264,007 | 6 | n/a |
| Wofford College | $943,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Anderson University | $535,169 | 6 | 0% |
| Furman University | $491,106 | 6 | 0% |
| USC School of Medicine Greenville | $464,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Winthrop University | $312,030 | 6 | n/a |
| Atlanta Historical Society Inc | $300,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Duke University | $291,939 | 6 | 0% |
| Converse University | $287,500 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 181 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 117 recipients with no EIN on record ($16M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Watson-Brown Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 147 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: 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
How this is measured
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About Watson-Brown Foundation Inc
- How much does Watson-Brown Foundation Inc give?
- Watson-Brown Foundation Inc reported 153 grants totaling $5,205,207 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 151 and 176 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Watson-Brown Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (89%), Arts & Culture (5%), Science & Tech (5%).
- Who are Watson-Brown Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Augusta University ($1.6M), Georgia Institute of Technology ($1.3M), Wofford College ($944k).
- Does Watson-Brown Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Watson-Brown Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Watson-Brown Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Collegiate Athletic Association, Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc, Council of Independent Colleges.
- Where is Watson-Brown Foundation Inc based?
- Watson-Brown Foundation Inc is based in GA.
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